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January 19th TechPoint Tech Thursday
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at Faegre Baker Daniels
Featuring
Gerry Dick
President and Managing Editor of
Grow Indiana Media Ventures, LLC &
Creator and Host, Inside INdiana Business
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| In June 2000, broadcast news veteran Gerry A. Dick and technology entrepreneur Scott A. Jones formed Grow Indiana Media Ventures, LLC, a media company created to deliver Indiana business news and information through multiple media sources. Mr. Dick is president and managing editor of Grow Indiana Media Ventures and Mr. Jones serves as chairman. |
Grow Indiana Media Ventures' properties include Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick, Indiana's most watched local business television program; InsideIndianaBusiness.com; Inside INdiana Business Radio, The INside Edge Morning Briefing and INside Edge Mid-Day e-newsletters and a variety of interactive media products.
More About Inside Indiana Business
Inside INdiana Business is Indiana's Business News Leader.
Grow INdiana Media Ventures, parent company of the powerful Inside INdiana Business brand of multi-media business news products, was created in 2000 by broadcast news veteran Gerry Dick and technology entrepreneur and visionary Scott Jones.
Today, more people access the Inside INdiana Business brand for Indiana business news than any other source. With a fully-integrated portfolio of television, radio, Internet, permission-based email and on-demand business news products, Inside INdiana Business delivers content that is trusted by an educated and affluent audience.
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Inside INdiana Business delivers daily content that can be watched, heard and read in Indiana, Michigan, Illinois (including Chicagoland), Ohio, Kentucky and markets around the globe.
About Tech Thursday
TechPoint's Tech Thursday presented by LightBound includes an informational presentation, networking, drinks and hors d'oeuvres at the Northside law offices of Faegre Baker Daniels.
There is no charge, but please register so that we may provide adequate supply of drinks and hors d'oeuvres.
If you registered but are not going to be able to attend, please contact Elizabeth Anderson at eanderson@techpoint.org to cancel your registration.
Improving collaboration and communication is the goal behind many of today's new technologies, including unified communications. While a massive number of collaboration tools exist, unified communications solutions can help organizations manage the increasing prevalence of fragmented workplaces, including branch and home offices, according to a Tech Leader report.
One industry in particular is experiencing significant benefits from UC solutions: contact centers. With unified communications, contact centers can communicate faster and collaborate more effectively with both other employees and customers. However, this are not the only area benefitting from the technology, the news source reported, as companies across industries are experiencing advantages by moving to unified communications solutions.
Corporations should also address traditional policies that require collaboration solutions to be thrown together on a whim for each individual project. In these instances, once a collaboration solution is chosen, it may be hard for the organization to turn back and change it if necessary. Additionally, since there are so many collaboration tools out there, employees may be using ones that can put them in a legal bind. With unified communications, executives can be sure that employees use legal programs and that each potential problem has a solution, Tech Leader noted.
Unified communications also helps improve collaboration regardless of an employee's location, as it can integrate voice, messaging, email and other communication tools together. This allows employees to work productively no matter where they are in relation to one another.
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You could miss out on a great purchasing opportunity if you procrastinate until after Dec. 31, 2011 when the government reduces this deduction to $125,000 in 2012!
WHO QUALIFIES FOR SECTION 179? More than likely, you do.
All businesses that purchase, finance, and/or lease less than $2 million in new business equipment during tax year 2011 should qualify for the Section 179 Deduction. If a business is unprofitable in 2011, and has no taxable income to use the deduction, that business can elect to use 100% Bonus Depreciation and carry-forward to a year when the business is profitable.
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In the broadband analyst firm's most recent report, Point Topic revealed that VoIP services were the most financially valuable solutions to contribute to the growing value-added services market in 2010. The overall VAS market experienced a 14 percent increase from 2009 to 2010, growing from $129 billion to $157 billion.
The revenues from VoIP systems, not including over-the-top services, contributed the most to the VAS market, with more than $17 billion, according to Point Topic. In total more than 120 million users had subscribed to VoIP systems by the end of 2010.
"The trend we've observed since 2003 reflects the fact that more people are doing more things via their broadband connection," said John Bosnell, a senior analyst at the research firm. "We estimate that at the end of 2010 each broadband line supported an average of 1.95 value-added services. That’s almost four times the average in 2003."
According to a report by Infonetics Research, the VoIP market is expected to continue to grow, eventually exceeding $76 billion in revenue in 2015. This may indicate that more individuals and business will be using their broadband to access the voice services, especially as the Federal Communications Commission expands high-speed internet access to more Americans.
With employee mobility becoming the rule rather than the exception, it is important to address this transition with a clear and flexible business strategy. Designed for SMBs, LightBound IP PBX Heads Up Display Mobile keeps employees productive and reachable even while they are away from the office, enabling employees to stay fully informed and connected no matter where they are.
Available to download in both the Apple and Android app stores, this simple to operate application was built to mirror the user experience of Fonality HUD Desktop client. The paralleled mobile client for your smartphone creates a unified mobile worker that has access to the same telephony features and functionality (including contact center features) regardless of location. Unified mobile workers benefit from:
Finding an Internet Service Provider (ISP), or more importantly the right ISP for your business can be challenging. With all the choices, companies, and important key features to look for, you could end up choosing a provider that isn't necessarily right for your business. You don't have to be a tech guru, but it is important to be educated and to be exposed to the different options and crucial elements involved in selecting an ISP. Founded in 1981, we have served thousands of disadvantaged women and men by providing them with marketable skills and entrée to a viable career path. Training, Inc. graduates are equipped with both the hard skills and life management skills necessary to get and keep a good job.
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November 17th TechPoint Tech Thursday Featuring
According to McCartney, changes, especially in content delivery and digital media, mean that universities-like many businesses-must adapt to new realities or cease to be relevant.
Gerry McCartney has served as Purdue University's chief information officer since July 2007.
Under McCartney's leadership, Purdue has developed the nation's largest cyberinfrastructure for research, with three supercomputers listed in the internationally known Top 500 list. Also during his tenure, Purdue has developed some of the nation's most advanced learning and classroom technologies, including Signals and Hotseat. In addition, in 2010 McCartney provided oversight to a campus-wide restructuring of the information technology resources used by the nearly 15,000 faculty and staff on campus. There is no charge, but please register so that we may provide adequate supply of drinks and hors d'oeuvres. If you registered but are not going to be able to attend, please contact Elizabeth Anderson at eanderson@techpoint.org to cancel your registration.
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Check out this link. Jack Carr, President of LightBound making the big announcement about our name change and new state of the art Data Center located at 650 W. Henry Street.
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/video.asp?itemCode=DkeTHZQ58ViUnOeYCQttXQ6239EQ90L6239EQ90L&v=259&id=562
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