ANC Approves Bagel Shop as ‘Corner Store’
• January 13, 2020

After a lively, sometimes heated debate on Jan. 7, ANC 2E voted 6-2 in favor of a proposal giving the owner of Call Your Mother a corner store zoning variance.  

Tech Tip: Bookmark the Websites You Frequently Visit
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Here’s a sneaky trick used by many hackers. They purchase and set up a fraudulent website that is a close misspelling of a legitimate one.

Tech Tip: Never Use Personal Devices to Connect to Company Data
• January 6, 2020

Since most malware is designed to operate in total stealth mode, undetected, you won’t know that some hacker is watching you log in to your company’s file server or key cloud application.

Funky Artists & Fleas to Replace Dean & DeLuca
• January 5, 2020

Once a game-changer, Dean & DeLuca closed in August, leaving the 150-year-old building empty. Owned by the District government, the structure is required by law to serve as a market.

Tech Tip: How to Spot a Phishing Email
• December 30, 2019

Often these emails look 100-percent legitimate. They show up in the form of a PDF, a UPS or FedEx tracking number, a bank letter, a Facebook alert, a bank notification, etc.

Tech Tip: How to Foil Ransomware
• December 23, 2019

After your files are compromised, the hackers behind the attack pop up a demand screen asking for payment within a set time frame in order to get the key to decrypt your files.

Business Ins & Outs: Rí Rá, Chase, Rothy’s, Lutèce by Bonaparte
• December 18, 2019

RE-BRANDED: CAFE BONAPARTE IS NOW LUTÈCE BY BONAPARTE Serving Georgetown since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte at 1522 Wisconsin Ave. NW reopened as Lutèce by Bonaparte on Dec. 12 with a new […]

Tech Tip: If This Type of Alert Pops Up, Don’t Click!
• December 16, 2019

A pop-up notification that your PC is infected with a virus and you must “click here” to run a scan or install antivirus software is a common scareware tactic.

Verizon Outage Continues into Third Week
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On Dec. 2, according to the phone and internet provider, a worker accidentally cut into cables that run along the 31st Street Bridge, now under reconstruction.

DC Chamber Honors Baseball Visionaries
• December 12, 2019

Former Mayor Anthony Williams and others discussed the economic resurgence of D.C. after years of bad publicity and investors “running away” from their sales pitches for the city.