How is it that the US lags in broadband?  Why the high costs?  It was just after the 1996 Telecommunications Act that we were introduced to 10mbps plans.  At that time Southern California residents paid about $34.95 per month.  Jump ahead to just last year where we’re now seeing 1 gig per second speeds.  100 times faster yet still behind compared to countries like Denmark, Netherlands, Japan and South Korea.
 
The National Broadband Plan was introduced by the Obama administration three years ago that promised a path of rapid deployment of high-speed networks, offering 100 million households affordable access to connections of 100 Mbps or more. Progress has been slow but the F.C.C. reports that more fiber-optic cable has been laid in the US than in Europe in the last two years.  On average, most Americans have access to.....

Mobile cloud computing has been inching its way to top of the popularity line since 2009. We live in a world where hundreds of thousands of mobile apps are downloaded daily.  In fact, the World Mobile Applications Market reports that about 6.4 billion application downloads were made globally in 2009 which will continue to grow amongst the coming years.

Many low-end but browser-enabled mobile phones are unable to support applications that are built for smartphones that require intensive computing power and software platform support in order to function. With the advent in mobile cloud computing, the resources in terms of computing, storage and platform support required to execute these applications...

If you are a company that supplies your employees with mobile devices then you should be at the top of this list.  We all know how much we all depend on our mobile devices not only on a daily basis but most likely an hourly or even minute basis.  Sadly, we literally have to scream and shout begging for people not to use them while driving.  It’s no surprise that we now depend quite a bit on our mobile devices rather our desktops.  Why log into your laptop or desktop to check your bank statement, make a car payment or add more money to your Starbucks Gold Card?  This is where mobile security really becomes not only important, but essential.

Employees believe that nobody attacks mobile phones, but smartphones are easy targets for hackers.  Maybe this belief stems from the fact that it was a mobile phone supplied by another party, not out of their own pocket.  Don’t we tend to care more when something we own was actually purchased by ourselves?  Smartphones compile sensitive information to which access must be controlled to protect the privacy of the user and more importantly the intellectual property of the company.

It’s estimated that there will be 3.1 billion broadband subscribers by 2015.  When you get a new mobile device what is one of the first things you find yourself doing?  Downloading apps!  Gartner, Inc.  says that free apps accounted for about 89 percent of total downloads in 2012.  Worldwide mobile app store downloads surpassed 45.6 billion in 2012, with free downloads accounting for 40.1 billion, and 5 billion...

All this talk about preparation for the doomsday on December 21, 2012 had me thinking. So what if there was a catastrophic event and nobody in the office could make calls or even google "how to save the world"? In all seriousness, is your company prepped for disaster recovery?

There are many areas to put a disaster recovery in place so that your business is intact IF something were to happen in the near future. Let's take your internet connection for example. We tend to go a bit crazy when the internet is down on a normal day.  Imagine the panic when it goes down due to a disaster.  Now this can be due to fire, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.  Would you know what to do? Freaking out and then multiple calls to your internet provider would probably be first on your list, then what?

A disaster recovery plan or DRP, should include a detailed document that lists the ins and outs of the plan. This is not just limited to emergency contacts, but includes everything that helps your company in

The average person still uses the term: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". In today's economy, it seems you have to live and die by those terms. Well, what if you fall into the "I'm not an average person" category"? More often than not, these "above average people" are not rich nor are they well off. The above average person seems to always want to have the latest and the greatest item. Whether it is a car, wireless phone, software application or even basketball shoes, these people just have to have it.

The same goes for businesses. A lot of the time, businesses have budgets that only are used for mindful spending. But some businesses do think like people and must have the latest...

Figuratively speaking, that is. Most of us are aware that being abrupt with your server in a restaurant may result in your order being tampered with or being delayed. Spitting in your order is not limited to the food industry. Customer service is a huge part of a business, and so are the carrier representatives that deal with customers on a day to day basis. Being discourteous to a representative could impact your telecommunications order as well.

There are always good excuses to go out to eat at a sit-down restaurant; instead of cooking at home. I always find a way to do just that. But every time I go to a sit-down restaurant, I have to make sure I take extra special caution to treat the people who handle my food with great respect...