Monthly Archives: January 2010

Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: 3 plans you can’t afford NOT to have

Small and medium-sized companies sometimes think that disaster planning is only for larger corporations, but recent changes in technology make such planning affordable for almost all business sizes. In fact, small businesses today can’t afford to be without such planning. As a small business owner, you should have three goals when it comes to disaster [...]
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Despite bad weather, the show must go on

The prevailing bad weather in the United States and Europe has caused varying degrees of production delays in all sorts of industries and business. In circumstances like these, communication is especially important – when all members of the organization need to stay connected to keep operations coordinated and moving forward. Bad weather or not, there [...]
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Assessing and Documenting Your IT Needs

You expect your computer to work when you turn it on. The last thing you want is to waste valuable time trying to get your email running or wrestling with a web browser that won’t load. These are frustrations you surely have experienced, and chances are you will again. But you don’t have to. Or, [...]
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New Study Reveals Extent of Losses Due to Phishing Attacks

Trusteer, a security solutions vendor, recently released the results of their study which shows how successful phishing attacks are, how many users respond to phishing attacks, and how many users submit their login information to criminal websites. The results are alarming. Among them: Each phishing attack involves a very small percentage of customers (0.000564%), but [...]
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Piracy Brings Malware According to Microsoft

Quoting research from various industry analysts, Microsoft warned that users who install unlicensed or counterfeit software on their PCs are 73% more likely to suffer data loss or damage than users of legitimate software. The company also cited a 2006 IDC study that found that 25% of counterfeit software attempted to install unwanted or malicious [...]
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Create and print envelopes for a mass mailing in Word

In Microsoft Word, you can use mail merge to create a batch of envelopes when you want to use envelopes to send a mass mailing to your address list. Each envelope can contain an address from your list. Learn how…
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EHRs may increase physician drug safety reporting

emrAs many physicians struggle with the financial and technical hurdles it takes to successfully implement an EHR, it’s easy to forget the reason the federal government is pushing for EHRs in the first place: improvement in health care.
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Overcoming obstacles to EHR implementation

The federal government is determined to see that every American has an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014—but many physicians are still wary of implementing one. While physicians generally recognize an EHR’s ability to improve patient care and reduce costs, they struggle with the financial and technical hurdles it takes to successfully implement one. The [...]
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Create a photo album using PowerPoint

A PowerPoint photo album is a presentation that you can create to display your personal or business photographs. You can add effects that include attention-grabbing slide transitions , colorful backgrounds and themes (theme: A combination of theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects. A theme may be applied to a file as a single selection.), [...]
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Web Application Security a Growing Threat for Businesses

A new report by security vendor Cenzic shares research indicating that security flaws found in Web applications continue to grow and should be a major concern for many businesses, including SMEs, as more and more depend on the Web for their business. According to the report, almost 80 percent of more than 3,000 software security [...]
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