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Productivity tools are supposed to help speed you up. But for many businesses they’re doing the opposite because they’re not being deployed properly. Ask us for help 

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Ever wished you could skip a video call? Or maybe you can’t attend thanks to a diary clash. ChatGPT could soon stand in for you and take notes. Will anyone real be listening at all? 

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OneNote is a great collaboration tool, but it’s recently been targeted with malware. Microsoft is adding extra protections, including a warning notification for high-risk files 

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Rose City Balloons In Salem Is Salem’s Balloon Design Expert

We enjoyed chatting with Betsy Vega from Rose City Balloons yesterday at her shop in the 45th Parallel building.

She is working on he…

Doing a little work from your Android phone this weekend? Good news. Microsoft is making searches in 365 Mobile more detailed and easier to use

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We love this tale from the helpdesk. It turns out that you can’t send a document to print after you’ve stolen everything in the office and sold it all on eBay. Busted! 

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This week in 2006 the first tweet was sent. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, wrote: “just setting up my twttr” 

#Twitter #FirstTweet #ThrowbackThursday

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In a new low, phone scammers are using AI voice replication to call people, sounding like a loved one in trouble. They phone, often pretending to be in jail and desperate for cash

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A new type of bot malware is designed to steal user profiles, potentially allowing crooks to bypass strong security. Switch on antivirus, use a password manager + ask us for help

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Working with overseas customers and colleagues will soon become easier. Google has plans for an AI translator that supports 1,000 different languages… wow

#AI #Google #LanguageTranslator

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If there’s one thing Microsoft is good at – other than, y’know, tech – it’s listening to what we want. Here are 10 of the most requested features it’s already added to Windows 11 

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3rd Annual Salem Keizer Scavenger Hunt

We are super excited to partner again with Mathew Poteet at Farmers Insurance – Mathew Poteet for the 3rd annual Salem Keizer Scavenger Hunt. We started pl…

“Yeah, hi. So I cleaned my mouse with lemonade and now it’s covered with ants.” These tech support disasters are really on another level – we feel bad for laughing! 

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37 years ago, Microsoft first went public at $21 a share – it’s since made 4 billionaires and 12,000 millionaires of its employees

#Microsoft #BusinessShares #ThrowbackThursday

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Warmer weather means more pests will be on the move! 

So thankful for Trevor and Valley Pest Control for stopping by on a quarterly basis to provide carpenter ant treatment and a rodent control p…

Sustainability is a hot topic for lots of great reasons. Ask us how to extend the life cycle of your devices, and what to do with them as they reach the end of their service life

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Connecting and learning with other small business owners who are in the trenches of growing their businesses is so important. We were able to spend 3 days networking with some of our peers last week, …

Protecting your devices from cyber criminals is high on our agenda. Do you include your phones in that security policy? Lots of businesses don’t – which could be a big mistake

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The line between human and machine may soon become more blurred if Australian researchers are to be believed. They’re using human brain cells to create smarter AI

#AI #biocomputing #OrganoidI…