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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

The FCC's New Speed Test App

The FCC's New Speed Test App

Broadband Internet access is an imperative consideration for today’s world, considering how much of daily life and business is now conducted online. That being said, Internet access is still far from a given. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission wants to work to fix this; however, to do so, they need data. To help collect this data, the FCC wants you to install a speed test application on your smartphone.

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How to Write Emails Faster with Gmail Templates

How to Write Emails Faster with Gmail Templates

With so much work time being spent involving email, and Gmail holding a 33.7 percent market share, it shouldn't be a surprise that many companies wouldn’t mind it if a little less time were spent in Gmail. As it happens, rewriting similar emails over and over again, one of the most irritating expenditures of your time, can be eliminated by creating Gmail templates.

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Three Apps that can Boost Your Team's Collaboration

Three Apps that can Boost Your Team's Collaboration

Boosting collaboration is a central theme to many businesses' operational strategies. The more that people can do as a team, the less expensive operations have to be. That is a sound business strategy. Many modern businesses are looking to software to build a successful collaborative situation. Listed below are three such apps that, if utilized properly, will help any business enhance their team’s ability to work together. 

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How VoIP can Help Your Business

How VoIP can Help Your Business

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephony is a popular technology amongst modern businesses for their communication needs. How VoIP functions and how it can benefit your company are explained below.

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How VoIP Can Help Your Business

How VoIP Can Help Your Business

There aren’t many technological assets as critical for the modern business than its communications solutions. The telephone, while being one of the oldest currently utilized communications systems available, is still the most utilized. Below is a look at business telephone systems and why choosing Voice over Internet Protocol makes sense for your business. 

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How Collaboration Solutions can Help Your Business

How Collaboration Solutions can Help Your Business

The advancements in technology directly contributes to the amount of productivity a business sees. This is evident is in the way in which businesses utilize collaboration tools to move business forward. Below is a brief look at what exactly we mean by collaboration tools and how they benefit the businesses that use them. 

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VoIP > Traditional Telephone System

VoIP > Traditional Telephone System

Businesses of all kinds rely on their telephone systems. There is a modern option that can revolutionize any business’ communications platform, and do so for a fraction of the cost of a traditional telephone system: VoIP. 

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Good Security Practices for Conferencing Solutions

Good Security Practices for Conferencing Solutions

Conferencing has been a critical tool for businesses as stay-at-home orders have moved their operations out of the office and into worker’s homes. While there are dozens of video conferencing solutions on the market, businesses should consider security just as much as they consider functionality. Below is a look at security for your company’s conferencing solutions.

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How Digital Signage Can Benefit A Business

How Digital Signage Can Benefit A Business

While there are gimmicks when it comes to technology in the small business (USB-powered staplers for example), there are many devices and technologies that have far more utility, although they may not seem to be applicable to all industries. One example would be the digital signage solutions that have risen in popularity. While they may seem to have limited uses outside of retail, there are plenty of ways to utilize them to your advantage.

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A Closer Look at VoIP Capabilities

A Closer Look at VoIP Capabilities

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions famously provides businesses with some crucial cost savings. While this may be the extent of many people’s understanding of its value, VoIP has a significantly more to offer. Listed below are just a few of its benefits to provide insight into what makes VoIP such a great choice for modern organizations.

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Three Types of Internal Communications that Affect Your Operations

Three Types of Internal Communications that Affect Your Operations

Businesses have various communications to manage, including their internal ones. For many businesses, this may be put on the back burner, as they prioritize their operational and sales-encouraging communications. On the other hand, internal communications are just as imperative. Listed below some of your options here, and how you need to use them.

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Outlook vs. Gmail

Outlook vs. Gmail

Email is obviously an incredibly useful tool in the business setting, helping with a wide variety of communication needs. On the other hand, in order to make the most of your emails, you need to have an email client that allows you to do so. Below we’re pitting two major email clients against each other to see which one offers the features that best suit your business and its needs.

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VoIP Can Reduce Business Costs

VoIP Can Reduce Business Costs

It's no secret that small and medium-sized businesses appreciate any opportunity to lower the amount of money they have to spend to successfully operate. One way that businesses of all sizes have used to do so has been VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephony. Let's we’ll explore just how VoIP solutions are much kinder to a business’ budget.

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Additional VoIP Features that can Help Your Business

Additional VoIP Features that can Help Your Business

For the small business looking to enhance both their communications system and their IT budget, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a great solution. VoIP provides clear and reliable calling services that some landline services just don’t offer. 

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RFID: A Relatively New Technology That Could Help Your Business

RFID: A Relatively New Technology That Could Help Your Business

As technology progresses, gadgets are created which can be advantageous not only to our social lives but in our business practices. Enter Radio-frequency identification (RFID), a somewhat new technology which businesses have been progressively using.

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Checking In on Blockchain

Checking In on Blockchain

It's easy to see why Blockchain is one of the most popular emerging technologies. While the technology behind blockchain was once viewed as having no feasible application in the workplace, it is now taking a seat front and center as a security instrument for a today's business environment. What’s new in the world of blockchain? We'll take a look below.

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Criteria to Determine How Secure Your Message Application Is

Criteria to Determine How Secure Your Message Application Is

Messaging applications have constructed out a foothold in businesses, clearly proving their operational advantages. Nonetheless, it isn’t responsible to leverage a solution without ensuring that the solution is secure. There are a couple criteria that you should consider to find out how secure your chosen application really is.

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How to Upgrade Your Business Communications

How to Upgrade Your Business Communications

For most organizations, communication is a significant contributing factor to their success. Technology (when it’s correctly utilized) can play a vital role in keeping communication productive, but with certain solutions, it can be difficult to determine context. Listed below are some ways that you can help your employees be as clear and concise as possible with specific communication techniques.

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The Steps to Implementing a Gmail 'Out of Office' Message

The Steps to Implementing a Gmail 'Out of Office' Message

Our modern society is infamously connected, especially in the business sense; this fact can make not receiving a reply back from an email jarring. While we all need a break every now and then, we also need to reply to our contacts efficiently, which is where the ‘out of office’ message in Gmail comes into play.

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How to Enhance Your Organization's Internal Collaboration

How to Enhance Your Organization's Internal Collaboration

For any organization to be successful, its inner workings must be able to work together seamlessly, each with a defined role and purpose. Listed below are some tips on how to upgrade your and your employee's internal collaboration.

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