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Twittering staff cost UK business £1.83bn

In a survey of 1,460 office workers, commissioned by IT services firm Morse, 57% of respondents said they use social networking sites for personal reasons during work time. The report reveals that workers spend on average 40 minutes a week on the sites. Some respondents believe that some colleagues spend about one hour a day on these websites.

The research revealed that businesses are not setting rules for the use of the websites, with 76% of respondents claiming that their employer had not set guidelines with regards to using Twitter.

"After years of preaching the security dangers of clicking on unknown e-mails and websites, employees can unintentionally be letting their guard down when it comes to clicking on links from the likes of Twitter and other social networking sites," said Philip Wicks, consultant at Morse. "Businesses need to strike the right balance between engagement and productivity when it comes to employee usage."

You could be inadvertently infecting your organisation by visiting a social networking site. ARC iT can help monitor and prevent the abuse of the internet in the work place by installing software to restrict internet access and/or installing a firewall to stop threats coming in. Contact us today to improve your internet security.

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iPhone - Are you fully mobile?

With the iPhone now available on the Orange network, more and more people have access to them. Owning one of these state of the art gadgets means that you have a mobile phone with all the functionality of your iPod and, if you have a Microsoft Exchange server, you can also easily set up your iPhone to synchronise with your server for your email, calendar, and contacts - a great tool if you are regularly out of the office. iPhone connects seamlessly to Microsoft Exchange as well as POP and IMAP based servers. And your data is secure with support for encrypted data in transmission, hardware encryption for data at rest, and encrypted backups in iTunes.

Contact ARC iT today for further information about how we can set up your servers to enable mobile email.