Monthly Archives: July 2010

DIDXchange UK Marketplace Advantages Announced

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor Super Technologies (News – Alert) has announced that wholesale telephony-related companies can join its DIDXchange marketplace and “take advantage of 1000 United Kingdom DIDs at $200 per month,” according to company officials. That price is “less than twenty-five cents per DID VoIP phone number per month wholesale,” company officials note. … Continue reading

Genisys Group Launches Hosted Business VoIP Phone Solutions

By Jai C.S., TMCnet Contributor   Genisys Group LLC, a premier technology solution provider of SANS, disaster recovery, hosting, and many other services has launched its new business class VoIP phone solutions for small and medium sized businesses. Also, the company is offering exclusive savings for the new VoIP solutions. These solutions are custom tailored … Continue reading

Actor Rob Lowe Selects the Panasonic Business Phone System

By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor Celebrity actor Rob Lowe recently outfitted his California estate with a Panasonic (News – Alert) business phone system that included more than 30 sophisticated desk phones and several DECT cordless phones. The Lowe family selected this assortment as they wanted a way to easily communicate from room to room … Continue reading

The Race to 4G: Carriers Compete Over Faster Networks

By Erin Harrison, Senior Editor These days there is a lot of media hype in as far as which smartphone is sexiest and the proliferation of social media and its impact on businesses, individuals and where it will lead the future of communications. However, coming into sharper this focus is faster networks and the imminent … Continue reading

A few minutes in the sky with Richard Branson

Richard Branson at a Virgin America press conference at San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday morning. (Credit:Caroline McCarthy/CNET) Virgin Group CEO and entrepreneurial icon Richard Branson promised “one hell of a party” for the kickoff flight for air carrier Virgin America’s first international route from San Francisco to Toronto on Tuesday, and if the trays … Continue reading

Scientists say global warming is continuing

Warming Oceans Will Reduce and Rearrange Marine Life In two separate studies, researchers find that warming oceans lead to a massive decline in the amount of plant life in the sea over the last century. They say temperature is tightly linked to global patterns of marine biodiversity. Read more on Wired News Black carbon ‘contributes’ … Continue reading

Louvre looks to LEDs to light the way

Louvre Pyramid with its original low-voltage 100W halogen lamps that were installed when it was constructed in the 1980s. (Credit:Erco) The Louvre Museum is planning an overhaul to replace its current lighting with more energy-efficient and cost-effective LED lighting. To that end, the Louvre Pyramid, designed by architect I.M. Pei, will be refitted. Toshiba has … Continue reading

Norway, Sweden to get giant GE wind turbines

An offshore wind demonstration farm with GE turbines. (Credit:General Electric) General Electric has plans to install four 4-megawatt wind turbines off the coast of Norway, and one in Sweden. In March GE said it would invest $450 million over the next 10 years to expand its European wind turbine business. At that time the company … Continue reading

Web campaign vows to blast BP with vuvuzelas

(Credit:Wikimedia Commons) Dissatisfied with what he sees as tepid effort on behalf of oil giant BP to stop the flow of petroleum from an exploded well in the Gulf of Mexico, a New York-based video producer named Adam Quirk has started raising money for a stunt designed to irritate its executives to no end with … Continue reading