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Amazon Echo – Like Siri For Your House

September 30th, 2015

Have you checked out the new "smart" speaker from Amazon? It's not Rosie the Robot, but...

It’s not Rosie the Robot, but your first voice request to Amazon’s new Echo moves you one step closer to living like the Jetsons… Think of it as a plugged-in version of Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana.

CEO Scam Email

September 23rd, 2015

We first discussed this scam email threat a few months ago, but a recent increase in sightings on the Gulf Coast warrants a second mention...

The FBI recently announced that there is a 270% spike in damages caused by the CEO email scam. This is a scam in which cyber criminals spoof emails from executives and ask employees to send wire transfers.

Google Plus

September 14th, 2015

Are you using social media to market your business? How about Google Plus? Read more to find out if you should be using Google Plus...

Is Google Plus a bust? Or is it still a channel to be reckoned with if you don’t want to lose touch with your customers?

Google Plus – aka “Google+” – is a social network built by Google.

AGJ Welcomes Nikki Johns

September 11th, 2015

AGJ is excited to welcome Nikki Johns to our team as Business Development Manager.

Nikki is a life-long Coast resident and has over a decade of business development experience. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Annie Is Ironman (or Ironwoman)

September 7th, 2015

Annie is Ironman

At AGJ, we recently voted on our first-ever employee of the quarter. The vote was close, but Annie Boudreaux won the coveted Ironman trophy!

We'd like to thank Annie and all of our AGJ Rockstars for the excellent job they do!

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Clean Up With Microsoft Clutter

September 1st, 2015

Have you ever noticed that some of your email is urgent and some is low-priority. Would you like to have this email sorted so that you can handle the urgent messages quickly while addressing the low-priority email later? Microsoft's Clutter does exactly this.

Do You Accept Credit Cards? Watch Out For These 5 Gotchas

August 27th, 2015

If your company is not fully compliant with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards, you could be at risk of a serious tangle with attorneys. Technically, PCI guidelines are not a hard-and-fast set of laws. However, merchants can still face big liabilities for not meeting them.

Are you backing up your smartphone?

August 20th, 2015

Just last week, I talked to a friend who had his cell phone repaired by a local cell provider. Unfortunately, during the repair, they erased his phone...and he didn't have a backup. He lost over 1200 very important contacts.

You regularly back up your computers and servers (or at least you should), but do you do the same with your smartphone? Given the huge amount of contact information, photos, videos and other data we all carry around on smartphones, it’s critical to back them up or risk losing all that data forever.

Is Your Server In A Closet?

July 23rd, 2015

Is your server in a closet? If so, check out this summertime warning...

Confusion. Dizziness. Muscle cramps. Fatigue. These are a few of the early signs of heat exhaustion in humans. But did you know that your SERVER can also suffer from heat exhaustion and “meltdown,” causing slowness, blue screens, random reboots and other problems? If you keep your server in a closed closet or other small, confined space, here are three things you need to address during hot summer months to avoid premature loss of your equipment and data.

Don’t Let IT Projects Empty Your Wallet

July 20th, 2015

We hear it every week...a new prospect tells us how their old IT provider promised them the world, but ended up over-promising and under-delivering on their new project...

In fact, it happened just last week. We received a call from a local business that we talked to six months ago.