Information Security
Enterprise IT’s Seven Deadly Sins
By Samuel Greengard Here are a few of the biggest gaffes enterprises make when it comes to using information technology effectively … and intelligently: 1. Gain drain. Some companies unleash systems that fuel internal efficiency at the expense of everyone…
Technology’s Weakest Link
By Samuel Greengard Optical scanning technology has come a long way in recent years. Flatbed and portable scanners, along with smartphone apps that snap pictures and convert the images to PDFs, have made it increasingly easy to crumple the paper…
Don’t Get Stung by Social Media
By Samuel Greengard Right now, social media is all the buzz–and for good reason. It connects people in new and profoundly different ways, and it allows a fundamentally different type of interaction: bottom-up and side-to-side rather than merely top-down. Used…
Publishing Needs to Turn a New Page
By Samuel Greengard Digital technology is shredding the publishing industry. Newspapers are bleeding red ink, and book and magazine publishers are scrambling to find new ways to connect to readers and earn a profit. Remarkably, the publishing industry is following…
Of Porn and Prayer
By Tim Moran It’s all in the eye of the beholder. A recent story from NYDailyNews.com covered Symantec’s annual “Internet Security Threat Report.” Clearly, this kind of report is not something Daily News reporters and editors are used to perusing….
Mobile Boarding Passes Don’t Fly
By Samuel Greengard Airports and airlines offer what seems to be the perfect confluence of poorly implemented technology and really bad business processes. Case in point: The day before boarding a recent flight from Newark to Portland, Ore., I received…
Discarded Data
By Tim Moran Digital data and devices, which make much about the modern world easier and better, still manage to make life somewhat more complicated. Case in point: Have you ever disposed of, given away or sold anything that contained…
The Clouds Roll In
By Samuel Greengard Amid all the noise and chaos about cloud computing and how it is transforming the enterprise, it’s important to ponder how significantly the cloud is altering the way people work and interact on a personal level. Over…
Seven Deadly Social Media Sins
By Samuel Greengard Social media is an amazing thing. Unfortunately, too many people and companies use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other services in an ineffective or obnoxious way. Here are some of the biggest faux pas: 1. By the Numbers:…
Email Frustration
By Samuel Greengard I’m beginning to seriously question whether email is a useful way to exchange messages. Lately, about 25 percent of the emails I send out wind up in spam folders. I’m guessing that enterprise spam blockers intercept another…