Month: September 2016

  • Laptop Battery Charging Tips from the Pros 

    Laptop Battery Charging Tips from the Pros 

    There’s a lot of talk these days about mobile phone batteries and charging, but laptop batteries are in a class all their own and deserve attention. Your laptop battery is one of its most important components – although we tend only to think of things like monitor size, or RAM and CPU power when we…

  • Internet of Things-Networked Medical Devices a Looming Compliance Liability

    Internet of Things-Networked Medical Devices a Looming Compliance Liability

    It’s a fast-rising problem that could prove to be a further compliance nightmare for already besieged healthcare facilities: Internet of Things-networked medical devices which, if not data-encrypted, could easily be hacked and data-dumped by exploitative cybercriminals. According to a January 2016 Gartner Report, by 2020 there will be 26 billion devices connected to the Internet…

  • Lunch and Learn: Tinsley Creative

    Lunch and Learn: Tinsley Creative

    Donovan Tinsley, Principal at Tinsley Creative, begins the lunch with a question: “Who here does marketing at their business?” Every hand in the room was raised confidently into the air. “And who here believes that they do it well?” The hands that were confidently thrust into the air now rest at their owner’s side. Mark…

  • Have You Heard of Unsupported Elbow Syndrome?

    Have You Heard of Unsupported Elbow Syndrome?

    Leading Edge has discovered a pattern of dysfunction that can be commonly found in patients working at a desk or driving a car. People with Unsupported Elbow Syndrome typically have many of the following issues: Overweight, Poor Posture, Stiff Neck, Back Pain, Neck Pain, and Shoulder Pain. As the therapists at Leading Edge have said,…

  • Best Ways to Avoid and Remove Scareware

    Best Ways to Avoid and Remove Scareware

    One of the methods black hat Internet marketers and hackers have of “tricking you into clicking” on their shady ads or pop-ups is scareware. It actually first cropped-up almost ten years ago, but more sophisticated scareware is making the rounds on the ‘Net, threatening computer networks that are outfitted with the best antivirus and malware…

  • Dropbox Hacked: Yet Another Argument for Better Encryption

    Dropbox Hacked: Yet Another Argument for Better Encryption

    You may have heard that 68 million Dropbox users were recently told by the company that they needed to change their passwords due to a general hack of their database. The hack occurred in 2012, but it was only after years of persistent rumors by Netizens and cybersecurity mavens that Dropbox finally came clean about…