Category Archives for "Emails"

Byte Me Article 243 – Internet Connections Continued

Need for Speed is Snowballing Following on from last weeks’ article about Internet speeds, today we address the question “why all the fuss”.  We have already seen Internet speeds increase from 40kbps to around 10000kbps for the majority of Australians in the last 15 years.  The flipside here is the rate at which we find […]

Byte Me Article 242 – Internet: What speed do you need?

Internet: What Speed do you Need? Regular readers of this column will be aware of my own personal challenges with getting a decent connection at my own residence.  After years of a good BigPond ADSL2+ connection I moved to Optus due to the dangled carrot of similar download speeds at a much reduced price.  The […]

Byte Me Article 238 – Beware of telecom’s big plans

Beware of Telecom’s Big Claims Continuing on from last week’s article about the false advertising, broken promises and corporate greed shown by Optus we now have even more condemning information.  I know these are strong words however documented proof has surfaced which highlights what is in fact a telecommunications scam. My own experience when shifting […]

Byte Me Article 224 – Hackers going to extreme lengths

Hackers Going to Extreme Lengths Computer hackers are upping the ante on ransoms and extortion.  They have previously manufactured and spread the Cryptolocker virus which spreads through the email system and locks all of your data files.  The same virus then demands that a ransom be paid to get an unlock code so that your […]

Byte Me Article 221 – You don’t want to catch this virus

You Don’t Want to Catch this Virus So you have just received an email from one of your friends or work acquaintances – possibly even someone that emails you every day, and it has a zip file attachment.  The subject is most likely just ‘Scan’ and in the body of the email it simply says […]

Byte Me Article 220 – Putting the Byte into Beef 2015

Putting the Byte into Beef 2015 Well Beef Week went really well – with unbeatable weather and huge crowds it is a credit to the organisers.  Sure the traffic on the new bridge was slow at times however this is the same as Brisbane every day of the week (not just 5 days out of […]

Byte Me Article 209 – How to make the smart choice

How to Make the Smart Choice Continuing on from last week’s article, with the ever growing number of various web enabled portable devices, we have many of our customers asking us “what sort of device should I purchase”?  The answer is normally determined by what devices they already have as well as personal preference – […]

Byte Me Article 208 – iPhones ringing up huge cash for Apple

iphones Ringing Up Huge Cash For Apple In my closing article for 2014 I hinted at what will prove to be the ever increasing popularity of Internet enabled portable devices for 2015 – not far wrong! Device maker Apple has just posted the largest ever recorded quarterly profit for a public company of $18billion US […]

Byte Me Article 205 – Internet on the go set to expand

Internet on the go Set to Expand 2014 has almost finished serving its useful life and is soon to be upgraded to 2015 so we have a good opportunity to look at what has been happening in IT during the last 12 months as well as the possibilities for the future 2015. 12 months in […]

Byte Me Article 203 – Backup to protect from data loss

Backup to Protect From Data Loss Last week we wrote about the re-appearance of the worldwide Ransomware virus – CryptoLocker. Since then we have had a huge number of phone calls asking for further information about the virus and in particular how to avoid it. This article focus on these very topics. There have been […]