Category: Business

How to Minimize Risk from Lost Mobile Devices

A lost business phone or tablet can open your company up to a significant amount of risk. From competitors getting your proprietary information to poached clients, and even extravagant cell phone bills, as a business owner you need to make sure that these risks are all minimized. Here’s how: Before your employees’ new phones leave…

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Keeping Your Corporate Site Up – No Matter What

Is your business website up right now? If it wasn’t, do you know how much money you’d be losing? For most modern businesses, it could be thousands of dollars, and more if your company has any ecommerce components. So how do you keep your corporate website up no matter what? A good recovery plan can…

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What to do Before Throwing Out an Old PC

There comes a point in the life of every office computer when it is simply no longer practical to keep it running and up-to-date. When it comes time to get rid of old, outdated computers, it’s not enough to simply unplug them and toss them in the nearest trash can. Disposing of old PCs requires…

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Avoiding the Risks of Public Wi-Fi

As technology goes more and more mobile, working remotely from public Wi-Fi locations is going to be a bigger and bigger part of doing business. Whether it’s your sales team using airport Wi-Fi while waiting for a flight, or your creative employees knocking out some work at a Starbucks over lunch, the risks of public…

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Can VoIP Save Your Company Money?

The economy might technically be out of recession, but businesses are still doing everything in their power to cut costs and save as much as possible. One possible avenue for savings is switching from a traditional business phone plan to a VoIP plan. VoIP is a technology that has been around for a little over…

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How to Choose Your Company’s Mobile operating System

With PalmOS gone, Nokia’s Symbian traded in for Windows Phone 8, and Blackberry about to become extinct, choosing a mobile operating system for your company’s cell phones really comes down to three options: Android, Windows Phone, and iOS. Still, picking the best of those three can be a pretty difficult job. How do you know…

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How to Build a Disaster Recovery Plan

Disaster can strike at any moment, and its effects can be devastating to businesses. The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry estimates that 70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss go out of business within a year. With such consequences, it’s critical to have a solid disaster recovery plan in place in case…

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How to Assess Your Risk Before Moving to the Cloud

As business owners, we often hear about the many benefits of migrating data to the cloud. Flexibility, streamlining, and achieving economies of scale are just some of the advantages regularly touted on behalf of cloud computing. But, what about the other side of the coin — the risks that are inherent in any business endeavor?…

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How to Extend the Life of Your iPhone

Your iPhone is your connection to the world, your organization tool, and your technological toy. It’s also expensive. The only thing worse than the cost of constantly upgrading your iPhone to the latest version, is the cost of having to replace your current one due to damage. To keep this wondrous gadget in top form,…

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