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A phishing e-mail is an e-mail sent by a hacker designed to fool the recipient into downloading a virus, giving up their credit card number, personal information (like a social security number), or account or login information to a particular web site. Often these e-mails are well de-signed to look exactly like an official notification from the site they are trying to emulate.

Nicholas Carr

Carr's 2008 best-seller was telling us that computing was destined to become a utility-what we now talk about as cloud computing-and exploring the effects that this transition is likely to have on our society.

The book begins with a quick look at the evolution of electricity-from water wheels that provided energy for one factory to Edison's pioneering work building his electric light system, including power plants that distributed electricity as direct current to development of the first systems capable of delivering alternating current.

BusinessDictionary.com defines a hidden cost as “Expense not normally included in the purchase price of an equipment or machine, such as for maintenance, supplies, training, and upgrades” and typical computer service is wracked with them. Lots of these types of expenses can pop-up in the form of unexpected computer problems that lead to major downtime.

“12 Little-Known Facts Every Business Owner Must Know About Backup, Security And Disaster Recovery”

If you are relying on tape drives, external hard drives or USB devices to back up your data, then it’s critical for you to get and read this informative eBook.