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Welcome to Calido's first HTML Newsletter. As this email contains HTML content, it is best viewed whilst connected to the internet.
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Yours sincerely,
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If you haven't already done so, now's the perfect time to checkout Calido's new website.
For the month of August, Calido is celebrating its new business launch with 10% discount off the standard web and application development contract rates.
To take advantage of this offer, mention the discount at the time of quotation acceptance and your final invoice will represent the discounted amount.
Do you need a new computer - check out this great spec:
- Midi Tower Case
- AMD XP 1800 Mhz
- 256 Mb DDR (2700) RAM
- 40 gb Hard Disk
- 1.44" Floppy Disk
- 16x DVD ROM
- 32x12x48 CD Burner
- 17" Monitor with 3 yr warranty
- 64 Mb Geforce 2 MX 400 Video Card
- Creative Sound Blaster Live
- Creative Sound Works Speakers with sub woofer
- MS Intelli-mouse and MS Internet keyboard
- 56K Modem
Installed for only $1699 in the Brisbane Metro area.
Why is it that approximately 99% of internet users in Australia do so using dialup internet access?
According to a recent article published in Australian Personal Computer magazine, Australia is quite expensive when it comes to broadband internet access:
- $32.50 Korea
- $53.15 France
- $64.69 Germany
- $67.61 UK
- $68.32 US
- $89.00 Australia
(Source: The Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) - the regulator for the UK telecommunications industry.)
There is an interesting article by the Australian Government in the form of a research note into broadband access in Australia at the following web address: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn34.htm
Of particular interest, the article mentions implementation costs of the broadband infrastructure is in the range of $2000 per household - I guess a good enough reason for our relatively high prices.
I personally cannot wait for the day when Australian's do not have to pay for Mb throughput. In America for example, web hosting companies do not charge the 15 cents per Mb excess data transfer we are used to, instead, they charge 50 cents per 100 Mb excess.
You could say that with infrastructure, prices will come down - but with Telstra's latest line rental increases and Optus soon to follow you have to wonder if that will ever come to fruition?
Do you have a corporate solution for anti virus software?
According to the Computer Security Institute, of 643 respondents 85% of companies detected computer viruses, with 273 able to measure $265 Million of losses. That is close to one million dollars per company in damages. Can you afford NOT to have protection?
When purchasing virus detection/removal software, it is important that you receive FREE virus definition updates as part of the initial purchase price. These updates are a "dictionary" of viruses that can infect your machine and hence must be retrieve from the provider frequently - I recommend on a weekly basis.
Although it is extremely hard to quantify, new viruses are discovered at the rate of between 50 - 200 new viruses every week.
My recommendation for a corporate Anti virus solution is Norton Antivirus Corporate edition which can be setup on a server machine. The anti virus server automatically fetches updates, and then distributes them to other machines on the network.
A smaller/cheaper version is also available for desktop users for about $109 ($84.48 from www.estore.com.au) which also provides definition updates.
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