A Two Way Pager Is a Wonderful Communications Solution for Businesses

Communication services are the hub of any business. You and your business partners, and co-workers, need to be able to stay in touch with each other. One of the best, and most cost-effective options, can be to lease two-way alpha-numeric pagers. Two way alpha numeric pagers have the availability of nationwide paging and the bonus of lower costs to your business than a cell phone plan.

By leasing your pagers you are able to have 24/7 support and replacement options. This allows you to be rest assured that even though your employees may not take the best care of your pagers, the pagers are covered and can be replaced in the event of unintentional damage. Also, by choosing to lease your pagers rather than buy them outright, you are able to upgrade when new models come onto the marketplace.

One of the best two way pagers on the market today is a two way alphanumeric pager with nationwide two way paging and internet capabilities. It is small and easy to use with its full QWERTY keyboard.

With these types of two-way pagers, you can send and receive internet e-mail virtually anytime, anywhere. With nationwide coverage, a local telephone number (or an 800 number), and an internet e-mail address, the two way pager provides a low-cost framework for creating a dynamic, online community that goes where you go. You will be able to connect to the internet to check weather, sports scores and news from anywhere in the United States.

If you own a small business and would like the option of having your own secretary without the hassle of hiring one, you can use an operator dispatch service to handle your calls. It is a cheaper option than a traditional answering service. It allows your customers to call your dispatcher, and they will page you with the message your caller gives to them. This service generally runs below $20.00 a month and can be a much more cost effective option than hiring your own staff or using a traditional answering service which will easily cost your business twice that amount per month.

Another option available with many two way pagers is voice mail. This gives your callers the option of either paging you or leaving you a voice mail message you can call in and listen to.

This advanced two-way pager is available for about $200 new or under $60 for a refurbished model. They can be leased for an even better price and with less risk to your business if they are damaged by your employees. Nationwide two way paging plans generally start at about $15 per month and go up from there depending on how many messages you require per month.

Two way alpha numeric pagers can be a perfect alternative to a cell phone when you need to keep in touch but do not need the abilities afforded to you by a cell phone. By leasing your two way pagers you can help to save your business money and also insure you can upgrade to the latest models when they are released into the marketplace.

How To Create 5 Different Playlists For Your LED Screens With One Click

This is another question received from a reader: "I have a question about connection and transmitting. Let's say you have 5 LED boards. Let's say for a sample there are different politicians in different cities and they want to advertise their campaign. Is there a way to advertise each of them, on their city's LED board (all other ads would stay the same on all LED boards). Thanks for all your help!"

This is a great question because it denotes a particular attention to the usability (that in my opinion is at least as important as the LED screen features as brightness, image quality etc...).

Before answering, let me explain one thing: most LED screens are provided with a proprietary scheduling software that you can use to create the playlist of all the commercials.

Important: some of these software are not mandatory (ie. you are not obliged to use the software to schedule your ads. You can use any software available on the market if you have any other preference) but others are (ie. you can not use any other software but the one you were provided with the LED screen).

Of course, the latter option is much more limiting, so when choosing your giant screen, make sure you ask whether the scheduling software can be replaced by another program that you might prefer.

Ok, back to the question: Yes there is a way to show 5 different political ads on 5 different screens that run the same playlist. And it is pretty simple too. In the past I described how the scheduling software works and how you can easily create the playlist of your advertisers. In order to broadcast the same playlist on all the LED displays, but with one single ad different for each city, you can do the following:

First of all, create a generic movie called something like "Political-Ad.avi". You will only use for setting up the playlist with the exact date/time of broadcasting. Then create the playlist that will be broadcasted on all the LED Screens. For each commercial, decide when you want it to play (ie. only on weekends in the evening or everyday from 10h00 to 15h00).

At this point you should have something that looks like that:

ID Advertiser's Name (broadcast date and time)
1. CocaCola-Ad (sunday+saturday | from 18 to 24)
2. Ford-Ad (everyday | from 0 to 24)
3. Armani-Ad (everyday | from 10 to 15)
4. Political-Ad (everyday | from 0 to 24)
5. Siemens-Ad (monday to friday | from 7 to 12)
6. Bacardi-Ad (friday+saturday | from 18 to 24)

Once you are done with the scheduling, you must simply login on the control PC of each LED screen and replace the generic movie we called "Political-Ad.avi" with the right advertising for the candidate of each city.

NB: you don't have to add another political-ad, you must simply overwrite the generic file with the right one you created in the second moment.

Nokia N73: Mobile Imaging of a Higher Level

The Nokia N73 is endowed with all possible advanced multimedia functions to make an impression as a mobile computer than just a mobile phone. Next in line after the highly successful Nokia N70, this imaging wizard is even a great media player, office tool and a powerful communicator. The Nokia N73 is enriched with features that are necessary requirements of your life – both personal and professional. All great tools and functions of this smartphone is accomodated in a sleek candy bar case in colour choices of Silver Grey-Deep Plum, Frost White-Metallic Red and a Black, Music Edition version.

Neat short cut buttons and keypad with a beautiful 2.4-inch (diagonal) QVGA screen with display capacity of 262,144 colours is a sight to behold. The handset's user interface, as well as pictures and videos seen on Nokia N73 come out apt and really clear even under the bright sun. The Light Sensor of the Nokia N73 makes sure images produced does not fade away in different light conditions. The handset's weight of 116 grams seems quite decent for a 3G smartphone with such evolved imaging skills.

The Nokia N73 is loaded with a elite 3.2 megapixel camera module with Carl Zeiss optics. This camera phone has the same feel like that of a digital camera. Sliding protective cover to activate the camera, dedicated capture key, zoom keys gives the handset a feeling of any normal digital camera. Furthermore, full-screen landscape viewfinder, auto focus and mechanical shutter further accentuates the imaging experience. To add fun to it, the Nokia N73 is made ready to share pictures on sites like Flickr.com etc. You might want to stick to the 'old school' of image sharing via MMS or even emails.

The Nokia N73 comprises of number of productive tools based on Symbian OS platform. Voice connectivity via quad band GSM network, data connectivity via 3G, EDGE and GPRS, Bluetooth, Infrared and USB for local connection – the Nokia N73 has it all that you'd expect in an N series phone.