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Caution that bill may be just an advertisement.
The practice is not new, but there are domain-registering companies who routinely send out a document to the domain name owner, that appears as a bill to re-register your web name. It is their way of having you transfer the registration of your web address from your current register to them. In some ways this [...]
Instant Communications is Now Possible, Is it a Good thing?
One of the biggest changes of technology over the past 25 years is now we have instant communications. 30 years ago instant communications was through the telephone. It may not have mattered where one was, a phone could easily be found. Payphones were everywhere. If you needed to ask a question of your supervisor, you [...]
Socal Media is a form of Networking
In my opinion Social Media is a form of networking. I don’t know whether anyone else has that same opinion, but it is mine. As with any type of networking you get what you put into it. Have you ever come out of a Networking Event and felt that you got nothing out of it? [...]
Amazon Expands Kindle Line and adds Fire
September 28, 2011 Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos announced four new devices today. One of these was the much rumored Fire a 7 inch tablet. Unveiled was the Kindle Touch ($99), an updated non-touch Kindle ($79), a new Kindle 3G ($149). And the product that many expected the Amazon Fire ($199). The Fire ships Nov. 15, [...]
Do These Bother You Too?
E-mail has become a common office tool for communications. For some it may be their major form of communicating with clients and associates. There may even be others whose only form of communications is through e-mails. I firmly believe that Business E-mails should be treated exactly like a business letter, following the same format. Although [...]
Appliance Off – It Doesn’t Mean No Energy Used
Many modern appliances may be using as much as 15 to 30 watts when off or in Stand-by mode. Some may actually be using the same amount of energy off as they are when on. One common term for these devices is ‘energy vampires’. Stand-by power is estimated to be as much as 5 percent [...]
What’s Your Password?
Just about everything has a password associated with it. But many of us are not doing a good job at password creation as usage. Do you … Use the same password? Many of us create one password and use it everywhere. Once the password is discovered by a scammer/hacker then it can be used. Have [...]
Telephones and Customer Service
Sometimes what may look like a nice technology advancement may in reality be a Customer Service nightmare. Whenever we use technology in business we need to relate it back to how we do business and our principles. Auto Attendant Many businesses use these. They are without an doubt a cost saver. A business doesn’t have [...]
Have You Done One of These?
We all have been using email, the telephone and cellphones for a longtime. Some of us may not even remember a time without cellphones or email. But at times the things we use every day become so common place that we will make embarrassing mistakes. How recent have you done one of these? Or do [...]
Desktop Clutter
There are more things to cause desktop clutter than the items that the eye can see. There’s always the cable mess that seems to arrive with computers and other electronic items needed to perform your job. The electric cords and the large ‘bricks’ that accompany some items seem to always be in the way or [...]
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