Category: Misc

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  • Farewell Steve Jobs

    As long time Mac users we want to pay tribute to the man behind the iconic Macs we use every day. Our business depends on Macs and also makes our daily office work that much more bearable. Hopefully Tim Cook is able to continue with the innovation and attention to detail that we all love.

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  • eBay Using 100TB of SSDs

    Slashdot are reporting that eBay have started to deploy SSDs for their VMs. Apparently the SSDs save on rack space and therefore power. They are also reducing the VM deployment time, allowing them to get a VM up and running in 5 minutes.

     

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  • Android Users Maleware Trojan

    A new Trojan called jSMSHider is targeting custom Rom’s. This malware predominately affects third party custom Rom’s. At the moment is appears to be the Chinese market that is seeing this malware.

  • OS X Lion

    Apple have announced it’s new and most advanced operating system to date. Due to release in July and with over 250 new features, including Multi-touch Gestures. OS X Lion is a snip at around £21, surely the buy of the year so far.

  • Dataquest part of Novatech’s New Managed Services

    Dataquest’s specialist data recovery services incorporated in Novatech’s bespoke IT & Telecomms hardware solutions. Novatech can now offer their customers the complete worry free IT Solution. In partnership with Novatech, Dataquest will provide their customers with 24/7 Data Recovery support.

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  • Safari Mac Bug

    Safari Mac Users need to disable Autofill within preferences. Apples browser defaults autofill to allow malicious websites access to your details from your address book without consent. This can potentially be used for identification fraud.

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  • Data Recovery In Hampshire

    We are a specialist data recovery company in Hampshire recovering data from corrupt, defective and faulty hard disk drives. We are based in Copnor, Portsmouth and are an independent company, not part of a franchise. All of our work is carried out at our site, and not sent on to another company.

    We offer data recovery on a national service. Some of the main areas we cover in Hampshire are Portsmouth, Southampton, Hayling Island, Isle of Wight, Gosport, Fareham, Basingstoke, Havant, Waterlooville, New Forest, Andover, Emsworth, Petersfield, Romsey, Winchester, Alton and Aldershot.

    Our speciality is recovering data from hard disk drives, but we can also recover data from USB Pens, Camera flash cards and CDs, DVDs.

    PC or Mac, we can recover either. Windows, Linux or Mac OS.

    If you would like to use our data recovery service, please use the contact link near the top right of this page.

    Our address is Dataquest International Ltd, 24 Domum Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2  0QZ, United Kingdom.

  • Data Recovery in Ross-shire

    Further details on our National Coverage Article. We would like to inform our customers of the areas in Ross-shire we cover for data recovery. The list below is a small selection of areas in Ross-shire region. If your area is not included, then do not be alarmed as we cover all areas in Ross-shire.  If you require further information then we have a contact form on every page.

    • Dingwall
    • Stornaway
    • Tain
    • Alness
    • Invergorden
  • The Credit Crunch and it’s influence on Data Recovery

    Dataquest has already started to see the influence the current state of the economy is having on the data recovery industry. We need to make sure that established and future customers are made aware of the options they have available to them when seeking out professional help for data loss. We are already aware that more DIY customers are attempting to recover their lost data themselves. This is where we need to work together with these customers to inform and educate them.  This can a simple guideline on backup and basic data recovery.

  • Seagate Mutant Hybrid Drives

    Hard disk manufacturer Seagate is reportedly working on combining cheap unreliable solid state storage technology with more expensive and reliable technology to bring low cost SSD’s to consumers. At least we won’t be seeing any more of those savage 2.5″ Momentus drive head crashes!

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