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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So how long should you keep PCs and laptops ?

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Ten years ago business desktops and laptops became obsolete within 18-24 months, running out of power, memory and storage as desktop applications became ever more resource hungry. Accepted accounting wisdom is to keep them for 3 years: long enough to forget what they cost, and just about as long as the user was prepared to [...]

Q: Is it worth upgrading to Windows 7?

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A: Only under specific circumstances: as a general rule, no.

Reasons to upgrade to Windows 7:

If you implemented Vista and find it slow and unresponsive
If your laptop users would like 20-30% increased battery life (although if your battery is nearing end of life, you won’t see this benefit)
If quicker start up and shutdown times [...]

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

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How sure can you be that your systems can be recovered from back up ? Can restoration ever be guaranteed ? The short answer is No, but there are many simple and inexpensive ways to ensure much greater certainty. In this new White Paper, Fotec discuss the 4 ways you can increase the certainty with [...]

Windows 7 “significantly better than Vista”

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Research from Deustche Bank has found that of the estimated 1.2bn PC users worldwide, only 20% use Vista, with the remaining 80% using XP or older operating systems. Even when buying new machines, users rejected Vista in favour of XP, which was first introduced in 2001. The Bank stated that they expect Windows 7 to [...]

Google accounts for 6% of all internet use and 91% of UK search

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According to research carried out by Arbor Networks, web traffic in the past five years has changed significantly.
Craig Labovitz, Chief Scientist, Arbor Networks, said: “Saying the Internet has changed dramatically over the last five years is cliché – the Internet is always changing dramatically. However, over the course of the last five years, we’ve witnessed [...]

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 [...]