Consumer spending heavily relies upon digital currency and perhaps someday paper money will be obsolete.  It may sound fantastic but consider how often you yourself use a credit card to buy things, go online to shop, or receive gift cards preloaded with a specific dollar amount.  Probably you pay your bills via online banking, pay-at-the-pump with a credit card, and even purchase movie tickets online.  Once you look at the frequency of which you actually use digital currency on a day-to-day basis, we aren’t really that far off from going completely digital with our currency. The Bitcoin revolution?

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One of the top cyber crimes, and the most lucrative, are phishing scams.  Large corporations such as Sony have been compromised and accounts of these types of cyber crimes are being reported at a high rate.  Phishing scams are just as dangerous to small business owners as they are to large corporations. Over 300,000 complaints were filed in 2010 to the Internet Crime Complaint Center , a partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center and the FBI.  These grievances were from small businesses and individuals victimized by online phishing scams and numerous other Internet related crimes. Let’s look at what phishing really is, so that you can gain a greater understanding of why your small businesses may be targeted by a cyber criminal

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Android smartphones and Apple’s iPhones are very different. Android phones are highly customizable. You can change everything from your Android phone’s home screen to the way you download apps because Android is open source

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Isaac Asimov once said, “The only constant is change.” This is not only true in life, but in business as well. One trend that has changed recently is the popularity of telecommuting. Even though many people have differing opinions concerning this, it has not been around long enough, on a large enough scale, to see its true impact on business

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As the holidays quickly approach, advertisers appear to be pushing smartphones and tablets as the only tech gifts available this season. However, there are many other good high-tech gift ideas that will make that tech savvy relative happy without breaking the bank, and several of these are flying beneath the shopping radar. Some are perfect for the eco-conscious, some are perfect for that inner geek in all of us, and some are even perfect for those lucky ones who already own a smartphone and tablet

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While many shoppers won’t be battling the crowds this year by purchasing all of their gifts online, many more will be in line waiting for the doors to open.

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The Intel 4004 came out in 1971 and was the first CPU on a single chip! This week marks its birthday and we want so say a quick thank you to the microprocessor that has changed computing forever. A CPU, or central processing unit, is essentially the brain of a computer. Every bit of information input or output by the computer goes through the CPU

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It is inevitable that you will need to ask for the assistance of your IT service provider.

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