GPS Devices Could See Some Issues on April 6th

If you’re like most people, the GPS function on your smartphone has become the one feature you use and value more than any other. Few people these days can even remember what life was like before the ascendency of GPS.  Paper maps?  Written directions? Those things seem as archaic in today’s world as a stone […]

Apple Struggles To Prepare Their Paid News Service

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been busy.  Knowing that his company has little chance of dramatically increasing their market share in an increasingly saturated field for handheld devices, they’ve shifted gears. They are building a raft of new features and premium services into the Apple Store to make the product’s ecosystem even more vibrant than […]

Average Ransomware Attack Payments Total $6,700 Per Incident

How much does a successful ransomware attack cost a victim on average?  The numbers will terrify you. Based on the latest statistics compiled by Coveware, each incident of a compromised computer costs a whopping $6,733, which is a hefty 13 percent increase from just one quarter ago. Part of the increase stems from the fact […]

How economies of scale make it hard for small practices to compete

How economies of scale make it hard for small practices to compete   Small and start up operations suffer from the problem of “economies of scale,” making it hard for them to compete with larger firms. This is especially true in the area of IT infrastructure. Small practices need, but generally cannot afford, a completely […]

Software Similar To MS Office May Include Hacking Vulnerabilities

A small but growing number of people have been making the switch to MS Office clones like Apache’s OpenOffice and LibreOffice. The thinking is that they can get the same core functionality but avoid many (if not most of) the costs, bugs, flaws and weaknesses that have plagued Microsoft’s offering.  This situation is often seen […]

Skype Video Calls Get Background Blur Feature

Skype is introducing a new feature to its video call service that users have been asking about for quite some time now.  Background blur. If you regularly make video calls, you’ve probably been in a situation where such a feature would have come in handy. It could be anything, really.  Maybe you’re working from home […]

Ransomware and disaster recovery plans

Ransomware and disaster recovery plans   Disaster recovery is a basic element of good continuity planning. Business continuity planning–in the case of schools, the better term might be organisational continuity planning– refers to the broad range of plans created so that a institution can continue to be operational no matter what negative event might occur. […]

New Survey Shows People Still Have Bad Password Habits

For the last several years, industry experts have been sounding the alarm about password security.  We’ve known for quite some time that one of the biggest weak spots in corporate security is the fact that employee passwords are notoriously weak. Millions have been spent on security education.  Seminars have been held on the dangers of […]

Fusion Technology Solutions Named to CRN 2019 MSP500

Healdsburg, Feb 28, 2019 – Fusion Technology Solutions, a Healdsburg-based computer networking and technology services company, has been named to the CRN 2019 Managed Service Provider (MSP) Top 500 list, recognizing North American solution providers with innovative approaches to managed services. Among these, Fusion Technology Solutions was further named to the MSP Pioneer 250, recognizing […]