For most people, gone are the days of tying up the telephone line while accessing a sluggish dial-up Internet connection. Now it’s all about streaming video and music, sending dozens of e-mail messages and chatting online via videoconferencing. A number of individuals and small businesses – as well as people who work from home – [...]

Over the last year, it’s been impossible to pick up a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing news of a growing unemployment numbers, struggling businesses and a disastrous real estate market. Millions have lost jobs and taken furloughs. And there are plenty of young people who haven’t even had the opportunity to personalize [...]

A couple of weeks ago a new study revealed a little more than half of all U.S. companies ban social networking sites from company computers. That means no Twittering, no updating your Facebook status and no job hunting on LinkedIn. From the Computerworld article: According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT [...]

With customers up and down the Carolina coast, we at Spirit Telecom know being prepared for a hurricane is of utmost importance. Yet disasters can come in many forms from natural weather-related ones to a fire, a power outage or a technical failure. A technical disaster – such as when a server fails or the [...]

Over the last few years, people have become increasingly connected. They are accessible almost 24/7 by cell phone, e-mail , text message or tweet. Between an iPhone, the BlackBerry and technology like VoIP that allows for easy call forwarding, people can hardly escape. This means employees, managers and business owners are practically on call all [...]