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1How to survive an iPhone liquid submersion
iphoneYou shriek. You hyperventilate. There may even be cursing. You've just dropped your smartphone inOMG! the toilet. OMG! What to do? WHAT TO DO?! Instead of wasting time kicking yourself for checking the stock market while you have 'a moment', use those crucial minutes to perform smartphone first aid and you just might save your most critical resource.
2Gamification: How Competition Is Reinventing Business, Marketing & Everyday Life
Can we make *everything* a game? Gamification is the process of using game mechanics to solve problems and engage audiences. It's now commonly being applied even outside the usual learning fields, with younger entrepreneurs building apps and services for their peers who are more "game-attuned than previous generations". It's successful because it integrates two things people crave: reward and social connections.
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3Password Management: Idiot-Proof Tips
It seems like every time you turn around, another site has had its user passwords exposed. And most of those passwords barely quality as a useful password. QWERTY anyone? Or how about 12345? Computerworld offers tips for choosing a better password.
4NFL Team Replacing Paper Playbooks With iPads
iPadFootball season is finally here! And this year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are using iPads instead of printed playbooks, which not only offers better usage of a player's off-field game preparation time, but better security, too. Mashable explains why.
5How One Company is Taming Big Data With Visualizations
Nothing can put the average reader to sleep like rows and columns of endless, eye-crossing data that they are then expected to make sense of. Data visualization is changing the way internet users are consuming such information both by making data more visually appealing and interactive.
6Lookout Report: Android Malware Has Increased Significantly Over Past 6 Months
AndroidWith the rise in popularity of mobile devices, so has the level of malware threats aimed at such devices. Users often forget that mobile devices are computers, too, and require just as much antivirus and malware protection as a laptop. This TechCrunch report details how Android users are over twice as likely to encounter malware today than in the previous six months.
7Cash for clunkers: Old equipment boosts the bottom line
CRTAs a computer's lifecycle comes to an end, you know what happens: You transfer the data to a newer system, and then the old computer sits around until you can get it to a recycling vendor along with the dozen other obsolete devices you have stacked in a closet. But instead of paying big disposal bills, you can recoup some of your investment by using a third-party recycler that returns part of the sale price back to your bottom line.
8A sales tax deal even Amazon could tolerate
AmazonThe debate about sales tax collection from internet retailers rages on, with Amazon's entry into the Tennessee workforce landscape on the line. This article from the Nashville Ledger explains how both sides could benefit.
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Located in Portland, Tennessee, Western Plastics provides custom plastic injection molding products for the consumer products industry.

bok recently completed several projects for Western Plastics, including:

bulletinstallation of a T1 circuit and VOIP phone system utilizing their higher bandwidth to increase efficiency

bulletrelocation and upgrade of data services in the warehouse for better speed and connectivity

bulletinstallation of new SonicWall firewalls for better speed and security

bulletconnecting a Cisco ASA VPN from the main office to corporate headquarters in Cleveland, OH for more reliable connectivity

bok also provided management services including server upgrades and migrations, data backup and off-site storage, which supports their need for more advanced networking connectivity, security and data recovery. In addition, support services were provided for the Western Plastics network infrastructure including its SharePoint server.

Western Plastics is a subsidiary of the Scott Fetzer Company, a holding company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.


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