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19

Jun

2017

Just a few days ago, on June 19^th, President Trump met in the Whitehouse with several Silicon Valley tech titans. This austere group included Apple’s Tim Cooke, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and IBM’s Ginni Rometty among others.

The President wasn’t just interested in getting tips on Twitter etiquette, either. He was looking to find solutions to some big, big technology problem the US government is facing. Many information systems used by the government are terribly obsolete, and many things that should be digital aren’t.

06

Jun

2017

How often does it happen that you’re working on something and have an error come up or something on the screen just looks? You call tech support and spend 20 minutes trying to describe what the screen looks like and then, after your blood pressure goes back down, the technician still has to come over to take a look or establish a remote session.

30

May

2017

In the last few years, digital assistants have become all the rage. Amazon has it’s Echo powered by Alexa, Alphabet has Google Home, and even Microsoft has partnered with Samsung to deliver Cortana into everyone’s living room. On top of that, you have your smartphones that records everywhere you've been and more and more people are putting cameras all over their house and office that send video back to Cloud. It’s easy, convenient and ubiquitous. But should you be worried about what data is being sent to mega-corporations or is the convenience worth it?

25

May

2017

On May 24^th, we held our May Advantage Lunch at the Bavarian Inn. (If you haven’t heard about our Advantage Lunch, learn more at advantagelunch.com) In addition to the pictures and video below, be sure to check out our Facebook photo album!

15

May

2017

You might have seen that a dangerous new ransomware has been reported on over the weekend and I want to make sure you have all the information you need to make informed decisions about it. It has been reported that hackers are leveraging the recently leaked NSA hacking toolkit to infect and cripple systems all around the world.

What can we learn from President Trump’s meeting with tech titans?

Use the Snipping Tool to capture screenshots

Is Big Brother watching (or listening)?

Eastern Panhandle Introduction

Dangerous new ransomware released Friday

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