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Cost is always an important factor to consider when it comes to technological investments. Especially with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone systems, you have to be careful that investing in one doesn’t put you way over budget. Even if that phone system comes with a host of features, it’s important that you evaluate not only its upfront cost but also its total cost of ownership (TCO).

TCO is the overall sum of procuring, deploying, and operating a VoIP system over its life cycle, which is typically five years.

Yammer, Outlook Groups, and Microsoft Teams have plenty in common. They’re all Microsoft 365 tools designed for sharing files and communicating with colleagues. So what differentiates them from one another, and when should you use which? Let’s take a quick look.

Grabbing people’s attention and converting them to prospective customers is the goal of any professional website. To do that, you need to create a terrific-looking and user-friendly site that encourages visitors to sign up for eBooks, consultations, and other services.

Technology underpins nearly every aspect of modern business processes. The problem is that managing technology can be complex and tedious. This is where managed IT services providers (MSPs) come in. Whether a company needs software to record customers’ data, network infrastructure management, or cloud technology, MSPs can provide these services and much more.

Backups are temporary copies or “snapshots” of your data that are taken so that you have something to fall back on in case your primary copy is tainted or destroyed. As time goes on, you produce fresh data, making the snapshots more and more outdated.

It’s simple, really: if your desktop is messy, then it’s more difficult to use. Don’t waste time and energy struggling to function — literally clean up your act by heeding our tips on decluttering your desktop.
1. Arrange, sort, and prioritize
Before you go about deleting everything from your desktop, think about what you really want to keep.

As annoying as spam email is, it’s usually pretty harmless. But hackers have been using a method called distributed spam distraction (DSD) where spam email is used to carry out illegal activities. Learn more about DSD and how you can safeguard your systems against it.

Unlike in-person service businesses that relied on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy to keep staff on their payrolls, businesses that could let employees work from home survived the early stages of Toronto’s lockdown without financial aid. Those that implemented remote work arrangements were able to sustain sufficient levels of productivity and income while still keeping employees out of harm’s way.

Laptops are prized for their small size, manageable weight, and handiness, but they don’t lag behind desktop computers in terms of performance either. Higher-end laptops, in particular, are just as capable of handling heavy apps and complex tasks as their bulkier desktop counterparts.

Mobile technology has advanced so much that devices as small as smartphones can perform computing tasks as well as any modern PC. We can send emails, work on documents, attend video conferences, and accomplish many other work-related tasks, thanks to the many apps now available for mobiles, tablets, and laptops.