From AppliedNet, The Top 5 InsurTech Peer Insights (We Took Notes For You) To extend the premise of today’s in-person user conferences – learning from peers – we’ve prepared a list of the five most significant issues or insights that we heard from insurance agents' and brokers' conference participants in October. Top 5 insurance tech insights: Elegantly easy email encryption means e [...]
The $100 million "Hermès" Registered Email™ Message (& CLE Webinar That Tells More) What a deal! My favorite functional yachting sportswear at 70% off! Or so I thought. Nearly every successful product brand is facing a strange new competitor -- their own "fake" self. Let me explain how this plays out. (If you find this interesting, join the Florida Bar CLE Credit Webinar on April 12 reviewing what you need to [...]
Psychology of Remote Communications We’re continuing our series on the psychology of remote communications this week, as many/most of us are still working remotely with the persistence of this latest covid variant. In addition, many of our readers have indicated that these tips have been very helpful in fostering better work communications over the last year and a half. This has reminded the scientist in me that we now have a baseline (albeit anecdotal) that these tips actually work! [...]
Top 5 (Blissful) Last Min Tech Gifts You just woke up in cold sweat because you realized that you never bought holiday gifts for your cousins who love regulations, your forgetful uncle Jerry, your quick-minded aunt, your tech-savvy nieces and nephews, and of course something for you. Now shipping deadlines have passed, store shelves are barren, and inflation has made some of those must-have items 3x what they should cost. And forget about wrapping up those gifts, as there’s hardly an [...]
Log4j and Security (In)Visibility In the IT security world, there’ve been a lot of sleepless nights recently due to a newly discovered security vulnerability that lets attackers who are not even very technically sophisticated, remotely inject code on a computer and take over control of it. This is due to a mishap in a very popular Apache Java program logging component, now nicknamed “Log4j” ( [...]
Registered Encryption, The Must-Have Gift of 2021 I’m not telling you anything new when I say that this holiday season is a bit unique—maybe not as unique (or uniquely bad) as last year, but certainly a time without precedent in my memory. First of all, it seems like the holiday shopping season got started in August, and Black Friday and Cyber Monday started weeks in advance. By now, we all know the reasons why—supply chain shortages, companies eager to nab ever [...]
We’ve Finally Figured Out the Price of Peace-of-Mind (Hint: It’s Not Priceless) While you are in your turkey-tryptophan-induced state of (peace-of-) mind, we thought we’d include you in our insights of the price people generally are comfortable paying for peace-of-mind. Our crack team at RPost has been working tirelessly to answer one of the most pressing questions in modern economic theory: what is the precise sensitivity point human [...]
RPost is Boldly Going Where Only A Few Rovers Have Gone Before... There’s a lot going on at RPost these days. We’ve announced the first in a series of SMART enhancements to RMail and RSign as the start of its SMART-as-a-Service 2021 product [...]
From Humble Beginnings, Early Innovators Set the Stage for Today’s CDOs We want to recognize those IT staffers who started with humble beginnings – sometimes as the company IT or process operations guru gifted with a silver tongue for explaining the technically complex, business simply. These are the heroes that today’s Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) should recognize --- and we are looking forward to recognizing these folks ourselves, for identifying early on, the art of the possi [...]
Now Let’s Really Start The 2020s 2021 may now be well underway. The government is starting to drop more money from helicopters, potentially trillions more upon the trillions already. I am not sure what this means for the Bitcoin crowd (I won’t bore you with my speculation on this unless you ask…). But, we at RPost and Tech Essentials are a hopeful bunch, and as I wrote in an [...]
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