Tag: security

If looking ahead to retirement makes you a little nervous, you’re not alone.

Only about half of Americans (51 percent) who haven’t reached retirement predict that they will be financially comfortable once they get there, according to a Gallup survey.

For some, those potentially uncomfortable retirement years are decades away. But for the Baby Boom generation, retirement either already arrived or will in the next decade or so, prompting many Boomers to wonder whether they are prepared for their looming date with destiny.

As parents and grandparents, we all understand the importance of bedtime. Many of us have a Sophie or an Ethan who tries to postpone bedtime for as long as possible. Bedtime becomes a nightly battle. Even if Sophie goes to bed, she does not stay in bed. Sophie has all sorts of reasons for not staying in bed—worries, unable to sleep, thirsty, needs to go to the bathroom, etc. The end result of this situation is a grumpy child and grumpy parents. We all deserve a peaceful bedtime.

You’ve likely joined Facebook because you understand that social networking can be a valuable tool to keep up with family and friends. Or perhaps you are a business professional and use Twitter and LinkedIn because of the value it brings to your business. Maybe you don’t use online social networks, but your friends do and you’ve heard them say, "Facebook me." Either case, you know that social networking is a powerful tool that influences all our lives.

The story of the "white picket fence" family, riding off into the sunset with Prince(ss) Charming, or living Happily Ever After with our one true love is changing. Actually, the truth is that it has changed.

Old stories, like the one that has defined divorce as a failure or the one that led us to believe that we are somehow "less than" if we are single, are begging to be rewritten. Dear reader, resistance to these changes is futile and this is your invitation into the New Relationship Paradigm.

Just a decade ago, the idea we could control our home’s climate with a single thermostat that could also learn our day-to-day habits to maximize our energy use was the thing of science fiction. Today, gadgets like smart thermostats make smart home climate control not just doable, but a mainstream option for energy-savvy homeowners. The smart home industry shows no signs of slowing down either; and according to Gartner, 8.4 billion connected tools were projected to be in use by 2017, up 31 percent from 2016. With that many connected devices flooding the market, how will our connected devices play a role in how we live our lives at home?

What an eye opener! I’ve recently switched from an HP to a MacBook Pro. I couldn’t be happier with the change—so much so that I treat my laptop like a member of the family. It shows me movies, organizes my pictures, my music, my life. But the switch has highlighted a serious identity crisis. It’s not what you think—not that kind of identity crisis! It’s the kind that leads to identity theft. While migrating my data from one laptop to the other, it struck me just how much vital personal and professional information we keep on mobile computing devices: