Happy New Year from the team at FunctionEight. As we look at the year ahead, one technology trend coming to HK stands out.
2020 is the year that Hong Kong is due to get an important telecommunications infrastructure revamp with immense potential.
Black Free-Ride-Day
“Are you going to buy anything online today?” We asked one of our IT Engineers. They just laughed, it’s an amusing comment rather than a serious question.
Today is Black Friday, an online shopping extravaganza spearheaded by US-based retailers. However, you may have missed it if you were wondering around Hong Kong recently, with barely any marketing for this promotion in sight.
I know these Apple devices are old but many people have them for kids to use or maybe you are not the sort to insist on the latest device. If you have old Apple devices please read on to see the impact to you.
Windows 7 was released back in 2009. Although hard to believe it’s been around for a decade, it remains very popular, with reports suggesting that still over a third of PC’s are running the operating system.
No I am not talking about an upset employee who has just had a family bereavement, or whose pet is seriously ill. I am talking about what would your business do if you could not get into your office because of Tear Gas or Riots outside of the office.
In case you hadn’t heard, the Amazon rainforest is burning.
You may be wondering, “why is an outsourced IT company telling me this?” which is a valid question.
Windows Server 2008 extended support will be ended by Microsoft on January 14th, 2020. This move is seen by many as a push for users to migrate servers to Microsoft Azure and this is substantiated by Microsoft themselves offering 3 years of critical security updates to customers who make the transition.
Whether you agree or not with the cause and the methods deployed, the use of technology to coordinate the recent anti-government protests in Hong Kong is impressive.
It still concerns me that I continually hear of people loosing lots of money because they were caught by a Phishing Scam. In case you don’t know what a Phishing Attack is (where have you been….) let me put a definition here:-
Last week, the FunctionEight Hong Kong office was buzzing with excitement for our new arrival. Everyone eagerly watched the elevator doors as if a celebrity were about to walk out of them. In fact, we’d ordered a new printer.
