Speaking of safety, UberPOOL is getting safer and smarter by asking passengers to get out at better destinations — even if that means walking a few more feet to their destination — rather than in high-traffic zones. We’re talking about distances of less than half a block, but it can cut major time off everyone else’s commute and ensure passengers aren’t stepping out into dangerous traffic.
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Leave Your Life Jacket On The Shore And Swim Safely With This Inflatable Collar
Despite their utility, orange life jackets are the opposite of cool. And when you factor in the human invincibility complex, you get a bad situation: people out on the water without adequate flotation devices. According to DigitalTrends, water safety company Ploota wants to change that with their inflatable necklace.
You’ve Been HACKED! What’s the First Thing You Should Do?
There’s always a chance that IT security will be breached, and one way to make a bad situation worse is not knowing the standard operating procedure when it happens. First, contact your IT personnel. The faster they can address the hack and figure out its extent, the better served you’ll be.
Do You Have a Business or a Job? How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur
Turning Your Job Into a Business By Andy Bailey
To put it simply, if you can’t take a month off to travel to Italy (or to write the great American novel or do some other time-intensive activity), you’ve got a job.
When I started my first company, I thought I was out of the grind of a job.
Shiny New Gadget Of The Month: Alexa, Who’s Winning the Virtual Assistant War?
There are multiple companies trying to break into the “smart home hub” market, but Amazon’s Echo (and its sultry Alexa) are holding on to 70 percent of the market share, and it doesn’t look like that’s changing any time soon. That’s a clear sign of victory for Amazon - and a wake-up call for its competitors.
The Dirty Loophole That Lets Insurance Companies Refuse to Cover a Cybercrime Theft in Your Business
As hacking made the headlines in the last few years (most recently the global hack in May that targeted both large and small businesses)insurance policies which protect companies against damage and lawsuits have become a very lucrative business indeed.
Why Nyetya is more threatening than WannaCry
The cyber community hasn’t fully recovered from the WannaCry ransomware attacks, which struck businesses and organizations in May. Now, a Petya ransomware variant named Nyetya is poised to join its ranks as one of the worst cyber attacks in history.
Automate mundane emails to get more done
If you have ever received what looked like a personalized email from a huge corporation, there’s a good chance it was actually written with the help of an email automation platform. Email automation saves time and money while strengthening customer relationships, and contrary to popular belief, it is well within most SMB budgets.
Four Facebook features for your business
Facebook is like a Swiss Army knife, practical and featureful. But did you know that Facebook has hundreds of built-in marketing features that 1.8 billion users worldwide are mostly oblivious to? With that in mind, here are four Facebook features you can use to boost your SMB’s social marketing efforts:
Audience Insights tool
This free tool is designed to help businesses learn more about their target audience.
How thin and zero clients save money
When you have several cost-effective options like cloud computing and managed services providers, IT spending should never get out of control. And if you want to cut back even further, trade in your expensive desktops for thin and zero clients.
What are thin and zero clients?
Thin clients are stripped-down computers with minimum processing power and memory.