When starting a new business, or restructuring an existing one, access is one of the biggest factors of success. And with the constantly changing landscape of technology, business owners are able to access any aspects of their businesses, over nearly any sort of device. Ari Rabban, the CEO of Phone.com, believes that cloud services are the future of small businesses, with the ability to access anything at any time.

Axcient.com has an IT downtime calculator that has some pretty shocking loss calculations. A company like yours could lose over $600,000 a year due to the national average of 2 downtimes a year.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has formally petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to issue new regulations that would require wireless carriers to unlock mobile devices — cell phones, tablets and other devices — for consumers that wish to use other carriers.