AVG Product Update

December 3, 2010
Over the past 24 hours, AVG had two update issues which problems affected Windows 7 users on 64-bit products. As soon we were first notified about the issues, we immediately began fixing the problems. A patch for the update issue to our consumer and SMB user base was issued within hours of first being notified of the problem. We are committed to our users, and, as such, we took the following actions:

• Updates were issued for both of these issues and are currently being propagated to the broad AVG user base.
• For the next 48 hours, we are offering free technical support to our entire user base; anyone who has been affected by either of these issues

PAID CUSTOMERS: Support for System Crash After the Recent AVG 2011 Update 3292 (BSOD)
If your customers have encountered the above mentioned issue with the latest AVG update and FAQ 4079 didn’t help them, they can contact our support team by dialing the following number:

• Business customers: 9:30am-6:30pm EST 1-828-459-5436 or skype:avg-nc

AVG is proud to have created the caliber and quality of products that are capable of helping us build one of the largest single user communities in the world. It is a privilege to have the trust and confidence of more than 110 million users and it is a responsibility we do not take lightly. We are committed to you, our resellers and user base. We will work hard to address any concerns, and regain the trust of our customers. AVG sincerely regrets any inconvenience this issue has caused and we are ready to help your customers resolve this as quickly as possible.

Windows Live Account automatic upgrade to Skydrive

On 12/18/2010 your Office Live Workspace account will be automatically upgraded to a Windows Live SkyDrive account. You can store and share up to 25 GB of files, view and edit Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote documents with the new Office Web Apps. If you don’t want to wait until the 18th, go into your account and click on Upgrade Now.

Click Here to see Upgrade FAQ.

If you choose to force the upgrade you will not have access to the acount contents for up to 30 minutes.

Your account is being upgraded

Thank you for your patience while your account is upgraded to the free Windows Live SkyDrive service. This process could take up to 30 minutes. During this time you will not be able to edit your documents. When the upgrade is complete, you will be notified by email at bappleby@paconnect.com.

However, when I upgrade my account it took about a minute. If you stay in the browser window it will report when it is completed with the process.

Your documents are now available on Windows Live SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive lets you store and share up to 25 GB of files. Plus, you can view and edit Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents with the new Office Web Apps.

Go to SkyDrive

You can still access your shared workspaces in Office Live Workspace until everyone who shared with you has upgraded to Windows Live SkyDrive.

You will also get an email that tells you that the account is ready to go as well with a button on the screen to link you to your account.

Astaro Mail Archiving

Mailbox servers often suffer from the heavy load of growing email traffic and administrators struggle with mailbox quotas and user storage demands. Through the Astaro Mail Archiving Service, you can free up valuable server resources and get control of compliance requirements while improving productivity of end-users at the same time. All of this is provided as a reliable hosted service with no need for additional hardware or software. Learn more about the individual features which make up the Mail Archiving service.

Compliance

Enforce requirements from local laws and regulations.

In many countries, businesses are obliged to archive emails for several years due to legal requirements. Astaro Mail Archiving Service lets you decide what needs to be archived and for how long. Where email audits are necessary, discovery tasks can be fulfilled with special auditor privileges within the archive, following a four-eye principle to comply with data protection requirements.

Modern industrial and governmental rules and regulations make email archiving an obligation for all businesses. Emails must be archived for a certain period of time and in the case of audits, specific information must be presented within due time.

The Astaro Mail Archiving Service gives enables you to offload emails from your messaging servers and provides end users with a stunning discovery experience. The archive also offers granular control over retention periods, so that you can set individual periods per mailbox or even filter for specific content or exclude certain emails from being archived at all.

While these easy-to-enforce retention policies can be configured within the graphical interface of the ArchiveManager, the even more important question is how you will rapidly find and produce important emails when required. Users with special auditor privileges – optionally based on a four-eye principle – can instantly access and search through the companies entire email communication, providing results within seconds. Accessible through a web-based discovery portal, legal departments or auditors are now enabled to easily retrieve information so that the IT department is no longer involved in these tasks.

Designed as a cloud-based service, Astaro Mail Archiving doesn’t require the deployment of additional hardware or software. By hosting the service in redundant data centers that are highly available and practically offer unlimited scalability, initial deployment efforts are kept to a minimum and in the future will scale automatically when requirements are growing.

Capacity:

• Storage Capacity: unlimited
• User Capacity: unlimited.

Supported E-Mail Servers & Protocols:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010
• Support for SMTP, POP3
• IMAP based Journaling

Supported Clients:

• Microsoft Outlook Client 2003, 2007, 2010

Team Black Sheep–Flying in New York City Really Cool Video!

This is a great video showing parts of New Your City from the air. The really neat thing about this video is how it was taken. The video was shot using a camera attached to a remote-controlled airplane which was flown around New York City.

More information:

Team Black Sheep flying in New York, over the Brooklyn and Verazano Bridge, around Downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Enjoy!
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xfinity.tv (Comcast) has released a new iPad App

Do you want more control over your DVR’s in the home? Well Comcast has a new App available on iTunes that allows you to set up your recordings on all of DVRs in your house.

Here’s a brief highlight of this App’s capabilities:

• Search On Demand and TV Listings
• Change channels on your TV
• Schedule your DVR remotely

Remote Tune

You can change the channel on your TV right from your XFINITY TV app. Just find a program you want to watch in TV Listings and tap “Watch on TV” to change your TV’s channel and start watching instantly. You can even tune directly to an On Demand program.

Remote DVR Scheduling

Use the XFINITY TV app to schedule your DVR from wherever you are. Just find a program you want to record from TV Listings and tap “Record.” It will be waiting for you on your DVR when you return home. You’ll never have to miss your favorite shows again.

How to Search

With the XFINITY TV app, it’s easy to navigate through the thousands of TV shows and movies – even those On Demand – that are available to you. Simply tap “Search” at any time and search by title, actor or keyword. You can even filter by genre, network, HD and more.

Download Free

The XFINITY TV app is available for download from the App Store℠ for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch."

• Download now »

While this application gives you access to programming you DVR remotely it is lacking a few functions that would make it more functional.

First, I would like to have the ability to see what I have on the schedule to be recorded and have the ability to edit those choices.

Second, it would be nice to be able to jump to a specific date, time and/or station.

Third, the ability to create a list of stations that you want to always review would be another nice feature.

Fourth, wouldn’t it be nice to stream the content to the iPad as well? Maybe that is asking too much. But if they checked with your connection, and since you are logging in with your account information it shouldn’t be that much harder than connecting with a PC and streaming that way.

This is the first iteration and you can’t expect the whole world all at once. The program is very responsive and simple to use. Would I recommend downloading this to your iPad or your iPhone. Definitely. This gives you the ability to lock in a TV recording if you happen to forget to program it locally or you can take a look at what movies are playing while you are away that you want to record to watch at a later time.

I will look forward to see what they will come out with in the future versions.

AVG has launched Business Resource Centre

AVG has launched a new web site focused on providing Small and Medium size business with resources for protecting your workstations and network infrastructure.

You will find Guides that will help you protect your business from the latest malware threats, Videos demonstrating how AVG can be used to protect your business, Tutorials that will take you step-by-step through processes you can use to protect your business from security fraud, Downloads of the latest tools, and Product Information and Case Studies on how AVG has helped protect other businesses.

You can download a trial version of AVG Internet Security 2011 Small Business Edition as well.

AVG has recently partnered with GfK (Growth for Knowledge) that undertook and international survey among SMBs. They produced a white paper that discusses their findings and can be downloaded for free. It is called SMB Market Landscape Report 2010. You can also sign up for their SMB Newsletter and/or subscribe to their AVG RSS Feed.