Quick Announcement: Starting this week, the Titan Tech blog will release two posts a week, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday, instead of just one post a week. Stay tuned for more tech news.
Teledentistry refers to any means of patient care using digital technology.
In the past, many dental practices have relied on established marketing techniques to communicate with their existing customers and solicit new ones. These methods include mail marketing--as well as mail reminders for appointments--, phone calls, and ads in local newspapers and magazines.
It's very difficult, if not impossible, to provide the best dental care without the use of imaging technology. Luckily, there have been numerous developments in dental imaging tech over the past few decades. Even older forms of radiological imaging, like x-rays, can be augmented and improved with modern computing.
-Quick announcement: Today, we're kicking off a series of blog posts focusing on particular business sectors and how they relate to IT. Our first set of blogs will focus on dental practices. Watch out for more announcements in future posts.
At the end of June, Dentistry Today, the popular online trade magazine, interviewed Mike Baird, the CEO of Henry Schein One, which provides a variety of software products for dental practices.
Quick Announcement: Following the testimony of Frances Haugen to the US Senate, Facebook's vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, published a blog post in which he defended Facebook's policies against hate speech, claiming that the prevalence of hate speech on the platform has dropped 50% over the past nine months.
Even though we usually focus on issues of technology, cybersecurity, and business on this blog, we're going to do something a little different today. We are going to explore the legal issues surrounding the controversies relating to Facebook that began last week.
On September 16th, the VoIP service provider VoIP.ms; located in Quebec, Canada; was hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. VoIP systems employ internet signals to send information over telephones and other communication devices, rather than conventional landlines.
Quick Announcement: Microsoft has announced an official release date for Windows 11, its new operating system--October 5, 2021. Existing Windows users can download the new OS free of charge beginning on this date. For more information, check out our post on the new operating system.
On August 24th, CNN reported a story about a data leak, which publicly released the personal information of millions of people, as well as data from major government organizations and large businesses. "The data leak, which affected American Airlines, Maryland's health department and New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, among others, led to the exposure of at least 38 million records, including employee information as well as data related to Covid-19 vaccinations, contact tracing and testing appointments, according to UpGuard, the cybersecurity firm that uncovered the issue.
Quick announcement: Facebook is currently running a trial of integrating voice and video chat into its main application, meaning that users could soon start conferencing over Facebook directly without using the Messenger app. If you'd like to read more of our coverage on how technology has recently affected workplace communication, click here.