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It’s simply in our DNA, to be feature-rich plus much more affordable. The last weekend of summer has arrived. The days are getting shorter, the kids are back in school, and your colleagues have all returned tanned from their vacations. Correspondingly, our Mid-Summer Tech Essentials Sale has also wound down. However, there [...]

Is Technology Fashionable? What’s Trendy… Can Summer Fashion Meet Technology? In fashion, about this time of summer, all those light breezy summer clothes start to appear on sale. It’s like clockwork. Mid-summer sales. While tech may not be as elegant looking (perhaps other than your beloved mobile phone with your pink diamond studded phone case), tech could follow fashion with a mid-summer sale. It has been done before. Black Friday for fashion (and TVs) beca [...]

How to Say ‘Leave Me Alone’ without an ‘Opposite Shock’ A year ago, there was a sudden “shock” to the world that caused mass disruption in people’s normal routines, forcing an uncomfortable behavioral change for most. This pandemic-induced shift to an isolated work-from-home (WFH) routine should become a shibboleth once vaccines flow freely. But perhaps it wont. Over the course of the last year, we’ve all acclimated to our new routines, comfy chairs, lounging in between [...]

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Are We Still in an Interconnected World? Apple’s Big Sur Sure Made Us Aware Are we still living in an interconnected world? There is now talk of more isolation — that is unless you have your COVID immunity passport (as we discussed in our article “The “New” Haves and Have Nots”). While travel may become less interconnected, from a data transmission perspective (virtual me [...]

What is “Legal Proof”? Optimize! Panelists Share a Decade of Use in Courts In the early 2000’s, RPost coined the term “Legal Proof®” to describe what one received when they sent a Registered Email™ message. There is no such thing as “Illegal Proof”, so what could “Legal Proof®” really represent? We defined “Legal Proof®” as an email record that can serve as third-party evidence of the uniform timestamp of email sending, delivery, opening, an [...]

Is Work from Home Here to Stay Permanently? Almost everyone around the world is working from home, due to the imposed lockdown to battle the Covid-19 pandemic. This arrangement has a lot of benefits for both employees and employers. But, will the work from home continue even after the lockdown restrictions are lifted? Recently, the “Permanent-WFH” trend has gained momentum in the tech industry as many companies are extending WFH policies, including: [...]

Will you be working from home 'FOREVER'? A lot has been made recently about the Twitter CEO telling his employees that they can work from home ‘forever’ if they see fit. This past Tuesday, the Twitter CEO sent out a much-talked-about email (funny he didn’t use his company’s namesake product for this). The email states, “if our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever [emphasis added], we wi [...]

Home email, the new normal for millions of Americans Today the Labor Department released a report that showed over 20 million jobs were lost in April alone, boosting the unemployment rate to nearly 15%. These are levels perhaps never seen by any living American. Even as people start to venture out to beaches and parks that are opening up, most people are still remaining inside — spending more time in their home email (i.e. Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook.com, Outlook Online, and other mobile [...]

Big Brother has Built Geofences to Control Behavior, Tesla Drivers Beware City Hall Can Now Control Your Location. The Snowden revelations opened the general public’s eyes to the (alleged) eavesdropping by the NSA and other government organizations. The Hong Kong protests showed the world how today’s mass video surveillance uses facial recognition to identify the location of people (for example, who is protesting what and when). City traffic light cameras send y [...]