Fighting Zika Virus with GMO The threat of the Zika virus, brought to you by virus laden mosquitoes, has gradually moved from a South American problem disrupting the Olympics in Rio, to a North American problem causing the CDC to issue its first warning to Americans traveling within America. Because of the danger of microcephaly, pregnant women…
More Tech Acronyms to Unravel Verizon has a clever video which shows how the general population has only a vague idea what 4G is and even less clarity on what LTE or USB stand for. Although, there might be a feel for the concepts behind these letters, clarity is missing. Recently, one of our customers…
When the average is 40 email signatures per day Are you an average office worker? “The average office worker sends 40 emails per day,” notes Lindsay Kolowich in her Hubspot article. She provides 9 ideas to consider in developing an email signature, because “that’s 40 opportunities to market yourself and your business in those individual…
Big on Kitchens – Small on parties “Let’s not have the Popovers over.” Ikea might know a thing or two about homes. At least they know about the things that we put into our homes – beds, couches, tables, chairs, curtains, pillows, plants – those things. They surveyed 12,000 residents of Berlin, London, Mumbai, Toronto,…
New pear-shaped atom suggest impossibility of time travel To paraphrase the poet, “O the simple joy of reading tech articles.” You will find in tech articles the delight of understatement and the amazement of scant humility. Take, for example, this headline: “New discoveries suggest the universe might not be what we thought.” What a nugget!…
Be glad Ransomware isn’t again on your computer system ArsTechnica article headlines, “Wave of business websites hijacked to deliver crypto-ransomware.” Fairly warning and justifying yet another article on the subject. Or perhaps you’d prefer the fact that Google was forced to blacklist over 11,000 domains in a single day after a botnet compromised their websites. The ploy was…
Your Office 365 subscription includes access to Office 2016. Don’t miss out on great collaboration features, secure access to shared documents, and the productivity that goes with them. “I use a lot of devices across iOS, Android, and Windows. With Office 2016 I am able to access, edit, and share all of my documents, with…
What is the chief online discovery tool of the Internet Age? In an online article for SMBs appearing June 1, 2016, the eMarketer said, “Most Small Businesses [are] Discovered Online First.” That is the new preeminent discovery tool of your potential customer. More specifically the article stated, “More than one-third of US internet users said they first…
New Microsoft Starbucks app is good news There’s one in the grocery store. Next to the gas station. There’s the drive through. The mall. And the big one on the corner. Lots of Starbucks. Very convenient. But Starbucks is working with Microsoft to make it even more convenient. How about putting Starbucks in your Microsoft Outlook? An…
Looking for “sleek solutions.” The unexpectedness of this technology is not so much the place as it is the sleekness of the solution. And there’s a medical synergy to each of these. More or less. So come inspect a medical mule in Rwanda, FB enabling the blind to see and artificial skin that sweats. Not…