Many popular services, like Vonage, Skype, and a host of smaller companies offer “voice over IP” of VoIP in lieu of regular phone service. The principle benefit to the consumer or business is cost savings over conventional telephone service.
Our experience with this technology is very mixed. We have a Vonage router configured at one location running [...]
When selecting office computers for daily use, there is a dilemma between cost and functionality. Non-portable desktops and towers are much less expensive than most laptops. Data capacity on laptop disk systems comes at a pretty price and with today’s data hungry applications, especially audio and video, it can be difficult to configure a laptop [...]
There are three major cell phone technologies in use in the United States. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA technology, Nextel uses iDen technology, and Cingular and T-Mobile use GSM. If you stay within the U.S. exclusively and do not anticipate using your phone outside the country, the CDMA carriers will give you better coverage and [...]
One of the challenges of owning a small business is being able to take a vacation or work remotely without losing the ability to service customers. This is particularly true if there is a product involved which you are shipping out yourself. There are many services available to handle order fullfillment, but many small businesses [...]
When going on vacation, most people used to leave the pets behind at home or at a kennel. Now in the increasingly competetive world of luxury hotels, many of them not only welcome pets, they pamper them as well. The Four Seasons chain has had a long standing policy of accepting smaller pets, but some [...]
