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• 8 April 2012 : PCI Affects Your Customer Payments
  
  

  Chances are that if your business accepts payment from customers using a credit card, you’re affected by rules and regulations that require you to be “PCI compliant”. But you probably [More...]

  
  

• 31 December 2011 : Extended Hours in 2012
  
  

  We are happy to announce that we will be expanding our business hours. Our updated support business hours will be Monday-Friday 7am to 5pm CST. Our on-call techs will now [More...]

  
  

• 28 December 2011 : Intrusion Detection, Managed Security, Advanced Persistent Threats…or in layman’s terms…Viruses
  
  

  Lately we’ve noticed a rise in virus (including malware, trojan, and spyware) activity with many of our clients. Some of the discussions that have taken place since then have helped [More...]

  
  

• 28 October 2011 : What Does Technology Cost Per User?
  
  

  Wouldn’t you love to have an answer to that question?  As a business owner or manager, you know that technology is an important part of your business.  And for many [More...]

  
  

• 28 October 2011 : HP Ditches Plan to Spin Off PC Unit
  
  

  In case any of you with upcoming hardware decisions missed this we thought we’d provide this piece of news from Reuters:

  Hewlett-Packard Co ditched a plan to spin off its personal [More...]

  
  

• 29 September 2011 : Email Addresses Tell Who You Are
  
  

  How you use the Web tells others quite a bit about you.  In particular, your domain name and email address says a lot about who you are as an individual [More...]

  
  

• 19 March 2011 : Easy SharePoint Migration – Using File/Folder Views
  
  

  Migrating to SharePoint allows your users to share, find, and collaborate on information much more quickly. Transitioning to SharePoint 2007 or 2010 is easier than you might think. [More...]

  
  

• 11 March 2011 : How SSL and CAs Work
  
  

  Each time you visit an SSL-secured Website, you get the “green bar”/lock and your computer recognizes that the certificate is valid because it already has a copy of a certificate [More...]

  
  

• 4 March 2011 : Keep Your Free Email Accounts Safe
  
  

  When dealing with email security one can never be too safe.  It is absolutely imperative that you change your password often and for every account you have.

  One of the most important [More...]

  
  

• 24 January 2011 : Floppy Drives – Will Tape Drives Soon Follow?
  
  

  When is the last time you heard someone say, “I’ll just throw that file on a floppy drive for you”?  Floppies enjoyed nearly three decades as the ubiquitous form of [More...]