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Archive for April, 2025

How AI and Chatbots Are Changing Customer Service

Customer service can make or break your business’s reputation. Your customers expect quick, efficient, and helpful responses, and not always during regular business hours. This is where AI chatbots in customer service ...

How Digital Transformation Is Reshaping Small Businesses

Digital transformation is more than a buzzword. It becomes a powerful shift helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) compete, grow, and thrive. The benefits of digital transformation more than justify the effort ...

Shield Your Business From Growing Cyber Threats

In today’s digital-first world, cybersecurity isn’t just another item to check off your to-do list. It’s the backbone of your business’s survival. Without it, it’s just a matter of time before something ...

Cisco Smart Licensing Hit by Major Exploits

If you own a business, keeping your networks and data safe can feel like an endless game of Whack-a-Mole. Hackers never seem to rest, and this time, they’ve set their sights on ...

Oracle Empowers Businesses To Create AI Agents

If building a tailored AI-powered assistant seems out of reach, Oracle’s newly launched AI Agent Studio may be what you’re looking for. The new platform allows businesses to create, manage, and deploy ...

WhatsApp Patches Critical Spyware Security Flaw

If you or your employees use WhatsApp, you should be aware of a recent security vulnerability that could put your company at risk.  The WhatsApp security flaw allows hackers to control devices ...

Common Sense: The Missing Piece in AI

Your business’s success is a credit to your intuition, experience, gut instincts, and hard skills in management, finance, and operations. AI can help with certain tasks and analyzing data, but it’s not ...

How Cloud Computing Levels the Playing Field for Small Businesses

The days of large corporations maintaining a clear edge over small companies in terms of technology infrastructure are over. Cloud computing has become the great equalizer. It puts the same high-powered tools ...

Microsoft Alerts Users to Booking.com Phishing Scam

If you own a hospitality-related business, beware: Microsoft just warned of a new threat. Cybercriminals are ramping up attacks using messages that appear to come from Booking.com. The phishing scam gives them ...

Biometrics Strengthen Security in Passwordless Authentication

Passwords undoubtedly remain the weakest link in cybersecurity. Employees use easy-to-guess passwords or never change them, and hackers steal them using malware and phishing attacks. No wonder research from the access management ...

Blog

Cut the Clutter: Automate Your Expense Reporting

Cut the Clutter: Automate Your Expense Reporting

Managing business expenses can feel like a never-ending chore. Receipts pile up, spreadsheets get messy, and approvals drag on. Meanwhile,[...]
Private Cloud Makes a Comeback in the Hybrid Era

Private Cloud Makes a Comeback in the Hybrid Era

For years, conversations about digital transformation have primarily focused on public cloud providers. Businesses of all sizes lean on cloud[...]
HP Pulls Update After Breaking Microsoft Security Tools

HP Pulls Update After Breaking Microsoft Security Tools

If your business uses HP AI PCs, a recent HP OneAgent update may have made things difficult for your IT[...]

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5114 Balcones Woods Dr.
Suite 307-429
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 336-2970

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1144 Airport Blvd
Suite 260
Austin, TX 78702

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Since 2003, The Critical Update has been a leading provider of IT support and consulting, focusing on small and medium sized businesses in the Austin metropolitan area. We have helped hundreds of businesses increase productivity and profitability by making IT a streamlined part of operations. We equip our clients with customized technology solutions for greater operational value and to reduce risk.

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