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Securing a Vital Seaport with Video AI

Securing a Vital Seaport with Video AI

October 16, 2025

Below are excerpts from a Case Study done by our Video AI partners at Vaidio. Please follow this link to read the whole article!   Challenge A strategically important seaport—central to the movement of autos, refrigerated produce, fertilizer, and project cargo—plays a significant role in the U.S. logistics chain. Despite […]

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Banned from Reddit on my First Day

Banned from Reddit on my First Day and a Red Flag for Our AI Future

October 3, 2025

I was banned from Reddit less than 24 hours after creating my first account. I wasn’t trolling or spamming. I was trying to be helpful. On the advice of a marketing guru, I’d signed up to broaden our social media reach. As I had some time between meetings, I searched […]

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Risk Management of IT Offshoring and the Coinbase Hack

May 19, 2025

Information Technology (IT) is a unique department. We are decades into the IT productivity revolution, and it is now hard to find areas of business that are not wholly dependent on technology. The amount of power and influence that IT staff have accumulated (through necessity) also creates significant risk. IT […]

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An AI Lesson from DataStew

An AI Lesson (from twenty years ago)

October 27, 2024

A couple of decades ago I used to support a variety of Attorney’s offices. One year a product called “Dragon Naturally Speaking” made a splash and we got a flood of calls to install it for clients. Dragon was a speech-to-text application and was pretty-neat tech for its time. In […]

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IT Support For Dallas Schools and Universities

IT Support for Dallas Schools: Why It’s Crucial for Educational Institutions

October 5, 2024

In the digital age, schools and universities face increasing pressure to provide students and faculty with access to reliable technology. From cloud-based learning platforms to secure data management and seamless communication systems, educational institutions rely heavily on IT infrastructure to support their day-to-day operations. Reliable technology aids not only students […]

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When to use low-cost IT providers

July 22, 2024

Most of today’s managed services offerings are designed to save money for the IT provider, at the tradeoff of their client’s time. For many small businesses, this model works as their hourly labor costs are low and time spent working through IT issues is offset by the lower cost for […]

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