Holiday Tech Gifts
We love to offer good tech gifts for the holidays and here are a few that might interest our readers: Amazon Kindle Fire HDX (around $229) - The Amazon Kindle Fire has been a favorite on past lists, but it [...]
IT and Your New Employees
Many companies are back to hiring and while most tend to have handbooks and first-day procedures to ease the onboarding process, many fail to give enough time to the IT transition. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal (10/21/13) highlighted some [...]
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For The Better by Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson, a science and technology writer for Wired and The New York Times, has written a book that takes an opposing view of the effects of technology on us today. Where most of what has been written warns that technology is doing [...]
The Devastating Cryptolocker Virus and What You Need to Know
Below is our blog posting on the Cryptolocker Virus. Unfortunately, since our post last Fall, the virus has not gone away and its continued growth warrants another look at our article. This week, MSPmentor, a resource for Managed Services providers, [...]
The Future of Passwords
We have written previously about password protection and how to keep your password secure and also how to make use of password managers, which are very useful for home and business. There has also been a lot of buzz recently around [...]
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
If you are looking for an alternative, or an addition, to the light summer beach read, it would be worth taking a look at The New Digital Age - Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by two top [...]
Summer Travel Tech Tips
With summer and travel season upon us, we are re-visiting the topic of your IT safety while traveling. These tips are critical to your personal and business IT security. It is practically impossible to travel without a tech device to [...]
Revisiting IT for your Company: The Conversation around Cloud and IT Support That Your Company Should Have
Two recent articles from the Harvard Business Review The IT Conversation We Should be Having and Huffington Post Tech Is Your Company Cloud Ready? 10 Factors for the CIOs to Consider centered around the changing role of the CIO or [...]
Inexpensive Tablets
Our blog has had many posts on the rise of mobile IT in business and the move towards using phones and tablets in support of business needs. We also have written on the increasing necessity for managing mobility in business [...]
Read it Later?
No time to read that article now? How about saving it for later? One of my favorite writing apps is Evernote, which allows you to use either your finger to hand write (yes, that's right!) notes on your tablet rather [...]
To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink
We have reviewed Daniel Pink's best-selling books in previous blogs, and his latest book, To Sell is Human, is another look at motivation and business in an ever evolving and techological world. It is also a book about the salesman in all [...]
Is the New BlackBerry for You?
At the end of January, came the announcement of the launch of the new BlackBerry, which went on sale in the UK and other countries at that point and in Canada on February 5th. All major carriers in the US [...]
Mobile Touchscreen Tips
Although technology keeps moving to smaller and more convenient devices, there are still a few glitches when it come to typing on tablets and mobile phones. In a recent WSJ article (Jan. 16, 2013), Katherine Boehret noted optimal solutions available for better [...]
Cyber Security and IT Management
In the past few days, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications have published articles on businesses taking another look at cyber security and government regulations in 2013. Businesses have long rejected government interference in company cyber security policies, but [...]
Holiday Tech Gift Tips
It is that time of year again to think about tech gift ideas for the holidays. The offerings get more exciting each year and some of our suggestions are improvements and newer versions of products that you may already have [...]
Disaster Protection and Hurricane Sandy
As a New Jersey (and tri-state) company, we watched the Monster Storm Sandy and its devastating effects on parts of the area. It brought home the concern we always raise with our customers about the need for complete IT coverage [...]
The Makers
An interesting book choice this holiday season for the person interested in tech, history or business is The Makers by Chris Anderson, the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and founder of 3D Robotics, his company based on the philosophy [...]
SMBs Allowing Personal Phones and Computers
A WSJ article (Nov. 12, 2012), "Many Gadgets, Many Risks," focused on the growing trend of SMBs allowing employees to use their own personal laptops and smartphones for work, which saves the employer on hardware but brings up many security [...]
Windows 8!
Not that long ago, we had a blog post on Windows 8 and the news or rumors surrounding the new OS. Now that we are getting much closer to its arrival, October 26, we thought we would offer updates on [...]
Google Drive
If you are a user of Google Docs, you may have noticed that the tab for Google docs no longer exists and has been replaced by Google Drive. Interestingly, there hasn't been a lot of buzz from Google to the [...]
What the Plus? Google+ for the Rest of Us
You may have read our book review of Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki, the guru of writing on Apple and author of many business best sellers. Kawasaki has been a leader in jumping on the social media bandwagon, having over half [...]
New iPhone vs. the Android
Well, it's hard to live on this planet and not have heard the news of the new iPhone that recently hit stores. Much has been written in the past few weeks, since Apple made its announcement of the new iPhone [...]
Apps and more apps!
As we have noted in other tech tips, the increasing use of tablets and smartphones in the business place has inspired us to provide more tips on apps that could benefit you both in your business and personal use. The [...]
iPad and iPhone Tech Tips
The Wall Street Journal, along with other publications has taken a closer look recently at tips for using the iPhone and iPad. This blog and the next will focus on useful tips for your business and home use. We will [...]
Tech Tips for the Future
What are the most exciting possibilities for new tech products for 2012? Looks like mobile devices, in the form of tablets and smartphones are the front-runners. Amazon has been working on a few products, and the Wall Street Journal recently [...]
Tried and True Tech Tips
The online Journal of Accountancy recently published "125 Technology Quick Tips," including tips from basic short-cuts when using Word to tips for the iPad and those for good websites. We thought we would include some of the relevant ones here [...]
Imagine by Jonah Lehrer
Did you know that daydreaming or having ADHD could actually be beneficial to your creativity, which in turn could help you in many careers, such as business, advertising and science? Jonah Lehrer, in his best-seller Imagine, offers such theories, based [...]
Business Strategies for Social, Mobile and and the Cloud
A recent blog post on wired.com (http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/05/social-mobile-cloud/) delved into what the article called "the new paradigm" for business, which is the combination of business trends in using social networks, mobility and the Cloud. The blog highlights the critical points to [...]
Moving to the Cloud
At Waytek, moving our clients to the cloud starts with asking the key questions that drive a business to such a move. We help our clients first understand exactly what it means to migrate to the Cloud and why they [...]
Windows 8 – What’s Ahead
A lot of buzz has been generated lately around Windows 8, due to be released in "a couple of months." Microsoft has just launched the Windows 8 Release Preview, and the positive and negative critiques have followed. While Windows 7 was [...]