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A water damaged phone can happen in all kinds of ways. Here are a few essential tips which may help save your precious smartphone device.
- 14th Jul, 2016

RAID is a method by which multiple hard drives work together to create a higher performance system or one with greater data redundancy.
- 7th Dec, 2015

Have you ever asked your IT support department to fix a problem and they ask "Have you tried turning it off and on?", This is why.
- 12th Dec, 2013

Quantum computing is set to change the world in the future and promises computing power far in excess of every computer ever built.
- 29th Aug, 2012

I've worked in IT support for a number of years in various companies. One of the recurring questions is what makes this a job for IT?
- 31st Jan, 2012

HDD capacity is one of those clever marketing ploys that tricks you into thinking you are buying a higher capacity than you actually are.
- 28th Sep, 2011

A look at how old analogue systems were adapted and upgraded to carry digital signals and the growth of digital networks.
- 17th Dec, 2002

A short, but technical guide on how Digital to Analogue Conversion (DAC) electronics works in simple circuits to convert a digital signal.
- 10th Dec, 2002

Description of digital network transmission media (cables and wireless) and how they transmit digital data between two points.
- 8th Nov, 2002

How Analogue to Digital Conversion (ADC) systems work to convert analogue signal into a digital format which can be transmitted on networks.
- 17th Oct, 2002