We had a customer passed our way this month who almost fell victim to “legacy.” LEGACY is a term manufacturers and developers use to describe their older products which are no longer cost effective to support fully. We are talking about things like Adobe Creative Suite 5, Microsoft Office 2013, first generation i7, even hybrid …
Request: Access to an email account by a third party Challenge: We had a call the other day from a relative of someone who is terminally ill. They were requesting access to their family member’s business email. Straightforward? No. We protect our clients’ information! Solution: I made the request to the person for a Power …
Apple has announce that after 21 years of production, the iPod line will be discontinued. I have loved the iPods I have had – and luckily I got my my latest iPod Touch just a few weeks ago. Apple to discontinue the iPod after 21 years – BBC News ‘The spirit lives on’: Apple to …
CHANGE New Year means new goals. So, we come back to work in January and all we can think about is work, and with work comes learning, because we want to stay up-to-date. Even if it’s hard to balance learning and day-to-day roles, we push really hard! The pandemic has slowed down business a little, …
Since the beginning of the pandemic the business world has changed. For some companies the last two years have created good business opportunities and a stable income. In addition, 2020 and 2021 brought gigantic digital transformation to many businesses globally. Selling goods and shopping online is nothing unusual anymore, and virtual communication and collaboration are …
Recently, I have been inspired by fashion. But not just by the concept of wardrobe replacement, but rather by fashion as an industry. Simple and practical Looking through the old and yellowed pages of my mum’s notebooks holding a collection of photos gathered from popular fashion magazines of the 70s, I literally moved back in …
Over the last twenty years or more, most governments have gently changed our attitudes and behaviours using nudging. How many people would regard it as OK these days to drink and drive, smoke in front of children, or spit in public? In thirty years’ time I can envisage young people being upset at older people …
Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed …
I am not supposed to be blogging for Octagon this month – I have two ebooks to write one for Octagon on the cybersecurity bases you have to cover and one for Smart Thinking covering a ransomware plan – but as I am writing this over breakfast on Sunday neither Diana or Kamila can complain. …
