With the smartphone market losing ground for the first time in its short history, many of the manufacturers you’ve come to know are either non-factors in the current market, or don’t even produce smartphones anymore. With new demand growing every year, new manufacturers such as OnePlus and Xiaomi are primed to fall in line behind Samsung and Apple.
While smartphones and tablets can be so helpful, the technology can also interfere with business success. If you can get past the issues related to employees bringing their own devices to the workplace, then you’ll be able to save considerable time and resources on device procurement. You certainly want to make sure you have a mobile device management policy put in place, first.
Business technology can’t last forever, for a number of reasons. It’s almost a certainty that you’ll have to upgrade your technology at some point, whether it reaches its end-of-life event or simply becomes obsolete for your organization. In fact, failing to update your infrastructure from time to time can have serious negative side-effects for your business.
Many industries depend on their IT working properly to function as intended, and healthcare is among them. Prior to 2009, information technology had failed to take root, but with the passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), the health industry is much more involved and reliant on IT than ever.
When you’re talking about something to do with a computer, you’re going to start hearing about some word that ends with “-ware.” You could probably list off a few yourself, but have you ever stopped to think about why they’re all described as “something-ware?” For this week’s Tech Term, we’ll take a peek at why we refer to things that way.
