Lots of people refuse to connect to the Internet using open wireless networks like those you find at coffee shops. Why? Their information travels unencrypted over those networks, making it possible for people nearby with the technical tools and know-how to read what they send. But today,
Read more →originally published by BCBusinessOnline.ca Data backup, storage and protection are crucial to many businesses. Take away the computers – and their data – and your business may go limp. Cloud computing may have the answer to keeping your data, and your business, afloat.
Read more →Have you started leaving your laptop at the office? Originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine. Have you ever met prospective business contacts while surfing (at the beach, not on the net)? Jared Jacobson has. “I put their information in my BlackBerry,” says the Philadelphia, Penn.-based solo attorney.
Read more →Originally published in Lawyers Weekly If people who share documents recognize Adobe Acrobat for anything, it’s the ability to preserve the look of their documents across different computers by converting them into portable document format (PDF) files. Since the early 1990s, when Acrobat debuted, the PDF format
Read more →Asking people to create and use decent passwords can be like pulling teeth. Yeah, they know somebody could steal their banking information, get credit cards in their name and rack up bills, perhaps even perform truly nefarious deeds in the name of somebody whose password proved easy
Read more →I used to carry a zip-up binder containing my calendar, contact list, task lists and so forth. While I liked the feel of paper, I didn’t like the weight and size of it, so I eventually switched to the Palm personal digital assistant – the one that
Read more →originally published on cbc.ca/money/smallbusiness Business has always relied on collaboration. That fact drives the growth of online collaboration tools, but it’s an area where businesses need to tread warily.
Read more →originally published on cbc.ca/money/smallbusiness Andrew Jones had a simple goal: Develop an online tool to help his wife, Nicole Garton-Jones, run her Vancouver-based firm, Heritage Law. But his efforts catapulted him into the booming software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and spawned a business in its own right.
Read more →Ever get spam email selling name-brand software at discount prices? You might get offers for products from Microsoft, Adobe and other major publishers at half the ordinary price, or better. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it is, for several reasons. First, here’s what you’re likely
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