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ALTOM: Securing your Wi-Fi is worth your trouble
June 5, 2010
Tim AltomIf you’ve got a wireless (Wi-Fi) router, you could be in some serious hot water if it’s not properly secured.
MoreALTOM: Is your computer being commandeered under your nose?
May 22, 2010
Tim AltomAround the world, tens of millions
of computers are infected with sly viruses that invisibly take over a machine, letting it continue working but redirecting
part of its time to doing nefarious things, like storing ill-gotten data or sending out spam ads for improbable enlargements
of body parts.
MoreALTOM: Are you disaster-ready, dust-induced or not?
May 8, 2010
Tim AltomYou know you should back up your data for redundancy. But you can’t back up an entire airline industry. That’s
a lesson we learned recently when a volcano with the cat-crossing-the-keyboard name of “Eyjafjallajökull”
exhaled tons of volcanic dust into the clear skies over Europe and brought aviation worldwide almost to a literal grinding
halt.
MoreALTOM: Is your smartphone good for business use?
April 24, 2010
Tim AltomI love smartphones. No other form of biz-tech allows me so much opportunity to be so curmudgeonly
about something so popular.
MoreALTOM: Going green here may not be going green there
April 10, 2010
Tim AltomThe idea behind the green office is to have a slightly smaller damaging
effect on the environment in general. That sounds great, but I never forget that you can’t make ripples in only one
part of a pond.
MoreALTOM: Do your company data files belong in the 'cloud'?
March 27, 2010
Tim AltomThe “cloud” is a relatively recent word to describe the Internet, but it has a rather specific connotation. It
refers to the Internet’s ability to take individual objects and break them into pieces so they can be stored and retrieved
without your knowing exactly where they’ve been.
MoreALTOM: Who knew YouTube had potential as a free university?
March 13, 2010
Tim AltomAs much as I love and happily use technology, I come from a different age and time when, as they say, life was simpler. I
have students who are aghast that I’d rather use a folded paper map to get around town than a GPS and Google Maps in
a smart phone.
MoreALTOM: U.S. slow to get on broadband bandwagon
February 27, 2010
Tim AltomThe country’s old, tired cabling was never designed for such high-transmission speeds.
MoreALTOM: How the Amish make technology work for them
February 13, 2010
Tim AltomBusinessWeek (www.businessweek.com) has a recent story about a growing $1.8 million enterprise that’s doing
just fine without the Internet, Web site, texting, customer-resource-management software, a fax machine or a single computer.
In fact, the company doesn’t even have electricity.
MoreALTOM: Does instant messaging make business sense?
January 30, 2010
Tim AltomAn instant messenger is one of those technologies that seems silly until you start using it.
MoreALTOM: See the light, and get on the fluorescent bandwagon
January 16, 2010
Tim AltomIt’s hard to imagine an invention more commonly used than the light bulb. It’s a shame that by 2014 we probably
won’t be able to buy them anymore, at least not as readily as we do now.
MoreALTOM: How does 3G matter to your cell phone?
January 2, 2010
Tim Altom3G is the third generation of cell technology and is designed to make it easier to send video and other bandwidth-hungry material.
MoreALTOM: Here are some technology glitches to put behind us in 2010
December 19, 2009
Tim AltomIf you’re not involved in one of these massive failures, you can take solace in the much smaller
problems you have every day.
MoreALTOM: It's time to rethink reliance on PowerPoint presentations
December 5, 2009
Tim AltomA college administrator believes technology shifts the educational focus from the wits and wisdom of the instructor to the
bullet points in the presentations.
MoreALTOM: Is Facebook folly or a fantastic marketing tool?
November 21, 2009
Tim AltomCompanies are using Facebook as an alternative way of reaching a vast audience, not as a replacement for their own Web sites.
MoreALTOM: What's available about you online may surprise you
November 7, 2009
Tim AltomA half-hour perusing the various social media sites can give you carloads of information about your sought-after individual.
MoreALTOM: Why can't we use cell phones on a plane?
October 24, 2009
Tim AltomWho among us hasn’t pondered life’s great questions? Why are we here? Why aren’t we somewhere else? Why
do some people never learn how to parallel park? And perhaps most mysterious of all—is it true that operating
electronic devices on an airplane may cause it to go out of control and crash? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is that nobody
really knows.
MoreALTOM: Is it worth tracking employees and their vehicles?
October 10, 2009
Tim AltomEmployees often react badly to, as they see it, being followed around. There are even privacy laws to consider.
MoreALTOM: Take the time to set up smartphone security
September 26, 2009
Tim AltomIt’s remarkable how many people don’t bother setting security features on their expensive smartphones. Because
they keep the phone somewhere close to them most of the time, they believe it’s secure, but that’s not true.
MoreALTOM: Who says you can't move your office home again?
September 12, 2009
Tim AltomMany micro-businesses stuck a toe into the office-rental waters, regretted it, and they’re retreating to home
offices.
MoreALTOM: Want to experiment with 'Vanishing' e-mail?
August 29, 2009
Tim AltomI’m wary of the “send” button. I’ve sent thousands of e-mails, and a fair number of them proved
to be problems later on.
MoreALTOM: Should you trade your shredder in for a bonfire?
August 17, 2009
Tim AltomOne thing I love about my line of work is that the simplest things get fascinatingly complicated.
MoreALTOM: A voice of reason amid the craze over social media
August 3, 2009
Tim AltomNow there are hordes of Web sites in every industry,
for every region. If you use your site to attract business, you’re a snowflake in the world’s biggest blizzard.
MoreALTOM: Technology moves too fast for law to keep up
July 20, 2009
Tim AltomTechnologists don’t usually give the law a basketful of respect. From our point of view, the law is struggling frantically
to stay within a hundred yards of our bleeding edge. By the time the law gets around to speaking on a technical
subject, the subject may not even exist anymore.
MoreALTOM: Go above and beyond Google for Web searches
June 22, 2009
Tim AltomIt's getting so you have to use a search engine on the Internet to find a search engine. There are now dozens, perhaps hundreds,
many of them highly specialized.
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Greenwood was scammed. Somebody didn't do due diligence in checking out the claims of this company. The manufacturing of insulin can't be done on the cheap. If it could be done, some big generic company would already have it on the market. The founder was either a scammer or a wild-eyed dreamer who made people believe that his Lilly experience was what they needed to make millions of dollars. Greenwood fell for a get-rich-quick scheme but smarter investors didn't make the same mistake.
DV, your list is not reasonable. For example, mass transit in Chicago does not benefit the poor Illinois farmer living on the Iowa border. So, there is no need for mass transit in Indy to benefit the retired widow living in Jasper, Indiana. Your comments, therefore, cannot be taken seriously yet it does reveal the narrow viewpoints that are robust here in Indiana. Mass transit works, even if not everyone in the city or state uses it.
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