Archive for September, 2008

d2 IN THE NEWS: INC. MAGAZINE

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs, Small Business | No Comments »

d2 was recently published in Inc. Magazine’s Technology section as the featured expert on data management strategies. Here is the article: Document Classification Tools and Strategies By Renee Oricchio You’ve archived your data so well that even you can’t get to it. How to organize and tag ...

THE 10 MOST COMMONLY USED PASSWORDS

Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs, Small Business | 2 Comments »

In PC Magazine they list the 10 most commonly used passwords. If you are using any of these, please turn off your computer immediately - or change your password. Adding numbers, upper case characters and other special characters (#, $, @, ...

HOW TO KEEP YOUR LAPTOP SECURE

Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs, Small Business | No Comments »

You can’t beat the convenience of checking e-mail and hopping on the Internet at (Wi-Fi) hotspots found in airports, coffee shops, bookstores, and even in some major parks and urban areas. For the uninitiated, Wi-Fi hotspots are areas where you ...

This Week is History

Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »

Has the business world ever been so grateful to say TGIF? We all know when Wall Street sneezes that much of the world catches a cold. This week it was much more than a sneeze; more like the flu. What does ...

You Get What You Pay For

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »

Google offers a lot of really cool web tools; most of them are free. The custom Google search feature that registered users can use on their web sites spent a good 12 hours offline yesterday. Imagine the havoc that might cause ...

Cloud Computing on the High Seas

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »

Some of the most fascinating reading is at the U.S. Patent office. It's the next best thing to being allowed into the inner most sanctums of corporate parks. Case in point: here's a glimpse of what Google is dreaming up these ...

Get a Text Messaging Policy Now!

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | 1,563 Comments »

It's a sickening thought and still unconfirmed at this point. However, Federal rail investigators have a sneaking suspicion that text messaging may at least be part of the reason for the "human error" of last week's horrific head-on collision between ...

What does your IP address say about you?

Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »

Last week Google announced that they were protecting user privacy (their words not mine) by modifying IP addresses in their activity logs after 9 months. Fellow CNET blogger Chris Soghoian felt this was a sham because it ignored cookies, but ...