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Apple revolutionary vision and the iPhone may have met their match with Google’s Nexus One. While Steve Wozniak is not giving up his iPhone he was impressed with the Nexus One he received from Google executive Andy Rubin. Just how do the two phones compare with each other? You get a 3.7 inch display on the Nexus One compared to iPhone’s 3.5 inch diagonal display. The Nexus One also beats out the iPhone in pixels with 480 x 800 compared to 480 x 320 and 252.15 ppi as opposed to iPhone’s 163 ppi. iPhone capacitive touchscreen is designed to be used with your fingers and has the ability of multi-touch sensing. The Google phone has an illuminated trackball but is capable of multi-touch although this is not the default setting for applications if the US market. You receive 4 GB of storage with the Nexus One but can expand to 32 GB; the iPhone comes in 16 GB and 32 GB versions. Internal RAM is 512 for the Nexus and 256 for the iPhone 3Gs. As for the battery with the Nexus One they have... more

If you travel, have family or friends who live overseas or in another state you might find keeping in touch with a long distance calling card an advantage. You can use a calling card almost anywhere in the world. You are not tied down by a service on a specific land line or service carrier. There are some things to look for when comparing cards: Card Name or Brand – not necessarily relevant except that it is a way to remember the card and keep track of your favorite brand Connection Fees – this is a fee that is charged for each call your make and merchants may give it another name Service Fees – are sometimes referred to as taxes but that is really not an appropriate name. These fees are applied at the end of a call and are a percentage fee. If you do not use up all your available minutes on the card you should consider this part of the cost per minute rate when selecting between cards. Maintenance Fees – are charged weekly, bi-weekly or monthly and deducted from the cards balance.... more

Multimedia cell phones do everything. You can take pictures and videos, play songs and access the internet. You can send and receive e-mail, text messages and communicate through IM systems. Organize your work and life through notes, voice memos, to-do lists and calendar features. Some phone will sync with your PC to keep all your contacts and documents up-to-date. Multimedia Phone Features: Camera – 1.3 megapixel cameras are standard with the best phone offering a minimum of 2.0 megapixels. Features may include the ability to pan, zoom, and flash. You can share your photos through e-mail or MMS. Audio – all multimedia phones will play music. MP3s or another audio file type and syncing with Windows Media Player, Sprint Music, iTunes or V Cast are handled with most phones. You also may have the ability to stream live music from online sites. Video – most multimedia phones display video and many models can play television programs or even capture video. Messaging – you can send messages... more

BlackBerry introduced its first Smartphone in 2002. It made headways in the market by focusing on e-mail applications. The phones supported push e-mail, text messaging, web browsing, and internet faxing as well as being a cellular phone. It brought together all these applications in one device. Blackberry currently offers the following phones: Bold 9000, 9700; Curve 8300, 8500, 8900; Pearl, Pearl Flip, Storm, Tour and 8800 Series. BlackBerry Wallet makes purchasing items from your phone quick, safe and easy. You can safely store your information so whenever you make a purchase you do not have to retype in your saved information. Forms are automatically completed with your name, billing address, shipping address and credit card information. You can store your rewards programs numbers, loyalty program information, rewards points and even gift cards. Login and passwords to your favorite shopping sites can be stored. Finding and purchasing tickets for events through Ticketmaster is quick and... more

When traveling in the past you had to wait until you arrived at your destination or place a collect call from a pay phone if you needed to call home. With the advent of prepaid phone cards those days are gone. You can use these cards from any phone to keep in touch when you are traveling. They are also useful if you have family or friends who live outside your local calling area as a cheap alternative to traditional phone service. You might be surprised to know that the first phone card was introduced in 1976 in Italy due to a shortage of coins available for pay phones. Cards had a magnetic strip that was inserted into the pay phone and calls were places. After thirty years advancements in cards includes the use of smart chips instead of the magnetic strips. By 1992 most phone companies offered phone cards of their own and by 2000 phone cards became available almost anywhere. You can purchase phone cards at gas stations, groceries, and post offices and on the internet. Pay as you go is... more

In the past, communication between any two devices can happen only with the help of wires. When there is a need for communication, wires have to be laid permanently between the devices. This was not a problem when the devices were fixed. Establishing wired communication was limited only by the operational cost. When devices became mobile, the possibility of establishing connecting wires was much reduced. Bluetooth technology was designed especially to connect any two devices within a short range. Files and data can be easily transferred at great speeds between the devices that are connected using bluetooth. Bluetooth technology is more robust. Connectivity is never lost when there are two bluetooth-enabled devices within a specific range. The size of data that can be transferred between the devices is dependent on the capacity of the devices that are connected. The technology structure is uniform and can be deployed in any device that wishes to connect via bluetooth. This uniform standard... more

Latest technologies and high speed Internet has made video conferencing, a dream come true. Now, you can talk to your pals and watch them at the same time. This can be extended to meet business needs. Any type of physical meeting can be conducted virtually using video conferencing. To set up video conferencing, you need some special hardware and software. If you already have an office, you can use any room in your office for video conferencing. If you are building your office now, consider building a meeting room with good acoustics so that you can use the room for conferencing with others. Video conferencing components should be capable of sending and receiving data in terms of audio and video. A high-speed Internet access is essential for video conferencing as the data is sent in the form of packets. The essential hardware components for conducting virtual meeting are camera and microphones. These are the two main devices that capture and transmit video and audio. The camera should... more

Entrepreneurs are looking for several ways to improve customer satisfaction. In the modern world with so many service providers, customers have various choices. To establish your business, you should show to your customers that you are something different and unique. Many businesses still follow reactive approach in handling customer queries. These enterprises react to problems and respond to make changes only when they start receiving customer complaints. In many cases, it may become too late to react. Proactive business model can only be a successful keeping customer happy. Network business intelligence has to be applied to come up with a proactive system that improves quality of service. In network business intelligence, problems have to be identified even before they occur. Several networking problems are known, but determining when those problems can arise is generally very difficult. Network slow downs and dropped connections are known networking problems which can’t be avoided... more

Most of the business communications are happening through VOIP and several organizations use VOIP services to communicate with their branches across the world. The VOIP service providers are ready to provide VOIP service for individuals as well. Every one of us is much used to traditional telephone systems and not many are aware of the latest VOIP technique. Even if people know about VOIP, they are still thinking whether they can be satisfied with VOIP solutions. VOIP is a new technology that makes communication easy and possible with any part of the world. Unlike traditional telephones, data over VOIP is sent in the form of digital signals. You need to connect your computer to internet and login to your VOIP account to use your internet telephone. The greatest advantage with VOIP is that you don’t have to buy any new equipment to use your phone as internet phone. Moreover, you don’t even have to change your phone number. You can use traditional phones and make VOIP calls at VOIP... more

The major aim for any organization is to reduce operational costs and increase profits. With the advent of high speed internet and latest technologies, ubiquitous communication is now possible. Sitting in one part of the world, you can communicate with a person located in some other corner. Video conferencing is a new technology using which you can not only talk but also see a person who lives in a remote location during communication. This video conferencing can be used to execute various business tasks that consume more time and money. To video conference with another person, both the parties involved must deploy some hardware and software essential for carrying our video conferencing successfully. With video conferencing, client interactions can be made simple. The increase in fuel prices has increased the cost of traveling. Generally, business persons travel to another location to meet clients. Client communication can be simplified when you use video conferencing. Time and money is... more