Tried-and-true IT advice to help make your life easier.

Why the Zappos Hack Is A Bigger Security Problem Than the FBI Hack

You may have heard that some personal information for 24 million customers of Zappos, the online shoe-store giant, was breached last month. Then the following week, websites belonging to some of our highest government offices — the White House, FBI and Department of Justice — were shut down in a coordinated protest attack by the hacker group Anonymous.

Business Tech: The Best of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show

Imagine 37 football fields of new technology. That’s what you and your fellow 153,000 attendees got at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — gadgets for as far as the eye can see. 

Right here! In a few short paragraphs and links, you can hop through the most useful business technology featured at last month’s CES show in Las Vegas.  More >

What To Do If You Lose Your Smartphone

It happens to thousands of us each day: we lose our smartphones! Now what?

Make it easy for people to reunite you with your beloved tech tool by planning ahead and leaping into action immediately. Here are five things you can do to get your smartphone back, plus three tips on what to do if you find someone else’s phone:   More >

Alerts: How To Let Search Engines Work for You 24/7

Let's say you want to keep up on a news story, follow the hottest sports stars or be the first to know anything new about your favorite topic. You can keep searching online (tedious) or subscribe to website RSS feeds (time-consuming to find) or you can simply let your search engine alert you when something new comes up.

With alerts from the leading search engines — Google, Yahoo! and Bing — the latest updates leap over to you. Automatically. Here's how it works and how it can make you more productive: More >