Thanks to Microsoft and Westcoast Distribution for a great day yesterday reviewing and updating us on the plans and options for Microsoft Office 365 and Westcoast Cloud Computing. Harjeet Kumar od Microsoft gave a detailed view of the changes in the latest Office 365 suite of solutions and the changing cloud storage options. Things are a
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Lucy winner A couple of weeks ago Apple announced the 50B download competition. It is now too late to enter as someone, currently unknown is the lucky winner of the $10K iTunes card. Let’s stop and look at the iTunes business and relate this back to an earlier post about the value of the eco
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Apple\’s iOS was revolutionary when it arrived on the iPhone in 2007 Because there was nothing like it–the combination of touch hardware and gesture software was amazing. Apple has kept the OS evolving ever since, introducing new features like the powerful Siri system all the time. A recent blog post caught our eye as it
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Tennis Player endorses Samsung and Tweets About How Much He Loves His Samsung Galaxy S4…From His iPhone When you post a tweet or take a photo we know where you are and what device you are using. It’s called a Smart phone for a reason. When you use an Application on your phone it is
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IDC Report According to IDC, PC sales fell 14 percent this quarter on a year over year basis, the biggest decline since IDC started tracking the PC market in 1994. IDC was only expecting a 7.7 percent drop for the first quarter. Last year Microsoft updated Windows, the software that runs over 90 percent of
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Mac keyboard short cuts: Takeaway: Alastair Dodwell advises beginners to learn these basic keyboard short-cuts and you’ll be well on your way to greater efficiency on your Mac
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The big boys of Brussels have fined Microsoft a whopping 561 million euros (£484m) for failing to promote a range of competing web browsers, rather than just Internet Explorer, to users in the European Union .
Microsoft was forced to introduce a Browser Choice Screen pop-up in March 2010 as part of a settlement following an earlier EU competition investigation. And then dropped the feature in a Windows 7 update in February 2011.
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Netflix – making Internet only TV Just how big is Netflix? This Sunday\’s Telegraph has an in-depth article about the House of Cards and its impact on TV in general. As a Netflix subscriber from its launch in Silicon Valley many years ago as a DVD by post service, we have watched and invested in
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How to protect your on-line presence On a recent transatlantic flight I was reading a copy of Wired Magazine that I picked up in Chicago. One interesting and slightly disturbing article was about how Mat Honan, one of the Wired Staff writers was hacked. In the space of an hour he lost control of his entire
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Five things you should know about Google Analytics Takeaway: Google Analytics is a free analysis service which measures website activity and performance. These five tips can help you get more out of it. Google Analytics is an advanced technology which can help you measure how your company’s online marketing and presence is working. It gathers
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