Daily Positive Attitude Posts

A couple of months ago, I read a book called “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless” by Jeffrey Gitomer.  One of the chapters in the book suggested spending 10-15 minutes every day listening or reading something intended to help improve your attitude. My way of holding myself accountable to doing this began by…

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Starbucks is now offering free public WiFi – Using public WiFi hotspots securely (part 2)

A few months ago I wrote about some of the dangers in using public WiFi hotspots (http://mavidea.com/media/mavlog/10-07-01/Using_public_WiFi_hotspots_securely_part_1.aspx)  The article was received well and customers asked me questions, which is exactly what I wanted.  Security is an ongoing discussion that never ends. A few weeks ago, Starbucks made WiFi free in all of their stores (http://www.starbucks.com/coffeehouse/wireless-internet). …

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Weird Stuff Happens…

Mavidea customers have learned over the years that we are paranoid about backups and disaster recovery.  We are constantly pushing to improve backup processes and technology.  I was listening to a computer security podcast last week (Security Now with Steve Gibson – it’s geeky but you’ll learn a ton if you listen) and they were…

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