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November 2011
In this issue:
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The Right Approach to the Cloud? |
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Emails Falling in Black Hole |
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The Future of Windows |
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Video Tip |
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Business Continuity Tip | |
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Continuity TipHow Smart Is Your Phone?
Millions of BlackBerry users around the world had their work, business, and social lives severely affected recently after a server crash that disconnected smartphone users across the globe. The three-day outage interrupted email messages and Internet services for customers spanning five continents.
In today's world of continuous communication, a network disruption can be detrimental to your business. Below are some simple tips to keep you and your employees connected during an outage.
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Are You Taking the Right Approach to the Cloud?
used with permission from Symantec
 Interest in cloud computing is more intense than ever before. That's pretty understandable. Cloud computing promises tremendous advantages in terms of flexibility, agility, and on-demand resources that can give organizations a real competitive edge.
Despite these advantages, some enterprises continue to drag their feet. They point to a number of high-profile outages earlier this year as evidence of the precarious nature of cloud-based services. They say that companies relying on those services lost a lot of money and a significant amount of customer trust.
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Are your emails falling into a black hole?
reprinted with permission from the HP Small Business Center
 It’s so frustrating: you regularly send out emails and then sit staring at your computer, waiting for some sort of response. Don’t you sometimes get the feeling that you’re just sending words out into a black hole?
Of course, you can never "ensure" that emails are going to be read or acted upon. It’s a sad result of the information overload we suffer from. People who sit working at their computers for hours every day might have the time, energy and interest to open the numerous messages which fill their inbox—or they might not. So what is it exactly that tips them over the delicate, crucial line between “read” and ”leave for later/delete”?
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The Future of Windows
written by David Tan, Chief Technology Office, CHIPS Technology Group LLC
 Microsoft held their first ever Build Conference in Anaheim in September. It’s a new annual event for Windows developers to gather and learn about building applications for the Windows platform. This one was special not only because it was the first, but also because leading up to it, all the buzz was about how much of Windows 8 Microsoft would show and what details we would learn about the next version of the most popular operating system in the world.
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Video Tip: PivotTables in Excel 2010
reprinted with permission from the HP Small Business Center
 Need a way to summarize a large amount of data or crunch numbers better? Enter the PivotTable feature in Microsoft Excel 2010. A PivotTable takes your dataset and lets you choose the fields and filters to build a report and PivotCharts.
Learn more about this powerful way to glean meaning from your data in this video tip. |
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