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Phil Wright | 
22nd Nov 2011 at 14:59 | 99 views | 
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This blog is being written at a time when continuing economic forecasts for Europe and for the UK seem to be nothing but doom and gloom. As a business, we have seen evidence of other businesses con...
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Phil Wright | 02nd Oct 2011 at 08:13 | 162 views | 0 comments(s)
A Simple Example of Cloud Computing at Work
Cloud Computing. Hmm.
I think some people see Cloud Computing as a panacea for all of a company’s IT woes. That by making an all-out shift ...
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Phil Wright | 07th Sep 2011 at 16:49 | 157 views | 0 comments(s)
Prompt Payers
Like all small businesses we can spend a disproportionate amount of time chasing invoices and late payers. Disproportionate because we really shouldn’t have to do it, but it...
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Phil Wright | 16th May 2011 at 22:16 | 294 views | 0 comments(s)
...and how do I get rid of it?
Viruses seem to be a fact of life now. And it’s also true that the days of viruses getting onto our PCs from dodgy emails are mainly behind us. Computer use...
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Phil Wright | 10th May 2011 at 22:26 | 322 views | 0 comments(s)
I Am a Name Not A Number
I’ll be honest, I have something of an issue with all the £9.99 IT support plans that are appearing everywhere at the moment. Don’t get me wrong, I&rs...
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Phil Wright | 02nd May 2011 at 15:20 | 430 views | 0 comments(s)
In a recent blog I re-iterated that Cloud Computing needs to be sold on the basis of it’s benefit to a business rather than the fact that it is a shiny new technology. For my own part I don&r...
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Phil Wright | 18th Apr 2011 at 16:58 | 288 views | 0 comments(s)
“Cloud needs to be sold in terms of what it does, not what it is.” So began a recent blog by John Wilcox on the Business Cloud 9 website. [Practical Cloud use fuels mainstream adoption,...
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Phil Wright | 06th Apr 2011 at 09:39 | 264 views | 0 comments(s)
Canny IT for a New Business
This article is a response to another article I read recently. The article was entitled ‘Top 10 Internet Products for Starting a New Business’ and can be...
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Phil Wright | 05th Apr 2011 at 21:19 | 288 views | 0 comments(s)
A Compelling Reason to Use a Hosted Email Solution
We’re quite used to extolling the many virtues of hosted email solutions here at MonkeyPuzzle. GoogleApps and Microsoft Online Services ...
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Phil Wright | 08th Jan 2011 at 21:31 | 267 views | 0 comments(s)
Online Backup
There are lots of ways to back up your data - tape, USB drive, online, to name a few. I don’t intend to delve into the merits of each in this post, but rather to briefly det...
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Phil Wright | 08th Jan 2011 at 10:59 | 328 views | 0 comments(s)
DIY IT - the dangers
In this modern world we all have a degree of IT knowledge; some know a little and some know a lot. For some it’s a knowledge of a specific aspect of IT and for others...
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Phil Wright | 03rd Jan 2011 at 11:33 | 361 views | 0 comments(s)
Why pay monthly for IT support - Part II?
In Part I of this post, we examined why managed IT services on a monthly subscription model was the most effective method of purchasing IT support for ...
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Phil Wright | 03rd Jan 2011 at 11:30 | 347 views | 0 comments(s)
Why pay monthly for IT support - Part I?
Many businesses purchase IT support on an ad-hoc basis. When something goes wrong then the IT engineer is called to fix it, paid for their time and ever...
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Phil Wright | 10th Dec 2010 at 08:56 | 353 views | 0 comments(s)
What’s the cheapest laptop that you do?
Curse the likes of Dell for offering bargain priced laptops.
Not, as you might think, because it makes other IT shops look more expensive by co...
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Phil Wright | 02nd Dec 2010 at 09:56 | 319 views | 0 comments(s)
It's Snow Joke
I called DHL recently to book a collection only to be informed that there were no longer accepting any bookings due to the snow. BT were also experiencing delays in answering...
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