Last summer a terrible thing happened at Connectzone.com. A truly vicious horrible thing happened. A catastrophic, mind bending, corporate wide devastating event. An employee opened an email. Opening an email shouldn’t be dangerous…..

It made sense-it was from UPS. We have daily pickup and delivery from UPS-they email us all the time so why not open it. Guess what? It wasn’t from UPS, that email came from the devil, not “a devil” but from “THE DEVIL”. Yes, it was from Lucifer also known as Satan, Angel of the bottomless pit, Antichrist and The Prince of Darkness. Here is what the attachment in that email really was: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp

Of course once you open the email you gasp and realize you just shot your computer in the head and are

Simple, everyone who wants improved transmission performance and extension of the available bandwidth. Cat 5E while much superior to Cat4 & Cat3, is old news. Cat 5E has inferior immunity from external noise. What that means to you is Cat 6 with have more robust reliability and SPEED. Of course that’s only important if you want to fly around the internet and run your internal network at lightning speed without losing data and having to re-transmit. (Insert visual of the Comcast turtle here) Cat 6 is used to carry Ethernet 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) connections. Cat 6 cable is backed with more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than earlier cabling standards. Some Installers will tell you that Cat 6 is more difficult to install, which is probably true-but only by a little bit. That’s because the conductors are twisted more tightly which makes them more difficult to split apart. But a little prudence

Connectzone.com will be attending Networld InterOp in Las Vegas May 2009. We will be making exciting new product announcements through out the show. There will also be trade show discount pricing. Our sales team will be available to assist you in all your connectivity needs. It is our commitment to exceed our customer’s expectations in product, price and service. You will find us at booth 2636 and we look forward to seeing you there. For more information about us and our products visit us on the web at: http://www.connectzone.com/. For more details on the InterOp 2009 visit: http://www.interop.com/

So you may know that Google has a new product called Google Latitude. If you have a compatible cell phone you can install it and give your friends and family the ability to track you on their cell phones or a PC. You need to ask permission to track someone and they have to agree to be tracked. You can even get directions to where your friends are. Sounds kinda cool. I will even give you the link so you can check it out: http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html

The features include the ability to share your location and privacy settings you can enable and disable should you want to go missing in action for a time period.

I can see where this would be very useful. A real life example: while on vacation in California with friends, one of the friends took our jointly rented car for a day trip. The plan was my friend was going to go shopping

In a word, extraordinarily. But if you are reading a blog like this, you probably already know that. Social networking has become a critical part of the business landscape and it is only going to get bigger. The more technology we get it, only makes sense that what we used to do at old fashion cocktail parties and discuss on the golf course, will migrate online. It used to be places like MySpace were for teens to hang out at, that idea evolved into facebook where an older group hangs out. Now with sites like Biznik and LinkedIn, social networking for business has exploded. As it has always been, it’s all about leverage. On Wall Street leverage means borrowing money to invest in something that will have a good profit to risk ratio. In social networking for business it means gathering groups of people together with similar interests but possibly vastly different skill sets to provide a better product. This is not a new idea, just a little different spin on it. From the moment