5 Ways Your IT Admin Can Improve Password Management and Security for Your Firm

5 Ways Your IT Admin Can Improve Password Management and Security for Your Firm

If you’re an IT administrator, you know how difficult it is to get employees to create and remember strong, unique passwords for business accounts and technology. Often, users will fall into common habits like using short, easy-to-guess passwords or passwords they’ve already used in other accounts. Users who do not follow password security best practices…

Looking at Industry Challenges, Forecasts & the Future

Looking at Industry Challenges, Forecasts & the Future

For solid and consistent business success in a competitive construction market, it’s vital that you remain aware of statistics and data.  These recent findings highlight the state of construction around Texas and our nation, which will prove valuable in your decision-making when it comes to partnerships, certifications, and expansion efforts.  Whether you are a general…

ExxonMobil Starts Operations at Large-Scale Advanced Recycling Facility

ExxonMobil Starts Operations at Large-Scale Advanced Recycling Facility

ExxonMobil recently announced the successful startup of one of the largest advanced recycling facilities in North America. The facility at the company’s integrated manufacturing complex in Baytown, Texas, uses proprietary technology to break down hard-to-recycle plastics and transform them into raw materials for new products. It is capable of processing more than 80 million pounds…

Chevron Helping Girls Get Hyped About STEM One Project at a Time

Chevron Helping Girls Get Hyped About STEM One Project at a Time

Heven Adugna aims high. She aspires to become a pediatrician, and as a seventh-grade student, she knows that science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) will help her reach that goal. However, women—and particularly Black, Indigenous, and all girls of color—are largely underrepresented in STEM fields and often marginalized from taking part in STEM education at…

Construction Management Software Market News

Construction Management Software Market News

Data Bridge Market research has recently published comprehensive business research on “Global Construction Management Software Market” which includes historic data, present market trends, future product environment, marketing strategies, technological innovation, upcoming technologies, emerging trends or opportunities, and the technical progress in the related industry.  Construction Management Software Market research report execution is becoming very vital…

The Pioneering Wireless Crane Camera by Scarlet Is Expected To Improve Construction Site Safety and Boost Productivity

The Pioneering Wireless Crane Camera by Scarlet Is Expected To Improve Construction Site Safety and Boost Productivity

Scarlet Tech, a leading instrumentation and construction technology company, recently announced the launch of the Hercules Wireless Hook Crane Camera System. Hercules is a crane safety monitoring equipment for tower cranes, luffing cranes, mobile cranes, and other heavy-duty cranes. The whole system is an active safety technology that provides crane operators and safety managers with…

Optimize Costs With MCA Managed Services

Optimize Costs With MCA Managed Services

By Paul Stoessel, MCA Communications  It always costs more to react to a problem than to proactively prevent one. Yet, business managers tend to resist investing in a Proactive Service Agreement to ensure their systems are well maintained. Through the illusion of saving money, organizations end up assuming all the liability for the moment their…

Associated Builders and Contractors Announces 2022-2023 Tech Alliance Members

Associated Builders and Contractors Announces 2022-2023 Tech Alliance Members

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) recently announced the members of its third annual Tech Alliance—a consortium of firms that create construction technology and innovative solutions for ABC contractor members, the majority of which primarily perform work in the industrial and commercial sectors. “These technology and innovation allies of ABC are leaders in the construction innovation…

How the Future of Drone Technology Is Already Here

How the Future of Drone Technology Is Already Here

Since their first use in the mid-1800s in the form of hot air balloons, unmanned aerial vehicles have been used for security, photography, safety, and many other applications. Today, drones have a significant impact on the way we do business — from warfare reconnaissance and real estate marketing to filmmaking and inventory tracking. For example,…

Does Your Organization Still Use POTS?

Does Your Organization Still Use POTS?

By Paul Stoessel, MCA Communications  ​Beginning in the late 1800s and for more than a hundred years thereafter, the Plain Ordinary Telephone System (POTS) revolutionized communication for business and personal use everywhere. But since the advent of new technology starting in the 1980s where the voice could be transmitted through digital protocols, the old “twisted…

New Processors Make Edge AI More Accessible While Cutting Power Consumption in Half 

New Processors Make Edge AI More Accessible While Cutting Power Consumption in Half 

Expanding on its history of delivering highly integrated processors, Texas Instruments  (TI) recently introduced new Sitara™ AM62 processors that help expand edge artificial intelligence (AI) processing into next-generation applications. The low-power design of the new processors enables support for dual-screen displays and small-size human-machine interface (HMI) applications.  The next generation of HMI will bring new…

New Bluetooth® LE Wireless MCUs Make High-Quality RF and Power Performance More Affordable

New Bluetooth® LE Wireless MCUs Make High-Quality RF and Power Performance More Affordable

Texas Instruments (TI) recently expanded its connectivity portfolio with a new family of wireless microcontrollers (MCU) that enable high-quality Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) at half the price of competing devices. Featuring best-in-class standby current and radio-frequency (RF) performance, the SimpleLink™ Bluetooth LE CC2340 family is built on the foundation of TI’s decades of wireless connectivity…

Constru Bringing Breakthrough AI Construction Technologies to U.S. Market

Constru Bringing Breakthrough AI Construction Technologies to U.S. Market

Constru, a leader in breakthrough computer vision technology for the construction sector, recently announced its entrance into the U.S. market with the opening of a new headquarters in Chicago as well as offices in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Austin. The U.S. expansion is led by Constru Chief Revenue Officer Jessica Herrala, a 25-year…

MCA Communications, Inc. Announces New Central Texas Office

MCA Communications, Inc. Announces New Central Texas Office

Since its founding in 1983 in Houston, Texas, MCA Communications, Inc. (MCA) has sustained a solid track record of completing high-profile projects with a focus on safety, quality, and customer service. This award-winning design-build technology integrator firm specializes in network cabling infrastructure, audiovisual installations, wireless solutions, and security solutions for schools, hospitals, corporate buildings, and…

Harris County Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia Develop a $200,000 Disparity Study Fund To Help Entities Implement MWBE Programs

Harris County Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia Develop a $200,000 Disparity Study Fund To Help Entities Implement MWBE Programs

A disparity study determines whether a government entity, either in the past or currently, engages in exclusionary practices in the solicitation and award of contracts to minority, women‐owned, and disadvantaged business enterprises (MWDBEs). This study can help determine if there is disparity between the availability of firms and the utilization of those firms in its…