Most businesses have a love-hate relationship with their phone systems, often settling for less than everything they need because it is inexpensive, low-maintenance or not too complicated. We have always wanted the most features that we could get, so a VoIP (Voice over IP) solution was the only way to go! We initially used enterprise class Cisco 7960 VoIP phone …
The new Lenovo ThinkPad Edge e420 is an affordable business notebook
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad Edge E420 (1141-55U) notebook has all the features that make for an enjoyable business user experience, in addition to claims of it including “Advanced VoIP features”. With businesses going global, video conferencing has become the new standard for communication. ThinkPad Edge E420, featuring a low light-sensitive 720P HD camera and multimedia function keys, delivers a high-quality video …
The Dockside Band – Saturday May 21st at Break Time in Anderson, SC – Don’t miss it!
Please be sure to catch our band, The Dockside Band at Break Time in Anderson, SC on Saturday, May 21st! I think we get started about 8:30, and it should be a blast! Break Time is a “pool hall”, if you will, allowing 18 year olds to go in, but not to drink. They have a full bar, and I …
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 …
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 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 …
Deleting system files before you leave a job is not a nice thing to do, and likely illegal!
I’ve said this before, but I think I will say it again. Should you leave a job and have personal files on your system, sure, by all means, delete your PERSONAL files, that’s okay, right? Maybe… In fact, laws on the books that state that everything you do at work is property of the employer, however, I am not a …
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 …
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help!” – FBI in regards to removing Coreflood from infected computers
The FBI seized control of the Coreflood servers a couple weeks ago, drastically reducing the traffic that was being generated by the large botnet by stopping the update of the bot clients. This will allow anti-virus programs to begin to discover the presence on infected machines and hopefully remove it. That’s awesome, but what’s next? The FBI is seeking to …