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Letter from the Founder
"As a business-owner, I spend a lot of time reflecting and
analyzing the recent past in preparation for the future. As I
reflect upon the past 12 months and some of the hard times that our
company, our clients, and our community have endured, I can't help
but feel both very optimistic and very proud.
The trials and tribulations of 2009 were like none that most
of us have experienced, but in order to overcome them, we were
forced to become better, more efficient companies. The lessons
we've learned will serve us well for years to come. So hats off to
our team, hats off to your team, and here's to a prosperous
2010!
On behalf of everyone at Switchfast, have a safe and
wonderful holiday season!
Best Regards,
Matt"
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Upcoming Events
Webinar: Switchfast as Your IT Department
December 15, 2009
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Switchfast will demonstrate the cost-saving and
downtime-reducing benefits of outsourcing your IT support functions
to Switchfast's MaxPro system.
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Webinar: How to Drive Revenue with a Comprehensive
Online Strategy
January 18, 2010
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Switchfast will demonstrate the cost-saving and
downtime-reducing benefits of outsourcing your IT support functions
to Switchfast's MaxPro system.
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Webinar: Empowering In-House IT Support
January 25, 2010
3:00pm - 4:00pm
This webinar will demonstrate how empowering your IT staff with
MaxPro's Remote Support software will increase efficiency and
reduce downtime.
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Last-Minute Holiday Gift Deals (Round 2)
Here's round 2 of our holiday deal offerings, just in case you
still have some shopping to do.
As our time gets more stretched and prices get more inflated, it
seems like holiday shopping gets more stressful every year. Who has
time to keep up with all of the latest gadgets? Moreover, who has
time to find the best prices on those gadgets?
As an IT company, our relationships with wholesale vendors and
general experience in purchasing puts us in a unique position to
easily find (and, in some cases, be exclusively able to provide)
the best deals on technology-related products. As a way to make
things a little easier on our clients this holiday season, we'd
like to help you by finding good prices on some of the hotter gift
items this season so you don't have to worry about it.
Below are some good deals we've come across recently. If you're
interested in purchasing or learning more about the items we've
listed (or any other item), feel free to contact us at TheFutureOfIT@switchfast.com
or 773.241.3007.
Keep in mind that most of these offers will be limited time or
limited stock, so if you see something you like, act soon!
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Beware: Koobface.GK "Christmas Worm"
Many of you may be familiar with the legendary social media bug
Koobface, which garnered plenty of press during its initial rampage
through social media. Well, it's back, in a brand new
holiday-themed edition.
According to Panda Labs, the latest variant, Koobface.GK, is
currently ruining computers via Facebook walls around the country.
Koobface.GK is especially troublesome, compared to other malware,
because it instantly breaks your computer.
Here's how it works:
Someone will post a link on your Facebook wall. That link brings
you to a fake video player offering a Christmas greeting. If you
click on the "player," your computer will download the worm. If the
worm is downloaded successfully, it will produce a CAPTCHA image
and threaten to reboot your computer if you don't solve it within
three minutes. If you solve the CAPTCHA, Koobface.GK uses the
information to create new domains to spread more quickly. If you
don't solve it, your computer will not restart, but will instead be
"rendered inoperable." The problem, of course, is that the worm
presents a new CAPTCHA each time the previous one is solved, so the
more you solve, you more you spread the virus while delaying the
inevitable.
Click the link below for screenshots so you'll know exactly what
to avoid.
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Copenhagen Climate Talks Spawn Flurry of Positive Green Tech
Activity
This week's International climate treaty talks in Copenhagen,
Denmark have seemingly spawned a flurry of activity in the green
technology arena.
As CNET's Martin LaMonica reports, the U.S. Patent Office has
introduced a pilot program designed to shorten the approval process
for green-related technologies by as much as a year. The current
process can take more than three years from receipt to approval.
This is potentially huge for the advent of environmentally-friendly
technologies, whose creators will now be able to move from planning
to finding investors much sooner.
The Department of energy announced on Monday that it plans to
issue $100 million in ARPA-E energy technology research grants from
the stimulus money that it just received. The grants are available
for application now.
Ocean Power Technologies has signed a contract allowing them to
begin a project to build what will be the United States' first wave
power station. The station will be located just off the coast of
Reedsport, Oregon and is set to deploy in a year.
EGen, LLC has just announced the development of a new
hydro-power technology that can be used to harvest energy from
extremely slow moving fluids (as slow as 1ft/sec) like those of
rivers or pipelines and sewers. EGen claims that that their design
is totally non-disruptive to local ecosystems.
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