One month ago, the United States Federal Communications Commission put forth a ban on the sale of all Wi-Fi routers made outside the US, giving manufacturers the option to apply for a conditional approval exemption on the agency’s website.
Listed below: what this ban is going to mean to your business and to your entire team’s personal lives as things progress. Fair warning, things aren’t going to be simple.
The current year has already delivered massive strides in innovation, especially for tools that provide real utility. Listed below are five developments currently reshaping the landscape and how they might influence the way we work in the future.
It’s undeniable that artificial intelligence is a big part of doing business in 2026. Given this, it is not surprising that many products are being developed to push the technology into areas of business it hasn’t touched. Listed below: the difference between AI models and why one man’s great idea could be the thing that set AI back.
The CIO or Chief Information Officer of any company has a lot of pressure on them to get their organization’s technology right. Not only do they need to put strategies in place that will help the company prosper; they need to take the brunt of the heat when these IT initiatives don’t work out in the way they forecast them to. A lot of their job is to say yes when their best instinct is to say no. Listed below is a look at three of the technologies that today’s CIOs are green-lighting.
Technology is a big deal for any business, but for small businesses, keeping pace isn't just a good idea; it's becoming necessary to the survival and success of the whole endeavor. Every instant gratification and falling behind can have a real effect on an organization’s ability to support their offerings.
There are a few occasions that we get a very apparent example of how imperative basic cybersecurity is, regardless of where you are, and this year’s National Football League draft provides one such example.
For those who don’t follow the NFL or the draft proceedings, multiple draftees received prank calls during the process, although one in particular is applicable to businesses of all kinds. Let’s examine this situation to reinforce a few important cybersecurity best practices.
Does your business have an internal IT department or dedicated IT resource? We know it can be hard sometimes to find the talent you’re looking for, but that doesn’t make it any less critical. Listed below are some of the issues you’ll want to keep in mind if you want to get an IT technician on your staff.
It's common for many people to make up an answer that they feel seems plausible if asked something they don’t have an answer to. It happens all the time.
It turns out that this is a tendency that artificial intelligence has inherited from us.
No one really can tell the future, but it is both possible and vital to make predictions based on present trends and current events. Let’s look forward to the rest of this year to see what predictions we can make for business IT and the notes we should all take over the next few months.
In the United States, tax season is prime time for hackers to take advantage of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens. They do this via all types of nefarious activities, such as phishing attacks conducted through text messages and emails claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service. If you want to avoid getting scammed this tax season, be sure to keep the following tips in mind to stay safe while you conduct your typical tax routines.
Despite some of the headlines that we saw last year, it wasn’t all bad news regarding ransomware. Crucially, 2024 saw ransomware payments plummet by hundreds of millions of dollars… despite many large-scale attacks and one record-breaking whaling payment of $75 million by one victim.
This is undeniably great to hear… but with that in mind, you cannot let yourselves slip into complacency.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is a day to celebrate love and romance. That being said, the greatest loves can bring the greatest sorrow… especially when the time comes to say goodbye.
Take Windows 10, for example. PC users have loved the OS for a decade, but in a few short months, it will no longer be a good relationship for anyone, particularly business users, to maintain.
Net neutrality has long been an embattled topic, with rules changing every few years depending on the opinions of those with influence. Recently, the Federal Communications Commission had its most recent net neutrality policy struck down by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals… in such a way that sets the concept back to square one.
Listed below: why this is a particularly dangerous decision, and very well could put small and medium-sized businesses at a distinct disadvantage moving forward.
With the price of hardware at risk of skyrocketing, it’s no wonder that many businesses are looking to virtualize as much of their operations as possible. This is where the cloud comes in: you can virtualize just about any solution, including some that you might not have considered in the past. Listed below: how an SMB might use virtualization and cloud computing to skirt hardware acquisition costs.
Last week, we discussed why X, the social media network once known as Twitter, has been losing many users. This week we wanted to direct those seeking a move to consider the up-and-coming platform known as Bluesky in case you were one of those jumping ship.
Listed below is how Bluesky operates and how to sign up.
The Disney brand has long cultivated an image of magic and wonder. That being said, this image has yet to materialize any magical effects in reality. For example: people still suffer from food allergies while visiting Disney’s various parks.
This makes it especially dangerous that a former Disney employee was allegedly still able to access a specialized menu-planning app and make alterations, like changing prices, adding language that Disney certainly would not approve of, switching text to the unintelligible “Wingdings” font, and worst of all… changing menu information.
In June of this year, publisher Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, best known for its book series of the same name, filed for Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had many of its assets liquidated. One of these assets was the movie rental service Redbox and its eponymous scarlet rental kiosks, rendering the service defunct.
Nonetheless, many kiosks remain standing outside businesses even now, which makes us wonder… what about all the data they collected while they were in use?
Modern wisdom states that if you’re not paying for a product, you’re the product.
For all the good the Internet is capable of doing, it is equally capable of being dangerous… especially when data is involved. Websites and social media platforms collect data from their users and track their movements across the Internet, sell it to advertisers, and more recently, use it to train AI.
Listed below is what you can, and arguably should, do to limit these platforms' ability to do so.
It isn’t rare for people to subscribe to things and only stay subscribed because the cancellation process is challenging and inconvenient. Nonetheless, the Federal Trade Commission is looking to stop this, adopting a rule that eliminates the capability for businesses to put hurdles in front of cancellation processes.
Sextortion scams are scary. The scammer contacts the victim, claiming to have gotten access to their computer and captured video footage of their target engaging in some private and decidedly adult activities, as well as the content that was onscreen at the time. The threat: pay up, or I send the footage to all of your contacts.
However, lately hackers have added another layer of “proof” to these claims, now referring to victims by name and including pictures of their homes. Listed below are what one of these scams looks like and what you should do if one appears in your inbox.
