Dallas IT Firm ITECS Celebrates 23 Years of Technology Excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth
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Dallas IT Firm ITECS Celebrates 23 Years of Technology Excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth

Founded in 2002 before "MSP" became an industry term, ITECS has evolved from solo IT consultancy to full-service managed services provider with 95% client retention ITECS Outsourcing, LLC, a Dallas-Fort Worth managed IT services provider, celebrates 23 years of delivering enterprise-grade technology solutions to small and mid-sized businesses across North Texas. Founded in February 2002 by Brian Desmot, ITECS began as a one-person IT consulting firm before the term “managed services provider” existed in the industry. Desmot, who was on a fast track to Director of IT at Deloitte & Touche, recognized early signs of the firm’s impending restructuring and made the decision to build something of his own. During lunch breaks, he taught himself web development, marketing, and sales — launching ITECS from the ground up. “When I started ITECS, businesses didn’t have a term for what...
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Is your iPhone too old? This is how long Apple supports iPhones for
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Is your iPhone too old? This is how long Apple supports iPhones for

Skip to content Image: FoundryIf you are thinking of buying an older generation or used/refurbished iPhone, or wondering whether it’s worth upgrading your current iPhone to a new one, one important factor to consider is how long Apple will continue to offer support for that handset. The good news is that Apple supports iPhones for a long time. In general, you can get seven to eight years of security-related software updates, while battery and other repairs are often available on five to seven-year-old handsets, according to Apple’s own Vintage and Obsolete categorizations. More on that below. Read on to find out which iPhones are supported with the latest operating systems, and which are supported for servicing and repairs. Macworld’s advice: The iPhone XS and iPhone 11, and any older iPhone should be avoided as can’t run...
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NASA spacecraft tracks comet SWAN in incredible 40-day timelapse — and even glimpses interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS (video)
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NASA spacecraft tracks comet SWAN in incredible 40-day timelapse — and even glimpses interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS (video)

Comets are famous for making brief, dramatic appearances in our skies, but one icy wanderer just received an unprecedented level of attention from one of NASA's newest spacecraft. Comet SWAN moving across the sky in PUNCH images taken from Sept. 11 to 22, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute)The video above stitches together hundreds of PUNCH images taken from Aug. 25 to Oct. 2, showing the comet gliding between two bright objects — Mars at the top and the star Spica in the constellation of Virgo at the bottom. Because the images were not fully processed before being combined, boundaries between individual snaps remain visible as thin black seams, the statement read.Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was first spotted in September by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly, who noticed the icy visitor a bright blob...
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