Archive for July, 2012

Prepare yourself for an Apple September. The most anticipated gadgets of the year- the grand iPhone 5 and the much talked about iPad Mini are coming to woo you this September. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed in a statement, “The shipment of iPhone and iPad Mini will start in August and ...

  Mountain Lion is here. Priced at $19.99, the latest OS upgrade to come out from Apple’s cart is certainly easy on your pocket. Now, the question is at such a reasonable price is this Mountain Lion worth taming by Mac Book users or should they sit this one out. Let’s find ...

Microsoft is betting heavily on the idea that tablets are the future of PCs. Like Windows 8, Office 15 was built from the ground up to take advantage of a tablet's unique features, while at the same time addressing the limitations of the touchscreen interface for creating content. I ran Office 13 through its paces on ...

    Office 2013 is touchscreen ready and cloud friendly, and it adds bold new twists to the Microsoft Office franchise. On Monday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined what he said was the "biggest most ambitious Office" update to date. For the desktop, Office 2013 delivers ...

IT is the Rodney Dangerfield of the business world. It just doesn’t get enough respect. Several months ago, I argued that IT is the primary underpinning of digital marketing. In fact, it’s actually the presence and power of IT that enables many of the new forms of customer connection and offers unheralded experiences to the consumer. While this continues to be true, IT ...

Microsoft has narrowed the final release dates down to a week. The drip feed of release dates for the upcoming Windows 8 release continues, with Microsoft announcingthat the new operating system will be released to manufacturing in the first week of August.General availability is scheduled for the end of October. Enterprise customers with software assurance will have access to Windows ...

An industry wide team has developed easy “are you infected” web sites.  They are a quick way to determine if you are infected with DNS Changer. Each site is designed for any normal computer user to browse to a link, follow the instructions, and see if they might be infected. Each site has instructions in their local languages on the ...

A lot of your computer problems can be fixed by using Microsoft's automated solution on the Microsoft Support Page. Hitek Australia is pleased to share this link http://support.microsoft.com/?ln=en-au. This can save you downtime & IT bills. Bad for us but great for you!  

Microsoft has warned Australians to be wary of a phone scam that has left some victims hundreds of dollars out of pocket. Scammers are using several well-known brands, including Microsoft, to fool people into believing that something is wrong with their computers. The scam typically unfolds in the following manner: A cold caller, claiming to be a representative of Microsoft, one of ...