by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
It is thought that there are more than 75 million unused mobile phone handsets currently in the UK, so rather than leaving it the drawer or even binning it, many people are swapping their old handset for money and / or the feel-good factor. Binning Phones … A...
by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
Far from being something confined to the world of games or being something that has potential for the future, virtual reality is being used now in important and beneficial ways. Help With Understanding Autism and Dementia. Autism is thought to affect more than 1% of...
by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
In a worrying change of tactics, hackers have used the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) to launch an online distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the DNS service ‘Dyn’ with global consequences. Domestic ‘Smart’ Household Devices Used. Although DDoS attacks using...
by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
When the GDPR data protection regulation comes into force on 25th May 2018, a Symantec survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 businesses are not confident that that they will be able to delete customer data on request. Right To Erasure. One of the many important impacts...
by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | tech tip
The Settings Panel is easy to find and use, but if you’re just getting used to Windows 10 but you’d feel more comfortable if you could at least find the original old Control Panel, it can be done. Here’s how. The old control panel, that’s also...