Zoom, Skype, Teams, HouseParty, WebEx
We’ve been helping so many individuals and business setup for working at home that we came across so many pitfalls many users come across, so we have put together a sort of prerequisites for having a fault-free online video conference experience
A good thing to get into when you are not speaking is too “mute“your microphone, prevention of coughs, knocks, people in the background and worse of all, accidentally swearing.
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O2 & EE have reported that they are currently experiencing voice call issues, mobile phone users have been reporting dropped calls or no call connection, as this is only affecting voice calls Data has not been affected if you do need to make calls the use of apps such WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger & Apple’s Facetime is a great alternative
Meanwhile, both mobile phone providers have said they are both currently dealing with the issue
When working from your laptop, we always worry about keeping our critical files safe from virus and accidental deletion, GT-systems can offer you our own cloud backup solution keeping a copy of your critical files and when using outlook a copy of that too, from only 12p per gigabyte per month, talk to us and get those files and email safely backed up
This week we have seen some unprecedented decision from the US government, specially targeting China’s biggest firm Huawei
The US has put Huawei on the black list of companies not to do business with, once the word got out Google released a statement saying that they will no longer support any of Huawei Android phone products, What does this mean for the consumer, Google is saying that there current line of Android mobile devices will still can continue to use the Google service and updates but any new products will not be licenced to use the full fledge version of Android Operating systems
Other US companies like Chip giants Intel & Qualcomm has followed in the banning of their relation with Huawei and because of this the share prices of Google and the Chip giants plummeted
As a consumer we hear what the US intelligent agency is saying and all we ask where is the prove, over the past 10 years plus Huawei products has been used in so many telecoms companies across the world and over that time there has not been 1 reported incident of DATA being breach and sent to the Chinese government, on the hand Cisco has been known on several times putting backdoors into their product from the request of the NSA
What will happen to Huawei, there has been rumours that Huawei will develop their own brand of the open source Android operating systems or just develop their own totally new operating systems
This is something that we need to keep an eye for, especially for US firms at the drop of a hat the US government can say to US companies you can’t deal with that company anymore with immediate effect failing to do so that company could face huge fines or suspension for trading outside of the US.
In the recent weeks and months there have a phising emails doing the rounds, claiming that they have footage of you and if you don’t pay them, they would release the footage to all in your contacts lists.
Below are a few things you can do to avoid this….
Be extremely careful when opening emails and don’t solely rely on your firewall or antivirus to filter these kind of emails you have to do your part too, a lot of emails looks very genuine and if that email is asking you to click on a link for example to update your password, the best thing to do is right click on the link there you will see where that link actually takes you.
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All webcams should be covered up, pointed away or even disconnected.
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Welcome to the beautiful festive season of panic buying, wrapping and posting.
It might sound simple, but ensuring your perfect gift arrives in time can be trickier than you think.
Whether you’re looking to post an item or receive it before 25 December; it’s important that you know your deadlines to avoid tears on Christmas morning – and to help, we’ve broken down the key dates for your diary below.
Royal Mail has officially published its recommended posting dates for Christmas 2018
Dates in full:
Tuesday 18 December – Royal Mail 2nd Class | Royal Mail Signed For 2nd® Class
Thursday 20 December – Royal Mail 1st Class | Royal Mail Signed For® 1st Class | Parcelforce Worldwide express48 & express48 Large
Friday 21 December – Parcelforce Worldwide express24, AM, 9 & 10
Saturday 22 December – Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed®
Information provided by the Post Office
At this part of the year, we see a sudden increase in Phishing emails.
Generally, they will ask you to fill out a form requesting all of your details including passwords
Million of Visa card user face missionary as the VISA card payments are not paying out, the outages are affecting most of Europe, The payments look to customers like they are being declined, in the same way as when a card has insufficient funds.
A spokesperson from Visa said: “Visa is currently experiencing a service disruption.”
“This incident is preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from being processed.”
“We are investigating the cause and working as quickly as possible to resolve the situation.”