Faced with a bulky office computer, any technician worth their salt begins by telling the frustrated user to try turning the computer off, then back on again. But how will that strategy work when it’s the entire tech economy that’s turned off, then back on again, as the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane? The screen is flickering to life, and while the picture of the … [Read more...] about Restarting Technology
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Guarding Business: Cybersecurity in Nevada
Earlier this year, the malware program VPNFilter infected hundreds of thousands of office and home routers and networked devices around the world. The cities of Atlanta and Baltimore experienced ransomware attacks, the latter causing the 911 dispatch system to be offline for 17 hours. Confidential data were breached at numerous companies—Adidas, Dignity Health, Honda, LabCorp, … [Read more...] about Guarding Business: Cybersecurity in Nevada
AI Technology Is Affecting Business’ Online Presence: Gain a Competitive Advantage
This year at Google I/O, the company’s annual developers’ conference, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai unveiled a demo of its newly created Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistant. The demo showcased the program’s ability to schedule appointments and reservations. During the presentation, the AI Assistant called two actual small businesses – a salon and a restaurant – and completed … [Read more...] about AI Technology Is Affecting Business’ Online Presence: Gain a Competitive Advantage
The Communications Landscape: Connectivity in Nevada
Nevada companies want to be more efficient, expedient and cost effective, and so, they’re demanding more and more out of the available technologies for communicating. Firms providing those continue to develop and offer related products and services that enhance businesses’ connectivity to not only people but, also, objects. “It’s a brave new world,” said Jace Barbin, the … [Read more...] about The Communications Landscape: Connectivity in Nevada
Industry Focus: Technology
Although there are challenges facing the technology industry in Nevada, leaders are working to grow the field in the Silver State and attract larger tech companies, foster startups and support STEM education. Recently, technology experts met at the Las Vegas office of City National Bank to discuss these challenge and opportunities. Connie Brennan, publisher of Nevada … [Read more...] about Industry Focus: Technology
IQ Technology Solutions Named to Managed Service Provider 500 List by CRN
Company Recognized for Exemplary Approach to Delivery of Managed IT Services Reno, Nevada – IQ Technology Solutions, a Nevada based statewide information technology management firm, announced it has earned recognition on The Channel Company’s 2015 CRN Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list as the only Nevada firm to make the MSP Pioneer 250 list. This annual list … [Read more...] about IQ Technology Solutions Named to Managed Service Provider 500 List by CRN
Data Security: A Growing and Vital Issue for All Businesses
Every week, it seems, brings news of another major corporation being sabotaged by internet hackers who break into its computer security and steal sensitive data, including financial and business information. Losses can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, as evidenced by Target Corporation’s news in early 2014 that hacking of its internet security in late 2013 … [Read more...] about Data Security: A Growing and Vital Issue for All Businesses
Technology Trends in the Silver State
In December 2011, Frederick Cook and Kelly Eidson co-founded a business that aims to make moving one’s office or home a seamless, problem-free process. Using its proprietary technology, this Las Vegas firm acts as the intermediary between people who need moving services—truck rentals, full-service movers, pods, freight trailers and more—and the companies that provide those. … [Read more...] about Technology Trends in the Silver State
The Cyber State: Nevada’s Burgeoning Technology Industry
The Brookings Report; Unify, Reorganize, Diversify: An Economic Development Agenda for Nevada, commissioned by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development in 2011, identified seven industry clusters Nevada should develop, specifically naming the technology and aerospace industries. In 2013, many in those industries are looking at and locating in, Nevada. Tech Comes to … [Read more...] about The Cyber State: Nevada’s Burgeoning Technology Industry