Update : Spearphishing is now much more aggressive

By now, most of our followers will know what spearphishing is – we’ve posted before about it [header2 text=”Spearphishing just stepped up a notch and no one is immune.” align=”left” color=”#336A40″...

Beating Cryptolocker – A Comprehensive Guide

CryptoLocker is online extortion. It encrypts your files and then demands a fee to unencrypt them.  Paying the fee is no guarantee your files will get unlocked or that they will not get encrypted again.  Like traditional extortion, paying the fee only encourages the...

AI is here… and on your phone

The coffee machine is a great place to debate the world’s issues.   Of course in a tech business,  our discussions tend to dodge sports, politics and philosophy in favour of what’s on our various phones!  One of the team was trying to figure out how, when he googled a...

Microsoft’s Learning Partner of the Year!

[header2 text=”Microsoft recognises Kinetics and its partners at annual awards” align=”left” color=”#336A40″ margintop=””] Kinetics was among a group of associated companies to win awards at Microsoft New Zealand’s...

The $30 Virtual Reality Experience – Google Cardboard

Virtual Reality’s been grabbing some attention lately.  Hololens, Oculus Rift etc are all exciting new technologies to give us this ‘virtual reality’ world.  But they’re all still ‘coming’ and they look expensive.  Luckily we...

Microsoft Surface Power Cord – Voluntary Recall

We’ve just learned that Microsoft has initiated a voluntary recall for AC power cords (the cord that plugs into an electrical outlet) sold with the Microsoft Surface Pro and Microsoft Surface Pro 2, and with any Microsoft Surface Pro 3 purchased prior to July...

(Yet more) Ransomware Bugs and Virus

While we’ve been enjoying a great kiwi summer, it seems the virus writers and hackers have been busy.  They’ve unleashed new variant’s of the ransomware viruses, but this time the old trick of looking for poor English isn’t working – the...

Our favourite ‘surviving the madness’ holiday app!

[header2 text=”Let Google Maps help you get where you are going on time.” align=”left” color=”#00cfef” margintop=””] With the annual bustle of Christmas upon us, our office conversation turned to mobile phone apps on...

Keep your OneDrive space

We warned you a few weeks ago about a space reduction coming for OneDrive. [header2 text=”Thankfully you can KEEP your bonus space!” align=”left” color=”#00cfef” margintop=””] All is not lost! With changes coming to...

Getting ready for Christmas

Its Christmas time again (well almost) and along with shopping, gifts, Christmas parties, holiday bookings and the thousands of other things in need of sorting.  There are also a couple of IT related items to be checked off. [header2 text=”Backups”...