Following our blog about unwanted ads last weekend, I thought I would pass on a warning from Microsoft, which came out last Thursday. A piece of malware is targeting major browsers such as Edge, Chrome and Firefox and incidents have been found all over the world. It works by injecting itself into search results and […]
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I was astounded to read (“Why you should never use Microsoft Excel to count coronavirus cases“) that the reason so many positive cases of coronavirus were missed off the statistics recently was because outdated software was being used. What? Data was being uploaded to the national statistics in comma separated value (.csv) format to .xls Excel
During the current COVID 19 crisis, many companies have shared their knowledge and offered tips and tricks to help other businesses “bounce back” and perhaps change the direction of their company or offer their services in a different way. Octagon Technology has taken a full part in this by offering free online training on Fridays
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So, hands up if you use Windows 7 on your computer, XBox or phone. Yes, thought so. Recent calculations (December 2019, ZDNet) suggest that although the number of machines with Windows installed is dropping from the 1.5 billion Microsoft used to talk about, there are still about 1.2 billion devices running the operating system. Data
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I had to do a survey today, and I was being pushed to defend my company’s informal (i.e. not documented) use or non-use of contextual recruitment. Just to put the subject straight – we don’t (formally) do it. In fact, I had not heard of it until today. So what is it? Contextual recruitment can
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Congratulations to Kamila who graduated from Lincoln university with a masters degree in management. Kamila Zolotar is our General Manager who joined the company in November 2014 working part-time. In January 2015 she became assistant to the managing director working full-time. She joined the team with lots of enthusiasm and positive energy towards both the
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All companies have to comply with certain rules and regulations, ranging from reporting regularly to the tax authorities and Companies House, to paying staff at least minimum wage for every hour worked, to ensuring that any personal data is kept secure and only for as long as needed or legally required. Governance is the set
Compliance and governance – not such dirty words after all! Read More »
With the addition of recent team members who are now fully trained in our ways and ready to take on more responsibilities, we can open the doors to more clients who want to experience our brand of Technology without Tears. The kind of clients we are looking for will range from microbusinesses upwards, but they
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Many companies use university students to conduct research for them and the students sometimes use the projects as part of their degrees, suitably anonymised when requested. They can use publicly available data for the research, or they can use data provided by the companies concerned. In addition universities also offer higher level dedicated original research
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