Shiny New Gadget Of The Month: What If Your Smartphone Had Wings

Video streaming from the air is about to get much more affordable.

It just so happens that the brains, gyroscope, GPS and camera aboard all those new drone cameras you may have seen can also be found in your smartphone...

Slip your smartphone into a PhoneDrone Ethos, and you have your own flying camera at a fraction of the cost of a fully equipped camera drone.

Shadow IT: Ignore At Your Own Risk

It’s one of those little secrets that nobody wants to talk about...

The term “Shadow IT” refers to apps and devices used at work that operate outside your company’s sanctioned policies and protocols.

Shadow IT takes many forms, like conversations on Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, Gmail or Skype.

Laptop, Tablet… Or 2-in-1?

Are you toting around two devices – a laptop to get serious work done and a tablet for a little Baldur’s Gate or Facebook action?  If you’re in the market for a new laptop or tablet, it’s time to consider getting a 2-in-1. Like an SUV or Swiss Army knife, 2-in-1’s offer supreme versatility.

Virtual Reality – Useless gimmick, or valuable marketing tool for your business?

According to investment firm Piper Jaffray, there will be $5.4 billion worth of virtual reality devices on the market by 2025. The uses for small business are limited only by imagination.  A roofing company, for instance, could, with this technology, give their prospective customers a live virtual tour of their roof, demonstrating its condition and places where they need to replace shingles – without having to climb up on it.

Encryption in The Cloud – How safe is your data?

Cloud technology can add a whole new layer of protection to your data backup system. However, it’s important to recognize that there’s one key difference between cloud service providers that will determine how safe your data is.  When stored data – aka “data at rest” (vs.

Conquering Connecting

“Everyone looks so much better when they smile.” – Jimmy Fallon, host of the legendary The Tonight Show

What a meteoric ride Jimmy Fallon has had to the top!

How did this son of an IBM machine repairman get to the chair once occupied by maybe the most legendary figure in comedy TV for 30 years straight, Johnny Carson?

He did it through exceptional networking.

Shiny New Gadget Of The Month: All This… For Just Five Bucks???

If you haven’t tried Fiverr.com yet, you’re in for a treat.  Fiverr is a global online marketplace where freelancers offer to perform an amazing variety of tasks and services, starting at just $5.00.

Need a whiteboard-style video for your website?  A new logo?  Help creating a PowerPoint or Prezi presentation?  Then you need to check out Fiverr.

10 Things You Must Do Now To Prevent A Costly Data Disaster

In less than 60 seconds, you are about to learn 10 things that could save you days – or even weeks – of downtime, not to mention the undue stress on your company, and potentially thousands of dollars lost, due to a data disaster...

Use this article as your checklist in a conversation with your IT company to assure that your business has the right plan in place to get back up and running quickly if and when disaster strikes.

Are You, an “In-box Zero” hero!

E-mail management tool SaneBox makes it easy to keep your e-mail under control.  It looks at your e-mail history when you first set it up and then drops only important e-mails into your SaneBox.  E-mails from addresses you don’t normally mail to go into the “SaneLater” folder.