The Time to Claim Your Google Business Profile Short Name is NOW

Author's note: This post was written July 3, 2019. Updates have been made and short names are no longer able to be claimed. In the last few months, Google has slowly rolled out a few new features for Google Business Profile account owners. The Googs ...

The Updated Pros and Cons of Wearable Tech

In January of 2014, I wrote a piece for this blog entitled The Advantages and Disadvantages of Wearable Tech. In it, I made a few informed guesses about a burgeoning, and very intriguing, market. Google Glass had just been released in a limited ...

A New Bug Will Give You That Final Reason to Leave Internet Explorer

Are We Prepared for the Future?

  A few months ago I wrote a post about wearable tech and the societal impact it might have, both upon the wearer of said tech and the people around them. In it, I mentioned that early adopters of these items might be ridiculed and stigmatized by ...

The Aftermath of the Heartbleed Bug

Most of us realize that transmitting information over the internet has its share of risks. That’s why so many of us only share sensitive information, like credit card and social security numbers, with so-called “secure sites,” otherwise known as ...

Advantages of Wearable Technology

Smart watches have taken the world of wearable technology by storm, and it’s becoming hard to imagine life before this level of accessibility. A few years ago it was unthinkable to believe something as small as a watch could replace our cell phones, ...

Avoid Security Breaches: Build a Better Password

 

Bitcoin: The Inherent Folly of the Internet's Cryptocurrency

In 2009, an experiment was conducted. Its intent was to determine the viability of a concept known as “cryptocurrency,” funds which could be traded for goods and services like traditional money but with complete confidentiality. In our current ...

Are Paid Operating Systems a Thing of the Past?

 
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