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2010 Customer Appreciation Raffle Winners

Thank you to all who entered the Verus Technologies End of Year Customer Appreciation Raffle Amazon 3G Kindle – Kyle Swan of Functional Esthetics Apple TV – Michael Paroski of DiVCON EMS $100 Visa GC – Mike Hanks of The Valdez Corporation iTunes #1 – Diane Cheatham of CCM General Contractors iTunes #2 – Phylis Lewis of Functional Esthetics iTunes #3 – … Continued

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Hosted Exchange

Over the years there have been many Hosted Exchange services on the market, the biggest of which is Intermedia.  They have offered a great service, at a competitive price.  In recent years as the market has become more competitive, prices have dropped and service levels have increased.  Intermedia has not done a great job of … Continued

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How Effective is Your SPAM Filter?

Verus utilizes a cloud based SPAM filtering service for it’s clients.  Here are our stats for Oct 16 – Nov 15: 172,799 Total Emails (100%) 114,288 (66.14%) Identified as guaranteed SPAM and never shown to user 26,656 (15.43%) Quarantined for the user to review 31,855 (18.43%) Sent to the user as non-SPAM messages So, only … Continued

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Extreme Makeover: Technology Edition | Rethinking Outsourced Technology

Some things never change.  Girl Scout Cookies are only sold once a year.  My tree will drop enough acorns every two years to fill a swimming pool.  In the U.S. we drive on the right side of the road.  The remote control is never where you left it.  As soon as I buy a replacement … Continued

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Reed’s Law

Reed’s Law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.  Jeremy Epstein of Never Stop Marketing.com gave a presentation to the IT Marketing community this morning on Reed’s Law.  He gave some pointers on how to get the community to drive your company’s marketing.  1. Identify your … Continued

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Trey wins the AutoTask UnITy award – Most helpful member

Via the AutoTask User Community Website: We’re pleased to announce the 2010 Autotask UnITy Awards, honoring a select group of Autotask users who have contributed their time, energy, knowledge and insights to help their peers in the Autotask CommunITy. The awards were presented by Autotask CEO Bob Godgart and Director of Community Development Mark Crall … Continued

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Free Conference Calling Service

I’ve been using Free Conference Call for a while now.  They’ve release a new free service, Free Conference Call HD.  You still get free conference calls in HD Voice quality for up to 1000 participants.  In addition, you now get a web interface (and iPhone App!) to control the conferences.  The interface allows you to name participants, mute … Continued

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Windows 7 Program Compatibility – Windows XP Mode

Windows 7, like any other new operating system, has problems running older programs because they aren’t compatible with the new operating system.  While almost all (never say all) programs will run in Windows XP, a smaller amount run OK on Vista and an even smaller amount run OK in Windows 7. Microsoft has created a … Continued