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t is already 2 o’clock in the morning but it looks like mid-afternoon. One day before Christmas, a good number of parents, tourists and New Yorkers are all gathered inside the Apple store in Midtown Manhattan clicking through iPods, surfing the net on Macbooks, and touching the screens of iPhones.

Throughout the night, the staff was kept busy attending to customers and ringing up the orders. The party in this store, as well as in the other 203 Apple stores in the entire world is a glaring reason why the company’s stock has risen up to 135% for the year.

Reminders, alerts, pop-ups, etc. are very important in this busy running world. Multi-tasking is what all of us do and so chances of overlooking certain alerts is likely. But what if we overlook something which is really significant? Not done, right? Yes! As a result, to avoid this confusion, desktop screen pop-up was introduced. Desktop pop-up application delivers integrated web searches with GoogleMaps and GoogleSearch to locate, dial and save new contacts.

Desktop popup application combines the power of the Microsoft, the power of Google, and the power of your Asterisk PBX based phone to speed up and simplify all your phone communications. Desktop applications use Asterisk AMI link to control any phone connected to a hosted Asterisk server, or control any phone connected to a Broad Soft server.

Possible instant messaging and other Asterisk call notification tools you could utilize: include the following:
1. smbclient (SAMBA)
2. YAC (windows & TiVo listener)
3. YAACID (open source in .NET/C#): Yet Another Asterisk Caller ID
4. Jabber (various methods), ICQ, MSN, …
5. Covide (CRM software)
6. FOP (Flash Operator Panel)
7. HooDaHek (collection of CallerID scripts and tools for Asterisk VOIP PBX)
8. App_notify network caller notification. Mac OSX client available (3rd party tool)
9. app_broadcast: Works with YAC etc. (3rd party tool)
10. asteroid (Open source, JAVA)
11. iBCallMan (Windows Desktop Call Manager)
12. PL Call Notify
13. MythTV OSD
14. NetCID (talking callerid)
15. Emerald Caller-ID Search
16. ADM – Asterisk Desktop Manager
17. U-Rang II (Screen Pop Utility for Windows)
18. Asterisk Dial & Announce Tool (ADAT). Free call-notifier (Outlook/CRM integration, event handling, click-to-dial, BLF panel and more).
19. Pbx Screen Popper (Opens a web page on incoming calls based on specific matching criteria)
20. StarJunction Free Edition Caller ID pop. Integration with Salesforce and SugarCRM
21. OutCall (Pop-Up as well as Outlook integration, free and open source)
22. Email
23. CallerIDpop Perl Script
24. DialApplet, Windows, Mac & Linux
25. AsteriskCallNotification Mac
26. Asterisk+Twitter
27. VoIP Operator Free Windows call notification and dialer for Asterisk. Very easy to use and install.
28. InGenius Connector Search-and Dial PC Application, Caller ID pop, integration with MS Outlook, Active Directory and Google. Optional Softphone.
29. Thirdlane Dialer Free dialer and screen-pop application for Asterisk based PBXs. Integrated with Thirdlane PBX and Thirdlane PBX MTE, MS Outlook, any web based CRM, dual-mode – floating or Outlook toolbar, supports call to URLs.

To add to all this, Apps4Rent offers you the best application hosting solutions, such as, hosted VOIP PBX, Exchange, SharePoint, etc. These software hosting solutions has become the preferred way for companies to implement business software.

Generation Y workers in the federal workforce are likely weigh the ability to telecommute as part of their job selection, according to a recent study.

Telework Exchange recently polled people in the Defense Information Systems Agency IT internship program on their priorities, challenges, communication, and workplace culture. The group announced the poll results this week.

Telework Exchange found that the interns place a high priority on information security and balancing security against usability. They also place a high priority on knowledge management.

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If sometimes you feel the urge to look at your email through your mobile phone, most likely you be feeling that it was text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s old hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the invention of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some enhancements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.

The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.

Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.

Michael Dell (Dell) thinks the future of his company lies in reducing IT complexity for customers. “We’re simplifying your client infrastructure, we’re simplifying your data center,” he told attendees at the Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) OpenWorld conference in San Francisco two weeks ago. “And we’re launching services to assess complexity and simplify your environment.” Dell said he plans to triple the size of the company’s services business within three years.

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Mozilla is expanding its browser platform into new realms, creating APIs and a portable storehouse for bookmarks, customizations, passwords, histories, preferences and other metadata. Just like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others, Mozilla wants its platform, called Weave, to serve as a kind of a Web operating system, managing basic services for users (more on Techmeme). Under the auspices of Mozilla Labs, the non-profit also plans to build tools and API’s to extend its framework for creating new user experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Bing was released sometime ago and Microsoft advertised the search engine with the tag line, “Your search has been found!” Is it really as good as they say it is? Well opinions vary for the world is still a Google world with most of the searches done on their huge data centers that has bots or search engine indexers scanning the internet at regular intervals to keep track of new additions to the internet. With the internet now comprised of 155 Billion web sites, that is indeed a lot of information to index and store. Bing may have some advanced search bot that does things faster to give credence to their claims. Read the rest of this entry »

The much loved web browser that has taken the web monopoly out of the much used Internet Explorer has turned version 3.5 when release candidates have been released even as their version 3.0.11 was for distribution. The newest installment is overall way better than the previous ones but they are having to face another problem and it isn’t IE yet, it’s other open-sourced browsers that have made their entry into the web. From Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and of course Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, they are sharing the web they used to own over IE and they are feeling it. The improvements they have included with the latest release is being received well but time will tell if it will retain it’s grip on most of the web browsing crowd. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody knows of the proliferation of mobile apps and the many browsers that allow people on the go to access the internet. It has taken the office out of the workplace and social life into the office. This has caught the eye of marketing specialists who through viral videos and other mobile marketing trends have begun to exploit their ability to reach people even when they are out of their desks. May you be at home or in the workplace, life is getting wired bit by bit and with the many CMS systems around, people are getting the content they need fast while sending feedback as to their reader’s habits allowing well aimed advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

It was 2 o�clock in the morning but in the subterranean retailing mecca in Midtown Manhattan, otherwise known as the Apple store, it might as well have been midafternoon.

Late one night shortly before Christmas, parents pushed strollers and tourists straight off the plane mingled with nocturnal New Yorkers, clicking through iPod playlists, cruising the Internet on MacBooks, and touch-padding their way around iPhones.

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