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Int’l Standard Serial No. - ISSN: 1523-3537 2009-No. 18
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Overwork Your Phones? Here's How...
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Increasingly telephones are intertwined with how we use computers, and there's been a flood of phone-related innovations matching the pace of those for computers. In a very recent development Google has launched it’s ‘Google Voice’ service that delivers a number of useful features starting with a new local phone number that you select and which can ring any or all of the phones and phone numbers that you regularly use (home, office, cell, Skype number, etc.). It’s possible to use that ONE (1) number to never miss a call (Try reaching 2SS.Com on our Google Voice number, just click on the 'Call Me' logo at right or dial direct at 916-283-7964 ) |
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Another useful feature is its interface with the regular telephone system. It may sound convoluted, but it’s surprisingly easy to select a contact online in GMail, and then request that 'Google Voice' place a call. Next it asks which of your phones to ring so you can pick up, then it immediately dials the person you selected.
At 2SS.Com your call is answered by older technology. In sequence we have devices including:
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A box called a 'Communication Director' that answers calls and redirects them to #1=office phone, #2=fax or #3=cell phone
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#1 goes to an AT&T 992 feature phone that was just $28 on eBay. It manages two lines with a display and has all the features you'd expect. When there's no answer our old reliable (vintage 1992) AT&T Digital Voice Answering System takes a message..
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#2 goes to an older PC with a 56K modem (under $35) and WinFax Pro 10.3 (recently under $30 on eBay) that receives inbound faxes and allows them to be viewed before printing, being turned into a PDF, filed away, or discarded as junk.
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#3 goes to a DialMate box (About $110) that forwards the inbound call live to our cell phone.
So whatever your phone requirements may be, we're helped clients implement solutions ranging from:
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Single lines (like ours at 2SS.Com) that are being 'overworked' with several devices and now Google Voice, to...
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A virtual PBx (Public Branch Exchange) that can make a virtual phone system out of the plain old telephone service (POTS) lines you already have and cell phones too! (See the note from our website at left), to..
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Composing a request for proposal (RFP) and then managing the selection and installation of a traditional PBx phone system,
A CRITICAL Update to IE, and more...
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Alert
- CRITICAL Product Vulnerability
issued by
Microsoft for
users of Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7
or 8. Several recently identified
security threats including one that
is considered CRITICAL.
All
of the threats could allow a
specifically crafted webpage to
launch a hostile program on your
PC. For details see Microsoft
Security Bulletin MS09-034 –
CRITICAL at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-034.mspx
You can protect your PC by using the update feature inside Internet Explorer [Tools] and [Windows Update] and running through the update cycle. As a critical update it will be automatically selected. For folks with PCs that are set to automatically updated you can be pretty sure your PC is updated if you use the update procedure and see NO UPDATE titled “Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer”
- 'Windows 7'
? – More
than just 'Windows Vista fixed' read
about what are called “…Many small
but meaningful changes -- and
several large ones too!”
(See the article on ZDNet
at:
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