Tuesday, December 08, 2009

RingCentral changes their site design!


Hi guys!

Got some news for you! Today I found that RingCentral have changed their homepage design!
It is more comfortable and easy to use than the previous one, I think.
Now it is easy to find necessary services and it seems to me that many useless info is gone from the homepage, but maybe it is just correctly placed now?
Due to the new color pallette of the page it became more comfortable to read and orient.
As for the main menu, it was also optimized and made like a dropdown menu, everything was sorted by categories, it allows to find necessary info by simply choosing right category tabs.
Fonts, keys and distance between headers were increased and it also makes the homepage more comfortable to use!
Sign up forms are united now and the sign up button was moved to the right part of the page and increased and is more noticeable now.
Also, I would like to note that the new design is modern and trendy, and it is so important in nowadays due to a huge number of sites.
It is clear that the site design change is the correct and necessary company step, because of the specificity of the product, many potential and existing clients come to the site to find information about the offered services and it is necessary to make the homepage maximally informative and comfortable. I think they achieved it!

You can find new design here. I hope this article will be interesting for you. I will be glad to receive your comments!

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

How To Reverse Look Up Cell Phone Numbers? Cell Phone Directory

Some useful info! Read and enjoy!

Reverse phone lookup simply put, is the act of finding out specific information about any particular phone number. This information that you will find includes, but is not limited to:

Owner's name
Owner's address
Owner's other phone numbers
Owner's possible relatives
Owner's possible neighbors
Owner's location

There are many reverse phone lookup directories available online, some are free while others offer their services for a small fee. The free service providers are restricted to providing information on only landlines.

The paid reverse phone look up sites provide information about landlines, mobile/cell phones, disconnected numbers, unlisted numbers, toll free numbers and pager numbers.

The best cell phone directories will make sure they have the information that you are looking for before the system prompts you to pay and they also keep your search parameters confidential. You can use this system for a variety of purposes which range from locating long lost friends and acquaintances to monitoring who your kids call.

Reverse Phone Detective stands out as having one of the most comprehensive and accurate reverse phone search databases on the Internet. Just run a few Google searches and you'll quickly discover they're often the top-ranked reverse cell phone site online.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Get ready: New state dialing system begins Saturday

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The voice differs, depending on where you're calling from. Sometimes it's a man's voice. Sometimes it's a woman's. The tone of voice is often the same, regardless of gender -- calm, measured, almost robotic-sounding.

And the message these disembodied voices deliver is uniform as well: "Your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please hang up and try again."

It's a message that many in the region might be hearing soon if they don't adhere to a new set of dialing procedures. Starting Saturday, state residents must include the area code when dialing any number, including those in their local region. Those who only dial seven digits will be treated to the aforementioned dreaded recording.

The new procedure is supposed to prepare state residents for the introduction of two new area codes, said Phil Dukes, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control spokesman. Starting Dec. 12, new telephone lines or services in what is now the 203 area code area may be assigned numbers with the 475 area code. New telephone lines in the 860 area code region will be assigned a 959 area code at some unspecified date in the future.

The additional codes were required because the number of phone numbers in the tate is increasing exponentially, Dukes said. As recently as 15 years ago, the typical family might have had only one or two phone lines. Now, he said, with the proliferation of cell phones, fax machines and other technology, the one-line home is practically nonexistent.

The new dialing method is intended to reduce the number of people calling wrong numbers once the area codes are introduced. Dukes stressed that no existing phone numbers will be changed as a result of the new dialing regulations. Residents also don't need to 1 one before calling a local number.

For instance, if a Bridgeport resident is calling a Bridgeport resident, they only need to dial "203" before the number. But, if that same Bridgeport resident is calling a long-distance number in the same area code -- Greenwich, for example -- that person will have to dial both one and the area code, just as he or she always has.

The new procedure won't just change the way people dial their phones. All devices programmed with a 7-digit number -- including life-safety systems, fax machines, alarm and security systems -- will need to be reprogrammed.

Some companies have already provided for the change. For example, the alarm company ADT has, for several years, programmed alarm systems with toll-free numbers that are compliant with 10-digit and 11-digit dialing procedures. Some customers with older systems might need to have them reprogrammed. A release from ADT stated that the company has already contacted noncompliant Connecticut customers, and is reprogramming their systems free of charge.

Dukes said, though the new method might be disorienting at first, he's confident it will become second nature to people in no time.

"We anticipate some initial confusion," he said. "(But) eventually, they will discover what needs to be done."

Friday, November 06, 2009

Scientific Advertising And Free Samples

Some useful info you can be interested in. Read carefully!

Interactive television commercials may have more in common with print advertising than today's mass media commercials. Now that cablers are rolling out interactive televisio, we could experience, over the long term, a change in how commercials are made.

Up until this year '' which many consider to be the turning point for interactivity -- television advertising had always been driven by demographics and size of audience. But audience size does not have much to do with the actual product sales generated by each avail. As we all know, advertising's goal is not to drive awareness of the product, but rather to drive sales.

Interactive television has a lot in common with the advertising industry from the early 1900s. As pointed out by Claude C. Hopkins in "Scientific Advertising" (published in 1923) "the cost of advertising largely depends on the percentage of waste circulation." Hopkins felt that each print placement should focus on increasing product sales while also eliminating waste in the advertiser's budget.

Hopkins believed that through "keyed" advertising -- which means by tracing or "keying" results back to the exact advertisement by codes -- companies should be able to improve their ad copy after every placement. Copy would then be tweaked till the sales from that advertisement were continually growing and exposure costs contained. Back in the early 1900s, coupons and free samples helped advertisers track "keyed" advertising. In many ways it is a bellwether that some of today's early interactive advertising campaigns have also involved sampling and coupons.

One of the skill sets required for interactive television will be in creating ad copy and graphics that gets viewers to pause programming and "click" their interest in that product. Today ad agencies, for the most part, rely on sheer tonnage in audience delivery and -- except for toll-free numbers and web sites tracked in a small portion of TV commercials -- don't correlate sales back to the exact copy and avail. In the interactive world every avail can be linked to "click" results and advertisers should be able to remove much of the guesswork out of their television budgets.

While the agency learns how to tweak each campaign's response rates, untested interactive copy should first run in front of tens of thousands of viewers, not millions. I think within a few years a national interactive footprint will emerge and popular campaigns may capitalize on these first-generation technologies. However, even then the smart copywriter should still look to test interactive TV creatives in a low risk way, perhaps by DMA or local broadcast television.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Out of control room

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KANPUR: Meant to help the Kanpurites for registering complaints in regard to any existing civic problem in any locality of the city and initiate action accordingly, the Control Room of Kanpur Nagar Nigam (KNN) seems to be out of control itself and how.

Ideally there should be one officer from each department of KNN to attend to the complaints but the control room wears a deserted look as just one officer is on duty to receive the calls. Consequently, the complaints requiring immediate action get delayed for a more than a week.
Sometimes, the calls go unanswered -- as the officials go missing during duty hours -- forcing the complainant to visit the KNN office and get the complaint filed.

Narrating her bitter experience, Sita Chaudhari, a resident of Juhi said, "Last month due to heavy downpour, there was waterlogging in the area surrounding my house. Repeated calls to the control room to get the waterlogging cleared went in vain as no one attended the calls.''

Finally, after a week, one of the representatives of our locality went to the KNN office to lodge a complaint and it was then only that the problem could be solved, she added.

Notably, the Tax Collection Centre is serving as the KNN's control room as no separate room has been assigned to register the calls.

Further, as per the rule, the two departments should work separately but they are working under one roof. With the department functioning despite inadequate staff, the control room has just one employee deputed to reply to the calls. Officials of health department, sanitary inspector, chief engineer and traffic officer should be present in the control room so that they could take action on complaints as early as possible, but that is not the case.

However, according to KNN officials nothing is lacking in the system. "We receive only one to two calls everyday. The name, address and the complaints of the person filing the complaints is registered and then the information is passed on to the officials concerned. What else do people expect from us?" asked one of the clerks at KNN.

Municipal commissioner, Rajeev Sharma said, "The control room is running on an old pattern. However, under the Public Private Partnership, the project of running a control room would be given to a BPO. 10 toll free numbers of KNN would serve as the numbers for registering the call. Apart from it, a helpline number would also be given for the convenience of the denizens."

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Flight Information Now Available through Toll-free Numbers

Hey! Here is some info for you. Read carefully the text below!

Continuing its ongoing effort to bring Patna Airport at par with other metro airports in the nation, airport authorities on Thursday announced the launching of a series of toll-free numbers that would provide airline schedule and latest flight positions so people could plan their visits accordingly.

Instant flight schedules could also be obtained through text messaging, Patna Airport officials said.

The numbers for various airlines are as follows:

Air India: 1-800-180-1407

Kingfisher Airlines: 1-800-180-0101, 1800-233-3131, 1-800-425-7008, and 1-800-209-3030.

Indigo Airlines: 1-800-180-3838.

Flight information through SMS could be obtained by dialing 03339893333 from any cell phone. This service, however, incurs a nominal charge levied by the phone service providers.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Reverse Phone Lookup - Cell Phone Number Search

Maybe somebody will be interested by these news! Read the article below and leave your opinion about it!

There is a lot of hue and cry about the reverse cell phone look up but how can we know for sure that we can run it on the Internet? Almost every other service provider claims on the internet claim their services to be the best but the reality is very different from what is portrayed. Do you think that the reverse cell phone look up service is really worth trying? Reverse cell phone look up has many advantages and comes in handy on different occasions. With the help of this service you can find any person if you have his cell number. This service helps in locating the address and the complete bio data of that person. You can use this service to find out the addresses of your peers and friends as well as get complete information about the ownership of the numbers you are not sure about. You can also track down anyone who has been frustrating you for quite a while!

Reverse cell phone look up can be run at a large number of websites. You should bear in mind that these services are not free and you can use them to search for residential numbers and business purposes. Since most of the phone directories do not provide any cell phone lookup, many people are of the view that this service does not exist. This is wrong. You can actually conduct a cell phone number reverse lookup by paying some fee to a website and they will help you in getting all the information that you need.

The websites help you in gaining access to many details such as the name of the owner, postal address, phone connection history and details about the carrier. Here, it is important to know that the details may vary from website to website. Generally, the websites provide information for toll-free numbers, landline numbers, mobile numbers, pagers and business numbers.

Start your phone reverse search lookup immediately to discover everything you wish to know about the phone number and its caller/owner.