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New Security Breach Notification Laws: What You Need To Know
Are You Inviting Criminals To Rob You?
October Trivia Winner
November Trivia Challenge
Shiny New Gadget of the Month
Roku

 

Roku 

 

  

About the size of a large thumb drive, the Roku Streaming Stick allows you to watch TV shows, games and movies on demand via the Internet on your TV.

 

   The Streaming Stick costs as little as $50; for that price, you can create smart TV on the cheap. Simply plug the Streaming Stick into a special port in the back of your TV. The device uses its Wi-Fi connection to set up your service and instantly stream shows on demand via the Internet. With 550-plus free and premium videos, music and game channels from HBO, Disney and Major League Baseball, Roku is becoming the new cable box.

 

   It's predicted that in the next 4-5 years, the bulk of TV and movies will be viewed over the Internet through subscription services like Roku. As you can imagine, Roku has stiff competition with the likes of Apple TV (which leads the market with over 4.2 million devices sold). Google is also getting into the TV streaming game with Nexus Q.

 

 
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November 2012

New Security Breach Notification Laws:  What You Need To Know 

   

   It's Monday morning and one of your employees notifies you that they lost their laptop at a Starbucks over the weekend, apologizing profusely. Aside from the cost and inconvenience of buying a new laptop, could you be on the hook for bigger costs, and should you notify all your clients? 

 

 

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One of the greatest things about the Android system is widgets. They help us check our mail, change the song, or the settings, all from the home screen(s) of our device. You could say they are multi-taskers and efficiency enablers that help users get the most out of their phones. The only issue with widgets [...]...�

 

Computers are great devices, they help managers and employees do their jobs with a level of efficiency that is unattainable without them. Unlike items like paper or pencils which have gone largely unchanged over the past few decades, computers have gotten ever more advanced. When they get older, they will start to slow down causing [...]...�

 

Security is an Internet issue that has never really gone away. If recent events are any indicator, security has become a hot-button issue, with many websites seeing some form of security related breach in the past year. The vast majority of these breaches target user's personal information, which could lead to identity theft. In the [...]...�

 

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Imagine walking into your local coffee shop, ordering your usual beverage and instead of fumbling around with cash, or having to dig out your debit card, you can just swipe your phone over the counter to pay. This is actually a possibility that, while limited for the time being, is set to rocket to the [...]...� 

Are You Inviting Criminals to Rob You?

 

     The next time you think about "Checking In" with Facebook or Tweeting about your vacation, don't. Burglars are now using social media sites to target homes when people are away on vacation, business or just out at dinner.

 

     One such web site, PleaseRobMe.com, swears they never intended to encourage burglars; however, this site pulls information from social networking sites like Twitter, Foursquare and Google Buzz to expose how much information criminals can easily learn about you online.

 

     The Dutch developers, Barry Borsboom, Boy van Amstel and Frank Groeneveld say they like social networking, but that their goal is to shine a giant spotlight on the dangerous side effects of location sharing. Regardless of their intention, our recommendation is to keep your location private. 
October Trivia Winner
Winner The winner of September's Trivia Challenge was Jessica Hospelhorn of Bloomington, IL.  Since Jennifer was the first person to answer our quiz question correctly from last month, she won a $25 gift card to Amazon.com.  The trivia question was:  

QUESTION:  

Which two American Presidents were born during the month of October?

 

a) Lincoln & Jackson

b) T. Roosevelt & Carter

c) Reagan & Clinton

d) Taft & Garfield

 

 

The correct answer is B) T. Roosevelt & Carter

Congratulations, Jennifer!

 

November Trivia Challenge
This is your chance to win!  Based on readers' feedback, we're changing things up:  the FIFTH person to submit the correct answer to us via email (trivia@gaeltek.com) or phone (703-652-4685) and you will win a $25 gift card to Amazon.com.
 
This month's question...

QUESTION:  

Which U.S. President was elected, defeated, then re-elected?

 

a) Cleveland

b) T. Roosevelt

c) Jackson

d) Johnson

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