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

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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 [...]

What does ;_; mean ?

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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 [...]

Fotec’s top tips for keeping your Email running smoothly

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12% of calls we receive at Fotec involve email, and even though we’re very good at sorting them out, here are the 5 simple users can do for themselves to prevent the problems….
Start with The Big One: Archive your Mail:
Many people have huge Outlook mailboxes: 2GB is common, and this slows down everything. To speed up [...]

10,000 Scam emails reported to Revenue and Customs in one day !

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A record 10,000 scam emails offering fake tax refunds were reported to HM Revenue and Customs in just one day in October 2009. This follows the report that over 83,000 were reported during the month of September.
Phishing involves sending a fraudulent email disguised as an official request for information. The email will often look authentic, [...]

10,000 European Hotmail passwords leaked online

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According to neowin.net, a technology web site, an anonymous user posted details of 10,000 Microsoft Hotmail, Windows Live, and MSN accounts on Pastebin.com, an online crowdsourcing web site. The addresses and passwords were for addresses starting with A and B and were thought to have been harvested using phishing techniques, where a seemingly official email [...]

IDC give 6 reasons to use outsourcing to archive email

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IT researcher IDC have stated the 6 reasons why they believe outsourced email archiving is taking off.
Apart from the problem of just storing the rapidly accelerating number of mails, organisations have to comply with increasingly onerous retention regulations, supply information or respond to growing electronic discovery requests. On-site mail servers are being pushed to capacity, [...]

UK has the worst internet security in Europe

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Research from PCTools shows that the UK is less security conscious than our European cousins.
The research showed that although over 75% of Brits have some form of security software installed on their PC, over 30% of them never update it, compared to just five percent of German and seven percent of French web users. Nearly [...]

SPAM costs the Earth

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We all know spam wastes time and slows network performance, but new research has found it’s also bad for the environment. ICF International reported that 62 trillion unsolicited emails were sent last year, using 33 terawatt hours of electricity. That’s the equivalent to the energy used by 3 million cars in a year – or [...]

I.T. Spam back to 94% of all email

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Spam has finally recovered from the jolt it received last November when ISPs cut off the Californian based web-hoster McColo, from which spammers were trafficking email attacks. Taking down McColo reduced the levels of Spam on the Internet by two thirds at a stroke, but gradually the figures have been on their way back [...]