We all know how President Trump (and other politicians) use Twitter and other social media platforms to get their messages to us without conventional media journalists filtering that message. Over the last week you can hardly have missed that President Trump is upset with Twitter (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52821304) for; 1) adding a “fact checking” link to one […]
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So, picture the scene, I have just delivered a seminar about Microsoft 365 and have asked for questions and I get told … “Well Clive, we use DropBox …”. Now I do not have anything against DropBox or Google Drive or any other professional cloud storage system but let me tell you a few things
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COVID-19 has impacted on the way we run our businesses. Technology now plays an even more important role in the way we communicate with our stakeholders. This creates an opportunity for the bad guys too. Cyberattacks are on the rise! There are many ways of stealing a password, but the main ways traditionally are: Dodgy
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Come and join our discussion this week – Clive has thirty minutes on one of the most useful tools he uses for remote working and then time for any questions about your issues and concerns. From Clive: I was asked to write (another) blog about the issues of working from home – that is not
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The right tools to use for home working when Coronavirus spreads across the country A collaboration blog by members of our team Fortunately, when, where and how we work is more flexible today than ever before but let’s take into considerations two factors: External factors Coronavirus – COVID-19 – I am sure you are all
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Recently Apple has split the development of iOS 13 into iPhones and iPads (https://www.apple.com/uk/ipados/) – trying to make the iPad more like a laptop or Microsoft surface device. Most of the articles on the web focus on how the iOS works on an iPad Pro (starting price £769) this article is how one feature of
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Let me give you two good reasons for you to turn off the Wi-Fi on your phone… There is a phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, and there is probably a generation gap that says some of us know it comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and others who think Channel Four has something to do
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Looking back over the Octagon archives confirmed it’s been a little over a year since we covered the subject of SSL certificates and why it’s so important to have one. So here’s a short recap for any of our clients (and others) that still don’t have one. I don’t think anyone would disagree that as
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2nd International Conference on Blockchain, Identity and Cryptography, Edinburgh Diana and I started Octagon Technology in the summer of 1995 at the same time that Microsoft was launching Windows 95. The company we created then is very different to the one we run today – for a start the name is different! We have always
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