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Customer Profile – Bushwacker

Tech Tips

 



 

 

 

Phone Service That Performs:
SterlingVOICE

Sterling Communications is dedicated to delivering the best combination of technology and support to our corporate clients. We provide a full suite of products and services to enhance your company's bottom line, including our unique Filtered Internet Services and SterlingVOICE™ that allows you to capitalize on your Interent access.
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Customer Profile:  Bushwacker, Inc.

Just about everyone can stand back and look at a car, truck or SUV and recognize its style:  How it looks: the shape and style of the components involved to make it look the way it does.  "Style" requires thousands of components, all part of a complete design to create a vehicle.
Bushwacker, Inc., located in the Portland area for over 40 years, manufactures some of those style components for the truck & SUV aftermarket, and vehicle manufacturers such as KIA, Suzuki and Toyota.
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Spam is on the Rise
Sterling Filters Out Thousands of Spam & Viruses per User

Sterling processes over 1 million email messages per day. It's almost unbelievable that 89% of those messages are either spam or viruses. Without filtering, the average user would have received 9 spam/virus messages for each legitimate message in their inbox. The average user receives over 12,000 spam & virus messages per year.

Spam rates are rising everywhere—more than 9% in the second quarter of 2007 alone. A recent study shows that the United States contributes one fifth of the world’s spam. Europeans are catching up—6 out of 12 spam companies are now from Europe. China and Korea are also adding to the problem.
Consumer Reports magazine estimates that Americans spent more than $7.6 billion for computer repairs and parts over the past two years as the direct result of viruses and spyware.*

*Source: Marketing Management Magazine Nov/Dec2007

 

Without filtering, the average user will have received 9 spam/virus messages for each legitimate message in their inbox.





Don’t be a statistic—let Sterling keep you safe. Contact a friendly Sterling representative to find out more today!





 

Tech Tips
#1 - How to Insert Copyright, Trademark & Other Symbols in MS Word 2007

 

If you need to add symbols such as a copyright symbol, trademark symbol, or registered trademark symbol to your Microsoft Word 2007 document, there are a few ways to do so, including the following:

Keyboard shortcuts
The following keyboard shortcuts will insert special characters:
Copyright Symbol: Alt + Ctrl + C
Trademark Symbol: Alt + Ctrl + T
Registered Trademark Symbol: Alt + Ctrl + R
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#2 - RSS Readers Now Free

 

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.

NewsGator announced the general availability of their award-winning RSS reading products for PC (FeedDemon), Mac (NetNewsWire), Microsoft Outlook (Inbox), and mobile (NewsGator Go!) that synchronize through NewsGator’s online platform. All of the new product versions deliver a better user experience with the inclusion of significant performance, usability, and relevance enhancements.
J.B. Holston, NewsGator CEO and president, said, “We are uniquely positioned to drastically expand the community of people working with RSS content. The larger that community is, the more valuable the experience for every user and for all of our services customers. That insight has led us to undertake the significant investment to make all of our client products free."
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Sterling Connections readers are split on potential negative effects of the sub-prime mortgage issue.



How do you use telecommunications tools?
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What’s On Your Mind
Results of Last Month’s Survey

Readers who completed December’s survey are divided on the potential negative effects of the sub-prime mortgage issue on the health of their company with results split evenly between very little impact, marginal impact, and significant impact.

When asked about the importance of having filtered (anti-porn) Internet, readers responded as follows:
Filtered Internet at home: 67% - Very Important
Filtered Internet at work: 90% - Very Important

Regarding the importance of doing business with a local (vs national) telecommunication provider, most readers (66%) said it is “somewhat” important, with 34% indicating it is “very” important.
 
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