August 10, 2011 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
A lightning strike in Dublin recently took down service for some European users of Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services. In addition to that, Amazon also suffered a stateside cloud outage that affected popular services including Foursquare, Reddit and Netflix. According to the service dashboard of Amazon, the company’
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August 3, 2011 · Data Backup & Recovery
The iCloud from Apple will be here before you know it and Apple is just now starting to roll out details about pricing as well as the beta version of iCloud.com. So in case you missed it, here is the low down on Apple’s newest cloud-based service known as iCloud. One thing a lot of people were
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July 27, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
A coalition of around 29 universities across America are throwing their weight behind a plan to create ultra-high-speed computer networks in the communities surrounding their campuses. These networks would also have internet service several hundred times faster than what is now available commercially.
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July 22, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
In a surprisingly defiant statement addressed primarily to Director of the FBI Steve Chabinsky, members of Anonymous and LulzSec have vowed to continue with their hacking campaigns and even went as far as to dare law enforcement officials to try and stop them.
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July 12, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
GCE, otherwise known as Global Computer Enterprises, just recently unveiled a mobile service for accessing and managing financial functions for the Federal Government. The service, which operates on any type of smartphone, tablet or mobile device, allows you to conduct a plethora of time-sensitive activities like appro
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July 6, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Much of the work of the people in your corporate IT department may be moving to the cloud soon, but is that necessarily good news? If reports end up being true, the computer that you have been working on for years in your office may be a few steps away from becoming a glorified screen. The
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June 29, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Microsoft officially launched Office 365 yesterday with a big fancy New York City event hosted by CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer. However, while enthusiasm was high with Microsoft execs, engineers and partners, not everybody was looking at this as a “glass half full” development. A lot of real concerns exist for partne
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June 24, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Earlier in the week, PGi was awarded a People’s Choice Stevie Award for its latest service, iMeet, at the 2011 American Business Awards (ABA) reception. iMeet walked away with the award of Favorite New Computer Service category. In addition to that, iMeet also earned a finalist nod in the New Product or Service of the
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June 13, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Researchers from IBM have just built the very first integrated circuit based on graphene. This is a breakthrough for IBM who has stated that this circuit could very well herald a future based on graphene wafers as opposed to silicon ones.
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June 10, 2011 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
While everybody in the U.S. is currently talking up Apple’s newly released iCloud music storage system, our neighbors to the north in Canada are singing a different tune, one that tells of no iCloud services being available in the country and one that sees many Canadians a little upset.
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May 31, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
The rash of cyber attacks across the country recently have prompted some strong words from the United States government. The US Department of Defense has ruled that any attack on computer networks or sabotage of information systems stemming from other countries officially constitute an act of war and can be responded t
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May 25, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
HP has been making technology news a lot recently. They have just unveiled a few new nice computer products as well as a couple of LED computer monitors. However, the company that sits among the top of the technological world is making news for a different reason. Hewlett-Packard is planning on acquiring Printelligent.
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May 16, 2011 · Computer Repair
So, computer outages are seriously a pain in the derrière, in my opinion. I live and die by my computer as it is my primary source of income so a computer outage is never something that needs to happen to me. The good news is, residential computer outages are few and far between. You usually hear
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May 12, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
If you are one of the many people out there that is currently having problems installing Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, then your problems may soon be solved as Microsoft has just released a patch that is designed to fix all of those problems and make it smooth sailing. Microsoft
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May 2, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Columbus, Ohio, may be placing a lot of sensitive data in danger of theft when it retires old computers, according to one security expert. Columbus’ Department of Technology receives guarantees from its computer disposal vendor that all of the hard drives and other parts that may contain sensitive data have been destro
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