Did you know that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for 99.9% of the businesses in the UK? At the start of 2023, there were estimated to be 5.6 million private-sector businesses ... ...

Here is the irony of the situation. It was inevitable that it would happen one day; that I would be caught out on the very thing I always preach to my clients. In two words: data backup ... ...

The roots of technology, especially in the telecommunications industry, go back to 1837 with the introduction of the Morse code telegraph over copper wires. Prior to that, a written message would need to be handed to a horsem ...

Did you know that emails can be intercepted and the contents manipulated, modified and forwarded back to the intended recipient without you even knowing about it? Sounds frightening, doesn't it? ...

In our digital age, safeguarding personal information is crucial. Two Factor Authentication (2FA) stands out as a vital security measure, offering a robust layer of protection against hacking. By requiring an additional piece ...

And all of a sudden, we had Blackberry dominating the Global market. Watch the 2023 documentary of the Rise and Fall of one of the most secure email systems in the world, which is no longer with us in the handset market ... ...

In 1997, the showrooms were closed and I went into the business call centre. The first dial-up disks were beginning to emerge that allowed customers to have a BTconnect (later BTinternet) email address. So, the Internet was b ...

It's November 1990, and I am a fresh-faced salesman working in the flagship Dixons store at the Clarendon Centre in Oxford. Only having been there about two months, I was thrown into the deep end as it was the run-up to Chris ...

Supercomputers have been around since the 1950s and have assisted in historic moments such as helping to compute the complex calculations of sending a manned spacecraft to the moon ... ...

I recently sent an email to someone I had corresponded with previously. When I got a bounce-back, I thought I had the wrong address or made a typo. I doubted myself as that is my nature but seeing the email address is in my ‘ ...

As I have covered previously, and want to reiterate again, if you are running your business on any of these systems, then there is a 99% chance that the type of phones you have are PSTN/ISDN based on Openreach's legacy copper ...

Enhanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that will reduce the number of humans required to do a particular task are available right now. AI systems that can write code and create entirely new systems are being developed ...

I still believe in the notion that 'people buy from people', however, we seem to be in a world where people are being pressured into buying technology for the fear that their business will fail or be left behind if they don't ...

Hackers are constantly evolving their tactics to exploit vulnerabilities in business networks so we all need to be prepared. I thought I'd put together a list of some of the emerging trends around ransomware ... ...

Unless you are into stocks and shares, foreign exchange or Crypto, where every second makes the difference between huge profits and losses, there is actually not a single situation where you need to have instant access apps o ...

I was analysing an invoice from an IT company and I was told that the monthly cost of Support is £134.00 (per month plus VAT). I was also told they charge a call-out fee and hourly rate for going out to a site when they canno ...

The theme for this year is clearly Artificial Intelligence or, as we humans refer to it, AI. But what is ‘AI’. Believe or not, in my earlier days of tech, the phrase for it we used was 'machine learning' ... ...

Every group of young people I ever meet, I say one thing to them, in a variety of ways: do something you like doing and do it to the best of your ability ... ...

Let me start by saying that I love technology. I have sold consumer electronics since the early 1990s, including the first Intel 286-based Personal Computers and progressed onto business electronics and technologies like mobi ...

The internet, the net, the information superhighway, the web, www, the virtual world, cyberspace. What is it really, and why does it seem that our lives now depend upon it? ...

Businesses are increasingly using smart devices within the workplace and do not consider the security aspects of how these devices connect into their networks. The same can be said for domestic users ... ...

Let's face it, criminals are after your hard-earned money. We hear about incidents daily, so let me try to summarise some of how businesses have had major financial losses in the not-so-distant past .... ...

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a platform where you can list and manage almost any type of mobile phone or tablet device and keep a track of your assets ... ...

There are lots of use cases to show the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to perform mundane and repetitive functions in business and industry ... ...

I left the first blog post in this series at the stage where I said I would talk about the human-based manipulation that can lead to massive financial losses in this next installment ... ...

It was a Saturday night, and I was rushing to try and finish off some paperwork, wanting to catch the last half hour of visiting time at my local General Hospital. My Mother has been in there for over two weeks now ... ...

I am sorry, I love technology and have done since I was a kid. But the Crowdstrike outage, which was supposedly caused by a simple security update, took down some of the largest companies in the world and caused mass chaos ar ...

As I said in my last blog post, I have been an avid technology fan since my school days. I'm fascinated by the brilliant minds that invent, design, create and build the array of electronics that have improved our lives in rec ...

I have been reading with interest that it has been the turn of the mighty MGM Group (Hotels, Casinos, Gambling Websites) to fall victim to hackers who have locked systems in a ransomware attack ... ...

The Colonial pipeline was recently subject to a ransomware attack by the Russian hacker group Darkside. The pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day which is 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel ... ...

In 1990, I was selling a different kind of technology and life was much simpler. TVs, Video Cassette Recorders (VCRs), Stereo Hi-Fi equipment, cameras and camcorders. These items have one thing in common, they exist for pure ...

What do your IT systems, servers, IP telephone systems, network-connected mobile phones, laptops, PCs, Wi-Fi access equipment, IP cameras, Internet-connected temperature and CO2 sensors all have in common these days? ...