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Plain-English technology and security guidance from the InfoStream team.
June 20, 2018
RoboCalls are the mosquitoes of the tech world. Carl, a 93-year-old Boca Raton resident says the calls begin at around 5 pm and go on until about 9 pm. There’ll be 3 or 4 calls. Sometimes there is no one there and sometimes it is someone trying to sell something. He went on to say […]
It’s the new wave and the next thing. In many cases it’s the “bleeding edge”. Every planning meeting I’ve been in for the past few years has inevitably had to deal with it. The big question I keep answering is “Is it time to replace my equipment with a cloud service?” If that’s the question […]
West Palm Beach has been flagged as one of the most vulnerable areas to cyber-attack in the USA, according to a new study. Coronet, an internet security company, based in Tel Aviv, conducted the study and the area referred to is from Boca Raton to Okeechobee County. Alan Crowetz, Channel 5’s internet security expert said […]
May 23, 2018
Banks and Credit Card Companies already track our trips to the grocery store, restaurants and gas stations but a preliminary plan to track gun sales goes much further. It combines two very contentious topics: privacy issues and gun control. Even the private sector is now taking a tough stance, in the wake of the Parkland […]
May 19, 2018
We live in a world where everything is at our fingertips. Cell phones and tablets mean we have our address books, email, calendars, and even data with us always. One of the most requested features is to be able to access the office from offsite and work on data and information without coming in to […]
America’s favorite hobbies, it seems, is tracing our family tree. Nothing could be easier. We only have to send off a saliva sample and then upload the results in the hope of finding long lost relatives. However, there is a big trade off if you do that, according to security experts. As with so many […]
April 11, 2018
87 million Facebook users are receiving notifications that a third party may have accessed their personal information. You could possibly have been sharing your profile with an unlimited number of people, if you have been using Facebook to link your apps. Facebook has begun the lengthy process of notifying users if their personal data was […]
April 10, 2018
Did you know that one of the things which gives us enormous pleasure, is handing over $200 cash to any client who refers us to another firm, when they ultimately become a client? We’ve given away lots of these referral gifts and would love to give out even more. It’s quite surprising the number of […]
March 22, 2018
Everywhere you turn you hear people talking about the cloud (and we aren’t talking about the weather). “I just moved my e-mail to the cloud.” “Well, I just moved my shared folders to the cloud.” “Hah! I just moved my finances AND my CRM software to the cloud.” Banking in the cloud, sales, remote support, […]
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