This post is a continuation of this one: http://harborcomputerservices.azurewebsites.net/?p=1571 If you aren’t familiar with the Outlook Social Connector then you should read that post first. Here are few people that I am not connected to. Let’s see what they look like. The above people are randomly pulled from mailing lists […]
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From http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/11/17/243967/Malware-growth-reaches-record-rate.htm Malware growth has reached its highest levels, with an average of 60,000 new pieces of malware identified every day, according to the latest threat report from security firm McAfee. Cyber criminals are becoming more savvy and attacks increasingly more severe, said the threat report for the third quarter […]
Last year Microsoft introduced the Outlook Social Pane as an add on for Outlook 2007 and 2010. It’s really a great tool that brings together Facebook, LinkedIN, Messenger and Outlook. But take note, even if you don’t use this feature, your customers probably do and yes they WILL see your […]
Monday was America Recycles Day. At Harbor we’ve been into recycling since before there was a Harbor Computer Services. Heck I started recycling newspapers in 1975 as a way to earn money. My neighbors would save them for me and I’d load up the trunk of my mom’s Cadillac with […]
Today I read an article by a leading IT news company, ZDNet. They took a look at Internet usage patterns to see how OS & Browsers use has changed recently. They found a few things: XP is being replaced rapidly Apple hasn’t gain market share Linux has lost market share […]
In the spring we participated in an excellent local conference in Royal Oak on Social Media. Great conference. The thing that surprised me though was the continual mention of FourSquare. FourSquare is a stalker app. You load it on your phone and every time you walk into someplace you hit […]
Today I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Randi Lou Franklin. She is the owner of Inter-Lingua a firm that provides translation and interpretation services for many languages and specializes in medical, technical and engineering. I lost track of how many languages she speaks, oh and she’s a lawyer too. […]
There a trend in State’s requiring business to protect personal information of their residents. This new laws apply to all businesses even those not located in the State. Tried in the California courts, it has stood the test and I expect this trend to rapidly spread to every State in […]
For years there was little that IT could do to help businesses resolve human resources issues, but that has recently changed. We have been able to help our clients with employee productivity drops due to Internet distractions, inappropriate use of Internet (you know what that means), and employees sending corporate […]
The above is but one of many varieties of pop-up that can occur when you visit an infected website. You don’t have to be visiting an obscure website to get this either, even Yahoo and The New York Times websites were unknowingly hosting this infection. The question is what you […]