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What Does End of Life Mean for Windows 7?

Time is up for Windows 7. Users have to move on, one way or another. As of January 14, 2020, Microsoft won’t offer any more support for the operating system. There will be no updates and no security patches. Continuing to use it on the Internet will be like walking through a malaria-infested swamp with…

Data Privacy in 2019, did we learn anything from Cambridge Analytica?

It seems so long ago. When Cambridge Analytica first entered the realm of public consciousness, last year, it was as a shady marketing company that may or may not helped to elect the next President of the United States through illegal means. At the time, it seemed like a breakthrough moment in data privacy. A…

Changes To Our Support Toolset for 2018

For the past 19 years, Applied Innovations has maintained a single brand promise to our customers “Make Online Business Success, Easy” which quite simply means to me that it’s our job to make it easy for our customers to succeed. Parallel to that is one of the core values of our company “Continual Improvement in…

Google Rich Snippets and Why Your Site Needs Them

Keeping up with Google’s changing algorithms often feels like a full-time job. It’s also one that is well worth the effort if you want your online store to get noticed above your competitors. By optimizing your website for search engines, you’re able to sell your products to a wider audience–and Google’s Rich Snippets is a…

We’re turning 18 and giving away free Awesome Antispam!

We’re turning 18, but instead of celebrating with cake, we’re giving away free Awesome Antispam! This month, we at Applied Innovations are celebrating our 18th year of helping businesses succeed online. During those years, the Internet (and now the cloud) has changed business substantially. In 1999, the Internet was transitioning from being used strictly by…

Important PCI Changes that may affect your E-Commerce Application

UPDATE: 5/13/16: We’ve just been informed that PayPal updated their notices yesterday (5/12/16) and are no longer targeting 6/17/16 as the deadline for migration to TLS 1.2 and have moved this out to June 2017. More information regarding PayPal can be found by clicking here. Additionally, UPS has now backed down from their previous date…

High Traffic Sites That Crashed on Cyber Monday Part 3

Horror Stories in Web Hosting: Motorola, 2013.

Top 5 Business Continuity Planning Failures

We’ve all heard stories of businesses that have lost thousands of dollars due to a disaster. Although we hear the horror stories, most of us are guilty of thinking that it can’t happen to us. Each year, over 75 percent of companies experience an outage and only 13 percent of those outages were the result…

5 Information Security Mistakes To Be Aware Of

For many, information security mistakes are a fact of modern life. As devices proliferate and technology works it’s way into our lives in every way, information security becomes a growing concern. Through this blog post we discuss 5 common information security mistakes and how you can protect yourself in the future. Information Security Breaches Are Alarmingly…

We’re Launching a New Ticket System

Applied Innovations is excited to announce that we will be migrating our ticket system and online help portal to SmarterTrack as of March 2, 2015. SmarterTrack is a powerful communications platform that provides an online help desk for initiating, tracking, managing, and reporting on a number of different communication channels. SmarterTrack provides a centralized outlet…