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Fotec White Paper: Can you guarantee system recovery from back ups ?

IT Support

Research shows that 70% of companies expect to recover 100% of their data if there’s an IT problem – but in actual emergencies, very few actually achieve anything like 100%. In this White Paper, we discuss the reasons why, and what can be done about it. To read the White Paper, simply Register as a [...]

How can you increase your productivity by more than 20% ?

IT Support

According to Microsoft, you can increase your productivity by between 20% and 50%….by using two monitors on your computer:
“On my desk I have three screens, synchronised to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has [...]

The Truth about how long people spend on Facebook at work ?

IT Support

According to Cisco’s 2010 Midyear Security Report, workers are accessing social networking sites on company equipment even though policies are there to prevent it. 50% of employees in the survey ignore company social media policies at least once every per week. Over a quarter actually reconfigured their devices to access forbidden content or applications.
The report says “…social [...]

Are your PCs older or newer than everyone else’s ?

IT Support

For the past 15 years, we’ve all been forced to continuously upgrade our  PCs and laptops, as applications have grown, and been ever hungrier for more power and memory.
But at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. on Monday, a senior staffer said that the average age of PCs is now older than at [...]

What does ;_; mean ?

Company, IT Support

Recent research into cultural differences threw up the interesting contract between East Asian emoticons and Western ones.
So when in the Western hemisphere we use for sad, East Asians use ;_; which denotes tears. When we use for happy, they use ^_^ meaning raised eyebrows. And whilst our surprised face is [...]

So should I upgrade my iPhone to OS4 ?

IT Support

Short answer: yes ! Here’s Fotec’s advice on how to get the best from the upgrade for iPhone 3G and 3GS users…
1.Tired of your iPhone switching to landscape when you tilt it ?
Lock in portrait mode by double tapping the Home Button, swipe to left and on the left of the iPod controls you’ll see the [...]

So should you buy an iPad ?

IT Support

As anyone with an iPhone will tell you, Apple’s products are so well designed they’re a joy to use. The engineering is sleek, and the user interface almost redefines the meaning of the word intuitive. The same goes for iPods, MACs and Powerbooks.
Yet Apple lost the IT war: almost everyone uses Microsoft and PCs for [...]

So how many companies use the internet for voice calls ?

IT Support

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), with its promise of dramatically reduced phone and comms line costs,  has been threatening to hurt the traditional phone companies’ revenues for years. But how many companies are using VoIP now ?
Recent surveys suggest that after a long ramp up, the market is growing very fast right now. In companies [...]

Surprising advice re managing IT…

IT Support

IT guru Patrick Gray’s recent article on taking over a failing IT department was surprising: what would be the first step for most people was the third step for Gray.
Gray’s first step is to remind yourself that “…almost everyone wants you to succeed”: it’s easy to forget this, but it’s true, and helps to settle [...]

What % of business internet use is YouTube ?

IT Support

A whopping 10%, according to new report from The Network Box (http://www.network-box.com/), a global managed security company.
The survey, of 13 billion URLs used by businesses in Q1 2010, also showed that 7% of all Internet traffic is taken up by Facebook. Here are the top 5…:
…websites visited by businesses in Q1 2010:

Facebook – 6.8 per [...]