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Microsoft Corp has incorporated the beauty of the Aero to the accessories surrounding the PC with its latest mouse and desktop set.

The Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 includes an ultrathin Comfort Curve keyboard and rechargeable mouse.  The keyboard features a Windows Aero-inspired translucent design, floating Hot Keys and instant access to Windows Flip 3D.

“This keyboard is a perfect example of Microsoft’s focus on connecting its hardware with Windows Vista, bringing the elegance of Windows Aero to the keyboard,” said Carla Forester, group marketing manager at Microsoft. “The Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 truly brings the best of both worlds together — a beautiful design and a full suite of productivity features — making it the best option for customers desiring a sophisticated accessory for their computer.”

The Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 features advanced wireless technology using 2.4GHz frequency.

Also included is the Wireless Laser Mouse 7000, a stylish, rechargeable mouse that perfectly complements the sleek keyboard. A horizontal charging station included with the mouse provides a sturdy base, and the battery status indicator lets users know when it is time to charge. By choosing a rechargeable mouse, users can reduce their battery consumption by up to 80 percent over three years of use 

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Nobody can argue that communication is one of, if not the, most important factor in business. The next would be the efficiency and seamlessness of that communication. One important component of a businesses communication would have to be the office fax. Considering this fact, wouldn’t it be important for that component to be as efficient and reliable as possible? For this reason, more and more companies are replacing their fax machines with online faxing services.

Internet Fax is simply using the Internet and your email system to send and receive faxes, anywhere anytime. It is mobile, paperless, efficient and you won’t get any busy signals. Plus, there is no need for a second phone line. This extremely useful for companies in remote locations, or for employees who work off-site. In addition, you save yourself the costs of paper and a second phone line.

Internet faxes are private and secure with SSL and PGP encryption. Most if not all companies are compliant with such privacy regulations as Gramm-Leach-Bliley & HIPAA in the United States and PIPEDA in Canada. Your faxes sent and received via email can be protected through PGP encryption.

GoFaxer can help you with all of your internet fax needs. Contact GoFaxer today for more information.

In the new trend of businesses trying to become more efficient, or possibly more eco-friendly, the effort to become paperless has increased.  Still unsure if going paperless is for you, or even how to go about it? Listed below are a few benefits of going paperless, and how to work towards achieving that goal

The most obvious benefit would have to be the cost savings.  The time it takes an employee to print and retrieve paper documents adds up tremendously over a years time. In addition, there is the cost of having to store all of those paper files.

Other benefits include increased security, better disaster recovery protection, environmental benefits and remote access for your important documents.

Don’t worry about all of your current files.  One step towards going paperless is to choose a document imaging system.  They include tools to help you convert paper records into electronic files.  GoFaxer can also help you on your way to achieving a paperless office.  By implementing an online fax service in your office you will no longer have to use paper to receive your faxes.  All you need is an internet connection, and all of your faxes will be delivered to you via the internet.  Contact GoFaxer today for more details.

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Wow, wouldn’t it be nice to have a pen that could record audio AND my writing in electronic format as well?” If so, you’re in luck, the Pulse digital pen from Livescribe just might be the gadget for you.

Pulse can record what you hear or say while writing, talk back and provide visual cues of what you are doing. How does it do this? Let’s just say it’s all in the dots, dot paper that is! When you tap what you’ve scribbled or drawn on the special “dot paper” Pulse works with, you’ll hear any audio you recorded while you were writing. You can search notes on your (Windows-only) PC by typing in a word and having Livescribe’s software find a written match.  Pulse also functions as a basic digital audio recorder.

If this sounds like the gadget for you, you’ll be forking out about $150 - $200. You can only get the Pulse pen from Livescribe.com. Livescribe has informed consumers that it will take approximately a month to receive the item.

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Pope Benedict, in an effort to reach out to young Catholics, will be sending out thousands of text messages to individual’s mobile phones during the World Youth Day in Sydney in July. The Pope hopes this may keep him better connected with the younger crowd.

The messages will contain phrases of inspiration and hope. A digital wall will even be in place at various event sites, along with a Facebook like networking Web site for young Catholics.

“We wanted to make WYD08 a unique experience by using new ways to connect with today’s tech-savvy youth,” Bishop Anthony Fisher said in a statement on Wednesday.

Telstra, and Australian telecoms firm, will be providing voice, data, mobile, broadband and broadcast services for the event. They will also be providing the digital walls at event sites. Telstra plans to recruit 8,000 volunteers, 2,000 clergy, 3,000 media and an estimated 225,000 pilgrims to assist at more than 700 locations around Sydney.

The Catholic Church said it decided to use technology to connect to the estimated 225,000 young Catholics expected to attend the World Youth Day (WYD) celebrations that start on July 15.

Let GoFaxer help you stay connected by delivering your faxes directly to your own personal email box! Contact GoFaxer today for more details.

Parallels Desktop for Mac and Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription are joining together. What does this mean? It means that Mac users will be able to use Microsoft’s Expression Studio to design desktop and web-based graphical interfaces. This move also further strengthens the relationship between Parallels and Microsoft.  

Parallels Desktop for Mac allows users to run Windows on any Intel Mac.

“Including Parallels Desktop for Mac in the Microsoft Expression Subscription gives designers a valuable tool for working across platforms,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. “It is further evidence of the productivity benefits that our virtualization software offers customers, and strengthens our ongoing partnership with Microsoft.”

Sound like something you might be interested in? You won’t have to wait long. The Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription will be available from Microsoft in June 2008, the price $999. And with over 1,000,000 copies of Parallels Desktop for Mac being sold so far, Microsoft Expressions Professional Subscription is expected to be a hit. Or at least Wayne Smith, group product manager of Expression Studio at Microsoft, thinks so,” This combination opens up Microsoft software products to Mac-based designers, which will widen the options for those wanting to design for the Microsoft platform including Silverlight.”

There are always new ways to enhance your computer’s features to work for you. One of those ways is by tossing the fax machine and receiving you faxes online! Contact GoFaxer about online fax services.

Making the transition from LAN to VOIP can be a tricky one, particularly within a business. But the initial inconveniences are well worth the savings VOIP can offer. VOIP can be especially cost efficient if your employees are prone to making domestic long distance calls or international calls. VOIP has some convenient features as well, like sending voice mail messages to your email box. Here are a few suggestions to make your LAN to VOIP transition a little smoother.

Stage it out

Your business lines are extremely important, and no business can afford time without telephone communication. Unfortunately, with all new services there is the risk of initial complications. That is why it is a good idea to move over just a few lines in the very beginning. If all goes well with the starter lines, then proceed to move the remaining lines over as well.

Plan ahead!

Since VOIP is essentially telephone over the internet, your service can be interrupted due to an interruption in internet connectivity. Redundant connections (which can also be aggregated to provide more bandwidth) will prevent loss of your phone service if one ISP should experience downtime. Your VOIP server required power, so you should also prepare for power outages. Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and/or backup generators can be used to prevent any problems with power outages.

Be ware of legal, compliance, and safety issues

If you are in a regulated industry, compliance requirements for your VOIP network is the same as it would be for your data network. Be sure to secure the privacy of client data. There is also the issue of 9-1-1. The FCC requires that interconnected VoIP providers supply 9-1-1 services to their customers, along with obtaining your physical location so it can be associated with your number(s). Just be sure to contact your provider about any location changes you might make.

Another way to save money and provide more efficiency to your business is to contact GoFaxer about ways to receive your faxes online! Not only can your faxes be delivered directly to your email, but you’ll be saving money on fax machines, paper etc. Contact GoFaxer today for further details.

Yahoo Inc. is joining McAfee Inc. in an effort to offer a feature that would alert users of potentially dangerous Web sites alongside their search results. This alert would be illustrated with a red exclamation point and a warning message located near the link that has been deemed dangerous.

McAfee has singled out specific sites, particularly those sites that attempt “drive-by downloads,” or trying to automatically install malicious code on visitors’ computers by exploiting coding flaws in their Web browsers. Yahoo users won’t even see links from these types of sites.

This is all in an effort by yahoo to enhance safety features, and assist in making the consumer more secure in their websurfing.

“When a user gets a set of search results, there’s really no indication of who’s a good guy and who’s a bad guy,” said Tim Dowling, vice president of McAfee’s Web Security Group. “You’re really leaping off a platform of faith that you’re clicking on a site that’s safe and not one that’s bad. And the bad guys really try hard to look good.”

GoFaxer can offer the convenience of online fax along with client security.  All of your important faxes are delivered and stored in your email box, and no one but you has access to that information.  Contact GoFaxer for more information.

From home to the office, everyone is looking for more ways to become more eco-friendly. Whether you’re a believer in global warming or not, you can’t deny that green technology just makes sense, money sense. Many entrepreneurs are turning to green technology to save money in the long run. Yes, some if not most of these ideas to have higher upfront costs. However, in the long run they can save you an immense amount of cash. Plus, you’re doing your part for the environment, what could be better than that! Here are few ideas to green up your home office or business:

Save Power

Did you know that by replacing your incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents you’ll be using approximately 75% less electricity? Well it’s true! Also try adding light sensors so that the lights are only on when there is not enough sunlight to light the place. You can also save up to $750 per year by turning off your computers at night( This figure is based on a 10 computer office, your savings can be even higher if your office is larger!).

For those of you in the process of constructing your new office building, go geothermal. A geothermal system can save a family of 4 in a 1400 sq. ft. house as much as $900 a year. Can you imagine how much it could save your business!

Go Paperless

Everywhere I turn in my office I see recycling bins. Don’t get me wrong, recycling is great! But, how much of that paper really needed to be recycled? I get the feeling sometimes that individuals in an office setting don’t see anything wrong with printing out reams of paper as long as they dump them in the recycling bin once they are done with them. A better solution would be to have the documents in an electronic file so they would not have to be printed. Companies could save themselves mailing costs, paper costs, ink costs, printer, etc. just by going paperless. Employees can participate in automatic deposits, faxes can be emailed along with correspondence, and documents can be made into electronic files. Not only does this save a company money, but it makes these processes much more quick and efficient.

These are just a few of many ideas on how to make your office greener. Contact GoFaxer today to learn how to set up internet faxing in your office.

Project Wonderland is an open-source toolkit for building virtual worlds. They have already improved telecommunications in business by building online replicas of offices or classrooms where individuals can use 3D representations of themselves to attend meetings, classes, etc.The toolkit comes with a prebuilt office environment, but developers who want to design their own world can download instructions on how to do so.

Green Phosphor, a user of Project Wonderland, have taken things a step further by using a business data-mapping application, giving 3D illustrations of data graphs inside virtual world. This gives the user the feel of physically standing in the middle of a spreadsheet.

Wonderland has also differentiated themselves from the competition by adding an audio aspect to the virtual world. With this feature, an individual can more realistically participate in a conference call, class, or presentation. The audio feature has the capability of allowing an individual to be the main speaker by moving themselves in front of the microphone, or you can have a quiet conversation with the individual next to you. There are even private rooms you can use to have side conversations away from the group.

Much like Project Wonderland, GoFaxer is always working to provide new and efficient online services for your business. Contact GoFaxer about our online fax services today.