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reach me at:
Garfield Jones, Sales & Operations Manager
Quadbridge, www.quadbridge.com
514-677-7653


"Quadbridge Inc. is a leading-edge, full-service IT Solution partner that specializes in hardware and software supply to medium and large enterprise clients in both the U.S. and Canada. Whether your company needs are simply hardware or a fully integrated IT solution, our experienced account managers are able to customize a strategy tailored to your company needs. For long-term solutions we are there from conception of a project to implementation and management.

We pride ourselves on our client relationships and putting together the right information from the relevant manufacturers to ensure the best price points. By partnering with the most sought after IT companies (Cisco, Apple, HP, Dell , Juniper, EMC) we guarantee the best choices available on the market today. We are the single-source professional for all of your diverse IT goals.

Experienced personnel in the areas of voice and data communications, financing, data center build and implementation, outsourcing, project management, service management, managed desktop services, managed security appliances, operational messaging, software development, ecommerce solutions, tracking solutions, CRM, BI, and self-service applications."

Data Storage, Online Storage, Enterprise Class Storage, Enterprise Virtual Array, Notebooks, Desktops, Tablets, Thin Clients, VDI, VDA, MPSA, VTSP, VSP, Vsphere, Horizon,

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Lenovo Thinkpad Helix

This is kickass!!!

 

Lenovo Table PC

Soon enough with WiFi, Dragon, and gesture controls like the Microsoft Kinect, you'll have machines like these all over the house completely interconnected that you will be able to interface with...Star Trek rules!!!

 

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9235278/Lenovo_comes_out_swinging_with_table_PC_hybrid_ultrabooks?source=CTWNLE_nlt_mobilew_2013-01-07

Torture testing the Microsoft Surface tablet

Interesting.  The Microsoft Surface gets put through the paces.  If they really wanted to test it, they should have left it with a 5 year old for a week.

 

Monitors Needed

Monitors needed.  LG, Planar, HP, Dell, Viewsonic, V7, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Samsung, Sharp, et al, listen up.

must be 20" plus
must have HDMI, VGA, Displayport, DVI-D connections- and include the damn cables
must be multi-touch capable
must have wireless built in
must have some processing capabilities
if Windows 8 is too much to ask for, then at least Android. 
Must be no more than $150.00.  If they can build tablets for $75 then a 20+ inch monitor with the same capabilities is not much of a stretch.

Mapping the 2013 tablet wars

Portland Business Journal

Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 7:22am PST

 

Price wars and patent battles were among the big trends in the tablet market in 2012, and this year it seemed that no matter what tablet a customer bought, they were in one of three ecosystems - Apple, Android or Windows 8.

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2012/12/tablet-price-wars-to-continue-in-2013.html?ana=yfcpc

 

 

Xbox SmartGlass

Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass...Very cool!


 

Office 365 Outages

So far, I am not a fan of cloud services - SAAS

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/news/2240171234/Two-Office-365-outages-in-five-days-serve-as-reminders-of-cloud-chaos?utm_medium=EM&asrc=EM_NLT_19544255&track=NL-1701&ad=883120&

Two Office 365 outages in five days serve as reminders of cloud 'chaos'

Downtime may be part of the deal when it comes to cloud computing, but the second Microsoft Office 365 outage in five days tested the patience of IT pros and consultants.

Reports of the most recent Office 365 outage first emerged on Twitter yesterday morning, and Microsoft later confirmed that some Office 365 customers were experiencing intermittent email access. That came on the heels of another outage Nov. 8, when customers experienced delays in receiving their email...

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RIM- Blackberry

Who will buy RIM, Microsoft or Cisco?

Win 7 Security 2012

If it ever pops up do not click on anything.  don't touch anything.  don't shut down.  unplug the machine.  if you happen to click something when it popped up, get some help...it's one of the nastiest viruses I have ever seen.

http://www.ishelpdesk.org/

cool!

wow.  This Dragon software is amazing of using it to control some of the features on the computer such as my outlet.  My Microsoft word.  My Internet explorer, my Google chrome. I tell it to go to Outlook.  It goes to Outlook.  I tell it new message it starts a new message.  I would tell it to the recipient is and it finds it in my address and populates the to field.  This is going to be a whole lot of fun!!!

Dylan to RIM Blackberry

To Research In Motion Corporation,

My name is Dylan Pattyn. I am a 26 year old resident of Montreal and a 7 year BlackBerry user.

I have been a loyal and substantially devoted client for a long time. I am however at this point moving on. Unfortunately this last year has been an extremely horrific one for myself personally as I've had to bring my Curve 3G in for repairs several times, had to deal with TELUS (which is by far no treat) and a host of other unfortunate incidents with your last two OS systems that have sent me to the crackberry forums more often than ever before.

I don't know why you did what you did. Perhaps you rushed certain products out? Maybe you tried to compete with brands who have no business in your market? I can't answer for you. It doesn't matter to me personally as I have no personal stake in your organization. Nor do I possess any insight into the corporate culture of RIM. What I do know is that I'm done. It's been heartbreaking for me to say the least.

I will always recall with fondness; the sidewheel, ball and eventually trackpad evolution as it's been fun. Before the past year or so your devices have always proven to be secure, durable and well designed. The individuals I have worked with on a professional level (I resell BES licensing as part of my career) have been fantastic and always reinforced my devotion, especially when the iPhone, Droid or Windows phones came along. And of course you're Canadian which makes this letter even harder to write as your organization has been a feather in our national cap for quite some time.

In any event. I hope whatever you folks decide to do with the company works out best for everyone. Whether you become a subsidiary of Microsoft, a platform enhancement for Apple or a division of Nokia or Sony. I wish you all the best. My days of supporting and evangelizing your product against the competition are over.

Dylan Pattyn
pin:22CF7293
514 567 7510

Mac VS Windows

Microsoft LicenseWise

Need to figure out the difference in pricing for Open Business, Open Value, Open Value, Open Value subscription, Select, Select Plus, and EA - with and without software assurance...?

Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/licensewise/quote.aspx

Microsoft Big Easy 5

Microsofts rebate program is back until Dec 31, 2010.  if you need to buy open business or open value licenses for these items, you will be entitled to some pretty decent rebates

The Big Easy Offer 5.0 includes:

Microsoft® Office
Microsoft® SQL Server®
Microsoft® Exchange Server
Microsoft® Office Project
Microsoft® Lync™
Microsoft® Expression®
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server
Microsoft® Visual Studio®
Microsoft® Forefront™
Microsoft® Office Visio®
Microsoft® Windows Server®
Microsoft® System Center Essentials
Microsoft® Windows Server® Datacenter
Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager
Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server
Microsoft® Dynamics® CRM
Microsoft® Windows® Web Server 2008

If you have any questions about what your subsidy would be, send me an email: webmaster@itinfoguy.com

or visit

http://www.microsoftincentives.com/bigeasy5/

IT Info Guy Buying Group

Join the buying group.  I have negotiated pricing that is better than what you see on the PC Mall web site for my members...I'll post a few examples in future posts.

1.      From your Internet Browser, go to the following link:

·        http://cap.pcmall.com/ 

2.      This will bring up the PC Mall Corporate Access Pages Login Page

3.      In the User Name field, please enter gaj and in the Password field, enter employee

4.      Please DO NOT check / click on the Remember Me box at this stage

5.      You should now see a page, which has “Create Your EPP Account for GAJ Ventures”. Below is the form that you need to complete to create your EPP Account.

6.      Complete the form, remembering to give yourself a User Name and Password that you will be able to remember in the future. Note that fields labeled with red characters are required.

7.      Please remember to check the box after the User Name and Password fields to confirm that you have read and understood PC Mall’s Privacy and Return Policy. You won’t be able to move past this page unless the box is checked.

8.      Once you have completed all of the details, press the SUBMIT button.

9.      You have now fully registered into the program.

10.   On your future visits to this site, please remember to use your new Login Name and Password.