Despite advances in smartphones and SMS, collaborative workspace and desktop-sharing applications, and social networking, there is still no replacement for instant-on text chat via an IM client for our dispersed workforce at NSI Partners, Inc.
There are many options in the landscape today for Intant Messaging clients. Ranging from traditional options such as AOL Instant Messenger [...]
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Instant Communications in the Dispersed Workforce
SMB Cloud Computing with Microsoft Online Services
Cloud computing for the SMB is enhanced greatly by products such as Microsoft Online Services. Including Exchange email and messaging, Sharepoint file storage and collaboration, Office Communicator instant messaging and Live Meeting teleconferencing, organizations traditionally limited by budget or infrastructure are now able to benefit from these newer cloud computing offerings.
The Verdict On HTC Imagio
It is really good — definitely a keeper. It’s hard to figure out–quite a steep learning curve, and I think I still only know about 40% of it. It’s like having an alien artifact: you never quite know when it will start to pulsate or emit bolts of lighting or something.
The breakthrough, though, was when [...]
From Browsers to Buyers
Who has time to wander through a hard-to-navigate Web site to find a product, solution or service? Nobody I know. If that home page doesn’t have what I need or an easy way to find it, I’ll move on.
One study has shown that almost 75 percent of online shoppers do just that, no matter how [...]
Need to take a note? Jott and reQall to the rescue!
Have you ever been running errands downtown and needed to remember something for later, or had your latest business brainstorm? But, you didn’t have a pen and paper!
Jott and reQall are services that allow you to make a call from your cell phone and record a message. This message is then transcribed to text [...]
The Best AntiSpyware Programs
In these days of broadband connections and filesharing you not only need antivirus protection and a firewall but also antispyware protection. If you don’t use it you are only asking for trouble. And while spyware may not seem as big a deal compared to viruses it can be just as bad — if not worse.
Virus [...]
VOIP client software review: Skype and Gizmo
NSI Partners recently decided to begin using Voice Over IP (VOIP) for many of our internal calls. We needed a free and easy to implement software solution that wasn’t a chat client with tacked-on voice features like Yahoo! Messenger or MSN Messenger. A quick analysis narrowed the choices to the two main competiters in the free VOIP industry: Skype, and the Gizmo Project.
