Sky Watching Event

Sky watching event Although Tekmar is in the clouds business, we hope there none in the way of this event. Technology clouds never get in the way of sky watching events. Learn more about cloud computing… If you look up you might see 10 to 20 meteors per hour at...
Phishing scams 2015

Phishing scams 2015

Phishing scams 2015 on the rise ahead of April 15 The IRS warned at the beginning of the year that they expected an onslaught of malware and targeted phishing scams 2015. As the tax filing deadline for Businesses came and went in mid march the attacks...
Customer Management

Customer Management

Customer Management is all about how your prospects feel about your offering. The best way to get them to the emotion they want is to get back to the basics: Understanding the three critical elements in everything we do – People, Process, Tools. It is the coffee you...
Zero Day Exploit

Zero Day Exploit

“One many pronged advantage of open source software like WordPress is monitoring and alertness that sponsors put into protecting the community. Update @9:45PM PST: About an hour before posting this we alerted the official WP repository admins about this issue....

Email is a great tool

Email is a great tool, but it’s a huge distraction in itself. I try to not look at it till after 9:30 every day. Then I follow the same process: go through the newest emails, deal with the priority and delete them. Flag the ones that have to be dealt with by end of...

3 Key Answers to Security Concerns

3 Key Answers to Security Concerns The 3 key answers to security concerns are right under our noses. What makes a business successful is the same set of concerns as what keeps its data safe. Companies are people, processes and hard system, technology. They must...

Open Internet Battle for the Net

The industry lobby is dismissive and deceptive. Its anti-government no-regulation appeal adds confusion to an already complicated situation. The Industry giants have pulled together under the umbrella of trade associations and powerful business lobbying groups. They...

Home Depot Breach

Home Depot Breach Today’s Home Depot breach is another in the series of cracks that show up weekly in companies security portfolios. Information that I received this morning, Home Depot did the right thing and came clean about the breach. Big corporations, the US...

Beware when updating

All internet users should beware when updating their systems. Business people should push back against busy work. Busy work is the part of business that makes more work but does not get you nearer to your goals. All kinds of busy work are a drain on good energy needed...

Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality EFF to FCC: Defend the Neutral Internet: Agency Must Abandon Dangerous Traffic-Discrimination Plan The Internet is a network of networks. People often talk about it as the cloud today, but that is a marketing term. It is the same Net we businesses and...

Mac PC War Rages

The anti-Microsoft attitude is curious. The Mac PC war rages on even though both are less dominant brands than they recently were. The anti-Microsoft approach is especially interesting when expressed by people and companies whose practices are built around PCs and...