Hands On IT Services
IT support for you and your business
IT can be complex and time consuming so we offer a wide range of services and solutions to cover most (if not all) eventualities
Formed in 1995, we have over 25 year's experience supporting small and
medium businesses with their IT needs
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20/10/22
We have been with Hands On for a year now and they have been very helpful and effective in managing our IT needs.
They answer all queries very quickly and come up with solutions for problems we have encountered.
They go above and beyond in their approach.
We feel like we are in safe hands with them.
OUR AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME:
For the week commencing 28/11/22
07/12/22
The announcement by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to allow the city’s police to use robots that can deploy “deadly force” in the fight against crime has been met with concern.
06/12/22
In this insight, we look at what ‘quiet quitting’ is, what its causes are, together with what could be done to prevent it.
05/12/22
A report which shows huge sales of EVs in the US only resulted in only a 0.54 per cent fall in gasoline consumption in 2021 has led to disappointment and questions about the beneficial impact of EVs so far.
06/12/22
Our average response time between Monday 28th November 2022 and Monday 5th December was 10 minutes and 46 seconds.
01/12/22
The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) in the US has unveiled the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based materials.
30/11/22
In this insight, we take a closer look at the new alternative positioning system to GPS that is accurate to within an incredible 10 centimetres.
29/11/22
A Helsinki startup has developed a ‘Medicine-as-a-Service’ system where drugs can be 3D printed to exactly match the needs of the patient in terms of their size, physiology, species, plus any allergies.
23/11/22
Following the roll-out of a range of new features for Google’s Maps, Search and shopping, we take a look at what they are and what benefits they could bring to users.
22/11/22
A feasibility study is to be carried out into whether solar powered data centres could be put into orbit to reduce their carbon footprint.
21/11/22
Speaking in the House of Commons, UK chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt said that Brexit “freedoms” could be leveraged to “turn Britain into the world’s next Silicon Valley“.
16/11/22
With pandemonium reigning at Twitter HQ, we thought it’d be helpful to outline what exactly the Blue Tick thing is all about, which we’ve done in our tech insight this week.
15/11/22
Communications company Zoom is making aggressive strides into other areas of corporate-communications in an attempt to gain market-share and offer more value, with bundled-email and other offerings as bait.
14/11/22
Is Meta cutting a drastic 13% of its workforce further evidence of industry-wide reactions to a slowdown in online ad-spend as a whole?
09/11/22
Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch has filed a complaint to the ICO that the face recognition search engine PimEyes may be unlawful, plus it could be enabling surveillance and stalking.
08/11/22
Our latest insight on how you can use voice commands to carry out tasks in Windows, plus how speech recognition technology can be used for voice control of different systems and devices.
07/11/22
A prototype of an award-winning robotic fish design that filters water to trap microplastics has now been tested in lakes as well as the lab.
02.11.22
Microsoft’s Social media platform LinkedIn has announced the introduction of new security features to help verify, identity, detect, and remove fake accounts, all aimed at boosting authenticity.
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