With all the unrest in Egypt, consumers and businesses alike are looking to the Internet for regular status updates. So imagine the surprise when they are unable to use the super highway. Who shut off the online communication lines in Egypt? In other words, who shut off internet access to Egyptians. It seems to all…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Don’t Miss Out On Data Mining As a Way To Make Better Decisions
Everywhere a customer makes a purchase for a product or service, they are providing a wealth of information to providers that is never used. It used to be that data mining or the process of looking at database records to uncover worthwhile trends or patterns of behavior were only looked at by statisticians that knew…
Canadian Security Breach Leaves Patients Wondering About Their Privacy
One of the dreads of businesses all over is that their confidential data of their clients has been compromised. Such is just what happened with the Bruyère Clinic in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Just recently, someone broke into the Bruyère Family Medicine Centre and stole two computers that contained patients’ private information. Patients who used the…
Acceptable Internet Usage In Your Orange County Business
When is it proper to check the NFL playoff stats scores at work? Would your boss mind if you book your next vacation on your work computer? Access to the Internet is as common as the telephone. Employees can have access to social networks, travel sites and personal email on the office computer. With this…
Are Internet outages acceptable to you? If not, you better get used to it.
Back in the day when we had rotary telephones on our desks and in our homes, dial tone was always there. It was always reliable. It was even on in the middle of a California down pour or power outage. We got comfortable hearing the sounds of the telephone when we picked it up. We…
