Category Archives for "Emails"

Byte Me Article 351 – Cloud Computing

3rd February 2018 Get Your Head In The Clouds “If your business is not using Cloud Computing then you are behind the times.”  This is the catch cry that is getting told over and over by CEO’s and business managers at the meetings and seminars all around the country that they so often go to.  […]

Byte Me Article 350 – Software That Should Not Be Paid For

20th January 2018 No Such Thing As Free Office This week we had another new customer come in with a PC that had stopped responding.  It had an operating system corruption which could not be fixed, however it had relatively good hardware as it was around 3 years old and had not been a budget […]

Byte Me Article 348 – Another Year Closes

16th December 2017 Looking Back at the Year in IT As we see yet another year rocket to a close it is interesting to look back at some of the newsworthy happenings in IT.  While we wonder where the time has gone I see quite a few IT trends either strengthening or weakening and we […]

Byte Me Article 345 – Man In The Middle Attack

25th November 2017 Don’t Become Next Victim Several weeks ago I wrote an article mentioning another form of Internet scam called ‘a man in the middle attack’.  These are becoming more prevalent and as such this topic deserves further examination.  These attacks are more relevant to businesses and can cost a lot of money which […]

Byte Me Article 344 – Beccahan Computers Close

18th November 2017 Slow PC May Need a Tune Up The IT scene in Central Queensland doesn’t change that rapidly however a milestone was reached on the 29th of Sept with the closure of Beccahan Computers.  Located on the South side of town they became a local IT icon with 17 years in the trade.  […]

Byte Me Article 343 – NBN Woes

11th November 2017 Don’t Blame Others for NBN In the last few weeks, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull labels the NBN rollout as a “Train Wreck” and surprisingly he blamed Labour!  NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow suggests that customers need to pay a new levy to help fund the NBN – he wants more money!  […]

Byte Me Article 342 – Who Can You Trust 2

4th November 2017 Keys to the Digital Kingdom Following on from last weeks’ article on computer security and loyalty we not look at the upkeep of computer systems themselves from both a personal and a business point of view.  In either case you are normally employing a 3rd party entity to do the work.  In […]

Byte Me Article 341 – Who Can You Trust

28th October 2017 Minimise Risk of Buying Online This week we focus on the security and loyalty risks associated with computers.  As the reliance on technology increases so does our need to trust that the information that we put into a computer will not fall into the wrong hands.  It is not that long ago […]

Byte Me Article 339 – Dealing with Telcos

7th October 2017 Challenges Dealing With Telcos As an IT company, we often hear firsthand from customers about their worst phone experiences.  These range considerably from total disconnections when they simply requested a billing name change to existing services that are established – again just to get a billing name change. This week we had […]

Byte Me Article 338 – Internet Do’s & Don’ts

30th September 2017 Be Switched on to Scammers It seems that more people are getting switched on to the phone scams from callers claiming to be from Telstra or BigPond.  Normally these callers are from overseas, they have a heavy accent and there is normally a lot of call centre noise in the background.  They […]