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At least one summer camp for kids has much more to do with megabytes than mosquito bites.TECHie Camp gives students third-grade through eighth-grade hands-on experience with everything from robotics to app development to web programming. The camp is operated in five states by TECH CORPS, an organization that partners with K-12 schools around the country to reach young people with life-changing technological learning experiences.TECH CORPS’ dedication to equipping the next generation of technolog ...

There is a common problem amongst technology business owners. That commonality is failure to answer a question about their business that typically starts out with, “What are the steps you use to do X?”Sometimes it’s dependent on the subject, but often this question can’t be clearly answered. The subject could be sales, marketing, financial, service delivery, employee or even client related. Regardless of the question, there is a relatively high chance that silence will be the response when a bus ...

A full room greeted the health IT track of CompTIA’s inaugural Tech Summit last week, with attendees eager to learn about the state of electronic medical records (EMR) adoption and how to overcome barriers. It quickly became apparent that while much of the world considers HIT and EMRs to be new phenomena, panelists representing the IT industry and government agencies agreed that these technologies had merely been stimulated by Federal legislation. Charles Jarvis, vice president of healthc ...

Going to school for your children today is much different than it was when you were a kid. You used to be able to get away with your stories of walking to school in three feet of snow, up-hill both ways, but today’s kids can Google your story and find out that you’re just exaggerating. Jean Andrews, CompTIA A+ textbook author with Cengage Learning, gathered educators from across the country at CompTIA Breakaway to discuss the changes to the modern-day classroom. The approach children ...

Enacted last year, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 established an “Intermediary Lending Pilot Program” to provide direct loans to non-profit intermediaries for the purpose of making loans to small business.  This pilot program will terminate after three years.  Under this pilot, loans of as high as $1 million will be made to 20 organizations in 2011, and these organizations are required to use this money to make small business loans of as high as $200,000 in mostly underserved markets.This p ...

Legal professionals are among the earliest tech adopters, at least pertaining to the toys they love to buy (whether they need them or not). From iPads to the latest mobile smart phone devices, many lawyers enjoy being on the “cutting edge” in all aspects of their lives. With an estimated 1.2 million licensed attorneys in the U.S. according to the American Bar Association—almost 75 percent of them in a private practice—it’s a market that solution providers need to be actively involved in. With un ...

IT security is one of the most important services solution providers can offer to their clients. Each business struggles with data and network protection concerns. It’s so critical, professionals with this expertise have a greater value and the opportunity to become one of their clients most trusted business partners. While many solution providers have the capability of providing security services, it’s not always easy to communicate the benefits to prospective and current customers.That’s one b ...

Going to school for your children today is much different than it was when you were a kid. You used to be able to get away with your stories of walking to school in three feet of snow, up-hill both ways, but today’s kids can Google your story and find out that you’re just exaggerating.Jean Andrews, CompTIA A+ textbook author with Cengage Learning, gathered educators from across the country at CompTIA Breakaway to discuss the changes to the modern-day classroom.The approach children are taking wh ...

The main challenge to successfully implementing health IT isn’t the technology aspect, but rather how to understand, digitize and improve clinician workflow, speakers at the CompTIA Tech Summit said on Thursday. “You are re-engineering the way medicine is practiced in healthcare settings,” said Bethany Gilboard, director of health technologies for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Physicians can sometimes be resistant to a new model of patient care, said Charles J ...

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for virtually every industry, thus creating a growing demand for professionals with security skills. Cyber foundations is the second fastest growing job field in the U.S. between now and 2018, second only to healthcare. But where are these people going to come from? A hot-button topic at CompTIA Breakaway, Joseph Cuenco, executive director at The Science Center of Pinellas County in Florida, gave CAPP Academic education leaders a glimpse into the innovative cu ...

Those of us who have owned and operated small businesses understand a few essential truths: Buying accounting software doesn’t make you an accountant. Hiring an accountant doesn’t mean you’re managing your books. And understanding the two points above won’t necessarily make your business profitable.Fact is making your business successful is tough without personally managing your profit and loss (P&L) statement. It comes down to data, CompTIA CFO Dave Sommer told Breakaway attendees this morn ...

Cybersecurity experts at the CompTIA Tech Summit today shared a chilling scenario of the current threat level in the world of mobile devices and applications"Right now mobile security is a pretty dicey place," said Andrew Hoog, chief investigative officer, viaForensics. "It's too much for an IT department to take on, but it's too big an issue to ignore. It's a massive hole.""The numbers of users, devices and applications are massive," said Brian Contos, director, global security and risk managem ...

Security considerations in a cloud computing universe are real, but not much different than the threats organizations wrestle with today in a traditional networking environment."This is not a new set of issues," said Ellen Rubin, founder, CloudSwitch. "The issues are the same that you have in your own internal environment."Rubin was one of the speakers on a "Security and Cloud Migration" panel at the inaugural CompTIA Tech Summit, co-located with CompTIA Breakaway 2011.Just like in-house IT depa ...

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for virtually every industry, thus creating a growing demand for professionals with security skills.  Cyber foundations is the second fastest growing job field in the U.S. between now and 2018, second only to healthcare. But where are these people going to come from?A hot-button topic at CompTIA Breakaway, Joseph Cuenco, executive director at The Science Center of Pinellas County in Florida, gave CAPP Academic education leaders a glimpse into the innovative cur ...

Protecting bare drives is imperative while storing and transporting digital data as spills and falls could be catastrophic to a hard drive. CRU-DataPort has redesigned and improved its anti-static drive case for bare 3.5" hard drives and 2.5” notebook drives. CRU-Dataport was one of 160 vendors showcasing their solutions to help VARs grow their business at Breakaway.DriveBoxes add minimal height to a drive making them more compact to steadily store on a shelf and archive data or access files. CR ...