By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
#Hashtag #What'sItAllAbout Hashtags are used all over social media, from Twitter and Facebook to Instagram. Many businesses are turning or have already turned to social media to market their products and engage with their customers.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
As you may have heard, Microsoft has announced the retirement of Windows XP and Office 2003. These upgrades need to take place before Windows XP expires on April, 8, 2014 in order to protect your computer and network from potential security risks such as hackers, spammers and data loss.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
I spend a lot of time talking about the latest gadget, the shiny new app, and the latest and greatest in IT solutions, but I wanted to take a step back today and talk about the spaces that exist between us and our technology.
It's no secret that we live in a fast-paced, technology-dependent society that glorifies the newest model and fad.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
The internet crashes and no one can do any work at all. It's easy to forget that things weren't always this way. As a culture, we have become dependent on technology and our easy access to it. Let's take a look back at where we've come from.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
So every once and a while, I get struck by how cool technology is today. Actually, working in this industry that probably adds up to once or twice a day. Today's cool thing directly influences our hosted VoIP customers and so I thought I'd bring it to the blog.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
This week something a little different. Each week, I spend some time on the internet looking for articles about internet technology, tech advances and cloud computing to post on our Facebook and social media. Recently, I ran across this wonderful video about Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the scientist who discovered fractals.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
Hey folks, we're back this week with a new entry in the techno-babble dictionary. This week we'll be looking at a bunch of terms for your network.
LAN or Local Area Network is a network established in a geographically small location, such as a home or office.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
Today we're taking a break from the techno-babble to refresh some important security points to remember during the holiday season.
By now, most everyone has heard of the data breach at Target that compromised up to 40 billion credit cards.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
This week's words have to do with those pesky up down and up again acronyms pertaining to IT services. As if acronyms weren't confusing enough! It's like that annoying phase teenagers go through where they write everything like ThIs. At least we aren't dotting our i's with flowers or hearts.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
Or rather, are you being server-ed? Servers. They're big; they're noisy; they're expensive. And we all rely on them on a daily basis at home and in the workplace. But what are these servers we depend on for so many things?
They are those tall towers of boxes that process your data.