Facebook for normal people – How to upload pictures

Technology is finally becoming useful.  Combine a Smartphone and Facebook, and you can instantly post pictures for millions to see!  Click here to read about how your phone can talk to Facebook.

Understanding “Meaningful Use” for Healthcare Professionals

“Meaningful Use” as a term was introduced in the American Recovery and Revitalization Act (ARRA) as part of a program to provide incentives for healthcare providers to adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems.  “Meaningful Use” is the first step in the government implementing Clinical Quality Measures on a national scale.  Click here to read more about “Meaningful Use”.

Office 365 Planning Guide

Office 365 is Microsoft’s “cloud” e-mail offering.  Tight Outlook integration, shared contacts and calendars and ActivSync make Microsoft’s “cloud” offering a great value.  Click here to read for insights into planning for an Office 365 e-mail migration.

Hard Drive Shortage Effecting System Availability

The flooding in Indonesia is having a chilling effect on the computer market place.  About 1/3 of the hard drives for the world were manufactured in Indonesia.  With most of the factories either underwater still or in the process of evaluating the losses, hard drive manufacturing capacity will impacted for at least the next six months.  Prices for hard drives have nearly doubled in the last 90 days and system prices have tracked the hard drive price increases.  Desktop and entry-level server availability is limited with most of the products going onto allocation.  DeckerWright Corporation can not guarantee delivery dates for systems ordered this month.

Why Today’s Malware is So Good

Every person that has been hit with malware asks the same question:  We run anti-virus software, malware protection and have a firewall but we still get infected, how come?   Hackers have evolved into Cyber Criminals with substantial financial resources to finance the development of top quality software.  Click here to learn more about the evolution of malware development and why your anti-virus software can’t protect you.

Gmail accounts targets of Cyber Crime

There have been a rash of assaults on Gmail accounts in the past year, some more recently have affected some of our clients.  In some cases the cyber criminals take either valuable or controversal e-mails for their illicit use.  Another, more worrisome exploit has been the cyber criminals taking over a client’s Gmail account.  In this event, the cyber criminal takes control of the e-mail account and sends out a solicitation to the contacts in the Gmail account.  The recipients are rightly confused, as the source of the e-mail is legitimate.  Click here to read more about this threat to your Gmail account.

Microsoft Office 365 – Is it right for your business?

In August, 2011 Microsoft launched its new Office 365 “cloud” based service.  The core of the service offering is Microsoft Exchange 2010 that is hosted by Microsoft.  The pricing starts at $6 per mail box per month for small companies with less than 50 employees.  Microsoft also offers enterprise plans that include Microsoft Office 2010 licenses.  Click here to read more about Office 365 and to learn if it may be the right “cloud” solution for your company.

Hard Drive Shortage to affect PC Deliveries for year end

Recent rain storms affecting Thialand will have an impact on desktop and laptop availability in the fourth quarter of this year.  About half the hard drives used in the world are manufactured in Thialand.  The plants had to be closed due to flooding and are scheduled to be offline for at least several weeks.  The result will be a hard drive shortage that will affect product availability between now and the end of the year.  Get your orders in early to ensure you get the computers you need!

Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s Office in the Cloud

Microsoft Office 365 was launched by Microsoft over the summer as Microsoft’s latest cloud product offering.  Building on its past experience with Microsoft Online, the Office 365 product offering is feature rich, inexpensive and reliable.  Click here to learn more about the Microsoft Office 365 cloud offering and if it may be right for your business.

Marshall Wright NJ HITEC Field Representative

Marshall Wright has become a NJ HITEC Field Representative helping primary care providers select and implement Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Marshall also teaches in the EHR program at Brookdale Community College.