WHY ALL THE BLOATWARE?

Bloatware is a term given to applications installed in smart phones or tablets which cannot be easily removed.  This seems to be a practice that phone manufacturers/service providers have been using since these devices were introduced.  I suspect that these guys are paid to install this on your device, but what is the big deal? First, you phone or tablet has a finite amount of memory and processor power.  Many of...

LETS WATCH GRIZZLY FOOTBALL!

Ok, well, not me.  I did not attend U of M and really don't like to watch sports... of any kind.  That is not the case for my wife. She loves it.  Being married to a cheap husband has cost her years of missing various sporting events because of my not wanting to pay to watch commercials i.e. cable and satellite.  We have received local off air programming and Netflix...

ASK.COM TOOLBAR, IS IT MALWARE?

You may be familiar with a screen that appears on your computer when you install a Java update that asks if you would like to install the ask.com search application.  I am sure that your are familiar with this as we see it on many of our customer's computers. This week it appears as if Microsoft has decided to consider the ask.com search application malware... http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-now-considers-the-dreaded-ask-toolbar-to-be-malware/ Lets start from the beginning......

Netflix

Many of our customers that like to watch Netflix rave about our service. A movie is loaded in seconds and the content is High Definition. There is a good reason for this. Your home or business is about 4 ms to our fiber meet point. In addition, our network is connected to Montana based Netflix video content servers. This means that you are not having to go out of state...