Today I am reading the incident and compromise report for 2010 by Verizon and the US Secret Service. It’s a good read if you are in my business. It gives me the pulse of what the bad guys are attacking and let’s me know if we’re doing the right thing […]
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About a month ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9. It will now begin to arrive on your computers with the next update cycle. Ted was our Beta tester for IE 9 and has been running it since the very first beta was available nearly a year ago. He’s been through […]
Harbor Computer Services has been named Best of Michigan businesses for IT Services by the readers of Corp Magazine. I attribute this award to our wonderful customers and thank you for nominating and voting for us. https://www.corpmagazine.com/features/cover-stories/itemid/3724 Amy Babinchak, company CEO, said, “I am very proud of my employees for […]
Harbor Computer Services is pleased to announce that all of its technical staff members have passed the Small Business Server 2011 certification exam. Each person took the beta exam which consisted of the entire question set. Because of this, passing a beta exam is very difficult and passing is a […]
Last night I started to receive notices of many “dead bodies” as we call them in IT from around the world. That is, computers failing to boot after installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1. This issue seems to be limited to computers whose files have been altered by some third […]
Not very long ago, smart phones were rare. Businesses purchased smartphones for very few employees and those that had them were generally business owners. Today, we are seeing that smartphones are being purchased for everyone in the company. The other trend is for employees to connect their personal smartphone to […]
Recently we have received calls from several clients that have received a notice via email of a domain name conflict. The short story is that it should be ignored. The email that you receive looks like this: From: Oscar Hu [mailto:oscar@chinashkow.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:46 PM Subject: Domains […]
The big snow storm is coming. It probably won’t be safe to drive to the office on Wednesday. Contact your technician today to setup or test your remote access to your computer.
Property damage from winter weather is one thing. As you can see it’s easy to tabulate and throw into a graphic. But business productivity is another. It’s a larger number but because we don’t report to our insurance companies it doesn’t get measured. Business productivity doesn’t get the glamor shot […]
Mobility is really taking off. Everyone is getting smartphones, netbooks, laptops and handheld devices. For those of you looking to make them better, or still shopping I thought it might be helpful to tell you about our favorite things. This list is gleaned from our own usage of these products. […]