News: Facebook have announced that Facebook Pages will soon allow online sales, in a move expected to be welcomed by online businesses. The popular social media website could potentially offer organisations access to the largest marketplace… ASUS have announced their latest new desktop computer, the tiny ASUS Vivo Stick: a PC little bigger than a pocket highlighter. Smaller businesses take note: it’s easy to imagine commercial clients making good use of… Intel have announced the release of their new Skylake processors – their sixth generation of processor chips using multiple cores to combine greater processing power with lower energy consumption. The new chips will boast around a 60%… Microsoft’s Windows 10 has been available to home PC users for more than two weeks now – but as more users get chance to test its features, how has the new operating system fared… Windows 10 officially launched this Wednesday – but is an early update a good idea? Return of the familiar start menu but with cool live tiles! Here are our initial verdicts Office for Mac 2016 has now been released and we’re not sure how popular it is going to be. As always, the answer depends on your needs. For sharing work, such as documents, presentations and other data between team members working remotely, the Cloud is great. But if your entire team is physically located together in an office, then it might not be the right choice for you. If you have a small team, some or all of whom work remotely, then Cloud working is a convenient, cost effective solution which means you don’t have the cost of buying and maintaining central server resources. The benefits are agility and flexibility, both in work and financial terms. Well, that depends what you want it for and whether you can actually get it. One is very fast and relatively expensive; the other can be mind-numbingly slow, but is cheap – sometimes free. There are two broadband delivery methods: ADSL and fibre optic. ADSL comes down copper wires, fibre optic reaches you through a glass fibre. Certainly fibre is more expensive over standard ADSL, even when you take away any ‘new user’ incentives, but how fast do you need emails to come into your Inbox? For many small users, if your current ADSL set up is giving you speeds is in excess of 2MB/s, and you don’t run a business or have two teenage sons on Call of Duty, then what you’ve got is probably fine. A Somerset client’s basement was flooded, not, as you might have expected, due to the Levels flooding, but due entirely to a catastrophic failure of a very large nearby water main. If the basement had been used for storage it might not have been too bad, but unfortunately the basement rooms are used as offices, with a lot of IT equipment in use. Lineal was able to provide same day support, with the loan of equipment, network setup and new telephones. Extra room was made available upstairs, and by the end of the next day, our client’s office was working back to full capacity again.Facebook 'Pages' Function opens up shop to the World
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