Skynet, Teach Me How To Make Breakfast
With the increasing usage of AI tools for both home and work, there has been an increase in creative thinking about how we can apply large learning models to new frontiers. Mostly everyone is able to use ChatGPT or, on the rise, Microsoft’s Copilot to do standard functions; rewrite an email for tone, put a […]
Fake Driver Websites are Targeting Printer Owners
The US Federal Trade Commission has received almost two dozen complaints about websites posing as legitimate Canon driver providers. When an end user is first setting up their printer, scammers are hoping they aren’t familiar with the process and will turn to the internet for some help getting things ready to use. Canon, one of […]
Does this look PHISHY to you?
There are some shocking numbers and stats attached to just how much email being sent on a daily basis is fraudulent. I won’t bore you with the numbers here, but it’s important that we have a quick chat about just what phishing is and how to identify it. It’s one of the most common methods […]
2022’s IT Security Incident Round-Up
This year has definitely seen its fair share of security events, blunders and successes. With a sharp increase in cyber crimes year over year, there is no sign of it slowing down. The US alone was estimated to have had $6.9 billion (yes, billion with a B) in losses to cyber crime in 2021. The […]
Artificial Intelligence Is All Grown Up
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is nothing new in the technology world. It’s been around for decades and as a concept in science fiction, possibly even longer. Arthur C. Clarke wrote the book ‘2001: A Space Odyssey‘ in tandem with Stanley Kubrick developing the film adaptation in 1968(!). The term Artificial Intelligence was coined 22 years earlier […]
IT Budget Considerations for 2023
As 2022 comes to a conclusion, we’ve seen tremendous economic turmoil while emerging from almost 3 years of unstable commerce. COVID definitely hit the population hard from a health perspective but the health of our financial systems also had a pretty grim period as well. Though economic recovery is well underway, recouping losses and attempts […]
The Small Business Tech Advantage
Running a small business used to feel like you were standing in the shadow of hulking corporations, but the opportunity to leverage corporate technologies in the SMB space has made it feel like you’re standing on the shoulders of giants. More and more companies have been undergoing their digital transformation but the pain involved has […]
Getting An Autumn Lift
Dropping leaves and temperatures, shorter days, and summer in the rearview can impact our work ways and mood. Working this season in a time of inflation, recession, pandemic, war and virtualization does not make smiling any easier. We all need to leverage virtual positive connections to find happy faces around us; be it family, friends, […]
Small Business Thanksgiving
The sweet spot between Canadian and American Thanksgiving has landed and we’ve had some time to think about what small and medium businesses have to give thanks for. We’re thankful for ABW (Activity Based Work), BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) & ICT (Information Communications Technology) providing a small business breakthrough. We’re also thankful for acronyms because […]
CIPS IT Professionalism Week 2022
CIPS (Canada’s Association of Information Technology Professionals) is having its annual IT Professionalism Week this year between October 21st and November 4th. Between the days of data processing in the 60s, the ISP (Internet Service Provider) designation in the 90s and extending into professional collaboration in today’s Cloud era, CIPS recognizes what each sector suffers. In […]
