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Privacy protections are gaining ground, while still not near the E.U. in terms of citizen protection, government and industry alike are trying to help consumers make smarter choices about how they are being tracked online. We encourage all users to take certain precautions to secure and protect their online internet usage. First, use a modern […]

We are pleased to announce that effective immediately our hosted business phones now supports a new feature called automatic failover.Our business phone systems are now more redundant then ever before making them a perfect replacement for traditional analog and key based systems. This new settings is configured per line giving you the ability to automatically […]

CompTIA recently asked us how we deal with irate clients. Read the full article on the CompTIA blog. http://certification.comptia.org/news/13-01-28/How_to_Handle_an_Irate_Customer.aspx Did you know that PremierePC is the only CompTIA GOLD Authorized Service Center in South Carolina? Go ahead, check it out.http://asc.comptia.org/findasc.aspx

We recently found this neat software tool. As most of us simply click accept to most terms and conditions when installing programs, use this little program to quickly analyze those terms and ensure you are not getting into something you would rather not. Making EULAs EasyDiscover if the software you’re about to install displays pop-up […]

COMPUTER PHONE SCAM ALERT We have had several calls the past few weeks from clients stating that Microsoft called them offering to help them clean their systems to some errors which were being reported. The demographic appears to older citizens, retired, little to no computer knowledge. Where they are obtaining the lists of contacts is […]

A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Looks like GoDaddy, the world’s top domain registrar and web hosting service, is having major DNS issues today. If your site is registered through them, it is likely down. The company’s own website has been up and […]

In a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling, Verizon was ordered to stop charging users an additional fee for using their 4G smartphones and tablets as Wi-Fi hotspots, aka tethering. P. Michele Ellison, FCC, Enforcement Bureau Chief, said in a statement, “This case was the first of its kind in enforcing the pro-consumer open access […]

Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago. The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have […]

Key Findings Google is cutting into Microsoft’s business for both email and personal productivity suites (the latter, by slow attrition rather than direct replacement). Compared with Microsoft, Google appears to be winning one-third to one-half of new, paid-for, cloud-based office system seats. Microsoft is dominant on-premises, but its marketing-driven strategy — basing new offers on […]

May 3, 2012 – The BBB of the Upstate is re-issuing the phishing scam alert originally posted on 04/03/2012 by the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB): “For the past 4+ months, BBB has been the victim of a massive phishing scam that uses our name and logo to fool people into thinking the email […]

In the last 18 months of his life, Jobs, who died on Oct. 5 at age 56, was obsessed with crushing Android. He explained to his authorized biographer, Walter Isaacson, that the litigation against device manufacturers was meant to communicate an unmistakable message: “Google, you f–king ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand […]

The Justice Department jumped directly into the fight over the future of digital books on Wednesday — and Amazon came out the winner. Read More http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/justice-files-suit-against-apple-and-publishers-over-e-book-pricing/?hp