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Microsoft Teams is included in all Office and Microsoft 365 licenses & there’s also an offer from Microsoft offering 50 free E1 licenses for the first 6 months. Microsoft Teams makes it easier for colleagues to interact via meetings, urgent messaging, group video calls and chat rooms.

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Trying to manage all of your business mobile devices by yourself is incredibly time consuming and really expensive. We advise that businesses should take out a Unified Endpoint Management Solution to reduce the amount of time they spend trying to manage devices, security and access. So how can a UEM...

ISDN currently relies on physical infrastructure such as copper wiring. It became so popular because it gave businesses the opportunity to transmit voice and data over the same lines. Since it takes up so much physical space and you need to administer and maintain the lines, it can take up...

Five top security experts from Sophos are stepping up to the microphone each day to share their expertise in a series of 40-minute podcast interviews by Sophos’ very own Naked Security writer, and Senior Technologist Paul Ducklin. Get up to speed on topics around malware, threat hunting, privacy, and, cyber...

Invest in Unified Communications A great unified communications bolt-on can change the way your business conducts meetings. You can go one step further than a simple voice conference as well. Cloud-based meeting services allow staff to be “always on” in a virtual room that they can access whenever they need...

This doesn’t mean you have to invest in every new tech platform that arrives on the scene. But doing nothing is not an option. What’s more, implementing new tech offers huge opportunities for increased efficiency, customer satisfaction, and even long-term cost savings. But all the investment in the world is...

Nowadays there’s an extra issue to contend with. More and more organisations are operating with remote teams and workers, spread across different locations. Meanwhile, on the client side, many businesses are focused on global expansion, so a sales team in London can easily be courting clients from Tokyo to California....

One report from 2018 found that ‘more than two-thirds of people around the world work away from the office at least once every week’, while over half (53%) ‘work remotely for at least half the week’. Technology has changed the game, freeing up businesses (and the teams within them) to...

1.Change default passwords on home WiFi routers etc Weak, insecure passwords make it easy for people to access your WiFi. And there will be a lot more people looking round for WiFi to use with all this home working. 2.Use different, strong passwords on every account and device. This will...

Now, the risk of a flood damaging your business is relatively low in the UK depending on your location, and the chances of Covid-19 impacting your organisation to the point where everyone has to work from home is pretty slim if you follow WHO guidelines properly. So why is a...