Considering Storage, IP Surveillance, Security, Wireless or Switching for your business? Thought about D-Link?

Everyone is familiar with Cisco products, but not everyone may realize there are alternatives which can affect your bottom line drastically while providing an identical feature set and experience. D-Link is a leader in the field and their products can often times go head-to-head with Cisco. D-Link offers: Wireless network equipment, like access points, managed wireless switches for large scale …

Atlanta Georgia to get centralized monitoring of public and private surveillance cameras

Privacy advocates are fired up over the multi-million dollar video integration center planned for Atlanta Georgia. This system will monitor up to 500 cameras simultaneously, some owned by the city and some private, at a centralized data center. At that center, software will be in place that can identify “suspicious” behavior and allow monitoring employees to deploy emergency personnel rapidly. …

Secure IT Alert: CERT Issues Security Recommendations to Prevent Cyber Intrusions

Homeland Secure IT Alert for Wednesday, July 21st, 2011 The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued their recommendations for protection against network intrusions.  I have included the entire document below, but the most current version of the document can be found here.  Please keep in mind that these recommendations are not related to any one platform. These are …

Have you received a letter or email from the RIAA? Unsecured access points could cause this…

A friend of our was near tears recently when they received the following email: From: abuse@charter.net <abuse@charter.net> Subject: [xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx] Notice of Copyright Infringement To: user@someaddy.com Date: Saturday, July 22, 2011, 5:51 PM Dear Charter Internet Subscriber: Charter Communications (“Charter”) has been notified by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent, that your Internet account may have been involved in the exchange …

Hacking: The Good, the Bad and the Murky (From IEEE Spectrum)

Over on the IEEE Spectrum site is a neat article on “The Two Faces of Hacking” which was last updated on July 6, 2011 as of this writing and it shows a graph of hacks, which is interactive to allow you to select only the “Good”, “Bad” or “Murky” hacks or any combination. The graph was created to outline the differences …

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Toshiba Thrive Android 10.1″ Tablet – Another iPad stomping device…

If you are one of the many looking for an alternative to the iPad and can’t bring yourself to like Windows based tablets, Toshiba may have the device for you. The Toshiba Thrive 16GB tablet is a brand new product featuring: Android 3.1 Honeycomb (Yes, it has Flash!) 16GB storage, 1GB DDR2 memory 10.1″ Display with 1080p resolution (1280×800) NVidia …

Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Computing Arrives With Little Fanfare

As a Microsoft Partner, we keep abreast of all the offerings that MS has that may be of interest to our clients.  One area of interest has been The Cloud as momentum in Cloud Computing / Cloud Services has been building slowly but steadily as businesses search for ways to save money and reduce personnel & IT costs. Google Apps …

Would you drive a car without a spare? Why would you not want a backup?

Would you drive a car without a spare tire in the trunk?  Auto makers are selling cars without spare tires! How about operating your computer without a backup? Not a week goes by that we don’t hear some horror story about computer owners losing data. It could be from a virus, a failed hard drive, a dropped notebook, even a …

i’m Watch – A little Android bling for your wrist… #android #cool #imwatch

Father’s day is this weekend, however, one of the things I would like is simply not available yet. That thing is the “i’m Watch”, a connected watch that works with your Android phone, which is not available to purchase, but you CAN preorder on the www.imwatch.it website. You get a wrist-watch type device that runs the Android operating system and …