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Types of Malware to be Aware Of
In recent years, the predatory intruders have honed their skills in attacking computer networks and databases with harmful intrusions. Similar to the old- fashioned safe-crackers with finely honed skills, most hackers direct their efforts and intellect toward stealing...
Supply Chain Security: Things to Know
Just about every element of your business is vulnerable when the data about your supply chain are exposed. Your sales volume, turnover rates, payment information, volume and product mix projections, supplier profiles, and far more can be uncovered even when only a...
Benefits of Virtual Machines in the Workplace
If your business has kept you too busy to stay current with the latest developments in technology, you are not alone. Each year, innovators introduce time and money-saving solutions to help you manage your business better and provide realtime information to make more...
Technology Trends that will impact us in 2020
Each year, IT companies present new developments, opportunities, and applications, always competing to improve our lives by making products more available, travel more convenient, and work-related activities more productive. Some tech developments create new...
Tech Resolutions to Consider for Your Business
Small and mid-sized businesses often face a continual challenge of limited cash flow. Growing companies need to focus on sales and improving the customer experience to succeed and avoid unnecessary expense where possible. Using scarce capital to maintain staff for...
Gifts for the Techie in Your Life
For those lovers of technology among your family, friends, and associates, new and wondrous devices appear on the scene each year before the holidays. This year is no different. Starting with our smartphones, we, the young and old, have been swamped with more and more...
Hot smart voice recognition activated products
Voice recognition technology has been around for a while. As with everything else, the applications are becoming more advanced as companies develop new and practical ways to use them. Home-based voice recognition capability is used to make complicated technology more...
Windows 7 Support Ends
After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer be supporting the Windows 7 operating system. This Windows version has been in service since its introduction on July 22, 2009.While it is possible to continue to use Windows 7 past the deadline, Microsoft will no...
How Managed IT Services Cut Costs
Information technology costs are an integral part of business expenditures. Reports and information generated by your IT system provide critical real-time data for decision making, managing clients and invoices, tracking inventory, maintaining personnel records, and...
Hardware and Software of Retail Business
Small and medium-sized businesses require the same secure, transaction-driven information and management support that larger companies do. While big corporations employ whole departments of computer and information technicians, smaller enterprises achieve their...
The Phone Repair Industry Affected by Tariffs
For centuries, ruling parties and politicians have imposed tariffs on inbound goods for a variety of reasons. The most common rationale is to try to create a “level playing field” to protect local industries from foreigners selling similar goods at a lower price. The...
New Gadget: Portable Hotspot with Skyroam
It’s not a dream anymore. The world’s first 4G LTE Smart hotspot is now a reality with the new Solis X WiFi Smartspot system. As the ultimate travel companion, this tiny device will go wherever you want while keeping all your devices connected when you need them....
The Reality of the Cloud
Cloud computing has undeniably changed the way businesses, organizations, and even individuals handle information. No longer needing to add memory and devise applications as your company expands. Gone are the days of backing up data in the traditional manner to...
Expanding Technologies for Today and Tomorrow
If you have been relatively observant in recent years, you know that technology is changing at an incredible pace. Things that amazed us a decade ago are now commonplace or even passé. Tech developments like cloud computing and 3-D printing that were only ideas a few...
Things an IT MSP Company Should Offer
Companies often prefer to outsource the oversight of their IT server, network, and applications development and oversight to a professional Management Services Provider (MSP) company. By trusting a proven MSP company to manage and safeguard their information systems,...
CEG Opens New Location
To provide the highest quality and fastest service for our residential and commercial customers, we are consolidating our operations into a single Napa location. With this change, CE Group places its entire technical resource team for repairing smartphones and...
NotPetya: Yet Another Ransomware Outbreak
The WannaCry ransomware virus has become a distant memory for many. For some WannaCry and its variants came and went without doing damage. Others weren’t so lucky. What we are learning (once again) is how critical it is to be prepared against a ransomware outbreak....
Announcing Think Station P320 Tiny
Engineered to go where others can’t, the ThinkStation® P320 Tiny combines simple and efficient design with the professional power of a workstation. This Tiny system is ideal for the demands of architecture and engineering, financial services, healthcare, STEM...