BlackDog IT Solutions

07/22/2014

07/21/2014

What would you say is the best practice at keeping your sales force running? a) Gamification & competition b) Support and Help Desk c) Training and Certification

Gamification could be considered a slightly passé buzzword these days. However, if there's one area where it's still and has always been relevant, it's..

07/19/2014

The International AIDS Society has confirmed that at least six high-level researchers and AIDS experts were among those killed on the Malaysia Airlines flight downed Thursday over volatile easter...

07/17/2014

Do you understand how Big Data impacts your business?

Businesses should look to professional services for expert help in all phases of Big Data implementations, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big Data analyst Jeff Kelly in “Professional Services Play an Integral Role in Big Data Engagements”. More than 70 percent of high level execu…

07/16/2014

Does your Help Desk / IT tech team have it's data backup and recovery process figured out?

Data is expensive. We usually don’t think of it that way because it seems so ephemeral. If a laptop is stolen or lost, we worry about the replacement value. We don’t think as much about the cost of replacing the data. You can’t reach out and touch data in the way that you can an expensive laptop.

07/16/2014

The possibilities are endless, big data, technology and health / life sciences. Will being a cyborg be normal in the near future?

Google is developing a smart contact lens, with pharmaceutical giant Novartis, to help patients manage diabetes - in one of a number of moves focused squarely on the billions of dollars of total potential revenue in the digital healthcare market. As technology moves further into treatment with remot…

07/15/2014

The FDA sent one company a warning letter for Facebook "likes"

07/10/2014

Back in the old days, I remember those tech support jokes. The old lady that though that the mouse was a pedal to turn on the computer, or the late adopter that used the CD-ROM tray as a cup holder.
Do you have any fun tech support stories you could tell us?

07/09/2014

Supporting mobile users also means focusing on your data's security, and making sure your information is kept only to your team's eyes.

An anonymous reader writes: The used smartphone market is thriving, with many people selling their old devices on eBay or craigslist when it's time to upgrade. Unfortunately, it seems most people are really bad at wiping their phone of personal data before passing it on to a stranger. Antivirus comp…

07/09/2014

Have you figured out the cost of having one of your sales reps unavailable for a day because of hardware or cloud services failure? BlackDog IT Solutions is focused on keeping your force up and running. Outsourced ROI.

07/08/2014

Web 3.0 is here, Social Media, the global data grid, semantic search, ubiquity + mobility, global data and connection availability, as well as neural networks have created a new paradigm: We no longer just search for information, information now surrounds us based on our behavior and usage patterns.

07/08/2014

Are you up to date with your Linux platform?

KDE Community (3396057) writes The KDE Community is proud to announce the release of KDE Frameworks 5.0. Frameworks 5 is the next generation of KDE libraries, modularized and optimized for easy integration in Qt applications. The Frameworks offer a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in ma…