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If you have the need for speed, Southwest Cyberport’s got you covered. But at SWCP, we go way beyond bandwidth. Our tech experts provide personalized services and support to thousands of New Mexicans. We also offer state of the art web-publishing services and other web-services for small businesses and homes as well as commercial enterprises large and small.
Ideas and Coffee
SWCP sponsors Ideas and Coffee, a comfortable coworking space conveniently located across the hall from our main office. It is a clean, quiet space for entrepreneurs and other independent workers to meet clients and associates or work online, with fast internet connections, coffee and all the other office amenities needed to succeed.
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Here in this blog you can find helpful articles on security, how to avoid spam and other pitfalls, and interesting tidbits about the Net as well as our staff and member community. Plus, there’s an archive of issues of our monthly newsletter, the SWCP Portal, which has longer and more in-depth pieces on the past, current, and future state of the Internet.
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Radioactive Diamond Power
One sure indicator that we are living in the future is that proposed or brand-new technologies often sound right out of science fiction. In a world of jetpacks, laser cannons, rockets that land upright, self-driving trucks, talking robot assistants and virtual...
August 30, 2020 – nationwide global internet outage
We don't have a lot of details yet, but CenturyLink is suffering a nationwide internet outage at the moment. Not all sites are down, some are fine, some are intermittently reachable, some not at all. Our local connections in Albuquerque are fine, but connections are...
A Small Bit of Good News
You may notice your Internet service bill is smaller this month. The Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) was first enacted in 1998. It directed states not charge sales tax for Internet access. There was a grandfather clause which allowed states which were already taxing...
Patch Tuesday Kills Outlook
On July 14th, 2020 Microsoft pushed their monthly bundle of operating system and application patches. Unfortunately, this one disabled Microsoft Outlook. Many users woke up today to find their Outlook won’t start. We have the fix!
WordPress and PHP versions
It used to be the case that WordPress would run on very old versions of PHP which could make websites vulnerable. Recently the WordPress core developer's team have swung the other direction and decided to warn you if you weren't running the latest and greatest version...