You have the expertise. Its very likely you have some great tips and ideas too. So why not get published?

We are looking to hear and share about how you do things for our next newsletter. It could be anything which might be of interest to our subscribers – even if its about your own business (free promotion!). All you have to do is give us a short sentence or two about one of these or something else you think might be helpful:

• What do you like most about your computer/network?
• What has InfoStream done for you that you just love?
• How do you use your computer(s) to grow your business or make work easier or more fun?

If you think you can give our subscribers some help by giving out great advice, then you might even consider writing the whole article for us! Let us know so we can share your great ideas with others and give you the credit for it. Its time you let your imagination flow!

By popular request, we would like to introduce you to InfoStream’s new Worry-Free Care Program! For a fixed monthly cost, we will take over a major portion of monitoring and maintaining your computer network at a fixed, predictable cost. In addition we are including up to four limited support incidents per month.

As always, our goal is to provide the highest level of service and care for our clients. You no longer have to do the worrying about backups, disaster recovery and impending problems.

In the past, most calls required a visit to you site and incurred a minimum 1 hour charge. Now we can remote in to any server or workstation and often resolve any issue in minutes!

For most of our clients, this complete package only costs $300/mo. A basic package is only $140/mo. If you are a quarterly server maintenance subscriber, you get an additional $40 per month off of the full package!

Find out more about our Worry-Free Network Care.

InfoStream Cloud Backup takes your firms critical data and backs it up to the “Cloud” in a highly secure, protected fortress. We can back up as much or as little as you want so you can pick and choose!

No more paying for extra backup drives, rotating drives offsite (staff time), not sure you have critical data offsite, etc. Best way I can think of to survive a “Business Ending Event”!

Normally: $20/mo. + $0.60/GB of Data
LIMITED Time Special: $0/mo. + $0.50/GB of Data

This includes our time to setup and our actively monitoring your backups. Data is rounded up and billed to the nearest 50GB block.

It’s cheap and insures you have everything in a disaster.

93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster, and 50% filed for bankruptcy immediately. – National Archives & Records Administration in Washington DC.

100% of backup tapes will fail at some point. Often without any indication or warning until the data stored on them is needed.

Learn more about our Worry-Free Cloud today!

Source: PRlog (Press Release Distribution)

Alan D. Crowetz the CEO of InfoStream, Inc. located in West Palm Beach, Florida has been invited to join the Rinker School of Buiness Advisory Board at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) – Dec 01, 2011 -
Alan D. Crowetz the CEO of InfoStream, Inc. located in West Palm Beach, Florida has been invited to join the Rinker School of Buiness Advisory Board at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

The Rinker School of Business Advisory Board responds to needs and issues, identifies opportunities and resources to improve and create a positive environment for development and change. The Advisory Board is Palm Beach Atlantic University’s primary link to the regional business community.

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One of our greatest advertisements is your satisfaction. If you are happy with our service, we would love it if you would tell others about us. (If you are not happy with us, please tell US). With that in mind, let me tell you about our new promotion.

If you refer a new contact to us, and we provide them 5 hours of service, we will give you $200.00! That’s right, any new client you send our way is worth money in your pocket. But wait, there’s more! If that same referral uses InfoStream for 300 minutes, we’ll still give you $200.00! So whether it’s 5 hours OR 300 minutes, you get the $200.00. Still not enough? Well, OK, but only because we like you…if that contact gives InfoStream 18,000 seconds of ….. well, you get the picture.

Please tell your friends and colleagues about us and we will provide the same excellent service to them that we have provided for you.

Would you like an hour of free computer support? Maybe you have some minor computer issues you need cleaned up, or just want to learn some new tricks for your computer, or even a tune up and speed up of that computer. It could be a training-planning seminar or a review and maintenance of your software. Or if you have something else in mind, let us know and we’ll take care of it.

Now, how do you get this free hour?

InfoStream is looking for a little help from you. If you have a website, we’re asking for you to add in a link that points back to your excellent IT support company. It could be a link to our main page, or a direct link to our newsletter sign-up page, or even a link to our blog. The newsletter and blog both provide current articles by InfoStream staff and additional articles from across the country on a wide range of topics, some technical, and some informational. We do request that the link be on your website, and not in a blog post.

If you decide to set that link up, let us know! Send one of us an email with the link, and we’ll give you that hour of free help on anything you want.

So give your web designer a call.

And then give us a call!

Here’s a little challenge to stimulate the brain cells. The following quotes are from various movies. To give you a little help, we’ve given you the year of the movie’s release. They all have something to do with computers and technology. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify both the name of the movie, and the person who said the line.

The answers will be at the bottom of the newsletter.

1. “You’re in trouble, program. Why don’t you make it easy on yourself? Who’s your user?” (1982)
   
2. “Greetings Professer Falken, Would you like to play a game?” (1983)
   
3. “I’m Sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” (1968)
   
4. “Never send a human to do a machine’s job.” (1999)
   
5. “R2-D2, You know better than to trust a strange computer.” (1980)
   
6. “He got me invested in some kinda fruit company.” (1994)
   
7. “No, I’m from Iowa; I only work in Outer Space” (1986)
   
8. “Look, you are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re gonna go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd.” (2010)
   
9. “I asked for a car, I got a computer. How’s that for being born under a bad sign?” (1986)
   
10. “Caution: Rogue robots. Caution…” (2008)
    
11. “I don’t know how to work this!” (referring to an iPhone) (2008)
    
12. “Sir, they hacked a firewall in more than ten seconds! Even with a brute force attack, a supercomputer would have to take twenty years to do that!” (2007)
    
13. “COMPUTER DO SOMETHING!” (2005)

===============ANSWERS ARE BELOW HERE================

Speaker                                             Movie

1. Master Control Program                       Tron
2. WOPR                                                   WarGames
3. HAL 9000                                             2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Agent Smith                                         The Matrix
5. C-3PO                                                  Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
6. Forrest Gump                                       Forrest Gump
7. Captain James T. Kirk                           Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
8. Erica Albright                                       Social Network
9. Ferris Beuller                                        Ferris Beuller
10. Ship’s Computer                                  Wall-E
11. Carrie Bradshaw                                  Sex and the City
12. Maggie Magsden                                 Transformers
13. Arthur Dent                                         Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Are you serious?

YES! Join Team Infostream for the Warrior Dash!

There is still time for you to join us for a crazy day. All you need to do is head over to our website at and sign up. After you’ve joined the team, then you can head to the Warrior dash website at and sign up for the race. The race is on December 3rd at the South Florida Location. We are trying to get the entire team on the 10:30 wave, so sign up early to make sure you get a spot!

Come on out and join the fun.

We want YOU to join Team InfoStream! It is for an event, that is so fun, I promise you will love it and remember it forever.

We are asking you to join Team InfoStream and come do the Warrior Dash event with us on December 3, 2011. It is a giant event with live music, food, drinks and most important, a fun obstacle course track where you jump over fire, climb cargo nets and cross rivers. You don’t need to be in top shape, as it is more about the adventure and fun.

Everyone doing the event gets an “I survived” Warrior Dash medal, a t-shirt and a Viking warrior hat!

But wait! There is more!… We will be randomly picking from Team InfoStream members and giving out a High Def Flip Video Camera and other prizes. Duffy’s, the OFFICIAL sports grill for your favorite teams in South Florida, is throwing in some fantastic goodies! To say Duffy’s is being generous is an understatement!

So….

1. Check out Warrior Dash to see how much fun it is.

2. Click here and sign up for Team InfoStream – It’s FREE!

3. Register for the event here and be sure to choose the 10:30 wave or as close to that time as you can.

4. Invite ALL your friends, coworkers and family to join Team InfoStream for an incredibly memorable and fun day!!!

Thank you and I can’t wait to see you there!

As systems and market demands continue to require better productivity and efficiency, it only follows that the software that businesses use also needs to upgrade sooner or later. Such is the case with Windows XP, which Microsoft will stop issuing support for in 2014.

Part of using any sort of software is the inevitable need to upgrade. Most if not all software needs to either be replaced and upgraded as the demands of the market entail more efficient processing of the various data and information a business handles.

Such is the case with Windows XP. While many continue to use this proven straightforward operating system, Microsoft has decided to stop support by the year 2014. Microsoft further recommends upgrading to its latest OS, Windows 7, in order for users to continue to receive OS support.

While there are some lines of business applications that have not been upgraded to work with Windows 7, most have — and there are alternative approaches. Also, your business needs the security and protection that only a current, up-to-date operating system can provide.

We understand that changing your OS will entail some expense, including new licenses, hardware, and some training. Fortunately, these things are designed to help you operate more efficiently and increase your productivity in the long run. But such change will take time, and if you are interested in starting to plan for an upgrade now, we’ll be happy to sit down with you and develop an upgrade process that meets your specific needs.