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Making Email Work for Business

Email.  It’s probably one of the more boring technical subjects out there, and yet probably one of the most important business functions for our customers.  No one ever talks about email, until there is a problem.  Statistically, there are now more emails exchange in a day than phone calls.  Heck, that’s actually been true for…

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When things go *boom* in the night . . .

Heck, how about when things go *boom* during the day? It is every techs worst nightmare: “Uh, the server won’t boot up.” “What does this smoke rolling out of the back of the server mean?” “We lost all power to our building last night, and when the power company turned it on this morning; we…

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Using public WiFi hotspots securely (part 1)

I have a laptop, just like a lot of business people. 99% of the time I use it at my office or at home. It is the other 1% of the time that is my focus today – using public WiFi hotspots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_(Wi-Fi)) securely. Wireless Internet connectivity has become ingrained into the way that people…

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