Who’s driving your vehicle these days? For many, the question is up for debate, as vehicles themselves become smarter and more proactive. Some car intelligence has been around for a while: backup cameras and airbags; and other developments are more recent, such as braking assist – where the car senses an impending collision and brakes [...]
Just like teaching a young child that there is no ‘last number,’ we are reaching new highs of data storage size with each passing year. Terabytes, Petabytes, Zettabytes, oh my! But since we can’t stop the data from being produced … we need to find a way to store it all. Enter cloud storage – [...]
Here’s a topic no one likes to think about: Identity Theft. There are one of two reasons we don’t like to think about it: 1. You have been the victim of identity theft and have spent days and weeks and months of your life trying to undo the damage made by some lowlife who stole [...]
It’s the story on the evening news – a hurricane, a tornado, a winter blizzard – that makes small business owners stop and think, “What would I do if that happened here?” Natural and man made disasters take a toll on businesses and the customers they serve. Both revenues and productivity are adversely affected, so [...]
As we head into the summer months – a/k/a air conditioning season – and give thanks to Mr. Willis Haviland Carrier for bringing us modern cooling systems, we brace ourselves for the inevitable bump in the power bill. After all, electricity is the true connector. We need it to turn on a light, heat and [...]
As we scan the news on our smartphones each day, we are bound to run across an article about health. The article will probably say that, collectively, we don’t exercise enough, we don’t eat enough healthy foods, and we don’t sleep enough (and we spend too much time on our smartphones). What’s a person to [...]
We like to talk about Big Data and its sources. We’ve discussed that the main source of Big Data is you, and me, and the guy sitting next to you on the bus. But what are we doing, exactly, to generate this source material? Well, have you sent an email? Googled something? Posted a status [...]