Are you ready for an actual virtual assistant?
The concept of a virtual assistant isn’t new – the practice has been around for easily a decade, if not longer, and traditionally taken to describe someone hired to work as a personal assistant that wasn’t physically located near the person they were assisting. Initially received very coolly, the practice has become fairly commonplace, though
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Tech News Potpourri
While I know I should be grateful that it’s a slow news week for technology, it makes writing this blog a little challenging. However there are a few bits of news that may be of interest to at least some of you. Taken individually, each item is probably not worth more than a “Hmph” from
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Yahoo Mail back in the news
Do you remember when a technology company in the media spotlight usually meant something exciting and shiny was being announced? Those days seem so distant now. Back then, Jobs was giving us “one more thing,” Google was actually trying to not be evil, Flash was still doing amazing things on the web, Facebook was connecting
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Not-so-distant sounds of Cyberwarfare
It used to be a simple topic to explain: if the hacking attempt to undermine or subvert a government entity was sponsored by another country, it was considered cyberwarfare, and if by a geo-political group, (but not a recognized nation) cyber-terrorism. Everything else fell into the lesser evil that was Spam used by desperate marketers,
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More “Fun” with Facebook
We might be setting a blog record as Facebook makes our front page for the fourth week in a row. Lest you think I’m resting on my laurels and taking easy swings at low hanging fruit (mixed metaphors for the win!), Facebook’s fall from grace might be the biggest tech story of the decade, and
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Facebook WTF Moment
If the past few weeks haven’t opened your eyes to the Facebook monster, let me share a picture with you that will be worth way more words than I could possibly write. Go ahead. Click on that picture and take a good look. That’s an actual screenshot of my Facebook account settings. And no, I
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