News & Updates

David Booth

August 18, 2009

Dell enters the smartphone market

In an already crowded and growing market segment Dell launches its own smartphone in China. However base specs indicate that it could be missing some key features such as wifi and 3g. See the full article here: Image courtesy of bestofmicro.com ...

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Marco Tapia

August 17, 2009

IT Managed Services - when and why?

IT Managed and Support Services - is the practice of transferring day-to-day related IT management responsibility as a strategic method for improved operations and focus on core business. Typically, the customer remains accountable for the functional ...

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Guido Tapia

August 12, 2009

Sharing MVC Views Across Projects

This is something I have been wanting to do for a while in the ASP.Net world however its not untill recently (with MVC) that this has been a ‘clean' possibility. This article demonstrates how to do this. At PicNet are always trying to deliver quality ...

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David Booth

August 12, 2009

Windows 7 Upgrade Chart - simplified

You may find it useful that one blogger over at ZDNet has posted his own version of the Windows 7 upgrade chart after the official Microsoft one looks complex with over 66 options in the chart See the whole story here: Simplified Windows Upgrade Char ...

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David Booth

August 12, 2009

Your iPhone could soon dob you in!

Apple is apparently applying for patent that will allow its products to detect and record if they are damaged by water / heat / dropped etc for the purpose of Apple determining whether warranty claims are due to manufacturing defect or lack of custom ...

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David Booth

August 11, 2009

Social Networking and its role in the workplace

There is still a lot of discussions in the corporate workplace about the appropriateness of Social Networking sites with heated discussions in both camps. There are those that say it's completely non-work related and that FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, ...

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