Rick Dexter

When shopping for a new computer, you’re faced with a choice; go with a traditional hard drive (HDD), or a solid state drive (SSD). The benefits of an SSD are many, but are they enough to justify the extra expense?

You might have experienced the frustration of reading an article online and having the Internet connection cut out on you. This is one of the most common problems while working with a shoddy WiFi connection. If this happens to you, you can view your browser’s cached pages in order to finish up what you were reading; so long as you’re not trying to view pages like Facebook, which update periodically throughout the day.

In our last blog article, we looked at Microsoft’s mobile computing strategy for businesses. In part II, we want to follow up by looking at some specific mobile technology from Microsoft, including a preview of its newest mobile computing venture, Windows 10.

On Monday, June 15, LastPass officials warned that attackers have compromised servers that run the company's password management service and made off with some master passwords of users of the LastPass service. You can read more detail about the attack here:  http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/hack-of-cloud-based-lastpass-exposes-encrypted-master-passwords and here: https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html/ There's lots of jargon in those article about algorithms, encryption, hashes, anomalies, multifactor authentication, vault contents, SHA's and GPU's.  Enough to make your head spin!  Here's the bottom line: the passwords you store on ...

Just like the personal computer before it, smartphones have become essential pieces of technology that are practically required in order to complete mission-critical tasks. However, the primary advantage that these devices have over the popular PC is that they’re vastly more mobile and designed for use on the go. Are users able to increase productivity by using Windows tablets?