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Users Microsoft Outlook.com and Hotmail experiencing prolonged outages
Mar 13, 2013 By ClareThe backlash of the current outage has been swift for IT company Microsoft after both their Outlook.com online e-mail service and Hotmail were knocked offline for a large number of users for over 17 hours. Twitter is full of tweets telling Microsoft to ‘get your act together’ and alongside...
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) A Disaster for IT departments?
Mar 12, 2013 By ClareUsers are usually very naive when thinking about bringing in their home devices to the office, assuming that they can simply ‘plug and go’ and have the capacity to work as though they were on their office PC on their tablet or mobile phone. Few consider the dangers for the corporate network...
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Cloud computing from an outsourced IT team is cost cutting effective
Mar 8, 2013 By ClareSince 2009 many organisations with an internal IT department have found that their IT budgets have been cut while the demand for IT services has increased. This demand at a low cost is exacerbated by the increased utilisation of remote users- away from the internal IT support network. Time...
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Computacentre and Daisy Group walk away from 2e2 deal
Feb 4, 2013 By ClareComputacenter and Daisy Group were seated at the negotiating table but have now decided to end their interest in the IT support company 2e2. As such the prospect of 2e2 administrator FTI selling the entire UK operation of the stricken integrator in one swoop has been dealt a heavy blow. ...
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Samsung laptops no longer face irreparable damage from Linux
Feb 4, 2013 By ClareSamsung laptops will no longer be irreparably destroyed when their users try to boot Linux on them. This statement was made on the 1 st February and came after users of brand new Samsung laptops found their devices were being irreparably damaged after they tried to boot Linux on their devices....
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2e2 goes into administration- Need support?
Jan 30, 2013 By ClareUK-headquartered mid-market IT services firm, 2e2 , has called in the administrators after breaching banking covenants. The news was reported this morning and comes after reports of ‘difficulties’ earlier last year. 2e2 Group's slide into administration has prompted concerns about the future...
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UK Schools to receive 15,000 free microcomputers from Google
Jan 29, 2013 By ClareThe Raspberry Pi Foundation built their microcomputers to inspire the next generation to look beyond what they are taught in school, which is currently seen as outdated and irrelevant and into the future of computing. Funded by Google, the Raspberry Pi Foundation hopes these free devices will...
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Half the daily users of Instagram stop using the site after changes to privacy settings
Jan 15, 2013 By ClareOne month after it was announced on IT company Instagram that changes to the terms and condition on the site were to go ahead and the photo sharing platform would stop support for Twitter accounts, almost half the daily users have moved elsewhere. Figures show a decrease of 8.94 million users...
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Internet Explorer vulnerability patch released for memory corruption issue
Jan 14, 2013 By ClareThe IT company Microsoft released a patch today for older versions of its Internet Explorer browser, dating back to IE 6, deviating from its normal repair schedule due to the seriousness of the problem. The problem was detected last month and has been exploited since, the quick fix which was...
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The Do Not Disturb App bug fix will be available from 7th January
Jan 3, 2013 By ClareThe 'Do Not Disturb' App is a feature which stops a user's Apple iPhone from making a sound when ringing, receiving texts or notification from others apps between pre- set hours set up by the user but will automatically turn off in time to allow the users alarm to go off. There are fail safes in...
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