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

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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% ?

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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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

So should you buy an iPad ?

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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 ?

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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 [...]

What % of business internet use is YouTube ?

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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 [...]

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 [...]

How well are small businesses protected by their banks ?

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We all expect our bank to indemnify us against criminal activity: but that’s being challenged now, and we may not be protected at all in the future.
The Wall Street Journal recently led with a story about Sign Designs, a small company in California who’d had their on-line account just about emptied: $100k sent to 17 [...]

Why pay for AntiVirus products when you can have them for free ?

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Everyone uses AntiVirus products, and there’s a wide range of choice. From  Kaspersky to Trend Micro, Sophos to McAfee – Fotec works with them all. But Microsoft is threatening to completely undermine the market with their Security Essentials product set, which is…wait for it…free !
So just how much AV do you get for nothing ?
PCAdvisor ran [...]