Protecting your company’s data involves more than putting it in a safe place and keeping it secure. Of course, you must keep it intact and be able to retrieve it in the event of an IT system failure, focused attack or unplanned event –…
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Whether I’m jotting down my thoughts while sitting in a meeting at work, or watching cooking videos on YouTube while attempting to make dinner, I need a phone that has the versatility and screen size to help me do what…
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Technology is constantly shifting and advancing, and it can be a challenge for small businesses to keep up with the runaway pace. In fact, in a survey of 500 small business owners conducted last year, 63% of respondents reported feeling…
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Deploying IT services such as new software within a business can be a challenging endeavour. It’s a process that’s normally centralized and overseen by an organization’s IT department so that all the necessary considerations can be made. They are often…
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Consulting firm Accenture forecasts that the retail cloud market is expected to more than triple from $4.2 billion in 2011 to $15.1 billion this year, making this industry sector one of the more enthusiastic adopters of cloud technology, especially when…
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Technology has vastly improved retail transactions and made running a store more efficient, especially as stores now rely on point of sale (POS) systems, tablets and computers, digital signage, and inventory and asset management systems. Many of these require power…
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Cloud adoption by businesses seems to be growing to almost universal proportions, with one recent survey of 930 IT professionals reporting that 93% were using or experimenting with some form of cloud services. But while the cloud offers cost efficiencies,…
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Cyber security threats are by no means limited to big brands and multinational businesses. According to the RCMP, cyber crime is expanding, and the tools and knowledge to perform cyber attacks are becoming easier to access. As a small business,…
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We are all familiar with telephone scams that offer free hotel rooms and cruises to snare unwary consumers, but small businesses are threatened with an even more insidious and potentially costly form of telecommunications fraud – toll fraud. Last fall,…
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While Canadian consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet for their shopping needs, buying goods and services online can still feel somewhat impersonal. A store’s appearance or a friendly conversation with a salesperson can make a transaction memorable. eCommerce doesn’t have…
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