Techno Blog
Employees Keeping Your Data Safe? Don’t Count On It
The biggest block to protecting your company’s data is employee ignorance about cybersecurity. In fact, your employees are probably compromising your data right now and aren’t even aware of it. In case you haven’t read the reports, a statement from one of the many...
How To Make Your Smartphone A Mobile Office Workhorse
Smartphones are a workplace double-edged sword. On one side, they are mobile computers, capable of performing useful functions, and getting real work done. On the other, they can be a distraction: texting, web browsing, gaming and more. The temptation to goof off is...
Will Your Backups Be There When You Need Them?
When the livelihood of your business depends on data stored in your computer network, you simply cannot afford to leave anything to chance. Data preservation and the ability to retrieve it at any point in time is the foundation of business continuity. Yet the facts...
Spam – Your #1 Data Security Threat
Unfortunately, human beings communicating by e-mail often turns out to be the weakest link in your network’s defenses. That’s why cyber-criminals often rely on spamming to inject their toxic code into their victims’ computers. And, just as malware is becoming ever...
The Cure For A Sluggish PC
If you’re often – or even constantly – frustrated with slow loading times, screen freezes or crashing programs, your network may be in desperate need of an upgrade…or a tune-up. Here’s how to make your network run like new again… What’s Slowing Your Network Down? Most...
3 Deadly Sins of Computer Care
If you're like most people in business, you require a computer to do some if not all of your daily work. But how often do you actual consider the proper care your devices require to work optimally and keep you connected to the world around you? If you're committing...
Professional E-mail Addresses
Are you turning business away with your e-mail “saddress”? We see it all the time and there’s just no excuse for it. It’s just sad, really, when a company is still using an e-mail address that projects a less than professional image to its recipients. What do we mean...
Going to be away from the office? Do it in good taste.
Going into this busy season of absent employees, it’s a good time to look at the right ways and the wrong ways to inform the world—and your coworkers—that you’re away from your desk and vacationing your cares away.
New ad blocker technology means faster page loads—but what about us?
If you’re doing business online, then you probably know about ad blockers and have accepted the fact that they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Put the Zip Back into Google Chrome
Like the old story of the frog that gradually, unwittingly gets itself boiled in a pot of water, users of the Chrome browser may not realize they’ve been cooking in their own accumulated data bits, suddenly finding one day that their browser is operating super slowly or crashing all the time.
The Hard Job of Software Management: Four Ways to Optimize Your Software Licensing
While the term software management might be routine to some businesses, others of you out there may not realize a strategy is needed to keep you cost efficient and in compliance. This area has grown increasingly complex in recent times with the number of software...
Space commerce (Cool Technology News)
Some people call us space commerce cowboys... There’s e-commerce and then there’s space commerce. While you thought e-commerce opened up the world to businesses, now space commerce potentially makes the universe our marketplace. Space commerce is a real thing taking...
Don’t Let a Power Outage Take You Out
Dealing with a natural (or unnatural) disaster can have devastating effects on your work and business. There’s one you can prepare for that will give you peace of mind in one major area and that is a power outage. Power outages can be caused by a number of sources,...
Is it Time to Go to the Cloud?
It’s a commonly asked question: Should we get a new server or go to the cloud? The answer differs, depending on who’s trying to sell you their services. So what’s the answer? Is there just one answer? If you’ve maxxed out your old server and it’s coming to its life’s...
Do you Have a Good, Trustworthy IT Guy?
Whoever it may be—guy, girl, company—whoever holds the keys to your IT kingdom had better be someone you can trust, and someone who is doing a good job. You just can’t afford to get this wrong. Your IT guy is the one with the most access to your valuable network—the...
Help Grow your Business with Help Desk Support
Here at Techno Advantage, we believe that a major advantage we offer IT clients in our integrated family of IT management products and services is our Help Desk. Because partnering with you is a priority, your outsourced IT Help Desk is here for you 24-7, at the ready...
What can hosted workspaces do for your business?
As our culture continually evolves more and more toward mobility and flexibility with the use of tablets, smartphones and notebook computers, business is happening all the time, everywhere, in places we never would have dreamed. Companies are implementing BYOD (bring...
Four Rules of Email Etiquette Can Save Your Reputation
You may not think of email as having such power, but just as a great email can bring in the business—so these email mistakes can drive customers away and ruin your reputation. And pretty quickly too, if they’re repeated on a consistent basis. What business technology...
Warn your people about this “Microsoft” phone scam!
The call sounds very official. A representative from Microsoft’s technical support team is on the line and they have found an error in your computer system. But don’t worry—they can fix it for you. They just need access to your machine; if you can provide the login...
Getting Your Tweet On: What Businesses Need To Know
Part of using technology to your advantage includes having a social media presence where your customers are. And that may mean Twitter is a part of your mix. Even if you’re uncomfortable with (or fearful of) this environment, you need to push past that if you want to...
