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Impact of Coronavirus on your Business
Coronavirus – COVID-19 I am sure you are all aware of the current state of affairs relating to Coronavirus. Here at Octagon we are already helping businesses to be able to work from an isolated environment. The Government states that if you think you have Coronavirus the first thing you must do is to call…
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Impact of Brexit on Google – does it remain a safe place for your business data?
Where is your personal and business data stored? I am writing this to let you all know that if you are currently using Google e.g (G-Suite) to store your data you should really think twice about keeping it there. As of the 31st March this year all Google services in the UK are going to…
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What is VoIP and Why is it the perfect solution for your growing business?
VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. Sometimes it’s referred to as Voice over Broadband (VoB), Voice over Networks or (VoN) or Internet Telephony. The solution allows you to make free, or very low cost, telephone calls over the Internet. VoIP is rapidly replacing old analog solutions so why not deliver VoIP to your business…
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Windows 7 Not Supported by Microsoft
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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How Good is iOS 13 for iPads?
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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Two Good Reasons to Turn Off Your Phone WiFi
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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Business Continuity with Office 365
So what happens when you have an employee who has left your company under a cloud and deleted all of their data which is related to the company? Recently an employee of a large organisation left and before they did, thought it would cause a lot of disruption if they deleted all their email and…
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So What Exactly is Contextual Recruitment?
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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Internet Explorer Vulnerability
Microsoft recently released a version of internet explorer with a vulnerability to and exploit called “zero-day” which gave attackers the ability to gain the same access rights as the user. This could allow hackers to create full administrator profile for themselves on the victims PC, edit data or install malicious programs. The code could be…
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BYOD Policy – is it worth it?
I’m sure that by now you are aware of this trendy idea called “Bring Your Own Device,” which means that people can use their own mobile phones, tablets and computers to assist in executing their particular work. Know that this can be a very good thing but also a very bad thing! Since you paid…
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SSL Certificates Revisited
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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Data Management Policy is Your Responsibility
Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive or OneNote are great tools for data sharing with the people within and outside of your company. I know it well; I use it myself! However, with these tools come great data management responsibility. Do you have a data management policy in place? What is data management anyway? It is…
