Technology fuels holiday scammers
The holiday season brings out the best in most of us: gifts for family, friends, and co workers; donations to needy community or national charities. For a small but productive…
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Laura Haight
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Year-end cash? Some keys to making good tech purchases
2019 is coming to a close and you’ve got some budgeted cash to spend. What should you do with it? Server or cloud? If you already have a server and…
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The good, the bad and the ugly of location services
You’ve probably noticed popups on your iPhone advising you of how apps are using your location and offering preference changes. This big change has come largely because tech providers and…
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Mobile technology expands payment options for small businesses, NGOs
How do you get paid? I’m talking to solopreneurs, freelancers, nonprofit organizations who want to collect payments or donations quickly and provide low-barrier options that go beyond checks or cash.…
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Get help to prepare, prevent, or survive the inevitable cybercrime
As little as a decade ago, technology was a tool; now it is the central gear. Hacks and data breaches used to be inconvenient, expensive, embarrassing; now they are debilitating,…
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Speed rules: New Wi-Fi standard goes live
Most of us probably thought Apple’s rollout last week of the iPhone 11 was a ho-hum event. But a pretty big-step tech development was lurking in the small type: the…
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Lessons Learned: Ransomware edition
Baltimore; Albany, New York; Lake City, Florida; 22 cities and towns in Texas. These are just a few of the 40 municipalities that have been hit by ransomware attacks this…
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Why IT can’t talk to your employees
A subject line in my email recently caught my eye: “How to Explain IT to End Users.” That strikes me as a false premise. In reality, IT doesn’t need to…
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Trusting tech
President Ronald Reagan made the phrase “trust but verify” famous in the late 1980s. But he didn’t originate it: The phrase is a Russian proverb he learned from American writer…
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Can the battle for business collaboration finally kill off email?
Can email survive? That seems kind of a stupid question when you consider the prediction that 246 billion emails will be sent every day by the end of this year.…
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