Downtown Nashville: Just stopped into the SMART TAN International 2010 indoor tanning industry convention and trade show. The exhibitors’ booths were amazing. Some of them looked like little houses with two stories packed full of tanning goodies.
About three years ago, we built a web application for SMART TAN. We helped them create an online tanning certification system and a web portal for indoor tanning employee training. SMART TAN is consistently a leader in growth and innovation in their industry. Dynamic Edge continues to work with them today — tweaking and improving their web offerings to stay a few leaps ahead of the competition.
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According to a 2009 Symantec Study, cyber crime is now the most profitable criminal activity– just ahead of drug trafficking.
What are they after? Access to your data. They want account numbers, social security numbers and personal information. Today, these threats come from all over the world. No longer is the average hacker a bored college techie. Now, there are warehouses of children in Russia that are paid cash per SSN harvested. They have the time and motivation to exploit any and all weaknesses in our networks.
The worst part is, there is a weakness in every network that no firewall or virus software can eliminate. The people using it. The number one way criminals gain access to your network is by misleading a user into inviting them in. One wrong click and they have everything they need to rob you blind and destroy your business.
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Did you know standard small business insurance only covers hardware lost in disasters and considers data an intangible asset? Could you keep your business running with no data? Could you afford to buy new software and sales leads? What are your years of saved files worth?
3 out of 4 Businesses never recover after a disaster strikes. The best way to protect your business is to have a full, offsite backup system. Making sure your data is in two places at once not only protects against hard drive failure, but ensures all your info cannot be lost in one disaster.
The next best way to prevent data loss via disaster is backing up your workstation on a fire and waterproof hard drive. This is not recommended for backing up servers, but for individual machines it’s a good, cost effective solution. You can currently purchase a 2TB ioSafe Solo model for around $400. If you’re running a small, single computer business, this is a great way to protect your data.
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Russian spies have grabbed the headlines in recent weeks. Eleven have now been captured and are standing trial in New York City. However, another 200 million spies remain at large, and they have managed to infiltrate almost every home and business in America. But these spies are taking much more from us then some political plans. They are taking our identities, our dollars, and our productivity right out from under our noses.
Today cyber-espionage is a threat to every one of us. Spyware programs have been unknowingly installed on 80% of all computers in America. These programs range from benign pop up ads, to software that steals passwords, credit card numbers, and our identities.
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A new product being raved about by technology gurus around the world is a brand new…pen? Yes that is correct, a pen. Of course it isn’t just your everyday pen; it is a very unique pen, one that can do all sorts of interesting and never before seen things.
The Livescribe Pulse Pen is quickly becoming every student and professional’s dream gadget. With the Pulse you can record what is being said as you write. While this isn’t a totally new concept, it was what the pulse does after that that makes it unique. After you write whatever notes it is that you have, you can then upload a digital copy of them to your computer via a simple usb hub that is included with the Pulse. In addition to that, the Pulse will show you any type of audio that is associated with the words you have written.
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Usually when one thinks of UPS, they’re thinking about sending or receiving mail. However, a different kind of UPS, an uninterruptable power source, can provide you with as much of a benefit as the postal service.
Consider this scenario: you’ve been working for days on a important project that a client of yours has set a deadline for. Unexpectedly, the power in your building goes out, and since most Windows auto-save features stop working when the power is shut off, you lose everything you have been working on. Not a nice picture to paint. Additionally, your file could still be there upon rebooting the computer, but it could be so severely corrupted that you would no longer be able to edit or save it. Of course, there is the off-chance that you get extremely lucky and the file does not delete or become corrupt, but at the expense of losing everything you were working on, is it really worth it?
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