We installed a Watchguard firewall (Firebox) at our Tokyo offices some time back. We were very happy with Watchguards speed of configuration and purchased a maintenance agreement with the box. We decided not to renew the maintenance agreement, and started to have considerable trouble with the system. Dropped connections to the internet were the main …
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Broadband In Japan
In Japan, we have found that there are a lot of choices for broadband internet connections. Softbank brought all the pricing down by their now famous (and much copied) sales campaign. They branded the service Yahoo BB (BB for broadband). They had young part timers with DSL modems in a shopping bag on what seemed …
Common Sense Business
One of the things that we say at AINEO is that you can teach a person how to do technical things, but you can’t teach them common sense. What is common sense? In simple terms, common sense is having the sense of understand what is common among most people. The Webster’s dictionary defines common sense …