Entries Tagged as 'New Technologies'

Mobile VoIP - Here At Last!!!

It has been a while since I was able to write again about VoIP. My last post was (VoIP Review) about a general point of view of how VoIP would soon shape the future of communications. Right now, Mobile VoIP were released by providers such as Skype and Jajah. Cheaper alternatives for consumers and businesses who frequently uses long distance communications. Much cheaper than when using conventional telephone systems using Distance Dialling.

Skype released their 3 Skypephone, a mobile phone running over VoIP which is a stylish mobile phone that calls, texts and takes pictures like you’d expect it to; one can also use it to call and instant message their friends, free, wherever they are in the world. The only downside is that it is only available in selected countries for now. 3 Skypephone has been developed in partnership with the mobile operator 3. It’s available or coming soon in the following countries:

Site5 Web Hosting Service - Are They Insane?

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Site5 recently launched their 5$/month web hosting services with 750GB Premium Web Storage, 7500GB Bandwidth & Unlimited Websites. Quite an impossible treat from a web hosting provider specially in a world wherein profits are more important than anything else. Site5 must really be insane to come up with such marketing plans. Insanity wherein they went all out to provide superb services sacrificing profits just to reach out to consumers and SMEs but without compromising flexibility and quality of service.

WordPress - A Publisher’s Dream Come True!

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Writing has been the one of the oldest art in the history of the world. From the A.D era to the B.C. era & up to the present, numerous writings had been made so that we modern men of the 2nd Millenium would be made aware of the ancient past, recent past and the upcoming future. Writing has been the hobby of men from almost all levels of life. It has been the tool used by all businesses to be able to promote their products and services. No matter how crude their writing tool maybe.

10 Must-Have Tech Tools for 2008

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Anita Campbell, editor at SmallBizTrends.com recently came out with her 10 Must-Have Tech Tools for 2008. It’s a really good list of tech tools or apps that a business person will find useful. Below I have summarized her top ten and added my take on it. For her full article, click here –> Inc.com Technology News

To summarize, here’s her top ten list and my take on them:

Open Office - Sun’s Rays Upon Us

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Open Office is the Open Source counterpart of Sun to Microsoft’s MS Office. Open Office is multi-lingual & multi-platform that is compatible with all major office suites with whatever Operating System that suits one’s needs. It has all the necessary components in an office suite that any user could get hold of. It has all the major components of MS Office and more.

It has its own equivalent for all major office applications in MS Office. It has Writer while there is MS Word, Impress while there is MS PowerPoint, Calc and/or Math while there is MS Excel and there are still lots of new and impressive applications no longer built-in to an MS Office suite.