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TiGra Networks Showcased in Windows Vista SMB Supplement
Our customer St. David Recruitment Services, based in Cardiff, were interviewed recently by Windows Vista Magazine to get their views on how Windows Vista helps their business every day. The case study appeared in Windows Vista SMB Supplement, which went...
Don’t Forward Virus Warnings
Virus warnings are almost always hoaxes. Even if they’re not, forwarding the warning to your friends and colleagues can do more harm than good. My simple advice is this: press delete . Virus warnings and hoaxes are one particular flavour of chain email...
Credit Crunch Thwarting Your IT Investment?
Businesses may be deterred from making investments in technology in the current economic climate, especially those planning to use finance to minimise cash flow impact and spread the cost over the life of the assets. With banks unwilling to lend to each...
Introducing LiveCRM.biz
TiGra Networks is proud to announce our new joint venture with Master Place Ltd, which we are calling LiveCRM.biz . Based on Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management, our solution provides a quick and easy way to revolutionise your sales, marketing...
Small Business Server 2008 is Coming
Microsoft formally unveiled its upcoming server solution for small businesses this week and first indications are that the price will be "about the same as the 2003 version". There is no news on upgrade pricing yet and the product release itself...
Instant Messenger Viruses
It seems there is an instant messenger virus at large at the moment. The virus sends messages similar to these (the URLs are deliberately obfuscated): "Hot or Not? hxxp://mymsngallery.my.funpic de/viewimage.php?youremail@someplace.com" or "this...
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Go Gold
The 2008 launch wave is gaining momentum. Microsoft announced a few hours ago that both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 have been released to manufacturing. Windows Vista service pack 1 will likely impact most users in the short term...
Don't be caught out by the domain name registration scam
I saw this article in Microsoft's UK Security Newsletter (which you can subscribe to online). Ed Gibson, chief security advisor, relates the following story: The owner of a '.com' web domain name is telephonically contacted by someone claiming...
BNI Presentation
This is the slide deck (actually a superset of the slide deck) that I presented to my BNI chapter on 29th January 2008. The PowerPoint file is included as a file attachment below. The case study linked from the slide deck is this one: http://www.microsoft...
How To Make A Strong Password
Another blog article I've been meaning to write for a long time: how to construct a strong password. Much has been written on this subject, but it is also out of date. To understand what makes a password strong, first we need to be clear what would...
Why You Shouldn’t Forward Chain Email
I received the following email today, which is clearly a rather crude hoax: From: <deleted> @hotmail.co.uk To: <24 MSN/Hotmail addresses removed to protect privacy> Subject: PLEASE READ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:48:22 +0000 Hey it is tara...
Printer Deployment for Windows Vista and Small Business Server 2003
I recently had a problem with a customer running all Windows Vista clients on an SBS 2003 R2 domain. The problem was how to deploy printers to users who have restricted access (i.e. standard users). The users cannot install the printer drivers themselves...
Solid State Hard Drives Become A Reality
According to the BBC's technology magazine Click , Dell is to offer 32Gb solid state flash memory hard drives by Sandisk as an option in some of its laptops. Flash memory can be both faster and more robust than the mechanical equivalent because it has...
Why We Aim to Have the Best Customer Service in the Industry (or, the founding principles behind TiGra Networks)
I'm Tim Long and TiGra Networks is my baby. After working for 20 years in technology, I got sick of two things. Employers cynically hiring and firing their workforce at a whim, and Watching companies get things wrong over and over again and never learning...
Posted: Mar 30 2007, 04:10 PM by Tim Long | with no comments
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Companies Act 2007: What You Need to Know
On 1st January 2007, this new legislation came into effect and it has implications for most UK businesses. In particular, your IT systems will be affected by the following requirements: All of your company literature - including your web site and all...
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