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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
It is instructive to watch, in the wake of the disaster in Haiti, the humble telephone emerge as the planet’s ultimate tool.
In the very first minute after the earthquake, 106 people filed status updates with the word “earth” in them. In the first three minutes, that number jumped to over 700. Since then, updates with the word “Haiti” have been coming at the rate of 1,500 a minute, according to the Mobile Giving Foundation.
But not only are texting, Tweeting survivors alerting the world to their plight, many of us on the receiving end are responding with our keypads, too. (more…)
Tags: Microsoft Unified Communications
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I’m not looking to ride the ink trails of Charles Dickens here, but it’s awfully hard to resist when he laid down so apt an all-purpose summary of a year. Because it is always the best of times—and the worst. A little of this, a little of that. Some highs, some lows. One day you’re an American journalist getting an escort from North Korea by Bill Clinton, the next you’re Taylor Swift and your stage is being stormed by Kanye.
Certainly if you were Miss California or Roman Polanski in 2009, you’ve had better revolutions through the lunar cycle. But if you were Susan Boyle or the guy who won that dream job on that Pacific Island, well, you had yourself a bit of a party over the last 12 months, didn’t you?
As for us here at 360 and our journey through the latest calendar pages, we feel confident laying claim to Dickens’ more positive category of assessment. Prominent among those best-of times was our growth. In spite of the so-called “recession,” we managed to pass another year in expansion mode. (more…)
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
San Jose, CA – December 9, 2009 – AltiGenR Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATGN), the leading provider of integrated Microsoft-based Unified Communications solutions, today announced that it has successfully completed Microsoft’s Open Interoperability Program (OIP) for Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
The testing focus of the program is designed to ensure that vendors providing interoperability with Microsoft Unified Communications solutions do so in a consistent and supportable manner, including SIP and signaling support used with the Mediation Server role of Office Communications Server 2007 and the Unified Messaging role of Exchange Server 2007. Only products that meet rigorous and extensive testing requirements and conform to the specifications and test plans receive qualification. (more…)
Tags: altigen, Office Communications Server, OIP, Open Interoperability Program, VoIP
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
San Jose, CA – December 7, 2009 – AltiGen Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATGN), the leading provider of integrated Microsoft-based Unified Communications solutions, announced today that Firefly Legal Inc. has now deployed AltiGen’s software-based Voice-over-IP solution in 16 cities across the U.S. (more…)
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
There aren’t many arenas on which you can better reveal your currency—or utter lack thereof—than with your phone system. If you’re a business person who fancies him- or herself occupying one of the sharper stops along the old technology scale, but the phone you pick up to announce same dates back to the Ark, you might want to reconsider the assessment.
The sweeping appearance of voice and data networks on the evolving scene put analog, digital and key phone office systems out to pasture. If you’re still punching up one of these babies, though, I wouldn’t despair. (more…)
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Kansas City, MO – August 18, 2009 – AltiGen Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATGN), a leading provider of 100 percent Microsoft-based VoIP business phone systems and unified communications solutions, announced today at the annual Boomer Technology Circle conference that its VoIP solution has provided significant return on investment for accounting firm member Gifford & Cox, LLC.
AltiGen VoIP phone system pays for itself in less than six months
Gifford & Cox, LLC is a firm of Certified Public Accountants and Consultants with offices across Western Nebraska. The firm’s services are provided to closely held companies and family owned businesses such as tax planning and preparation, accounting and auditing.
“Our firm maintains offices in four cities during tax season,” noted Gifford & Cox Partner Kyle Gifford. “During the rest of the year, we provide services from two offices. We had traditional phone systems in each location, and adapting to the seasonal increase and decrease in staff was difficult and expensive to maintain. (more…)
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Revenue generation is a top priority, of course. But it is equally important that the greatest possible number of top-line revenue dollars make it to the bottom line. Radical cost-cutting almost always has its downside, but every business must be prudent in its cost management, for the sake of shareholders employees alike.
For many businesses, particularly those who have experienced strong growth, focused expense consolidation can yield tangible improvements to the bottom line. Travel and accommodation, for example, is a category that can often be consolidated (with the help of an outside specialist firm), to both reduce costs as well as improve the quality of the “road warrior” experience. Corporate cell phones, as well, can often be consolidated into one overarching plan, to achieve a lower ongoing cost structure for this form of communication. (more…)
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Perhaps the most oft-cited benefit of Voice-Over IP telephony (VoIP) these days is the long distance cost savings available to businesses by installing and using this technology. These cost savings are real, to be sure, and can be significant for companies with offices scattered over large geographical distances, especially when there is a need for frequent voice communications with colleagues and clients in diverse corners of the country or the globe. But with global competition forcing long distance rates ever downwards, for many companies these days the real advantages lie in superior features and functionality.
Take the simple example of adding a new employee to your phone system. (more…)
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