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Buyer Beware! You can't escape from the adverts. The American Thanksgiving sales day has been ported over into the UK as a promise of great deals for Christmas shoppers, many taking to online outlets to beat the queues. Retailers such as Amazon, John Lewis and Argos are predicting a record breaking weekend for their online sales. But as with any event that gets users eager to snap up deals online, the criminals are lurking just around the corner ready to take exploit any unsuspecting shoppers.

65% Of '4G' enabled Android phones could be at risk. QuadRooter - What it's all about? A vulnerability had been identified in one of the Qualcomm LTE chipsets used in many modern Android phones. The chipsets primary purpose is to provide access to the LTE network (often called 4G) and the Qualcomm chipsets make up about 65% of the market according to CheckPoint [ http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/08/07/quadrooter/ ]

Summertime Giveaway! As the UK is basking in the summer heatwave, we've got our hottest giveaway to date!

Home and Office Internet Connectivity If you're using your home phone line for internet connection, it's likely that you're connected to an ADSL line (Asymmetric DSL)  but there are other variants of DSL that may be available in your area, with VDSL currently being rolled out across the UK offering much higher upload and download speeds.

SAGE Data Service Since version v21 for SAGE Accounts (SAGE Line 50) the ability to host a company file from an network shared folder was removed. Well, not exactly removed, but a BIG restriction was put on the ability to keep your datafiles where you want them.

HP Smart Powerbank We've got 2 of these HP Powerbank chargers up for grabs in our competition, see below for details!

"Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code" OK, It's going to turn into one of those urban myths that unsuspecting journalists or well-meaning facebook friends post from time to time, but behind the PR there is a serious note or warning. [ The Story , The Truth ]