KINETICS NEWS

We’ve shared a few security stories lately, and we know its hair raising stuff. The reality is that any organisation is a target for these hackers. It’s no longer about cyber-vandalism, these attacks are outright theft. The thieves are operating from highly organised operations, often set up as businesses themselves. Clients are called (not [...]

How many times,. when you are working on documents with someone else, do you want to ask them a question? "Why did you add (or remove) this section?", "How does this calculation work?" and so on. So, you stop what you are doing, send them an email or make a phone call, and then try to describe the section of the file you are asking about, as [...]

This week, we've seen some pretty interesting tech announcements - I confess the foldable phones really interest me.   While these are crazily expensive now, volume will bring the price down.  But what's really interesting is imagining this tech in other applications - for example in your car, or in retail experiences.  The idea of a flexible screen is [...]

With all necessary attention on cyber-security and fraud, we've had a couple of people asking us about insurance solutions.  This makes sense, insurance is all about mitigating risk.  Of course, insurance doesn't give you a license to be careless - you still need to take all reasonable steps to protect yourself. It seems obvious that what used to be [...]

  One of our clients recently found themselves dealing with one of the most brazen hack attempts I've heard to date. They'd heard from one of their customers that they (the customer) had taken a phone call purporting to be from our client, to say they'd changed bank accounts.  They asked the end customer to please pay invoices to the new bank [...]

Here's three quick time-saving tips - how many did you already know? Introducing CTRL-ALT-S.   This little delight will put a horizontal splitter bar across the screen.  It works in Outlook and Word.  In Outlook, its great for reading and writing long emails. You can move the splitter up or down with the mouse - and make it disappear either by [...]

Is MY Windows 10 still the latest and most stable question?  It's not a question we can easily answer. Windows 10 has two different update cycles - security/reliability updates (aka patches) and feature updates. Security updates are incredibly important.  They are the bedrock of system security.  While everything else from firewalls to antivirus to [...]