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If you are sitting at your desk now, take a look around and ask yourself, “what is this desk saying about me?”, for example, what messages does a photo of your mum send to your co-workers, or a low-maintenance cactus, or the tons of boxes and files below your desk? Ask a psychologist and, unsurprisingly, they’ll tell you that just …

Wireless guest access for smaller organizations People today expect Internet and e-mail access everywhere they go. Even if your business is quite small, it’s likely that your customers, vendors or partners could benefit from network access while they are your guests. Many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) assume that providing guest network access is complicated and costly and best left …

If your physical infrastructure is in good shape, or you’re using a fast cable broadband service, there’s little else you can do in the way of repairing to improve your broadband connection performance, but ensuring that Windows is set up optimally for good network performance is one way of eking out a bit more speed and reliability, especially on high-speed …

Talking about ethical hacking, which is the need of the hour, to protect all online transactions from the wrath of viruses, An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. To test a security system, ethical hackers use the same methods as …

If you could roll out of bed, commute just 40 feet, work in your robe and fuzzy slippers, and save thousands of dollars on travel expenses, would you do it? And, as a business owner or manager, would you offer the same benefit to your employees?, according to a survey commissioned by the Computing Technology Industry Association, 67 percent of …

If you want to get the most out of your router, for wired and home plug (power line) networks, check the network activity icon in the taskbar to see if a PC is connected at 10, 100 or 1,000Mbits/sec, if it’s stuck at 10Mbits/sec, which happens with older network cards that can’t auto-negotiate these settings correctly, go to the device …

Recent news stories have reported a litany of facebook horror stories from geriatrics, people over age 30 who dented their dignities, if not their careers, through careless social networking, some people think that the post-collegiate crowd is simply too fuddy-duddy for facebook. Others insist that the site is now as essential as email and phone service, if not air and …

We live in a 24×7 culture, where multitasking isn’t just fashionable, it’s considered essential. Astounding numbers of people write text messages or take phone calls while they’re driving, write to-do lists in meetings, or read e-mails while they’re on the phone. The more tasks we juggle, the more we cram into our lives, the more productive we feel. But have …

TransferJet wireless technology under development by major camera makers, is intended to make wireless transfer of images between devices easier, now Toshiba is getting behind the wireless standard, having shown off laptop that uses the technology at the consumer electronics show in January, the companies pushing the technology tout transferjet (www.transferjet.org) as being more than 100 times faster than Bluetooth …