Small business leaders should be taking steps to build awareness of IT security issues within the workplace. With the proliferation of online attacks increasing all the time, businesses can find themselves exposed to heightened risk factors unless employees know what they are doing with IT, it has been suggested.

When it comes to your company’s Web site, there’s no shortage of advice on what you absolutely have to have there. But little is often said about those elements that should never see the light of day. And that’s too bad, because poor planning and neglect of your Web site can lead to lost business, [...]

We all store more information on our personal electronic devices (i.e. cell phones, laptops, computers, tablets, music devices, etc) than we really think. Seriously, stop and think about it for a moment … Now, how can we continue to store and be surrounded with all this information AND feel that it is being protected from [...]

The average life span of a desktop computer is approximately 2 to 5 years, depending on numerous aspects, such as the type of system purchased, changes you’ve made in the internal hardware and the software you have installed. Overtime, your system slows down because of the lack of space they have to store the necessary [...]

Welcome to the serious selling season. Are you ready? Holiday sales typically represent half of retailers’ yearly sales and as much as 75% of their annual profits. Other marketers, such as caterers, travel agents, restaurateurs, party planners and the like, also depend on holiday business.

At some point, your IT equipment will no longer meet your needs — either your business will outgrow the equipment, the equipment will become too slow, or the technology will become outdated. Something needs to happen.

Next time you go out on the town with friends, or go on vacation or post anything online – You might want to stop and think about the effects of doing so. The Internet has undoubtedly changed the way people interact, find and share. The information you put online about yourself last year is, believe [...]

Giggle, a New York City retailer of upscale baby gear, prides itself on having great customer service. So when it became clear the company’s website wasn’t meeting the high standards founder Ali Wing, 40, set for the business, she knew it was time for an upgrade.

This isn’t another lecture about minding your e-mail manners. This is a story about a new subset of e-mail etiquette. Call it wireless politeness. An increasing number of e-mail messages are being received on small, wireless devices with limited screen space — devices such as Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. Being polite is still important. But so [...]

The latest rave is something called quick response (or QR) codes. They are like the UPC barcodes used on products except they are a little more complex. The UPC barcodes are one-dimensional (meaning they can only hold up to 20 numerical digits). A QR code is a two-dimensional matrix barcode that can hold thousands of [...]