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Livermore Valley (California) designated iHub

February 9, 2010 By 1 Comment

Livermore Valley has won designation as one of first 6 Innovation Hubs by the California Business Transportation and Housing Agency. The iHub program is designed to spur economic recovery and growth by showcasing and supporting California’s most promising hubs of innovation. Over the next few weeks local representatives will be meeting with the state to determine an action plan. This will benefit existing businesses and agencies as well as encourage new investment in the Tri-Valley area which will lead to more quality jobs in the area. All of this is great news for local businesses and residents. The 6 iHubs designated so far are:

  • I-GATE – Livermore Valley
  • OCTANe – Orange County
  • SARTA – Sacramento
  • Coachella Valley iHub – Coachella and Palm Springs
  • North Bay iHub – Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster, Sonoma
  • Greater Mission Bay Area iHub – San Francisco Center for Economic Development

Among the many innovative entities in the Tri-Valley are Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories. We will be providing more information about this as it becomes available as it has a substantial impact on our clients and fellow Tri Valley residents.

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Managed Solutions selects Connectwise Professional Services Automation PSA

January 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Connectwise PSA

Today Managed Solutions entered into a 3 year agreement with Connectwise to provide us with Professional Service Automation (PSA) software. ConnectWise PSA combines help desk, dispatching, service level management, project management and CRM into a single, web based application, with integrated time-tracking, billing and reporting. Designed based on 27 years of experience as an IT solution provider and used by over 36,000 IT professionals, ConnectWise enables IT services companies to streamline their daily workflow and operate using proven best practices.

By implementing this solution we will be able to provide our clients with great service quality, tracking, budgeting and transparency even as our business scales. The implementation process is estimated to take about 7 weeks. Should you have any questions please contact us.

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ADP Warns of Phishing Emails to Payroll Clients

January 26, 2010 By 1 Comment

We were made aware of an issue that ADP is reporting with some of their Payroll customers. Here is the text of the warning message they are sending their clients:

“ADP is receiving reports of a phishing email scam targeting ADP EasyPayNet clients who perform their payroll via the Internet.  Phishing email scams are designed to mimic legitimate websites and are intended to compromise your login credentials.  The email is fraudulent and did not come from ADP.  Please immediately delete the email and do not click on any links in the email or enter any login information.  Please be aware that ADP would never send an email asking you to provide or enter your login credentials for any reason.”

Here is a screenshot of the Phishing Email:

Sample of ADP Phishing Email

Sample of ADP Phishing Email

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Windows 7 is Ready for Business

December 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It has been a long time since we’ve recommended an initial release of a Microsoft Operating system for business use but we’ve reached that plateau again with Windows 7. We are encouraging our clients to implement Windows 7 when replacing existing systems. There are of course always exceptions to this recommendation, the most important being resource intensive older software applications such as design and cad software. They need to be evaluated for compatibility prior to making the shift. Your basic business machine will happily function with 7, and worse case you can offer reliable compatibility through the Windows XP Compatibility Mode.

If you are considering upgrading existing machines to Windows 7 or purchasing a new computer with Windows 7 installed feel free to contact us for an honest, experienced opinion on what you might want to consider in the process. You don’t have to be a customer or become one, but we’re pretty confident that once you get to know us you will want to be one.

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Office 2010 Beta is Public

November 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Microsoft made a couple of big announcements today, first that the 2010 Beta is available and anyone can participate. The second big announcement was the Social Media Connector included in Office 2010. If you’re interested in learning more check out this article on Microsoft’s MSDN blog. If you’d like to skip the article and jump to the goods go download the beta from Microsoft’s 2010 site.

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Intel to Pay AMD $1.25 Billion Dollar Settlement

November 12, 2009 By 2 Comments

Rivals AMD and Intel have agreed today to end all antitrust and patent suits. Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion dollars in the settlement, stemming from the 2005 suit that AMD filed citing Intel used its dominant position to unfairly compete. Intel and AMD have had ongoing legal battles dating back to the 1980’s.

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Firefox and Safari More Vulnerable than Internet Explorer Q1-Q2 2009

November 9, 2009 By 1 Comment

According to an Internetnews.com article this morning a study released today by security vendor Cenzic Firefox accounts for 44% of all browser vulnerabilities for January through June 2009. Safari (Apple) is second at 35% and Internet Explorer (Microsoft) is third at 15%. If you follow the space this will not come as a surprise. My advice would not be to recommend changing back to Internet Explorer if you use Firefox or Safari and like it. The advice would be to minimize the add-ons you use and always run the updater when prompted to do so.

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Managed Solutions now hosted on WordPress CMS

November 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Early this morning we successfully migrated our content to utilize  the WordPress platform. This change is strategic in that it will both allow us to produce relevant content more quickly but more importantly it will allow our readers and followers to interact and share this content. You know have many more options on where you can receive and view our content and what types of content you will have access to. This platform is very attractive to use because there are numerous developers creating features such as plugins that we can use with our site to provide additional features to our clients and readers. Ironically WordPress started out as a blogging platform but a growing number of businesses and individuals have realized that it actually works quite well as a Content Management System (CMS). This trend has reached an incredible milestone in 2009 as WordPress was recently ranked #1 among open source CMS.

As a reader of this site you can now:

  • leave comments on individual posts.
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We would love to have your feedback or suggestions.

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Adware Firm Pays $3 Million In Settlement

November 25, 2006 By Leave a Comment

Reuters reported on 11/3/2006 that Internet Advertising firm Zango, Inc. agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that it’s pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of unsuspecting users personal computers.

This is a huge blow to the perpetrators of a crime that has up to this point been quite difficult to prosecute. While difficult to estimate there is no doubt that the impact of adware world-wide is in the billions of dollars. This resulting from lost productivity, expenses to remove the programs and system resources. Considering all the fiscal expenses, the biggest victim is the privacy of internet users. Adware often tracks users web habits and funnels users to websites selling products or services that are related to those habits. In some cases, such as the Zango case, popups deploy on the affected users PC’s forcing them to close the windows manually and making it difficult for them to efficiently use their computer.

This is some of the best news in the fight against Adware in recent history. Hopefully the government will continue to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes and expand their capabilities to tackle some of the tougher issues like SPAM, Viruses and Malware. For now this is a good start.

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