What to do if your Laptop is Stolen
The problem with carrying around an expensive, portable piece of equipment is that it's possible for someone to pick it up and run with it. According to LoJack, a security firm that focuses on stolen property, two million laptops are stolen each year. What should you do if you are a victim of laptop theft?
How to Monitor your Smartphone Data
Unfortunately cell phone service providers are discovering that smartphone users love their bandwidth. With the majority of carriers dropping unlimited data plans, when a user goes over their limit massive charges can apply. Let's cover a few tips to limit the amount of bandwidth you use on your smartphone.
Google's Privacy Policy Change - What you should know
Google has gradually become a major part in our lives. Most of us use it every day to find answers, research products, and determine what AREASERVED restaurants are open on a Sunday night. Google is on our phones, we watch videos on YouTube, and we get from point A to point B with Google maps. So what does Google know about us?
Scan Documents with your Android Phone
Whether you are going completely paperless or just want to send digital copies of paper documents, there are a lot of solutions out there for quickly scanning a doc and converting it to PDF for easy archiving and emailing, but most of these devices aren't exactly portable. Here's a quick way to digitize documents with the camera on your Android smartphone.
Understanding the Costs of Data
If you've been using computers for a while, then there has probably been at least one point in your life that you've lost data. Maybe it was something you were working on when your computer crashed, or maybe a disk failure wiped out some data. Does this bring back memories of frustration and angst?
Answer Your Office Phone from Home with VoIP
There has been a growing trend where businesses are allowing more employees to work from home or other remote locations. Technology makes this possibly by letting users remote into their work environment securely as if they were sitting at their desk at the office. VoIP phone solutions can even bring the worker's office phone to them, no matter where they are.
How Network Monitoring Reduces Tech Support Costs
At InfiNetwork, we hate seeing our clients suffer from slow computers, bogged down networks, and other computer issues that prevent work from happening seamlessly. That's why we are so passionate about proactively safeguarding your network BEFORE issues happen, in order to prevent expensive downtime.
Hard-Drive Shortage Hits Enterprise Drive Shipments Hard
By This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ">Joseph F. Kovar, CRN
Hard-drive shortage updates from Seagate, Western Digital and EMC (NYSE:EMC) confirmed reports from solution providers that large storage vendors have greater access to supplies than smaller vendors.
Solution providers and storage vendors also noted that enterprise hard drive supplies are more constrained than desktop drive supplies.
The hard-drive shortage stems from severe floods in Thailand that wiped out nearly one-third of the world's hard-drive manufacturing capacity.
Slow Computer? Increase your memory to boost computer Speeds
Sometimes when your workstation feels bogged down, a relatively cheap and simply hardware update can make a huge difference in performance. Adding more RAM (Random Access Memory, often just referred to as memory) can be a game changer for your bogged down PC.
Data Backup: An IT Consultant's Nightmare
Is staying in business important to your company?
We don't want to be sensationalistic here, but there is a serious real-world link between data loss and staying in business. Let's look at some statistics.
