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Raj Deokar, Pink Connect Northampton, was recently speaking to a friend who had just got a new mobile phone. The proud owner of this new piece of kit told Raj,  “it has got all sorts of new features including Bluetooth” and Raj replied, “well that’s really cool, what do you use it for?” to which the answer was,  “it enhances my mobile signal but I don’t use it specifically as such!

Being an expert in telecom and mobile, Raj was shocked by his answer!  So he thought of putting together some of the many ways one can use Bluetooth:

• One of the obvious uses of Bluetooth is to connect mobile to your Bluetooth headset – flexibility and handsfree talk
• Connect mobile to Bluetooth enabled car handfree systems – handsfree talk, handsfree dialling (if mobile accepts voice dialling)
• Connect PC/Laptop and Mobile – data exchange, synchronize calendar and contacts
• Connect to other mobile device – data exchange, play games against another person’s device
• Connect devices to Bluetooth enabled printers – send data to printers without wire
• Connect devices to Wifi systems, TVs  – audio / photo / video transfer (Bluetooth high speed technology) without wires
• Use PC devices such as keyboard, mouse, headsets wirelessly – flexibility without cords
• Connect Bluetooth headset to Landline phone and Mobile phone at same time – flexibility of having just one handset for landline and mobile
• Marketing use – some already use Bluetooth as a marketing tool. E.g. A retail unit transmitting message over Bluetooth about discount offers that can be received by mobile devices of people passing by.
• Some other uses include in camcorders, hi-tech devices and various other industries – there are literally thousands of devices that make use of Bluetooth technology.

More facts about Bluetooth®:

• Bluetooth is a wireless technology (uses r-waves in 2.4 Gigahertz range). It’s secure (as pairing is required), low energy consuming and one of the inexpensive ways of connecting and exchanging information wirelessly between devices. It allows Bluetooth enabled devices to talk to each other over short distances (PAN – Personal Area Network – range up to 33 feet).
• Bluetooth brand and technology is promoted by a non-profit group called Bluetooth SIG (Spec. interest group) so no single company owns the technology.
• The kind of technology that Bluetooth uses dates back to discoveries pioneered by military in 1940s.
• The name ‘Bluetooth’ is from 10^th century Danish King – Harold Blatand or Harold Bluetooth who was instrumental in uniting warring functions!

Are you using your Bluetooth enabled devices effectively?

PS.  At Pink Connect, we provide range of mobiles with Bluetooth and fully installed hands-free car kits that are great value – all with our friendly customer service!

Businesses often overlook the value of keeping their telephone lines up and running.

Some will simply be unaware of the options in place to reduce the time in which a fault on the line can be resolved.

Inbound and Outbound calls, Fax, PDQ, Alarm and Broadband are just some of the services telephone lines are used for within a business. Ideally you would like your lines up and running continuously, without any problems at all. However, faults can occur at any point.

That’s where Care Levels come into place. When you log a fault, the network will respond to a fault based on a priority determined by its Care Level. The different care levels are:

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R.P.Lovatt Insurance have again chosen their long term Communication suppliers Pink Connect in a deal that includes all lines, calls, mobiles, phone systems, ADSL and IT infrastructure. With this deal, Marc Lovatt has fixed the cost of his partnership’s Communication and IT budget for the next five years. Marc said “Pink Connect have been our chosen suppliers for over eight years now. As we have grown they have expanded our systems ahead of demand ensuring we always have the tools for the job. I am delighted to have secured their comprehensive services at a fixed cost with this innovative agreement. I recommend Pink Connect to any company wanting the best solution for their business communications”.

So the last thing you want to do is plug accessories into them that’ll leave wires trailing everywhere, getting tangled up and generally getting in the way. This is especially true of headphones, which have an uncanny knack of writhing away in your pocket whilst your not using them, so that when you pull them out to listen to some tunes on the train, you’ve first got to spend half an hour teasing them out of the knotted mess they’ve become. Until, that is,  the advent of stereo Bluetooth. With a stereo Bluetooth enabled set of wireless headphones, like the new Jabra Halo, you can kiss goodbye to your corded-conundrums and get straight to the stereo quality music. Order yours from Pink Connect today, or take advantage of our August offer and get a free pair with your new business connection.*

*Dependant on value of agreement, naturally!

Management consultancy McKinsey has identified 10 technology trends that will force executives to anticipate and respond to their effects on their enterprises.

• Distributed co-creation moves into the mainstream
• Making the network the organisation
• Collaboration at scale
• The growing “internet of things”
• Experimentation and big data
• Wiring for a sustainable world
• Imagining anything as a service
• The age of the multisided business model
• Innovating from the bottom of the pyramid
• Producing public good on the grid

McKinsey said it identified emerging internet technologies, increased computing power, and fast, pervasive digital communications as key forces changing the management landscape back in 2007.

“Since then, the technology landscape has continued to evolve rapidly,” it said. It noted that Facebook has quintupled in size in two years to touch more than 500 million users. More than four billion people now use cell phones, and 450 million access the web from a mobile. Read the rest of this entry »

A thriving  Limousine business wanted a professional Internet solution for their clients to use whilst on the move. Pink Connect were able to offer the perfect package in the form of 3′s 3G MiFi dongle – allowing up to ten clients to connect their PDAs, smartphones, BlackBerrys and laptops to a single discreet device, enabling  the firm offer truly mobile high speed Internet access. Call us today about taking your business’ wireless network with you wherever you go.

The Soldiers Charity have just extended their Mobile communications package with Pink Connect with a dozen more Blackberry devices. With the growth of their non office based staff, the convenience of email anywhere is really improving efficiency working in the field. “The Soldiers Charity give lifetime support to serving and retired soldiers and their families. They risk so much for us, but for them, it’s “just doing their job”. In return, we provide financial assistance when they are in real need. That’s what we’ve been here to offer for 66 years”. You can contact the Soldiers Charity through their web site: http://www.soldierscharity.org/

UK schools and colleges are to have more control over where they buy technology.

Original article published on comms business news http://www.commsbusiness.co.uk/News_Article_JS1.cfm?NewsID=11465

Stephanie Watson of MZA

UK companies could be missing out on new ways to interact with customers and employees because of their reluctance to follow US consumers’ rapid uptake of social media according to new global comparative studies on the Web 2.0 media in business and customer communications.As well as slower acceptance of social media, a UK study suggests clear differences in how consumers and business use social media such as LinkedIn and Facebook. A study of 1500 UK consumers by Siemens Enterprise Communications showed that a clear majority (over 60%) use social media and nearly one in three (30%) want to interact with businesses via social media.

A separate study of 1000 office workers in the UK by Siemens Enterprise Communications showed that 30% don’t participate in social networking in the work place or aren’t aware of their company’s participation in social networking activity. More surprisingly, over 60% of businesses in the UK still don’t have a formal social networking policy in place.

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT BBC NEWS

The UK is one of the world’s most advanced countries in terms of digital communications, an Ofcom report says.

The telecoms regulator said people in the UK watched more TV and sent more texts than people in many other countries, but had slower broadband.

The UK remains the country with the highest proportion of households with digital TV on their main set – at 88%.The Ofcom study compared the UK with 12 countries including France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the US.
The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Japan and the Irish Republic were among the other countries included in the study.
The report also looked at the communications markets in four “emerging countries,” namely Brazil, Russia, India and China.
It found the UK had seen the highest average rise in TV viewing in 2008, up by 3.2% to 3.8 hours a day.
The average time spent watching TV was 3.5 hours per day across the European countries surveyed, although average viewing time fell in France and Germany.
The UK’s viewing figures were slightly lower than those for Italy, Poland and Spain.
And people in the US watched the most television in 2008 – an average of 4.6 hours a day, which was up 1.8% from 2007.

However, the UK’s broadband speeds were not impressive when compared with other countries, Ofcom said. Only 10% of UK homes could connect at over 8 megabits (Mbps) a second, compared with 37% in the Netherlands. People in Sweden and France also had much faster speeds than those in the UK.

Network speeds
An Ofcom spokesman said the regulator had set out a framework to encourage next generation broadband in the UK.
“We are pleased to see that some companies have already started investing in high speed broadband networks,” he said.

A report earlier this month from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned that the UK risked falling behind rivals if it did not invest in fast broadband.

It placed the UK 21st out of 30 countries in terms of network speeds.

The OECD suggested that countries that invested in fibre networks were likely to see the best economic returns in other areas.

The UK’s broadband population currently stands at nearly 18 million and take-up of the technology is good but there are concerns about how quickly the UK is rolling out super-fast services.

The UK government would like everyone in the country to have access to broadband speeds of 2Mbps by 2012.  And it wants to see super-fast broadband available to 90% of the country by the end of 2017.

Superfast broadband is generally regarded as speeds of 50Mbps or above.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT BBC NEWS