Cut and Paste

Imagine that you had a bunch of files that you wanted to get from you to a customer.  With the speed of Internet connections evolving 3 times slower than storage media, are there faster alternatives than the Internet for moving files around?
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It all seems to be about the Internet this week. Here is our weekly round-up of the industry news for the week ending February 17th:

• The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
• The internet is broken – we need to start over
• Alleged file-sharing websites disappear or change
• Mobile internet devices will outnumber people in 2016
• Rise in nomophobia: fear of being without a phone

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Another week, another set of Anonymous exploits. Here is our weekly round-up of the industry news for the week ending February 10th:

• Help Your Business Avoid Social TMI
• Regional cybercrime hubs launched across England
• AA to launch sat-nav tech tracked insurance policy
• Apprenticeships an important route to the IT profession
• Multiple monitor use on the rise despite declining desktop PC sales
• V for Vendetta and Anonymous

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Talking backup is one of those difficult conversations for a business.  An evil necessity because you’re protecting against something that may never happen, it is often hard to understand and made far more complicated than it needs to be.

Having seen too many individuals and businesses lose all of their files, wearing our Virtual IT Director hat is is our responsibility to provide the best advice on backup and data recovery solutions.

Because you don’t know what you don’t know, last year we straw polled our client base and by email asked them their one big question about backups.

What can we say about the response?  Wow! Here are some of the questions you asked:

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Yesterday people in North America observed their furry rodents in honour of the annual Groundhog Day to see if the winter is nearing an end,  and it appears there is dissent in the groundhog ranks.

Leaving the prophetic rodents aside, here is our weekly round-up of the industry news for the week ending February 3rd:

• Technology firms to fight phishing
• Don’t scare people over cybersecurity, say MPs
• Obama’s Google+ Debut: Lessons Learned
• Microsoft Windows Phone 8 details leak
• Man recreates ZX81… in Lego

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