ForeSite Technologies Acquires Network-IT and Rios Computer Web Site Design & IT Support Company Grows by ten percent East Hartford, Conn. (February 8, 2012) – ForeSite Technologies, an East Hartford-based company dedicated to designing solutions and troubleshooting problems for computers, networks and websites is pleased to announce the acquisition of two IT companies: Network-IT in [...]

This is the second in a series of articles on managed IT services. The first shared the advantages of outsourcing your IT needs to a managed service provider. Now we’ll cover remote support and 24/7 monitoring. What is remote support? Remote support is working to solve a user issue on a computer or server remotely over [...]

Simple, sign up for the National Do Not Call Registry! This month, cell phone numbers are going public, which means they are being released to telemarketing companies.  The time you spend on these calls will be charged to you!  This could potentially mean that telemarketers will increase your phone bill by running up your plan’s minutes.  [...]

MATCH Coalition, Inc. (Mobilize Against Tobacco for Children’s Health) is a non-profit organization, established in 1995, to protect Connecticut residents from the dangers of tobacco use and secondhand smoke.  MATCH consists of an over one hundred member organization representing thousands of Connecticut residents. The objective of this project was to cultivate an effective web strategy through [...]

ForeSite Has the Precise IT Recipe We call it our “recipe.” Since every organization’s IT needs are different, ForeSite’s recipe is the precise blend of IT support services your organization needs—not what we decide is right for us. In short, this is called a “managed IT service.” What is a managed IT service? The generic concept of any managed service [...]

ForeSite is an authorized reseller partner for Enterasys network solutions, and we were thrilled to hear that Enterasys was selected as a Top 100 Product of 2011 by District Administration Readers! It’s no surprise when you consider that over 300 K-12 School Districts rely on Enterasys solutions for reliable classroom access, centralized management and monitoring of [...]

Have you become an Excel ninja trying to marry up data from QuickBooks and other business systems you use?  Do you spend countless hours trying to match up hours, expenses, customer info, and sales info?  And have you ever tried to integrate data using the QuickBooks IIF format?  I went through it all.  And while [...]

Installing software directly from an untrusted or source: uTorrent BitTorrent Shareaza BitComet When users of file sharing networks (such as the above-mentioned) download software from these networks, there is no way to verify that the software you are downloading does not also contain malware, adware, rootkits, or viruses. Many users believe that simply having updated antivirus software will protect them, but [...]

After an overwhelming response and more questions about our series on Cloud Computing, we decided to wrap it all together and add some extra content in this free eBook.  This eBook contains all of the great information that was in the individual posts in the series but valuable, additional content has been added by our [...]

Social networking may seem like a waste of time and energy, but whether you are happy to embrace it as a marketing tool or try to avoid it, it is here to stay (at least until the next big thing comes along)!  According to Wikipedia.org, there are 14 different social networking sites that have over [...]

Did you know that you could write off technology infrastructure upgrades as opposed to depreciating them to help mitigate your tax liability?  The section 179 Tax Deduction is a law that allows you to write off up to $500,000 of equipment purchases in a single year rather than having to depreciate them, according to Section179.Org.  [...]

Spam is not new.  And I won’t make a bad joke about canned meat, that ship sailed about 10 years ago.  But unfortunately, it’s still a problem, and getting worse.  Unwanted email has developed from simply an annoyance to potentially dangerous with all of the phishing and virus schemes that are out there.  While there [...]