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The 134-year-old U.S. public phone network is dying—a third of all U.S. households are already cellphone-only. And it’s not just cellular that’s killing it. More and more businesses and households are trading their traditional switched telephone service for voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, services.

How much should you sit throughout the day? For people with an average office job, the result might shock you. Chances are you’ll spend most your days sitting down

Hosted VoIP is quickly expanding its footprint in the small to mid-sized business (SMB) marketplace because it dramatically improves an organization’s profitability, reduces its risk and adds an unmatched level of flexibility to its current operations.

If you're like most people who use computers, you employ Excel on a regular basis, whether you're calculating your household expenditures and income or determining what each of your company's sales consultants sold for the month. But, if you're like most Excel users, the odds are also good that you are not employing this program to its full capability.

The president election. Holiday shopping. How we fight terrorists. They were all impacted in 2012 by technology. And what does the future hold? Consider new technology spreading quickly to emerging countries, or consumers in the developed world spending a lot more of their hard-earned money on new tech? And definitely look for the further growth and development of miniature tablets with high-resolution screens measuring 8 inches or less.

Now, let’s say you run into a best-case-scenario when it comes to the dollars-and-cents comparison of your switch to IP telephony. Your current provider continues to sell their services for twice as much as the IP telephony provider you decided to switch to.

Often is seems that access to information quickly is important. Outdated technologies make this more difficult. The question to ask yourself is, do your customers understand the flow and creation of documents? (more…)

When we have a lot of clutter and papers on our desk, it can be hard to work efficiently. If you spend your days looking at a desk cluttered with all of your tasks, you can easily be intimidated. And what about under your desk?

What really matters when you’re purchasing a new laptop? New York Times writer Sam Grobart suggests that it’s not processor speed or a laptop’s graphics card that counts. Instead, typical laptop buyers – those who want to search the Internet, watch movies, send e-mail messages, and write reports on their machines – look at more down-to-earth measures of a laptop’s worth

Price is a huge factor when it comes to deciding between sticking with traditional telephony services and making the jump to IP telephony. It’s one of the biggest selling points IP telephony providers use to push their technology, and it’s one of the clearest, firmest, more directly measurable ways decision-makers at an organization can see the benefit of switching (more…)