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Mobile Data Usage Set to Soar with Release of BBC iPlayer for Mobiles
Mobile Data Usage Set to Soar with Release of BBC iPlayer for Mobiles. If you have a mobile phone and a capped data package (as most of us do!) then you should read this blog – written by Telco-op one of the businesses Octagon work with closely. Keith, from Telco-op has some important things to…
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WiFi at Lincoln City Football Club
Just about the last job we did before Christmas was to improve the quality of the wifi internet in the Business and Networking Centre (BANC) that Lincoln City Football Club run. The signal strength of the wifi connection they had, was not very strong and as we use the Centre a lot, we offered to…
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iPhone Camera Apps
First I’d like to wish all our clients and suppliers a Happy and Prosperous 2012. During the holiday period the support staff go onto “emergency and callout” support for our contract clients – they have had to go out and help some clients – but Clive also found time to write a post comparing the…
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Octagon Sets Up a Trans-Atlantic Presentation
Last week Martin set up a link for a trans-atlantic Skype call for Lincoln Short Wave Club. Bob Heil founder of Heil Sound (who has worked with such bands as The Who, Grateful Dead and Peter Frampton to produce their sound) gave a presentation to the club about sound and amateur radio. Bob gives many of…
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iPhone Apps for Work
So what are the top work/productivity apps available? This article is written from personal experience and unlike many “I love Apple” articles I have reviewed apps that I use on my iPhone and my engineers use on their Android phones. So let’s start with some of the essential built-in applications. Internet access and email These…
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QR Codes
QR Codes are becoming very popular, appearing in many places. A quick scan with your smartphone and you can collect (or give away) a variety of information, a web address, a phone number or plain text among other things. They are useful and many people are putting them on their business cards – I have…
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iPhone 4 catches fire on plane flight in Australia
iPhone 4 catches fire on plane flight in Australia Another problem with iPhone hardware! Although Clive is generally very pleased with his iPhone if there is one thing that really annoys him about it is the poor feedback and support from Apple, he is constantly having problems with the phone speaker – see here and…
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BBC News – Firms ‘ill prepared for IT failure’
BBC News – Firms ‘ill prepared for IT failure’. At Octagon Technology we have a wide range of practical experience in helping client’s be prepared for technology failiures. As part of our best practice we document how we and the clients will respomd to an issue with their systems, practice these proceedures with them and…
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Graphically challenging
Had an issue installing a graphic card the other day. One screen on a wall facing away from me and the computer screen. When the big screen was plugged in the pc screen just had the wallpaper. So I worked out that the desktop was extended and changed it to clone mode. This was difficult…
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Business Network event
Octagon technology and irun are exhibiting at the business show today, call Diana for details.
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BBC News – Essentials: Avoiding mobile roaming charges abroad
BBC News – Essentials: Avoiding mobile roaming charges abroad. The BBC News programme Click has posted a video on how to reduce mobile phone costs whilst travelling abroad.
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Saturday Support
It has been an early start today! A contract client called the office at 7am – their issue was that the the PC that runs the hotel booking and billing system was down. It took a short time to collect up some spares and tools but we turned out and had their system back up…
