Cloud Computing Not Always Best Solution I have just finished attending the Festival of Innovation – a Thursday event hosted at the Rockhampton Leagues Club. Several guest speakers including the ‘Gadgetguy’ and local business presenters extolling the virtues of our technological age and all things that connect to the Internet. The advantage of these technologies […]
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Computer Scammer Shreds Couple’s Data This week we have a shocking story provided by an elderly couple from Gracemere who came to us mid-week after a very bad experience. In this case they had received a phone call from a lady claiming that she was from Telstra (this is a different approach to claiming that […]
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Low Power Rating Will Slow Down Your PCCPU’s Matter 9 March, 2013 It’s happened again – my pet peeve! I was called to a new customers’ office because of a ‘few’ things going wrong. One of those things was a new PC which was reported to be running slow. I had a look at this […]
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Businesses Behind in ITBusiness IT Special 2 March, 2013 Yesterday at midday the ‘Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland’ held a Webinar (called – Digital Readiness Study: The Results) to – discuss the results of a study! The study involved a sample of 700 businesses and how they have or haven’t adopted digital technologies to […]
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Breakdown is a Timely WarningWhen Technology Fails 2 February, 2013 We have to take our hats off to the Morning Bulletin! Through hell and high water the paper has still reliably kept us up-to-date with news and events, even when phones, email and Internet have been in chaos. All 3 of our own Business grade […]
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Broadband to satisfy our need for speed– Connections Explained 19 January, 2013 Broadband!!! – 20 years ago that would have been a scruntchy or some other form of women’s hair attire! Now it is referred to almost every day when we talk about computers and their connection to the Internet. Broadband is a catch cry […]
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Latest computer technology has small business users in clouds 3 November, 2012 Pentium, IP Telephony, 64 Bit, Blu-Ray, Bluetooth, Gigabit & Wireless – these have all been major catch phrases that we have heard in computing circles. Now we have a new one – the cloud! So what is cloud computing and will it work […]
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-When your internet’s far less Usain than you would have it 11 August, 2012 “My Internet is running slow”. I couldn’t count the number of times we hear this each week. Unfortunately there are such a range of issues which effect how fast your internet ‘runs’ which are far more complex than for instance ‘Word’ […]
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– Innocents Swindled After Technology Spiel 14 July, 2012 I have just been talking to another good customer and I am furious! Furious because, like so many before them, they have just been swindled by one of the major Telco’s. So what has happened? In this case they innocently walked into a T Shop here […]
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– Channel Full Power of Outlook 30 June, 2012 Living in Rockhampton most of us take broadband connections for granted. There are not many areas within Rockhampton itself that are unable to receive broadband ADSL (a high speed Internet connection through your phone line). However for those not within approximately 3.5 km of an ADSL […]
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