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Praise where praise is due!

As business we need to help one another to keep going. Some are feeling the pressure sooner than others, We just received a lovely email from a client praising our assistance. We have where ever possible assisted our clients remain open while dispersing their staff while trying to remain productive. Tools like #office365 #treams #3CXPhonesystems…
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Maintaining Security During The COVID-19 Health Crisis

The current global health crisis may bring many different IT security challenges to businesses and organisations and this article highlights some of the ways that you can prepare to keep IT security covered as best you can at this difficult time. Larger and Smaller Businesses – Some Different Challenges Larger organisations may be at an…
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Hospitality hit hard today

Boris Johnson  announced at a press release today that the government would like people work from home, to avoid social gatherings. He advised Pregnant women, people in the 70 + age group and those with various health conditions should seek advise consider the advice and isolate. He said “People in at-risk groups will be asked…
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What to Do If You Suddenly Have to Support 80% of Users Working Remotely

https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/03/what-to-do-if-you-suddenly-have-to-support-80-of-users-working-remotely.html A good article that help explain the difficulties of moving your workforce to a primarily a at home workforce.

Survey Reveals IR35 Tax Reforms Legal Action Risk For Private Sector Companies

A survey by ContractorCalculator has revealed that many private sector companies may be at risk of legal action through misinterpreting the new IR35 tax reforms. What Is IR35? The IR35 tax reform legislation, set to be introduced this April, is designed to stop tax avoidance from ‘disguised employment’, which occurs when self-employed contractors set up…
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Coronavirus

Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact at Mear Technology

The coronavirus is the topic of the day and businesses are planning operational impact. Panic buying laptops to allow workers to work from home. Today the government announced anyone with a cough or a high temperature should work from home. Mear Technology now have staff meeting this criteria.  Our remote operations should not be impacted.…
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Gigabit, Ultrafast Broadband For One Million Households In The West Midlands

Virgin Media has announced that in the UK’s largest gigabit switch-on to date, it is launching its next-generation Gig1 Fibre Broadband services for 1 million+ homes in Birmingham, Coventry and surrounding areas across the West Midlands. Speed Virgin Media says that its Gig1 Fibre Broadband offers broadband speeds up to 20 times faster than the…
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Coronavirus Affecting Tech Shares

Coronavirus is firstly a threat to public health but the impact of the virus hitting the Chinese economy (a centre for tech goods), the threat of widescale illness among workers, the effects of measures to contain the virus and other factors have already had a serious effect on economies and tech share prices. Biggest Hit…
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Billions Of Devices At Risk Due To Wi-Fi Chip Vulnerability

A security threat to devices, Wi-Fi access points (APs), and routers that comes from the Kr00k Wi-Fi chip vulnerability could affect billions according to security researchers. Kr00k The existence of Kr00k, also known by the catchy name of CVE-2019-15126 was made public at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco and its discovery was attributed…
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AI Skills Course Available

A free, basic AI skills course, funded by Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (MEAE), is being made available to citizens across the EU’s 27 member states. Success in Finland The decision by the Finnish government to make the course available online across the EU to an estimated five million Europeans (1% of the…
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