A whopping 78% of small businesses attract new customers through social media. Google+ has been around, but the reasons for use are becoming more obvious. Perhaps you are avoiding setting up the account because you’re not sure where to start. With more than 540 million users already in, it is time to get your business there.

The specifications and apps available on tablets have made them fun for reading and entertainment, but this rapidly changing technology has made it time to rethink this sigma.

Tablets have moved from a single-core processor to a dual-core CPU, with memory space quadrupling.

You probably receive daily obvious scams to your inbox every day. These are emails that talk about friends or long lost relatives in a far-away land that either need money or want to give you obscene amounts of money because someone has died or they just don’t need it anymore.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology is common for decreased telecommunications costs and increases to productivity, among other benefits. There are useful features and capabilities that are desirable for any business sizes. With so much information to sort through, here are five basic things that every business should know about VoIP.

The quality of a VoIP call is dependent on the network.

Moving an employee from the physical business site to a remote desktop in their home has many advantages. Some major corporations have nixed the option entirely, where others are embracing it wholeheartedly. At some point, each business must weigh the pros and cons and choose what is best for their growth and survival.

There is a lot of information available to businesses today. The biggest challenge is how to use it. Big data, as the experts call it, is the vast amount of information that is available. This comes from many different sources and can become available almost immediately.

It’s been a long day, and you’re ready to quit and have a drink. However, as you walk away from your computer, you click the screen off and leave the computer itself running. Many people do this, especially when they want to quickly resume work in the morning.

Early last month, Adobe came under siege and the large company reported that somewhere around 3 million accounts were compromised. In their investigations, however, they have found that nearly 40 million accounts were compromised instead.

During the attack, customer IDs and passwords were exposed as well as encrypted credit cards, expiration dates and login information.

The Federal Aviation Administration recently announced that they will expand the use options for travelers and their portable electronic devices. This long-standing policy restricted use of electronics during takeoff and landing, and were originally put into place in the 1950s; but studies done on the advanced systems show no evidence that the consumer electronics could cause a disruption.

Despite all of your security measures, your worst nightmare has happened anyway: you’ve been hacked. Now, not only do you have to figure out what was stolen, you have to alert your customers, make sure you can patch the problem, and maybe even bring a few security experts in your door to help you out.