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Why you need to learn two-factor authentication

Passwords aren’t sufficient anymore.

Bigger tax breaks coming to small businesses that invest in new tech

It’s not easy to operate a successful small business today. You’re faced with escalating costs, sometimes unreliable employees, and competition from name-brand businesses with far deeper pockets. But at least your business can take advantage of larger tax breaks for investing in new technology

You can protect your business from a cyber attack

Here’s what attracts cyber criminals: easy targets. This means that you can leave your small business exposed to a cyber attack if you don’t protect your company’s Wi-Fi systems with passwords or if you trust in passwords that are ridiculously simple to guess.

Does only one person have access to all your business’ online accounts? Uh-oh.

Only one key employee has access to all of your small business’ important online accounts: your cloud-based payroll software, Twitter account, Facebook account and bank account. That’s fine

Boost your small business with these IT projects

Your New Year’s resolution was to expand your small business in 2013. How is that resolution going

Does everyone like Evernote?

Can a cult develop around an organization app? If it’s Evernote, the five-year-old note-taking and organization application that’s growing with incredible speed, the answer is an absolute “yes.” Evernote has drawn an expanding base of devoted fans, fans willing to spread the word about this application for free, fans that would never consider using any other note-taking software, as outlined by a fascinating feature recently run by BloombergBusinessweek

Why make the switch to Android?

Are you like technology writer Andy Ihnatko? The writer never thought he would ditch his iPhone.

Worried about malware? Turn off Java

Want to secure your computer from hackers? Slate writer Will Oremus has some straightforward advice: Disable Java

Sending e-mail? Mind your matters

E-mail can become overwhelming. It clogs up our inboxes and slows us down. Sometimes, we pound out replies as quickly as possible to clear out our inboxes, showing little thought to whatever we are writing

Don’t believe everything you read when researching online

The Internet is an incredible tool for research. Gone are the days when you were forced to run to your local library to uncover the average salary for steel workers in the 1990s. You no longer need to flip through encyclopedias to uncover the forgotten inventions of Leonardo da Vinci.