RingCentral Makes SMBs Look Like Enterprises

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When starting a small- to medium-sized business (SMB), one of the most important aspects is to get the name and offerings of the company out into public view. Once this happens, maintaining company organization with employees and ensuring customers are satisfied with the service helps build the company and its footprint.

Redwood City, Calif.-based RingCentral offers features that help SMBs operate just as big businesses do, with a name-brand IP-PBX. For a monthly fee, SMBs can enjoy dial-by-name, on-hold music, call screening, auto attendant, professionally recorded custom greetings, Internet fax and toll-free numbers. Vanity 800 numbers are also available to incorporate the company’s name or tagline.

Officials at RingCentral said the capabilities they offer are more important than the cost savings of Internet VoIP.

“The things that keep a small business from growing are not that their phone bills are too high,” said Jay Blazensky, the company’s vice president of business development. “Their struggle is, ‘How do I look bigger in this brief window when I’m trying to get my business off the ground?’ ”

Currently, RingCentral Online is offering a free trial plus a ten percent coupon off RingCentral Online Coupon. RingCentral Online is a Web-based telephone and fax service for professionals and small businesses with features such as toll free or local phone number and advanced features not found in traditional phone systems.

Nevada toughens data protection law with crypto, PCI requirements

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Nevada is getting serious about mandating the use of encryption to secure personal information. On May 29, Gov. Jim Gibbons signed into law Senate Bill No. 227, which repealed data protection law NRS 597.970, which had been in effect for less than a year. Among other things, the new law requires data collectors to use cryptographic key technology that meets established industry standards and, if they accept credit or debit cards, to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) with respect to those transactions.

In late 2007 Nevada became one of two states in the country (the other being Massachusetts) to depart from a technology-neutral regulatory standard and specifically require the use of encryption to protect certain data transfers. The original Nevada data protection law, which became effective Oct. 1, 2008, provided that businesses could not electronically transmit “any personal information of a customer” (other than by fax) “outside of the secure system of the business” unless encryption was used to ensure the security of the transmission.

Personal information means unencrypted information consisting of an individual’s last name and first name (or first initial), combined with his or her Social Security number, driver’s license or identification card number, or financial account number plus password or access code.

A fax containing personal information that is received by a fax service and re-transmitted to a laptop or mobile phone as an email needs to be encrypted upon re-transmission. In addition, it is unclear how the statute applies to the use of third-party Internet fax services like eFax; businesses that rely on such services may need to encrypt personal information sent through them, since, literally speaking, transmission and reception of data by means of such services requires the data to pass outside of the business’ secure system.

The new style of state information security regulation is more aggressive in some ways than the pervasive but flexible risk assessment-based strategy favored up to now by federal banking regulators. Increasingly, therefore, financial institutions and other members of the financial industry will have to look to state information security law, and not just federal and state banking guidelines, in crafting the architecture and features of their security programs.

7 Ways to Cut Shopping-Related Expenses

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1. Check shipping costs when buying through the internet. Most online shoppers only compare the prices of the products they need to buy without considering shipping expenses. Add shipping costs to the purchase price before comparing.2. Pay off credit card bills and subscription dues on time to avoid interest charges or penalties. Stick to low-interest charging accounts so that if you ever miss payments, penalties will not be too high.3. Shop around before making a final purchase. As a practice, make sure to visit at least 5 stores. List down the offered product features, prices and promotional discounts, if any. Avoid impulse buying, no matter how attractive an offer seems to be.4. Purchase energy-efficient appliances, even if they cost a bit higher than regular ones. In the long run, you will be able to save more.

5. Identify your needs before buying. Do not be swayed to buy a multi-functional printer if all you need is a machine for printing. If you need a printer, scanner, fax machine and copier, though, an all-in-one equipment will cost less than 4 different machines.

6. Greet friends by sending electronic cards or emails. If you need to send a printed card, try making one yourself. It’s cheaper and more personal. Your recipient will most probably better appreciate something you made than something you simply bought.

7. Look for discount coupons and coupon codes before shopping. There are several coupon sites that offer downloadable coupons. Also be watchful of ads on sidebars; some offer discounts that are good for only a limited period of time.

Board to consider second Internet cafe

Hey! The new Internet cafe is going to be opened!

The Wilson Board of Adjustment will consider its second special use permit this year for an Internet-based cafe tonight.

Richard Phillips, of Clemmons, is asking for the permit to operate the business from 1301 Ward Blvd., in the Boulevard Plaza. The cafe will allow customers to purchase time on computers for Internet access, e-mail and sweepstakes. They would also have access to fax, printing and copy services. The business is similar to another, Fish the Net Internet Cafe, at 1700 Raleigh Road Parkway, which received a permit to open in April.

“I think it’s a new type of enterprise that’s going in around the state,” said Kathy Garner, a planner for the city of Wilson.

Also during the meeting, the board will consider: –A variance request to reduce the street frontage landscape buffer at 2410 Montgomery Drive.

–A special use permit for the operation of a chemical storage and distribution facility at 2905 Yukon Road.

The board will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall.

RingCentral named 2009 Webware 100 awards winner

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RingCentral, a cloud computing-based business phone services provider, today announced that it has received a 2009 Webware 100 award for Communication by Webware, a CNET site. The Web 2.0 user community cast more than 630,000 votes in an online voting poll which ultimately selected the winners. Finalists for the 2009 Webware 100 Awards were selected by the editors of Webware.

The 2009 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Webware editors received and reviewed thousands of entries.

RingCentral provides more services than legacy premise-based, expensive phone systems, at a fraction of the cost. Delivering the power of a sophisticated, multi-extension phone system without expensive hardware to buy or maintain, RingCentral offers a complete “PBX in the Cloud” business phone and Internet fax system with no contracts and zero setup costs. The service is instantly provisioned and activated within minutes.

RingCentral’s hosted business phone service combines a toll-free or local number with auto-receptionist, advanced call management, multiple extensions, multiple voicemail boxes and Internet fax; enabling customers to automatically screen calls, use call forwarding, place calls, listen to voicemail and send and receive faxes.

“We thank the readership community and editors at CNET for naming RingCentral a winner; we are delighted to have won in the Communication category,” said Vlad Shmunis, CEO of RingCentral. “This award underscores our commitment to leveling the playing field for our small business customers by providing them all the power of an expensive business phone system – without the hassle and expense.”

“This annual listing has become an essential resource for people who want to learn more about Web 2.0 and the many ways it can help them stay connected,” said Rafe Needleman, editor at Webware and CNET. “The Web 2.0 community and our editors ultimately selected the very best sites, services and applications that have made a lasting impression.”

Fax

Most of us use different technical equipment every day at our jobs. But not many think of the history of different things. Who knows the story of a kettle? of telephone? or fax?
Scottish inventor Alexander Bain is often credited with the first fax patent in 1843. He used his knowledge of electric clock pendulums to produce a back-and-forth line-by-line scanning mechanism. Frederick Bakewell made several improvements on Bain’s design and demonstrated the device at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London.
In 1861, the first commercially exploited telefax machine, the Pantelegraph was invented by the Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli, introducing the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon even before the invention of workable telephones. In 1881, English inventor Shelford Bidwell constructed the scanning phototelegraph that was the first telefax machine to scan any two-dimensional original, not requiring manual plotting or drawing anymore.
Around 1900, German physicist Arthur Korn invented the Bildtelegraph, widespread in continental Europe especially since a widely noticed transmission of a wanted-person photograph from Paris to London in 1908, used until the wider distribution of the radiofax. Its main competitors were the Bélinograf by Édouard Belin first, then since the 1930s the Hellschreiber, invented in 1929 by Rudolf Hell, a pioneer in mechanical image scanning and transmission.
As a designer for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in 1924, Richard H. Ranger invented the wireless photoradiogram, or transoceanic radio facsimile, the forerunner of today’s “Fax” machines. A photograph of President Calvin Coolidge sent from New York to London on November 29, 1924 became the first photo picture reproduced by transoceanic radio facsimile. Commercial use of Ranger’s product began two years later. Radio fax is still in common use today for transmitting weather charts and information. Also in 1924, Herbert E. Ives of AT&T transmitted and reconstructed the first color facsimile, using color separations.
Prior to the introduction of the once-ubiquitous fax machine, one of the first being the Exxon Qwip in the mid-1970s, radio facsimile machines worked by optical scanning of a document or drawing spinning on a drum. The reflected light, varying in intensity according to the light and dark areas of the document, was focused on a photocell so that the current in a circuit would vary with the amount of light. This current was used to control a tone generator (a modulator), the current determining the frequency of the tone produced. This audio tone was then transmitted using an acoustic coupler (a speaker, in this case) attached to the microphone of a common telephone handset. At the receiving end, a handset’s speaker was attached to an acoustic coupler (a microphone), and a demodulator converted the varying tone into a variable current which controlled the mechanical movement of a pen or pencil to reproduce the image on a blank sheet of paper on an identical drum rotating at the same rate. A pair of these expensive and bulky machines could only be afforded by companies with a serious need to communicate drawings, design sketches or signed documents between distant locations, such as an office and factory.
In 1985, Dr. Hank Magnuski, founder of GammaLink, produced the first computer fax board, called GammaFax.

The Online Fax That Simply Has It All For Your Home Business

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“As a consumer, you are bound to make choices everyday – which products to choose, and why you should choose them. The virtual market poses the same dilemma to internet users with nothing less but services and products that apparently, aren’t as tangible as your next grocery items.

There is stable growth in the online faxing industry which is very evident in most sites doing comparative analysis on how one internet fax service measures up to the other. You will just be plain lucky if you stumble on the right page, allowing you to make the right decision to sign up for the right kind of services you need. Put SIMPLY, you are in pure luck.

Simplifyfax is the total package.

Low Monthly Rates. The rates start at $6.95, and for that affordable rate, you are entitled to faxing services within and beyond the internet borders. You can send a fax to a fax machine using your computer, or receive them the other way around. At this rate, there are no contracts, and no setup fees. Bits and pieces of features you find with other online fax providers are provided to you by Simplifyfax.

Outstanding Features. Free services, but can’t receive faxes? Complete features, but extremely expensive? Fast transmission, but no storage? User-friendly features, but poor customer support? Where have you been all this time? Simplifyfax has a wide range of services that tops some of today’s industry leaders in online faxing. While quite a number of them specialize in one area of faxing competency, Simplifyfax has been created to adapt to such fast-growing innovations others boast of. With Simplifyfax, you are rewarded with incomparable features such as fax broadcasting, international faxing, fax archiving, online reports, contact books, cover pages, local or toll free numbers, and basically anything you want to find with an internet fax provider. Yes, you can even have your faxes arrive in your email, too.

Auto Resend. Faxes not making it to their destination is one of the common problems users face almost everyday. An extensive research on this field has allowed the team behind Simplifyfax to build one feature to respond to this ever-growing need to build and strengthen communication ties through faxing via the internet. With Simplifyfax’s Auto Resend feature, every failed fax transmissions are reattempted for another 5 times.

30 Day-Free Trial. Every potential Simplifyfax subscriber is given this great opportunity to evaluate Simplifyfax’s services for a period of 30 days at no costs. You may then reward yourself with a more suitable plan after this evaluation period with one of Simpliyfyfax’s 4 packages that’s been carefully put together to suit varied needs of individuals for personal or business needs alike.

How Do We Differ? It’s quite simple. There is a set of well-experienced professionals in this industry running Simplifyfax to bring the organization to bigger heights. A highly-trained group of technical support representatives are always ready to guide Simplifyfax’s partners – and by partners they mean you, the customers – into making the most out of this online faxing experience. All communication lines are within reach and readily available for contact whether by live chat, phone, or email. Simplifyfax does give a premium on the services they provide for their partners, both with their faxing system and support services.”

2 Simple and Effective Ways to Send a Fax Via Internet

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So more information to think about. Just imagine how easier can be your life with Internet Fax use!

Internet has to be the most revolutionary technology in the history of humanity, comparable to the birth of print and the invention of the wheel. Its big impact on our personal lives and businesses can’t be denied. With the world of communications -and in this case, faxing – there is no exception; nowadays you don’t even need a fax machine, you just need to learn how to send a fax via the Internet.

So, now that you have your document ready for faxing, let’s talk about the two options for online faxing: fax software and Internet fax services.

Fax software include desktop applications that you need to install in your computer to use them. Modern fax software lets you send and receive as well an unlimited number of faxed documents, and well there are even options that act as full-blown communication centers!

Fax software has different features, but perhaps it has a bigger appeal to advanced users and big businesses, because of control and the wide arrange of features.

On the other hand we have Internet fax services; to me using these services is the best way to learn how to fax online. To use them you don’t need to download anything because it is all web-based you just sign-up for an account and you’ll have your user interface online. Of course, there are other great advantages these services offer; in special I like the integration with other Windows applications – so when you are working on a Word document, you can fax it with the push of a button!

These services are very convenient, you pay a monthly fee for a number of faxes, and they even offer free trials for a month!

As you see, these are the two ways you can use Internet to send fax software. Both work, although fax software can be a more advanced option.