Computer Support Blog

Good ideas are only executed as viable business endeavors when the founder of a start-up assembles a team that can make that vision become a reality.  Recently, Vivian Rosenthal won a Next Generation Award for being one of the top five female leaders in the tech industry as honored by L’Oreal.  Rosenthal won her award for founding and managing GoldRun, a website that allows users to place images of real world people and objects into a digital setting based on GPS technology.  The ambitious project has allowed users and advertisers to interact in exciting new ways.  Rosenthal’s vision created GoldRun, but people like Tiffany Grace Ng built and maintain it! Read more »

Computers truly have become integrated in virtually every aspect of life and work in the United States. Those who used to go outside to get away from electronics, experience something primal, or just wanted to enjoy an outdoor hobby, are now finding technology is inescapable.  Between the psychological pull to check your social networks and the ability to keep in touch at all times using hands free devices like Bluetooth headsets, there is a constant pressure to use all the gadgets you own constantly.  Not all of technology’s incursions into outdoor life are bad, though.  There is a great deal of home improvement software and landscaping software that can actually make your outdoor projects much easier.  To make your garden look beautiful and professional, there is the GardenWorks software as well! Read more »

With the media world moving more from an industry that is based in the physical world to one that is digital, there are very few businesses that remain unaffected.  One of the industries that is experiencing significant shifts in the way it creates and manufactures products is the greeting card industry.  Facing stiff competition from online card companies, traditional greeting card companies like Hallmark Cards are forced to innovate.  Hallmark Cards may have been in a better position to compete, as it had built its brand name into an award-winning multimedia company (with the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies) well before online card companies became a viable threat to their bottom line.  Even now, Hallmark has less to be concerned about because it has Paul Barker. Read more »

The relationship between media – movies, music, and television – continues to get closer and closer.  In fact, one of the most significant channels with which to promote new movies or programs is the Internet.  The Internet has numerous sites that act as repositories for clips, news, and historical archives for film, television, and music.  One of the most prominent sites for cinephiles is the Internet Movie Database, but for those who are much more interested in critiques and analysis, Rotten Tomatoes has rapidly grown into one of the coolest sites on the Internet. Read more »

There are so many workers who strive to get their foot in the door with one of the big tech companies, so it can be surprising to hear about all of the people who leave the giants of the tech sector to work for smaller companies.  After years of working for companies with more than ten thousand employees, though, it can be nice to go work for a smaller company.  Often executives who do are given greater responsibility and flexibility and that may lead them to a greater sense of satisfaction than they had at the bigger company.  With more than a decade working for IBM and Lenovo, Brenda Grissom is now finding satisfaction and stimulation at Grissom Sheet Metal! Read more »

There are a surprising number of variations to keyboards that have made for exciting news among fans of new technologies in recent years.  While the fundamentals of the keyboard have remained solid – most notably the standard QWERTY style for the majority of keyboards even today – there have been some exciting changes to the form of the keyboard, from ergonomically-correct keyboards that reduce strain on the fingers and arms to virtual keyboards that allow you to type on any surface.  But one of the exciting new keyboard designs augments your computer or mobile computing device in a way that may provide you a more seamless user experience between your many computing devices.  That keyboard is the Hawking Technology Wireless Multimedia Control Pad. Read more »

One might say of entrepreneurs that they are people who worked within an industry long enough to know what works and what needs to be changed and then they form a business to execute their improved vision of what the industry needs.  Sometimes, entrepreneurs are people who work within an industry who see an opportunity to expand that the company for which they work will not exploit.  In both instances, entrepreneurs are individuals with vision, drive, determination, and capital to risk on their own plan.  John T. Sweet is a an entrepreneur who is revolutionizing the construction and engineering industry in Papua New Guinea to completely transform and modernize Port Moresby! Read more »

Security is a concern in the tech sector that only continues to grow.  The growth of security services pertaining to computers, smartphones and mobile computing devices is not a reflection on the industry’s unwillingness to adapt; technology continues to change at such a fast rate and hackers continue to adapt as well, necessitating an almost-constant development of new security-related products and services.  While many computers have been protected by the most robust anti-viral software ever created, as hackers take on smartphones and mobile computing devices, many of the major software developers have been slow to react.  Instead, consumers are discovering the benefits of mobile computing protection software, like Reliaty55. Read more »

Some of the best, most audacious, ideas come from people who are in a position in an industry to see just how wrongheaded the state of that industry is currently.  While some people who witness the faults of an industry complain about the problems or simply leave that industry, the real heroes of business are the individuals who rise up to change that industry.  In the medical and health care industry, one of the leaders working for real reform is Carol Gibbons and a large component of the changes for which she fights is making medical technology more accessible to smaller medical outlets! Read more »

With the sheer volume of computer products and electronic devices that utilize USB ports and jacks, it is very easy to find yourself without enough USB ports on your computer, laptop computer or other USB-receiving device.  This is an especially frustrating condition when you have the latest tech that runs on USB 3.0; one of the key selling points of USB 3.0 is the super-fast transfer rates at which the protocol operates.  In order to take advantage of many of the benefits of USB 3.0 devices, you are likely to have to swap multiple cords and devices out of a single USB 3.0 port.  All of that changes, though, with the USB 3.0 & 2.0 7-Port Hub from Siig. Read more »