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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Filed in Broadband
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We have had a customer who has been trying to get their Sky Broadband activated for the past two weeks. We have been dealing with Sky ourselves, on their behalf, to try to resolve the issue.
To be fair to the last Sky technical support person I dealt with (a NI guy as it happens), […]
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A quick note to all of our domestic customers who currently run AVG Free (Anti-virus) software on their PC. AVG Free version 8.0 is out and is a much better solution than the version you currently have.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Filed in Laptop Advice
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Dell issued a blog post yesterday (Thursday 8th May) apologising to customers about a ‘cock up’ they made with the keyboards on the Vostro 1310 and 1510 models. This problem will affect a number of these machines distributed in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Rock specialise in high-spec laptops for the gaming sector, but have fallen into administration.
They are citing the following reasons:
Cashflow difficulties as a result of ’stock misappropriation’ by a former employee
Lowering of credit limits by suppliers
Lack of regular supply of key components
The administrators (Deloitte) are still hopeful that they will be able to sell the business […]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Filed in Software
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Microsoft, in their wisdom, have made Service Pack 3 (SP3) available for download for Windows XP. Many will see this as the last SP for XP, with the eventual removal of retail packs of XP expected at the end of June 2008.
There is no real need to worry though, as the majority of our […]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Filed in Emails
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Well, we have just had an email from Xobni that the beta-version of their Outlook plug-in is now freely available for anyone to download. It was on an invite-only beta release for the past seven months, but this has now been completed.
Xobni is an excellent pice of kit, making the handling of our emails […]
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