Cisco SPA525G2 VoIP desk phone pairs to your smartphone… Answer & call from either phone!

Simple people are easily amused I guess, but I am LOVING the Bluetooth features in the Cisco SPA525G2 SIP VoIP phone. If you have one of these phones, you can associate it with your smartphone via Bluetooth and then do the following: Make a call from your smartphone’s number, using your Cisco phone Answer your incoming smartphone’s incoming calls from …

SECURE IT ALERT: Usama Bin Laden Death Email Scam Warning Issued by the FBI

  Homeland Secure IT Alert Homeland Secure IT Alert for Friday, May 13 2011   On May 04, the FBI issued a warning about links related to the death of Usama bin Laden. The text from the FBI site follows:   Malicious Software Features Usama bin Laden Links to Ensnare Unsuspecting Computer Users  The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) urges computer users to …

This brings a tear to my eye! #awesome #CustomerSatisfaction #ComputerService

The following voice mail was left on my phone the other night: Hey John, this is Mark C. over at <an Upstate clinic>, I just wanted to call you to tell you personally that Scott Chitwood is awesome! He is just awesome! He just spent a lot of time with me after work, helping me at work. I just wanted …

Business focused Motion CL900 tablet is now available for order

Does your business need something other than the Apple iPad and Android based tablets? The Motion CL900 is now available for order! Effective today, the Motion CL900, the latest addition to Motion’s suite of enterprise-built tablet PCs, is now available for shipping with the standard  4 week lead time from Authorized Motion Reseller Partners. The CL900 is a rugged, lightweight …

Bovinova 2011 made it into the Wall Street Journal!

A group of creative and daring Greenville / Upstate, SC individuals spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of time to bring us Bovinova 2011… What was it?  It was BIG!  Here’s a Wall Street Journal video that details it:  (Vegetarians and Vegans may want to skip this. hahah)   Alas, no mention of The Dockside Band playing, but …

Cisco Small Business UC 300 VoIP system looks like a winner

The time has come to replace that old analog phone system in your small business and upgrade to VoIP (Voice over IP) technology! The prices have never been better. One interesting option is the Cisco Small Business Unified Communications 300 series.  A few features include: Lower communication expenses Business-class calling and messaging Full key system and small private branch exchange …

Cisco IOS potentially susceptible to two zero day vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus has two posts indicating that Cisco IOS 15.0 is vulnerable to attackers. Both are DoS (Denial of Service) issues and at this time there is no solution being offered from Cisco to correct the problem. Should your network be non-responsive, you could attempt to reboot your Cisco device to restore connectivity. The original posts are as follows: Cisco IOS …

Aaron’s rent-to-own computers may have come complete with value-added spyware

It seems that not a day goes by that we don’t hear stories of how this person or that company had a data breach and information was leaked outside their walls, but in the news the last couple days is something far more sinister than someone losing data because of a hacker or accidentally installing malicious software. ABC Action News …

Bin Laden death results in malware spreading via social media, email and web

It will come as no surprise that anything newsworthy results in the creators of malware intensifying their efforts to spread their malicious code. The demise of Usama Bin Laden in no exception as various attempts to entice people to follow links through are being reported all over the place. I have seen 3 people I follow on social media who …