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People can argue about the impact of climate change and the need for environmental awareness all they want. I’ve always felt that no matter conserving resources is still a good idea. I felt this way for one simple, too often overlooked reason: saving resources saves money. If you could do the same job, and create the same result for less money, wouldn’t you?
How much does free content really cost?
As if Web surfers needed one more reason to avoid unauthorized downloads, a McAfee study found that adding the word “free” to a search for music or movies, or any entertainment content, increases the chance of stumbling onto a malicious link.
The Incredible Shrinking Vacation
Is your time away from work really time off? If you’re like 72 percent of Americans, you probably spend at least some off your free time, before and after work keeping up with your business e-mails. On sick days, 42 percent – almost half – of American workers are checking e-mail between sneezes, and on vacation, a full 50 percent of Americans work to keep their inboxes from overflowing.
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Hurricane Earl is barreling toward the East Coast, presumed to make landfall as soon as tonight.Hopefully, it will run its course with minimal impact other than a few extended deadlines and maybe a day off. But as this hurricane season is the busiest since 2005, the IT department needs to be on the edge of its seat right now. Earl, and the closely following tropical storms Fiona and Gaston might not create any issues for your business. But they might.
Is Your Head In The Cloud?
Cloud computing shows no signs of ceding its position atop the IT buzzwords. But perhaps that’s because no matter how much we debate the pros – more regular updates, lower operation costs – and cons – reliability and security of third-party vendors – the cloud is steadily moving into end-users’ lives at work and at home.
Alicia Keys is still alive, despite malicious e-mail reports
But despite what the spam might have claimed, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Aniston, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Tom Cruise, and a host of other entertainers and athletes did not die in mysteriously unreported plane crashes or automobile accidents.
Hackers used these death-hoax phishing e-mails to lure more users into compromising their PCs.
System failure is business failure, unless you can recover quickly.
Disasters come in all shapes and sizes, and can rarely be predicted. How would you keep your organization moving in the event of a technological catastrophe?
