The primary benefit of our new mail system is the added performance and redundancy provided in our new hardware setup. Availability is the single most important features that our entire team works toward every day. Increased performance results in shorter queue times. While the mail queues on our old system rarely backed up, this was…
DetailsYou can have the best website in the world, but if it isn’t up, what good is it? While you might struggle to put an exact dollar figure on the cost of downtime for your business, you know it’s there. Every moment that your website is down is time that client’s can’t learn about your…
DetailsMany of us have used web-based email, like Hotmail or Yahoo. They are convenient solutions that are quick and easy to use and are accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, but there are some negatives that make using desktop-based programs worth considering. Web-based email is only accessible if the computer you’re on has internet…
DetailsLast week our team upgraded our mail systems to the latest version of SmarterMail. This move also included upgraded hardware with greater redundancy and performance. Over the next few days, we will be describing some of the new features in more detail. While the actual transition to the new mail system was somewhat unexpected, and…
DetailsSlow or unresponsive email can affect business communication significantly. Companies tend to keep every email they receive for documentation and legal purposes for years. A solution to this is email archiving. It’s important to archive older email to allow for faster performance and reliability. Microsoft Outlook has an archiving feature built-in, and after the PST…
DetailsA flaw was recently discovered with the iPhone (all models) that lets anyone make a phone call without needing to unlock an iPhone.
DetailsMozilla also announced that, despite the enormous problem posed by Firesheep, it will not use its “kill switch” option to disable this add-on. The “silver lining” to the Firesheep release is that it will probably force social networking sites to address the issue of cookie hijacking, which has been a serious threat to users on unsecured networks.
DetailsEvery time you visit a website that includes a lot of ads, you are effectively visiting many sites at once. That is because those ads are probably executing “code” (that is, computer programs) in your web browser (that is, on YOUR computer).
DetailsYou can have the best website in the world, but if it isn’t up, what good is it? While you might struggle to put an exact dollar figure on the cost of downtime for your business, you know it’s there. Every moment that your website is down is time that client’s can’t learn about your…
DetailsIn the tech industry we are all used to Best Practices, and with our client’s mail it’s the same thing. Here are the best practices for our mail system. If you aren’t currently using them, please consider updating your settings as soon as possible. These settings will provide you with the highest level of security…
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