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  Today’s workforce is changing drastically. Employees have become extremely tech savvy both personally and professionally. Those organizations that embrace Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies and initiatives are able to tap into the many opportunities today’s technology has to offer. Here are five key ways the BYOD movement is changing today’s workforce: 1. Employee [...]

Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) phone systems are gaining traction for both personal and business use. What’s so great about online telephony – and why is it grabbing market share from old-line telecom providers? Here are 10 of the biggest reasons: 1. Hosted phone solutions require no on-site equipment. That means you have more space [...]

Whether you’re a longtime iPad user or you just got one as a holiday gift, you’re probably quite familiar with the tablet’s entertainment options. There are, after all, a bevy of apps and platforms – from games like Angry Birds to media services like the iTunes Store – that make the iPad an entertainment powerhouse. [...]

Does moving to cloud just mean hosting your software in a highly available data center? Is SaaS (software as a service) just about using somebody else’s software that’s hosted in their data center? How much spent on a SaaS solution is too much? Where do you break even with a perpetual software fee? Do these [...]

Exciting news: Our senior director of channel and franchise sales, Bonnie Lam, appeared today on BlogTalkRadio‘s Franchise Interviews radio show. Franchise Interviews has been discussing the business of franchises for more than 40 years. Some of the nation’s best-known companies are franchised – including Subway, Jiffy Lube, Quizno’s and H&R Block – so even if [...]

The U.S. economy has been disrupted in so many ways over the last four years. The greatest recession since the Depression derailed growth and caused a huge contraction in retail sales. Fewer dollars being spent had a ripple effect through the economy, as millions of jobs were lost and thousands of companies shut down. The current economic landscape may seem [...]

Another edition of Cloud Chat Tuesday is upon us! This week’s tweets underline the extent to which cloud computing is pervading the business world. According to software developer Parallels, small businesses alone will spend nearly $100 billion on cloud technology by 2016. That’s twice what they spend on cloud services today. Come back every Tuesday [...]

Time for another edition of Cloud Chat Tuesday! We scoured the Twittersphere to find the most interesting and thought-provoking cloud-related tweets of the past week. Any Twitter handles we missed? Share them in the comments section! View the story “Cloud Chat Tuesday, No. 14″ on Storify

You’ve no doubt heard the buzz around cloud computing. We’ve done a fair bit of cheerleading for it ourselves: RingCentral is a cloud business phone system, so we know first-hand that cloud solutions can cut costs and deliver great features. But cloud computing shouldn’t be seen as a panacea. Like any new technology, cloud products [...]

There are simply too many documents that require a signature, too many hand-written notes and too many hand-filled forms for faxes to be eliminated completely. But even as faxing endures, the fax machine itself is becoming obsolete. Online faxing, which uses a PC and your internet connection rather than a separate physical device and your [...]