Archive for March, 2010
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Small business trends especially small business computing trends are hard to predict. That is why it helps to get a taste of reality from people who utilize technology to run their businesses on a daily basis. Small business owners and employees at the top of the peak are hyped up about solutions with vivid confirmable bottom and/or top line business benefits. They have mentioned that they think that the best way to keep intact is to spend money wisely and to do more for their clients in order to earn substantial profit. A few of the solutions that won the hottest technology awards include:
EzTexting which is a solution that helps easily send SMS text messages to customers to grab their attention and focus at the right place, and the right time. Also, SugarSync, helps clients handle numerous devices, locations, authors and versions, as well as Broadlook Technologies, Inc.’s Profiler which assists you to quickly find key contact details including names, titles, email addresses, phone numbers, bios, media mentions and etc. for companies and imports them to you CRM solution or sales database.
Furthermore, merchants are trying to make a deeper commitment to understand the effect of small business requirements in order to provide more feasible, personal and positive lifecycle experiences and as a result to win small business hearts and minds. Reports have shown that more than 40 percent of small businesses in the US don’t have a website. They have highly engaged themselves in social media venues but still for many the speed of innovation and the universe of social media solutions and options are way too overwhelming.
The recession, globalization changes and the hyperactive pace of technology innovation are the equivalent of an extreme makeover on the face of small businesses. Baby boomers are not retiring, they are initiating new businesses. The fact is that they are showing up from different areas in their experience and perceptions. Places such as digital marketing, social networking and technology. Organizations are becoming more intense about reaching the same destination which is businesses success but they are likely to take different paths in how they evaluate, implement and discover solutions. This is why Vendors are more likely to tune marketing and services to meet these different requirements.
Tags: baby boomers, broadlook technologies, business benefits, business trends, digital marketing, eztexting, hottest technology, media solutions, media venues, small business computing, small business owners, sms text messages, substantial profit, technology awards, technology innovation
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
If you want to freeze a row of titles or categories so that you can keep them in sight as you enter data further down your spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel has a handy Freeze Panes function. To lock a pane, use your mouse to select the row below or the column to the right of where you want to freeze. On the Window menu, click Freeze Panes.
Tags: freeze panes, IT, Mac, microsoft, microsoft excel, spreadsheet, Window, window menu, Windows
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
The iMic is a USB sound device for Macs and PCs – like an external sound card.
It provides better sound quality than the rather poor onboard sound that the Mac Mini comes with, and also provides a microphone/line-in socket which the Mac Mini lacks altogether. This isn’t really core to the media centre but it will form part of the finished project. Learn More.
Tags: external sound card, griffin imic, Mac, mac mini, macs, microphone, onboard sound, sound quality, Technology
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
The San Clemente Carnival is coming back bigger and better in 2010! Dates are Thursday, April 15 through Sunday, April 18. (Learn more)
The San Clemente Carnival is coming back bigger and better in 2010! Dates are Thursday, April 15 through Sunday, April 18. The carnival will feature an Expo of booths operated by youth clubs, non-profit organizations, service clubs, artists and craftspeople, among others. Enjoy mechanical amusement rides and non-mechanical rides for the younger children, a full-fledged food court and covered seating. Onsite parking is free!
A portion of the proceeds raised from the event will continue to benefit the future La Pata/Vista Hermosa Sports Park & Aquatice Center which resumes construction in early summer.
Discounted tickets are available from March 15th to April 13th. Presale tickets offer a 60% savings versus purchasing them at the carnival. Presale cost is $10 for 8 rides. Tickets are available at:
- City Hall at 100 Avenida Presidio
- Recreation Department at 100 N. Calle Seville
- Community Development at 910 Calle Negocio
- San Clemente Chamber of Commerce at 110 N. El Camino Real
SCBPR Foundation Office at 1030 Calle Negocio
Tags: carnival, San Clemente
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Roxana Goharian is the latest edition to StoneHill Tech. She grew up in London and majored in Marketing for her Undergraduate. She has always been passionate about exploring and challenging herself, so she decided to continue her master’s degree in the United States. She recently graduated with her MBA honors degree in December and has been added to our team since February.
Roxana has an interest in numerous outdoors activities including hiking, mountain biking and snowboarding. She is also a big fan of yoga and Pilates. Eventually she wants to become more stable in her career and broaden her horizons. Due to growing up in London, Roxana is more of a city girl and has been appreciating the nature and silence of Orange County.
Tags: city girl, honors degree, latest addition, london, marketing coordinator, mba, mountain biking, new marketing, Orange County, undergraduate, united states, yoga
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
You Tube is a video sharing website that has been profoundly successful over the recent years. People and companies are able to upload videos as well as having the capability to share information on social media websites. They have recently created an automated captioning beta program to the public, for the purpose of helping the hearing-impaired. This feature is only accessible for videos that are in the English language. You Tube is planning on adding other languages and video up loaders can utilize this feature to translate captions in English into any 50 languages. A restriction or two on the auto captioning feature is that it won’t work on videos where there is a lot of background noise and muffled sounds. Ultimately, the auto-captioning feature might help YouTube monetize its videos.
Auto-Captioning works by combining translation algorithms with Google’s automatic speech recognition technology. Auto-captions generate a natural step utilizing speech recognition. Video owners are able to download auto captions for a video by signing into their account and looking for the “English Machine Transcription” track and then clicking on the download button. There are various functions that come with auto-captioning, some of which include helping people word search video content to translating into a person’s native language.
Tags: automatic speech recognition, beta program, captions, google, IT, machine transcription, native language, share information, Social media, speech recognition technology, Technology, translation, Video, video content, video sharing website
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Twitter is a social networking website that shares what is happening with you, and what you are doing on a daily basis that others may find interesting and some can relate to. You can also follow others that you find interesting, for example: your favorite DJ, Singer, and Actress. It is a great way to see what is going on with your Friends /Family members without feeling the need to contact them if you are short on time for conversation.
With technology improving Twitter has announced that it will be introducing “@anywhere” which is a new podium that will allow partner websites such as Amazon, Bing, Citysearch, Digg and eBay to link to Twitter. This service will give the access to twitter users to send and receive messages while they are browsing through these websites. This means that users will be able to follow related tweets without leaving the site and basically this will allow partners to communicate in a more efficient manner in their conversations and their product positioning with Twitter. @ anywhere can be employed with a few lines of JavaScript code.
@anywhere is going to decrease communication obstacles across different social media websites and portals. It will allow conversations to flow rather than having to manage so many different characteristics to engage around content. Right now people can make different comments on each site but they have to repost on twitter. @ anywhere will make it simple for people to share contents and dialogues.
I think this is a fantastic idea. This service will also help marketers in building their brand reputation and promoting their products. It is a tactic for people to involve themselves in conversations that will make them talk about a product or service that they might not even be aware of. A fact is that consumers tend to purchase products that they find out through word of mouth or that are recommended by others. Reading tweets about a product review that links to the actual page, such as Amazon would enable sales of the product.
Tags: bing, bing.com, brand reputation, communication obstacles, daily basis, digg, ebay, HR, IT, marketers, marketing, network, networking website, partner websites, product positioning, promoting their products, Social media, Social network, social networking, Technology, Twitter, word of mouth
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Blackberry has released their newest business server, the BlackBerry Enterprises Server Express edition. Express is a free download, and the licenses are free. It will wirelessly sync email, contacts, and calendars to blackberry mobile phones. Express supports up to 75 users on a shared server, up to 2000 users on a dedicated server, and over 2000 when used with a dedicated SQL server. It can be installed on a messaging server or an Microsoft Small Business (SBS) server. Blackberries on either BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) or BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) plans can connect to it.
Did we mention it’s absolutely free? If you are using BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) to redirect your email to your mobile phone, this will be a great product for you. For more information call StoneHill at (949) 218-1258 or visit BlackBerry’s official release page.
Tags: bes, blackberries, blackberry, business server, dedicated server, enterprise server, IT, microsoft, microsoft small business, mobile phone, mobile phones, Phone, server, server express, small business, Software, sql server, stonehill, sync, synchronization software
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