Monthly Archives: April 2012
Exercise Can Make You More Productive
Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at 4:43 PM EST
Entrepreneurs, CEOs, and small business owners encounter enormous pressure and stress associated with building a business everyday. Pressure and stress tends to lead to poor sleep, bad eating habits and some ailments. Exercising can help alleviate all of this and according to Richard Branson who owns over 360 companies “working out gave me at least [...]
FCC To Help VoIP Survive Terrorism
Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 2:54 PM EST
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has concluded that VoIP telephone services might be disrupted in case of another terrorist attack against the U.S. That might sound like a no-brainer, but actually it represents a significant heightening of awareness of just how much VoIP usage has grown, particularly VoIP usage by businesses and government agencies. What [...]
What Does Google Drive Mean For You?
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 7:35 PM EST
If you haven’t heard yet Google launched a new cloud service today called Drive (as in a drive on your desktop). Basically it’s a storage unit that follows you around everywhere you go and you can open it up and get anything out of it. So anything that you put into this folder on your [...]
Using The Cloud Is A No Brainer
Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 2:45 PM EST
I’m a huge huge fan of working in the “cloud”. It’s a fantastic way for me to keep in touch, collaborate with employees and clients and it makes me feel like my work is safe from being lost. For those of you who may not know what the cloud refers to, it means using programs [...]
How To Be Home When You Roam
Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 8:53 AM EST
I was just reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about a globe-trotting businessman who came back to the U.S. to find a $10,000 phone bill waiting for him. Seems the poor guy used his smartphone overseas, gobbling up data, and he even – gulp – made some phone calls. The story is one [...]
VoIP Outlaws
Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at 6:17 AM EST
Here’s an interesting dilemma: Would you use VoIP telephony, saving hundreds or thousands of dollars on your international business phone calls, if it meant risking a jail sentence. As it turns out hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of small businesses and individuals are doing just that in Nepal. What they’re trying to do is reap the [...]
Study Says: SMEs Flocking To Hosted VoIP
Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 5:30 PM EST
If you’re a small to medium size business already getting your telephone service from Phone.com, you’re in the vanguard of what will be a tidal wave, according to a new study by The Insight Research Company. The research house is predicting that, over the next five years, both telephone companies and cable companies will lose [...]