Geek Speak

Welcome back from summer everyone! It’s time to focus on work. And it’s time to focus on the future by attending select technology conferences. Participating in a conference is essential to your professional development and much more.

In today's Tech Tuesday segment on Northwest Digital News here, Kevin and Kylie discuss five conferences you should consider this Fall before the turkey gets the hot foot.

Connect your things, solve problems, make money. Learn how you can deliver recurring, continuous value with these six IoT business models.

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, IoT will have a total potential impact of up to $11.1 trillion a year by 2025. With so much opportunity, it makes sense why so many companies are looking to connect their devices and enter the IoT arena.

Leading SMB MSP thought leader shares his deep insights into the recently completed CompTIA ChannelCon 2018 conference. Palachuk is seen frequently at leading industry conferences as a speaker and community leader. In my humble opinion, what makes this part of the GeekSpeak is that Karl does a call out to Internet of Things (IoT).

By Marty Puranki 

The healthcare cloud has been growing incredibly, becoming an ever-more-important element of health information technology, or HIT. There are many reasons why the HIT cloud has been becoming more prominent, such as research and development and collaboration.

Mariella Moon

If you have an Android device and happen to be a Windows Insider in the Fast ring, as well, you're among the first people who can take Microsoft's "Your Phone" app for a spin. Microsoft has started testing the experimental application, which gives you easy access to the files on your phone from a Windows 10 PC.

Blockchain has since its beginnings been presented as a very innovative and very promising technology in terms of trust. What is it really? Some recent events raise doubts.

Understand the technology

The blockchain can be classically assimilated to a “big” book of accessible and auditable accounts, which is deployed on the Internet. It is based on a very large number of computing resources distributed around the world, called “nodes”, which participate in the operation of the Blockchain.

What's to be done if you end up being a victim of a website hack or malware attack? How to resolve things when you're at the receiving end of a phishing scam or of any other kind of online fraudulent activity, or if you're receiving spam?

Ya’ just never know when and where you’ll bump into a new geek toy! I unexpectedly learned of one the most cool tools in a longtime from an Alaskan group on Facebook (I grew up in Anchorage). An early childhood friend replied into my unrelated post and that led to a circuitous route to web-based text messaging for Android-based phones. The story gets better in that folks I have now told of this “best kept secret”

by: Julia Sowells

In today's world, where internet security is a matter of great concern, one needs to know about terms like Proxies, VPNs and TOR, which are all great tools that help guard one's privacy online and also help ensure better security. The basic thing that these tools provide is anonymity to the user. Though it's one common thing that these three tools provide, there are differences. Let's examine different aspects pertaining to Proxies, VPNs and Tor:

Let’s face it. Many members of the SMB Nation community are happily situated at the Microsoft Action Pack (MAPS) membership-level inside the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN). Fair enough. But did you know that, with the recent June 30/July 1 renewal date, MAPS has a hidden jewel just waiting for your consumption. It’s related to the five (5) Internal Use Rights (IUR) for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Plan Enterprise Edition. This is real value and I’m going to share with you my journey, up-to-the-minute as of this writing.

By now I'm assuming we all have a fundamental understanding of what Bitcoin is: digital money regulated and distributed with encryption techniques, stored on a ledger independent of a centralised bank.

Something like that. Maybe go here for a better explanation.

With Windows 7 approaching the end of support deadline, it’s time to get cracking on upgrading your organization to Windows 10. Use this planner to help ensure a successful migration.

By Jonathan Hassell

All good things must come to an end, and the reign of Windows 7 as an actively supported, good-enough operating system is no exception.