Who watched the Jetsons? If you say yes to that question then we are of a similar age or you are a real geek. If you say “no” then google it – and that simple statement “google it” is what this blog is about – technology today. No one told me I’d have Google in […]
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It’s Christmas! Kamila has set us all a target of producing a blog a day as a countdown to Christmas and I get to write what must be the most fun one! Here is my seasonal selection of presents for those geeks in your life. Continuing the series of “Geek Present” blogs for Christmas, Mother’s
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There has already been a significant increase in online shopping due to the covid-19 pandemic and as we enter the Christmas period online sales are going to ramp up even further – not to mention Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Of course, bad hackers know this and will try to entice unsuspecting shoppers to
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“Working from anywhere” can mean working somewhere really nice – the photo above is Lower Longbeak in Cornwall. Coffee, croissant, great view, sea air, email and proof reading a quote for the company on my smartphone. (https://www.clivecatton.co.uk/2020/11/06/photos-from-devon/) So England is back in lockdown and people are again reluctantly or enthusiastically working from home – but
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Whilst also writing my dissertation this week, I have been carrying out a security and privacy review for Octagon Technology. Normally I do it in January each year (during my holiday in Aviemore away from distractions) but three things have happened this month to cause me to look now rather than later: We have taken
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My iPhone updated overnight to iOS 14 and over breakfast I of course had to play with the new features. In the current circumstances the Exposure Notification has got a lot of the headlines but in my first 30 minutes I really like the new widgets. When I had a look and play with them
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At the moment I am working on my Master’s degree dissertation which has a long and complicated title but essentially is about how small businesses use Microsoft 365. As part of the background work I have been looking at privacy and security and how the two relate, and how business understands them, and how decisions
Over the past few years we have spent a lot of time helping clients “work from anywhere”. Octagon first learnt how to work from anywhere because we had given up our office and had to develop policies and procedures to support this new remote working. In 2007 the tools were not as good as they
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First let’s start with an apology – due to circumstances I forgot to write our Geeky Mother’s Day Present Blog – sorry. But I will be making up for it in the next few weeks, because Diana and Kamila have told me to… So here is my round up of presents for Father’s Day that
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