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!

Joyfax Server

Found this. Hope you will enjoy it!

JoyFax Server is a client/server-base fax software that allows you to send and receive faxes in a network environment by using a public phone line. Our easy-to-use Fax software also can offers the ability to manage your group faxing and the fax contact lists. The Fax server receives incoming faxes, then prints them and emails them to your mail box automatically. Outgoing fax jobs are submitted to the server from Joyfax Client running on the workstations or terminal server clients (Windows Remote Desktop or Citrix Client). Network clients are automatically notified when incoming faxes are received and of the results of outgoing fax jobs.

Are Business-Method Patents on Life Support?

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To us, there’s something oddly comforting when the Supreme Court justices all appear on the same page in a case; when Justice Scalia’s comments fax Justice Breyer’s, which, in turn, echo Chief Justice Roberts’s. If all these big brains see a case the same way, we tend to think, they must really be right.

Judging from the tenor of the arguments on Monday, this seems to be the way things are likely to play out in In Re Bilski, one of the larger cases of the term. At issue: the viability of so-called “business-method patents” — intellectual-property protection for financial strategies, risk management techniques, teaching methods, and the like.

According to Jess Bravin, the Journal’s Supreme Court correspondent, the justices were on Monday “skeptical and at times scornful reception to arguments that there should be broader patent protection for “business methods,” which several justices suggested did little to spur the technological progress that patent laws were intended to promote.”

Bravin writes that on Monday, several justices seemed almost contemptuous toward business-method patents, which they contrasted with inventions such as the telephone or Morse Code that an inventor might devise in a laboratory.

That boded ill for Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw (pictured), who are seeking to patent a method for hedging risk in commodities trading due to fluctuations in the weather.

Justice Stephen Breyer suggested that the hedging method was too abstract to be patented. The applicants’ argument, he said, meant that “anything that helps any businessman succeed is patentable.”

The Constitution authorizes the government to award limited-time monopolies “to promote the progress of science and useful arts,” Justice Antonin Scalia observed. “That meant, originally, and still means manufacturing arts, arts dealing with workmen, with inventors,” he said. “Not somebody who writes a book on ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People.’”

According to Bravin, the justices seemed most torn over how broad to make their ruling — whether to address the Bilski patent alone or try to draw a broader principle.

“How about if we say something as simple as patent law doesn’t cover business methods?” Justice Sotomayor said. That would avoid what she suggested were potential problems with the scope of the Federal Circuit ruling.

At the same time, Sotomayor seemed to realize that such a decision might be fraught. “I have no idea what the limits of that ruling will impose in the computer world, in the biomedical world, all of the amici who are talking about how it will destroy industries. If we are unsure about that, wouldn’t the safer practice be simply to say it doesn’t involve business methods?” she said.

John Moore Joins Exactpro Systems, LLC as Business Development Director.

Hey, guys! How about that?

Exactpro Systems, a consulting company specialising in software development and testing services for the securities trading industry, announces the appointment of Mr. John Moore as its Business Development Director in the UK and Europe.

Mr. Moore has a wealth of legal and business expertise obtained in practice as a barrister and during his successful 22-year career in investment banking. Since 2000, he has been working as a sales consultant and business development manager for leading technology companies.

Iosif Itkin, co-founder of Exactpro, comments: “We are very pleased that John is joining our team. His in-depth knowledge and vast experience will allow us to strengthen Exactpro’s unique value proposition.”

Exactpro Systems, LLC is a US-registered company head-quartered in San-Rafael, California with development centres in Russia and a sales office in London. Exactpro’s services include: intelligent functional testing; test automation; latency measurements and capacity planning; behavioural testing for smart order routing and algo systems; process audit and coverage analysis. The team has a proven track record of creating state-of-the-art test harnesses for
complex distributed trading platforms used by hedge funds, brokers and stock exchanges.

Do you use fax modem?

Hey! Found this article! Hope you will find out something new while reading it! Enjoy!

What is fax modem?

A fax modem is a device which enables your personal computer to transmit and receive electronic documents as faxes. It looks like a regular data modem apart from it is designed to transmit documents to and from a fax machine or another fax modem. Some, but not all, fax modems do double duty as regular modems. As with regular modems, fax modems can be either internal or external, and the former ones are often called fax boards. As for the documents, it must be in an electronic form before we send them through a fax modem, and the documents you receive are likewise stored in the same form. Instead of fax machines, fax modems enables you attached your fax to your computer which makes things easy and convenient. As long as your computer insert a fax modem the only thing left is to backup it with a communication software which could be download anywhere in the internet.
What is the advantage compared to fax machines?
Compared to the fax machines, fax modems offer us the following four main advantages:
Document quality: the document quality transmitted by fax modems is always superior for it was in electronic form, especially the images.
Speed: fax modems can transmit documents at a very high speed thanks to the steady internet, whereas the fax machine can not even touch its tail.
Convenience: with a fax machine, you have to print the document, but the fax modem allows you send it directly.
Price: fax modems are smaller than fax machines not only in its size but also in price. Besides, fax modems require less maintenance
What to do with it?
Fax modems are not extraordinary machines; they are as simple as the regular modems that have the function of sending and receiving fax.
First of all, be sure that your fax modem driver are installed properly, you can use the very popular and free Microsoft Fax software to send and receive fax. And a telephone line is needed for you to connect your computer to the telephone. After everything is done, you can start sending and receiving fax through your computer without a fax machine.

RingCentral’s Fax Service

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One technology, in particular, that is growing in popularity is Internet fax, according to RingCentral, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of Internet phone systems for small businesses.With it, companies can send and receive faxes through the Internet without a fax machine. And since users receive documents online, they can read them on from their monitors.

Here’s the best part. Users can decide whether or not to print the fax, helping them save paper, ink, hardware, electricity and the impact on mother Earth.

“Two things really help our customers to not only be eco friendly, but save money and provide and better level of service to their customers,” Praful Shah,RingCentral’s ( News – Alert) vice president of strategy, told TMCnet in an interview. “First, enabling employees to work efficiently from different locations, like home offices, [helps them] avoid necessary travel. Second, our Internet fax capability automatically delivers all incoming faxes as attachments via e-mail that dramatically reduces waste of paper, and at the same time delivers the fax no matter where the person is.”

Beyond the feel-good environmental benefits of Internet fax, the technology offers significant savings, RingCentral said in a recent blog. For example, RingCentral’s most popular service is a hosted cloud-based business phone system plan called “RingCentral Professional, which of offers auto-receptionist, multiple extensions, voice mail boxes and Internet fax starting at $9.99 a month.

Shah said Internet fax is “significantly cost effective” and also helps users improve their efficiency.

“A business does need a separate fax line,” he said. “There is no need to buy a fax machine, no need to buy paper, and most important, faxes get delivered to wherever the recipient may be, rather than near a fax machine.”

RingCentral Fax over Internet service is easy to use. Users compose and send a fax online to any fax machine in the U.S., Canada, or international destination using RingCentral’s Internet fax software interface. Faxes can also be sent from any e-mail account,Microsoft ( News – Alert) Office program, or any Windows program.