• Outsourcing IT Makes Sense for Small Businesses: 7 Reasons

    Outsourcing IT Makes Sense for Small Businesses: 7 Reasons

    If you’re a small business owner, you have plenty of things to worry about. IT shouldn’t be one of them. We think it makes complete sense for most small businesses to outsource their IT needs to a managed service provider (MSP). Here are 7 reasons. 1. Focus on What Makes You Unique This first reason […]
  • How to Create a Strong Password You’ll Remember

    How to Create a Strong Password You’ll Remember

    Nearly every site or service we use online requires a username and password. Remembering hundreds of unique passwords is just about impossible, and reusing passwords across multiple sites can be dangerous. If one account is compromised in a data breach (and this is likely: check out IdentityForce’s list of all the breaches so far this year), any […]
  • How to Find the Right IT Services Company

    How to Find the Right IT Services Company

    If your business has made the decision to contract with an IT services company for IT support, you’ve made the right choice. However, you’re not done yet. You still need to choose the IT services company that’s best for your business. In most markets, you’ll have choices — maybe too many choices. Use these criteria […]
  • How AI Is Changing The Accounting Industry In Vancouver Canada

    How AI Is Changing The Accounting Industry In Vancouver Canada

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that enables a computer to perform decision-based tasks that were previously conducted by humans. It comes in multiple forms, including machine-based learning. The more you use it, the better it gets at analysis and decision making. And even though there are benefits to using AI, it holds concerns for some accountants.
  • What Technology Should Small Law Firms Choose

    What Technology Should Small Law Firms Choose

    It is questionable whether there is any industry today that has not been forced to adopt new technology to remain competitive. But for small law firms, the need to utilize technology appropriately is necessary for more than just competitiveness—it is actually being increasingly pushed by jurisdiction. In just the past few years, the ABA Model […]
  • 4 Strategies For Super Strong Passwords

    4 Strategies For Super Strong Passwords

    Some days it seems like everything in our lives requires a password: banks, apps, debit and credit cards, online banking, business applications, healthcare accounts . . . the list is literally endless. Technology professionals recommend that you use a different and highly secure password for each site — but how is it even possible for […]
  • Was Your Photo and License Plate Number Breached?

    Was Your Photo and License Plate Number Breached?

     CBD Reports 100,000 Photo and License Plate Breach The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported today that nearly 100,000 travelers’ photos and license plate data were breached. If you’ve driven in or out of the country within the six-week period where the data was exposed, you could have been victimized. The department said on […]
  • 3 Reasons to Regularly Test Business Systems

    3 Reasons to Regularly Test Business Systems

    Protecting your business requires more time, effort and energy from your technology team than ever before. Business systems are increasingly complex, requiring staff members to continually learn and adapt to changing conditions and new threats as they emerge. It’s not unusual for a single ransomware incident to wreak havoc on carefully balanced systems, and this […]
  • AI Is Transforming The Accounting Industry In North Vancouver For The Better

    AI Is Transforming The Accounting Industry In North Vancouver For The Better

    To stay competitive and differentiate your practice from competitors, you must improve operational efficiencies and transform the way you and your staff interact with clients, answer their questions, and tackle their accounting challenges. Those accountants and CPAs who embrace technology as a means to provide more cost-effective and value-based services for their clients will have a competitive advantage. Here are some ways that using Artificial Intelligence (AI) can benefit your firm.
  • How to Find Someone’s Email Address

    How to Find Someone’s Email Address

    Email is a great system when it works well, but it has some frustrating limitations. You have to know someone’s email address to be able to reach them via email, and there’s no central database for finding email addresses. You can often use the internet to find people’s mailing addresses via directory searches, but not […]
  • LabCorp Data Breach: What We Know

    LabCorp Data Breach: What We Know

    Are You One Of Many Affected By The LabCorp Data Breach? Financial & Personal Information of 7.7 Million Exposed Just yesterday we wrote about the Quest Diagnostics’ breach affecting nearly 12 million. Today we’re writing to tell you about a LabCorp breach affecting 7.7 million people. Both of these breaches were caused by a third-party; […]
  • How to Get the Most From Your Android Battery

    How to Get the Most From Your Android Battery

    Battery technology has come a long way in the past several decades. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are a pretty amazing feat of engineering, offering high capacity, low power leakage, and comparatively long life. That said, they aren’t perfect, and they don’t last forever. Getting the most use out of your phone’s battery requires a little effort […]