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Happy Easter to our Greenville & Upstate Friends, Family and Computer Service Clients

Happy Easter to our Greenville & Upstate Friends, Family and Computer Service Clients

I wanted to do something silly that would make you laugh, like the pic someone put on Facebook today with chewy little Peep marshmellow candies, set up on a stage, complete with a pole, all dancing, and the caption of “This wasn’t what I had in mind when I heard we were going to a [...]

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Bandwidth Bottlenecks Can Bring Your Business to a Crawl

Bandwidth Bottlenecks Can Bring Your Business to a Crawl

Ahhhhhhhh!  Another frustrating day at work for you? Could it be because everything you wanted to do was slow as molasses? Each website you visited was slower than the last and your business depends on internet hosted applications, or “in the cloud” solutions? If that describes you, chances are good that you are suffering from [...]

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Content Filtering Question: Has Social Media Hurt Your Business or Helped?

Content Filtering Question: Has Social Media Hurt Your Business or Helped?

As I sit here, I am reading a friend’s status on Facebook that says, “well…ugh!!! no more waiting on the mail….got denied my unemployment cuz the state says i had disregard for my employer when i posted on facebook i was loosing my job. ??? SO…ADVICE….NEVER talk about your job, and NEVER have coworkers as [...]

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Finding Computer Repair in Greenville and Upstate South Carolina

Finding Computer Repair in Greenville and Upstate South Carolina

Yesterday I wrote about how phone books seem to be going the way of the Commodore 64 (relegated to being used as a door stop). Of course as soon as I said that, I got a phone call from a potential client who had gotten our name out of the phone book. First one this [...]

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Greenville Google On Main Still Going Strong

Greenville Google On Main Still Going Strong

Now it has been over a week since the Google On Main #GoogleOnMain event where thousands gathered in Greenville’s Falls Park while aircraft flew overhead capturing the spectacle on video and stills. Yes, the #LuckyGVL sponsored event was spectacular without question! More info on this event, including photos and video can be found on http://www.wearefeelinglucky.com/ This [...]

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Social Network Knows No Borders

Social Network Knows No Borders

I received an email from a gentleman saying that someone mentioned that I could help him with a computer issue he was having. Thing is, he was not in my geographic service area of Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina. He was not even in our state. He was from Arizona. Now it is [...]

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Google High Speed Fiber Internet Still THE Hot Topic in Greenville

Google High Speed Fiber Internet Still THE Hot Topic in Greenville

If you are from the Greenville / Upstate area you would have to be living as a Quaker to not know about all that is going on with the effort to bring Google Fiber here. Heck, even Quakers probably are aware of the community effort to catch the eye of Google. It is not just [...]

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Why was the Google On Main / #GoogleOnMain event important to Greenville & the Upstate?

Why was the Google On Main / #GoogleOnMain event important to Greenville & the Upstate?

Amy Wood of WSPA TV was asking what the Google On Main event meant to us… In thinking about what Google On Main meant to me, it meant a chance to join with friends and strangers alike in a *community* effort to catch the eye of Google… And I believe we did just that! Seriously [...]

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Google On Main Was A Total Success!

Google On Main Was A Total Success!

Last night my wife Pamela, daughter Megan and her friend Christina attended Google On Main along with hundreds of others and formed the letters that spelled out “Google” while swinging LED glow sticks over our heads and posing for photos and videos as a helicopter and plane flew over. What a blast! What does it [...]

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Google High Speed Fiber Coming To Greenville SC

Google High Speed Fiber Coming To Greenville SC

Okay, the title is deceiving, as Google has not picked where they are going yet… However, we here in the Upstate are hoping that Google will select Greenville, SC as their test bed for 1 Gig of fiber awesomeness! This Saturday, many people are planning on meeting downtown in Greenville in an effort to make [...]

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