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Simple Tips on How Technology Can Help Everyone Be Green on Earth Day - and Every Day: by Verizon

Posted Fri, 2009-04-17 19:26 by Marjorie

NEW YORK, -- A few simple steps are all it takes to conserve energy and help protect the environment. And with today's broadband and wireless technologies, being green has never been easier.
As the observance of Earth Day - on April 22 - approaches, here are some suggestions for using those technologies to help everyone be green:
- Telecommute one day a week or once a month. Working from home using broadband connections, like Verizon's ultra-fast FiOS Internet or reliable High-Speed Internet services, can help reduce traffic congestion and reduce your fuel bill.

Release of Drive Genius 2.1.1.: Announced by Prosoft Engineers

Posted Fri, 2009-04-17 19:01 by Marjorie

PLEASANTON, Calif. Prosoft Engineering, Inc. announces the availability of Drive Genius 2.1.1, an update to its award-winning disk utility.

Drive Genius 2 - Maintain, Manage and Optimize Your Hard Drive. Is your Mac running slower? Is your hard drive filling up and you don't know why? Are you seeing the beach ball more and more? Try Drive Genius 2, the best hard drive utility on the Mac platform- Defrag, Drive Slim & trade; Repartition-on-the-fly and Clone are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 2. And recently Mac Life Magazine awarded it as Editor's Choice awards.

TMCnet has a New Launches: the Series of Marketing Videos

Posted Fri, 2009-04-17 17:01 by Marjorie

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping our clients builds communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. Ranked 3,034 byQuantcast, TMCnet is in the top .03% most visited Web sites in the US.

World's Biggest IPv6: Built by China

Posted Thu, 2009-04-16 17:31 by Marjorie

BEIJING, Apr 16, 2009 -- China has built up the biggest next-generation Internet layer protocol Internet Protocol Version 6 (Ipv6) in the world, said Hu Qiheng, head for the Internet Society of China (ISC), on April 15, 2009.
As its next step, the country will strengthen R&D on Ipv6 terminals and platforms in a bid to promote the trial commercial operation of the next-generation protocol, according to Mr. Hu. China sets an aim to bring the number of Ipv6 users to more than 500,000 for trial commercial operation before the end of 2010.

Economic Slow-Down Affects Business Telephony Shipments in 2008

Posted Wed, 2009-04-15 20:15 by Marjorie

As a result of worldwide economic downturn, global line shipments were down 6 percent compared to 2007, new research published by T3i Group has found.
The report, “Global Info Track for Enterprise Communications Full Year 2008 Report,” states that the price per line also decreased significantly. Last year, global manufacturer revenues totaled $15.2 billion, which is a dip of 8 percent from 2007.

Threats to Voice over IP

Posted Tue, 2009-04-14 18:45 by Marjorie

-- Strong Growth of VoIP Makes it a Target - Recently published reports predict that nearly 75 percent of corporate phone lines will be using Voice over IP (VoIP) in the next two years; expectations are that half of small-to-medium sized businesses and two-thirds of all enterprise organizations will be using VoIP. By this year's end, the global total number of VoIP subscribers (residential and commercial) is expected to reach nearly 100 million users. Because of the ubiquity of VoIP, it is quickly emerging as a new and substantive threat vector to businesses worldwide.