• A Simple Way to Protect Yourself from Malicious Facebook Apps

    Facebook has long been flooded with a barrage of apps for virtually any purpose. From “uncovering stalkers,” showing shocking videos, giving away money, and much more; however for 2012 one of the biggest security trends on the radar is social media scams. The reason Facebook and other social sites are now being targeted by malware is  Read more »

    Posted on 27th Jan 2012 0 comments
  • Don’t Trust,Trust Seals

    With the rise in the numbers of identity theft and hack attacks on numerous corporate websites, website security has become one of the hottest internet-related topics for consumers and businesses alike. Despite the validity of the topic, however, as with anything with a huge demand, a new breed of scams geared towards business owners have sprung up  Read more »

    Posted on 10th Jan 2012 0 comments
  • Building a Quality Online Store On a Shoestring Budget

    Although the costs of websites have dropped dramatically since the dot-com boom, e-commerce remains a murky area for small businesses due to watered down website cookie cutter packages which allow anyone to “provide websites,” and also the fact that pricing a website can be like purchasing a used car due to the fact that every  Read more »

    Posted on 3rd Jan 2012 0 comments
  • Protecting Your Digital Name Without Litigation

    Whether you’re a business owner just setting up your online corporate prescience, or are an online veteran looking to flex your web muscle, you likely have encountered at least a domain name or two which are crucial to your brand but have already been taken. Be it the .com or even .org version of your  Read more »

    Posted on 12th Nov 2011 0 comments
  • Traditional vs Cloud Hosting – A Practical Overview of Strengths and Weakness

    When it comes to picking a web host for your company, there used to be two key offerings, both on different ends of the spectrum in terms of performance and price. On the low end was shared hosting, where web hosts have hundreds, if not thousands, of customers onto servers. The rationale being that the  Read more »

    Posted on 14th Oct 2011 0 comments
  • Backups Made Easy for Small Business

    For business owners, the information age has been a bittersweet mix of increased productivity while also balancing ways to preserve mission critical data and files.  Despite an increasing reliance on technology, many companies lack a sufficient disaster recovery plan when it comes to their systems. Although CD/DVD’s, flash drives, external drives, and even tape devices have long  Read more »

    Posted on 21st Sep 2011 0 comments
  • Amazon.com Now Offering In Store Pickup – Via a Revolutionary Method

    It looks like the United States Postal Srvice (USPS)  is on the verge of having the final nails on it’s coffin hammered in. Being on the verge of a $5.5 billion default due to declining revenue from postage, it looks like Amazon.com is gearing up for the demise of the postal service by now offering in-store  Read more »

    Posted on 13th Sep 2011 0 comments
  • Lifting the Bar for Social Networks

    Since the advent of the Web 2.0 era, social networks have gone from revolutionary forms of communication, to ventures so horrible that venture capitalists and angel investors take shares purely for the vanity of the assets. For example, virtually everyone has seen the value behind MySpace, Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter – both in financials and  Read more »

    Posted on 30th Aug 2011 0 comments
  • Swimming with the sharks

    Everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame, and unfortunately in today’s day and age the internet has provided a soapbox for wannaprenurs to showcase their inner thoughts (a.k.a. “the next big thing”)  . While its easy to laugh at some of the failures on reality shows such as American Idol and Jersey Shore; there’s a  Read more »

    Posted on 12th Jun 2011 0 comments
  • Hitting the grind

    Hello, and welcome to High Tech Realm. No, it’s not a retail store and it isn’t a mysterious place in the sky. What is it? It’s a small yet insightful speck in the web which is a gem when uncovered (grasshopper, you have succeeded if you are reading this). Seriously though, High Tech Realm is  Read more »

    Posted on 10th May 2011 0 comments