Businesses are continuing to look for new ways to reduce expenses, cut operating costs and maximize existing budgets. While some departments or areas of your business can afford to have budgets cut, key areas of your business like marketing investments must never be reduced. Besides marketing, information technology is another key area that must never...
Is your business concerned? Another popular online service has been hit by hackers and this one could have some serious privacy and even compliance fallout. Online note taking service Evernote has been hit by hackers and all users are being forced to change their passwords. Evernote has over 50 million global users and the forced...
Have you heard of Windows Blue? Does Windows Blue mean anything to your business? ZDNet is one of the top websites for IT information and when we read that the next generation of Windows is said to be close to a public preview state, it caught us a little off guard. Mary Jo Foley covers...
An important deadline is still over a year away for those holding on to Windows XP, however Microsoft has issued a warning to Windows 7 users throughout Australia. Upgrade to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or say goodbye to your support. On April 9 Microsoft will cease supporting the original release of Windows 7. According...
CompTIA is one of the Information Technology industries leading think tanks and also provides industry certifications ensuring businesses across the country are receiving services from trained and certified professionals. Marking its tenth anniversary is CompTIA’s 10th Annual Information Security Trends study. It comes out at a time of dramatic change in the IT industry, when...
Why does it cost so much to buy Adobe software in Australia? According to an article found in the February 14 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald it is cheaper for Australia business to fly to the United States (return) and purchase their Adobe software versus buying the software here in Australia. When Adobe’s CEO...
BYOD or BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE is one of the latest concerns facing business owners as more employees want to bring their own smartphones, tablet computers and other computing devices into the corporate environment. BYOD offers business owners a cost alternative solution versus traditional practices of supplying cell phones, iPhones, BlackBerry devices and now Windows...
Businesses across the country continue their march towards full adoption of cloud services enabling them to reduce technology expenses, increase efficiencies, boost productivity and always have the latest software to power their business. Companies today have their backup and business continuity solutions hosted in the cloud. They may have moved their Microsoft Exchange Services to...
Google continues to be the dominant search engine online leaving BING and others at the back of the pack. Every business wants to be at the top of the search engine rankings for the keywords their clients and prospects use to find services, however there is only one top spot with everyone gunning for it....
Every Australian taxpayer’s taxation information is at risk! Criminals infiltrated the Australian taxation system according to a report we read on smh.com.au. Criminals used stolen personal information of tax agents to gain access to the Tax Agent Portal. Warning of this security breach was sent on February 5 to all tax agents across the country...
When the cloud trend erupted, legal questions and red tape surrounded the growing technology movement. Contracts signed between cloud service providers, IT companies like ours and end clients created headaches and uncertainty on who was responsible for what and when an issue did occur which party needed to address it. We wanted to share with...
Entrepreneurs can’t wait for the day they get their first prototype back from some overseas designer in China. A rite of passage for many however, the days of getting your prototype cheaply made in China is coming to an end with 3-D printers hitting the market for small businesses and entrepreneurs. 3-D printers allow for...
