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Excerpt: Most Internet service providers have a bandwidth limit. Even if they advertise unlimited Internet, there is usually some level of transfer that will red flag in their system and cause them to take action. This is usually in the form of calling you to up-sell their service or, in extreme situations, cutting off your service. Most people will never run into this problem. ISPs can advertise unlimited data because the soft cap (this is the bandwidth limit) is so ridiculously high that a user would have to try pretty hard to hit it. Most users can go…

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Excerpt: Finding The Phone Service That’s Right For You. Increasingly, when it comes to selecting a telephone service, consumers are making the call. They are doing this by taking advantage of a growing number of ways available to communicate, from “plain old telephone service” to wireless phones to phone service from cable companies. It’s even possible to use an Internet connection to make phone calls. You can send e-mails to people anywhere in the world, and surf the Net wirelessly. Having so many choices is great, but it can be confusing. The nonprofit National Consumers League (NCL) says it’s important to learn…

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Excerpt: BotNet, also called zombie network and network of bots is a group of computers which are used to discreetly send data like spam and viruses to other computers on the internet. These actions are carried out by malicious programs without the knowledge of the users. These malicious programs mainly consist of viruses, Trojans and worms. Infected computers are called bots or zombies. Most computers which are infected are personal home internet PCs which are inadequately protected. When a PC becomes part of a BotNet, it can be instructed to do almost anything by the creator of botnet. In effect it becomes…

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Excerpt: Did you know you can actually increase the speed of your dial up connection by as much as a factor of 7? Why settle for a crippled 56k link when you can experience the joy of a dial up accelerator? Here’s the lowdown. Do you remember the days? Firing up your 200Mhz turbo PowerPC, dialling up using your 56k modem, waiting an age for your hotmail page to show up, waiting some more to check your e-mails only to have your connection die just as you hit the send button! How times change. It’s funny, once you’ve used broadband you quickly forget…

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Excerpt: Antennas have been around for a long time. Before the birth of cable television, homes would need it to just to get a signal. The person would need to put this on the roof and adjust it from time to time to get better reception. Satellite television has also changed this making these crude yet useful devices obsolete. The computer age has followed suit. There was a time that an individual had to dial up just to get an internet connection. With the development of wireless routers that come with a WiFi antenna, work using the computer can be done without…

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Excerpt: Five Ways Web Conferencing Can Help You Sell More Products. When it comes to business, any new technology will ultimately be judged on how well it contributes to improving productivity and profit. If you are selling goods or services, online web conferencing can improve your bottom line by boosting sales and lowering costs. Here are five reasons why this is so: 1. It allows you to meet with more prospective clients If you have to physically travel to a client’s office or location, there is only so much that you can do within any given period. Let’s face it, travel is exhausting…

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Excerpt: Better Online Communication Makes Business Sense. How you communicate with your online customers will make or break your company. What are you doing to improve your customer relations? Many companies are now doing the majority or even all their business online and foregoing the “Brick and Mortar” storefront. It is easy to see why that trend has happened. For one thing, the cost of setting up such a business is relatively inexpensive and easy. There is no need to pay for the overhead of a physical building. Also, the cost of maintaining a Web site is minimal. Moreover, the Internet provides a…