Many users are facing have to transition to Googles new integrated Google Apps services. This brings access to all – or most – of the Google services for your Google Apps accounts. Your Google Apps administrator can then enable or disable features for users within the organisation.
Read More...Microsoft and Skype, what next?
Microsoft have just announced their purchase of Skype for a whopping $8 billion. Considering that Microsoft, until recently, haven’t had a great history of understanding the demands and swings of internet based services or cloud computing what is it that Microsoft plan for Skype?
Read More...Finding the IP address of an IBM IMM card from Windows
A little while ago we sent an IBM server up to a client with the IMM card configured but we hadn’t made a note of the IP address. This meant we couldn’t easily access the interface and there wasn’t an onsite IT person to help with manually changing the IP address.
Read More...The great Sony PlayStation Network outage – what can you learn?
Sonys PlayStation Network has been down for a week now and Sony has finally released a more detailed statement on their blog. The full statement can be found here however there are a few interesting points.
Read More...Are you ready for a disaster or how the cloud can save your business
Three days ago Japan suffered one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. While Japan deals with the aftermath, a great many people and businesses will be trying to recover and start trading again. Given the impact on the economy such recovery is no less important that the more obvious recovery effort we are seeing on TV. The question is, how would your business far when faced with a disaster?
Read More...An Apple in a Microsoft world
Over the last few weeks we’ve started using a Macbook Air as one of our laptops, taking it to client sites to allow us to do the various jobs that come up. Here’s a few tips for companies looking to integrate an Apple into their Windows world.
Read More...When DNS goes bad
Over the last 24 hours we’ve seen several issues with our .com domain (g2support.com for those of you that stumbled in here by mistake).
Several users reported that our website was directing to a very strange advertising page. Emails from parts of the internet weren’t arriving promptly (if at all) and several of our automated [...]
Google release mobile editing for Google Docs
It seems that every day brings a new feature release from Google for their Google Apps services. Today it’s the release of mobile editing for Google Docs.
Read More...Amazon brings supercomputing to the masses
Amazon have added supercomputing to their range of cloud services. The new Cluster GPU instance uses the same NVIDIA Tesla Fermi M2050 processors used by the majority of the worlds Super Computers and can be yours for less than a bottle of beer!
Read More...Facebook announces Messages feature
This week Facebook announced it’s new Messages feature. As the worlds largest social networking service it was only a matter of time until they gave their users better abilities to communicate with each other. Given that email is bar far the most common form of communication on the internet these two were bound to mash up together.
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