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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How Critical Is It to Keep Your Devices Charged?

How Critical Is It to Keep Your Devices Charged?

Nintendo Switch owners should know that, as per an announcement from Nintendo, the battery life of their device could be negatively impacted if the device isn’t charged up at least every six months. While this may not be the type of news you’d expect to find on a business technology blog, it does open the door to a bigger, more pertinent topic: should devices that aren’t used very often be kept charged up?

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How Businesses Have Dealt with IT During the Covid Pandemic

How Businesses Have Dealt with IT During the Covid Pandemic

Alas, we are not yet past concern of COVID-19 and the impact that it has had on business survivability. With “business as usual” requiring a few drastic adjustments to continue, it is imperative that small businesses are able and willing to embrace these changes. Research conducted by Salesforce presented in their fourth Small & Medium Business Trends Report shows that many businesses are seeing the importance of these changes.

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How YouTube Can Be a Valuable Resource

How YouTube Can Be a Valuable Resource

While it’s difficult to say anything positive about the COVID-19 pandemic, it has given many business owners the motivation to gain a few more technical skills. Many have sought to enhance their own grasp on the software, marketing, and telecommunications that their business relies on each day. As these business owners have done so, they have often turned to a very popular resource: YouTube.

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Comprehending the New Normal for Businesses

Comprehending the New Normal for Businesses

The world isn’t the same as it was this time last year. With months of question marks surrounding business, and with more people than ever searching for their place, businesses have had to make some operational concessions that, if we were to assess the situation today, don’t seem to be going anywhere, anytime soon. 

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3 Factors that make VoIP a Good Option for Your Business

3 Factors that make VoIP a Good Option for Your Business

The business telephone system is usually one of the most expensive operational costs, especially if you take into account a business’ expanding mobility. There is a modern option though that changes the way that businesses look at their phone platform. That option is VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol. Listed below is some information about VoIP and how it can significantly improve your business’ communication.

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How the Internet of Things can Help Your Business

How the Internet of Things can Help Your Business

Since 1982, the technology known as the Internet of Things has provided the devices around us with greater capabilities via artificial intelligence and Internet connectivity. While this technology flew under the radar for a long time, many business functions are now relying on its benefits. Listed below are a few ways that the IoT can aid your organization.

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Electronic Health Records Need to be Updated

Electronic Health Records Need to be Updated

It’s critical to note that all parties involved in patient care (including the patient) benefit from the Electronic Health Record (EHR). These systems are now fundamental to a successful health maintenance system. As more technology is created that could be integrated into the EHR platform, there is a stalemate keeping EHR technology from being what it could be. 

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Is Older Technology Really Less Secure?

Is Older Technology Really Less Secure?

It might sound strange coming from a managed service provider, but there is some wisdom to the adage, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This cliché statement certainly holds water, as exemplified by many modern technologies, including the Boeing 747.

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Gmail Upgrades the User Experience

Gmail Upgrades the User Experience

Distinctly demonstrating their prioritization of their G Suite offering, Google continues to enhance the platform’s many solutions to upgrade the user experience. Most recently, this has included giving Gmail a few extra functionalities to help further integrate a business’ communications. A look at these functionalities is listed below.

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How VoIP Boosts Productivity

How VoIP Boosts Productivity

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is an incredibly convenient tool for modern businesses, especially in terms of enhancing productivity. Consider a few capabilities that can give you and your team a boost.

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What to Know About Passwordless Authentication

What to Know About Passwordless Authentication

If you were told that one variable was responsible for more than 80 percent of cyberattacks, what would you guess that variable was? If you guessed “stolen access credentials,” you’d be right. The standard username/password combination may soon be a relic of the past as more tech companies transition to alternative authentication measures.

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A Sneak Peek at Android 11 Features

A Sneak Peek at Android 11 Features

There is not an “official” date set for the release of Android 11, but there's been a glimpse of it's new features revealed via beta testing. Listed below is a look at some of the features you might see when the OS officially launches.

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Understanding Unified Communications

Understanding Unified Communications

As businesses have progressed, the use of tools to enhance their communication has become paramount to success, with ongoing global developments only contributing more to their importance. With new challenges and opportunities arising each day, your team needs the tools that allow them to work together and accomplish all that needs to be done.

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A Hosted Email Solution Can Benefit Your Business

A Hosted Email Solution Can Benefit Your Business

Email is one of the most often used business tools available, but as with any tool, some options are better than others. Listed below are some tips on how to best utilize email in your business by using hosted email.

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Point of Sale Software and Solutions can Improve Your Business

Point of Sale Software and Solutions can Improve Your Business

Point of sale software and solutions have provided massive benefits to businesses for a while now, with these benefits increasing as the technology has advanced. Listed below is a look at how the POS system has developed over the years to offer the business utilities and benefits that it does today.

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Video Conferencing Solutions can Enhance Your Organization's Collaboration

Video Conferencing Solutions can Enhance Your Organization's Collaboration

If your business is like many others, you’ve delayed some of your more capital-intensive plans and focused on efficiency. Since things are starting to reopen in many places, it’s been made clear that keeping your business running with remote workers is a solid strategy, but you can’t keep your projects on the back burner forever. Utilizing video conferencing solutions to help run your projects can be a good stopgap that can give your organization some flexibility. 

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Automation is Vital for Future Businesses

Automation is Vital for Future Businesses

Many businesses have found it very difficult to cope with restrictions levied by lawmakers because of the COVID-19 situation. This pandemic has sent business owners and decision makers searching for solutions to their revenue problems. The most popular solution is to automate some of the work that was usually done by human resources to try and slice some of the demands on their capital. Automation is here to stay in business. 

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3 Technology Solutions that can Help Your Business

3 Technology Solutions that can Help Your Business

When the stay-at-home orders came down in March, no one was sure just how long precautionary measures would last. Now that a large percentage of the workforce is either out of work, just returning to work, or working remotely after nearly 100 days, it has proven to be one of the most challenging periods for businesses in contemporary business history. Listed below are three technology solutions that can fix some of your organization's issues in a time when there are plenty to fix.

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Small Businesses can Benefit from these Solutions

Small Businesses can Benefit from these Solutions

As time marches on and new technology arises, a lot of the processes that organizations rely on become more efficient and stand to deliver greater benefits to the businesses that use them. These benefits are accessible to businesses of all sizes, including small businesses. 

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How the Pandemic is Affecting Net Neutrality

How the Pandemic is Affecting Net Neutrality

The dark cloud cast by COVID-19 wouldn’t seem to have very much of a silver lining, but if you look very closely, there is the faintest one there. As more and more people are practicing self isolation, remote work has become a more pressing requirement. In response, many Internet service providers and mobile data carriers are putting changes in place that actually resemble net neutrality.

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