Smart Tech Keeps the Shelves Full, Whatever England’s Fortunes The World Cup has a strange effect on a whole number of businesses, causing unusual demand patterns. But AI can take it in its stride. As the World Cup rolls around every four years, it is part of the overall experiences that businesses experience unusual ebbs…
Apple fans are annoyed at latest Samsung advert lampooning the iPhone because it uses an older model 6 against the latest Galaxy S9 to focus on battery performance. iPhone lovers fail to see funny side of main competitor’s advertising Some Apple iPhone fans aren’t amused at the latest advertising from Samsung, makers of arguably the…
The day has finally come that the iconic camera maker, Canon, has decided to stop making film cameras. This news has always been expected, but nevertheless, to hear that we will no longer be able to buy a new 35mm film camera is still sad news. As somebody who learned photography in the dark room,…
We all get nuisance calls from time to time, but when they become a regular occurrence, they can be annoying at best and downright alarming at worst.
The latest mobile platform from Google about to appear on 2016 smartphone Predictions that the Samsung Galaxy S7 will receive the latest Android operating system, Oreo, imminently so making the S7 a sound choice of smartphone used. Oreo, the latest version of the Android mobile platform, has been gradually appearing on devices from the various…
Are You Wasting Too Much Time Managing Resources? An army might march on its stomach, but a business stands or falls depending on its resources. These need to be managed effectively but also efficiently. Whatever kind of business you operate, it needs resources in the right place at the right time in order to function…
AI: The Future of Property Management? New digital platform AskPorter uses artificial intelligence to deliver a range of traditional property management services. The future of property management services could lie in artificial intelligence (AI) – at least according to the founders of new property management platform, AskPorter. Powered by artificial intelligence, AskPorter acts as a…
Technology has changed the business landscape beyond recognition, and more than half of the UK’s businesses are struggling to keep upIs Your Business Transforming With the Times? Technology has changed the business landscape beyond recognition, and more than half of the UK’s businesses are struggling to keep up According to sources as diverse as Time…
How Samsung are selling refurbished Note 7 phones into certain markets and supplying them with new batteries – the cause of several original models exploding.
This morning I had a call from a man claiming to be from BT Open Reach. He told me that there were problems with my internet, and he would help me fix them. I thought it was odd, and asked him to confirm where he was calling from, and he got a bit annoyed, saying “I…
Just had my first Windows 10 problem since installing. Last night, before shutting down, my start menu button stopped – I used the trusted old method of Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down. This morning I was greeted with a Critical Error. The message reads: “Start menu and Cortana aren’t working. We’ll try to fix it the next…
I am old enough to remember the days before travel websites. To book a holiday you had the option of either walking into a travel agent on the high street (Thomas Cook, Thomson etc.) or contacting a hotel direct. Cruises were an exception, as you would contact P&O direct. Travel guide books, such as Lonely…
For months, Microsoft developers have been anticipating the arrival of Surface Pro 4, which recently became available to purchase in North America and is a significant upgrade on the previous Surface Pro 3. Today I got talking with Simon Kalp, the Technical Director at Objective IT, who was one of the first developers in the…
Just got a ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR when I tried to open Facebook. Does this mean Facebook is down? Maybe not. My first thought was that maybe Anonymous or ISIS had taken it offline, although, not sure why they would do that. But, I opened Wordscraper, which is on the apps subdomain (https://apps.facebook.com/wordscraper/) without any problem. A quick search…
In the week that Microsoft announces plans to cut its free cloud storage limit, Alex Viall from Mustard IT looks at the implications and suggests some affordable alternatives. Bucking the Trend In recent years, there has been an almost universal trend for companies to raise their cloud storage to satisfy the ever-increasing consumer demand for downloading movies,…