Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) November 8, 2006 — VoIP Supply, a leading Internet Retailer of Voice over IP equipment, including IP Phones, Telephone Adaptors, and Wi-Fi VoIP solutions announced today that it has partnered with CyberData Corp, a leading OEM design and manufacturing firm, to deliver VoIP Paging solutions to the North American marketplace. The partnership will further expand VoIP Supply’s industry leading product catalog and CyberData Corp’s presence in the North American marketplace.

VoIP Paging is an underserved sector of the VoIP equipment market and with the recent growth in the popularity of IP PBX systems in North America, VoIP Supply and CyberData are in an outstanding position to meet the growing demand for VoIP Paging solutions in the market place.

“CyberData’s suite of VoIP Paging product’s answer the paging needs of businesses making the switch to VoIP,” said Benjamin P. Sayers, President and CEO of VoIP Supply. “VoIP Paging is an underserved sector of the VoIP equipment market and with the recent growth in the popularity of IP PBX systems in North America, VoIP Supply and CyberData are in an outstanding position to meet the growing demand for VoIP Paging solutions in the market place.”

“With broad adoption of VoIP phone systems in the corporate sector, VAR’s and resellers are quickly beginning to move from analog paging systems to networked paging devices that are easily connected to existing IP networks with a single Ethernet cable connection”, said Matt Brahmana, Director of VoIP Product Management.

The partnership will focus on the sale of CyberData’s VoIP Ceiling Speaker, VoIP Paging Gateway, and their VoIP Loudspeaker Amplifiers through VoIP Supply’s Internet Retail and Reseller channels in North America. For more information about CyberData VoIP Paging solutions, or to make a purchase please visit VoIP Supply

About VoIP Supply
VoIP Supply, LLC, is a leading Internet Retailer of Voice over IP Hardware. In addition to a comprehensive catalog of IP Phones, Telephone Adaptors, VoIP Gateways, and Small Business IP PBX solutions, the company offers technical support, extended warranties, and logistical services for end-to-end customer solutions. VoIP Supply was recognized as number 45 on the 2006 Entrepreneur/ Pricewaterhouse Coopers HOT 100 fastest growing companies in the US. VoIP Supply has also been recognized as the fastest growing company in Western New York by Buffalo’s Business First newspaper. For additional information on VoIP Supply, LLC please contact Garrett Smith at 716.250.3408.

About CyberData Corp
Founded in 1974 in Monterey, California, CyberData Corporation designs and manufactures VoIP peripherals that replace analog devices in legacy phone systems. CyberData has more than 30 years of design and manufacturing experience and is known for creating innovative products that use leading edge technology.

CyberData’s reputation for quality and extensive experience has created numerous OEM relationships with companies such as Epson, Dell, HP, Symbol, Fujitsu, NCR, Wincor-Nixdorf.

With easy installation, no scaling penalties, and no contracts, we make it easy for employers to grow the system with their business. At any time, our customers are only paying for what they need.

Telecommuting employees are highly mobile, working from home offices, remote work sites, or while traveling. With FreedomIQ Follow-Me-Live call forwarding, incoming phone calls can reach the employee no matter where they are or what type of phone they are using. Since a VOIP hosted PBX uses the internet to transmit calls, the reach of FreedomIQ is not limited to in-office call transfer like a hardwired PBX.

Telecommuting helps recruit and retain valuable workers. According to a survey conducted by LifeCare, one of the largest privately owned employee benefits organizations in the U.S., flexible work arrangements mattered more to personnel than health care. Robert Half International asked CFOs what incentive was the most effective in attracting top accounting candidates. Telecommuting was listed as the top incentive by a surprising 33% of respondents.

According to officials at FreedomVOICE Systems, telecommuting can also increase efficiency in the hiring process. Recently they created two listings on Monster.com that offered nearly identical technical support positions. One was available nationally via telecommuting, while the other was an office position requiring workers to live within commute distance. They report that the telecommuting listing received over 1,300 views, more than ten times as many as the regional listing. Consequently, the telecommuting listing generated nearly five times as many qualified respondents. Telecommuting respondents had a significantly higher level of education on average, yet their desired annual wage was approximately 11% lower than those applying for the regional position.

According to the General Service Administration, a single worker saves his employer as much as $5,000 a year just by telecommuting. Less money is spent on workstations, maintenance, utilities bills, common office space and insurance.

Despite telecommuting’s attractiveness (including tax incentives in many states), many employers worry about the efficiency of their out-of-sight employees. Christopher Hayes and Chris Lounder of Cruise Adventure Travel shared this concern.

“We determined that the most critical components for our ideal phone service would be a call recording system, a call monitoring system, and most importantly, a system or method to hold all of our agents accountable for their working hours, here or at home.”

After using FreedomIQ for only two months, they discovered that it, “goes a step beyond remote management, and is likely better described as real-time virtual management, not much different than having an actual manager working alongside every one of our agents, even if they are thousands of miles away.”

Using the FreedomIQ WebLINK Internet Control Panel, Hayes and Lounder can listen in on live telephone calls to train remote employees. FreedomIQ service also includes 24/7 on-demand teleconferencing, allowing employers to ensure quality control, keep workers on task, and decrease the sense of isolation felt by some telecommuters.

FreedomIQ allows employers to manage by results, as well. With the click of a button, an employer can generate reports detailing:

• Login times
• Answered and missed calls
• Average and total time on calls
• Number of calls received in a date range
• Duration of calls to specific numbers

While telecommuting with a VOIP hosted PBX has many advantages, an ever-shifting business environment may force the alteration of work arrangements. An employee who normally works at a remote location may need to work for an extended period in the business office or vice versa. The extreme scalability of FreedomIQ gives businesses the freedom to adapt at a low cost. Unlike the additional hardware and expensive wiring of scaling up an office-based PBX system, employers can instantly add or subtract new features and phone stations for their FreedomIQ service.

“FreedomIQ was created with flexibility in mind,” says Eric Thomas, CEO and founder FreedomVOICE Systems. “With easy installation, no scaling penalties, and no contracts, we make it easy for employers to grow the system with their business. At any time, our customers are only paying for what they need.”

About FreedomVOICE Systems:

Founded in 1996, FreedomVOICE Systems (FVS) develops and markets a comprehensive slate of integrated virtual office tools that allow businesses and professional offices to interact more effectively with their customers, clients, patients and associates. FVS’ feature-rich systems and flexible technology enable users to enhance their image, communicate seamlessly whether by voice, fax or email, track marketing effectiveness and promote their service by increasing their availability.

The company offers a wide array of products and services from 800-number toll free services to more advanced unified communications systems like VOIP hosted PBX. For more information, please call 800-477-1477 or visit our web sites.

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Manchester, LA (PRWEB) March 31, 2008 — IphoneUnlocking.org.uk have now produced an extremely easy to use iPhone unlocking software, which will ensure the successful unlock of all iPhones.

With this brand new “one click” iPhone unlocking software, iPhone owners can unlock the iPhone with extreme ease in under five minutes.

The iPhone unlocking software is the ticket to being able to use the iPhone in exactly the way that a user would like. Upon acquiring the software, the iPhone will be unlocked in under five minutes and will enable the owner to begin experiencing the full potential of the iPhone.

The iPhone unlocking software is capable of unlocking all iPhone, from the 4GB v1.0.0 to the latest 16GB v1.1.3.

Unlocking the iPhone will allow the use of any type of GSM Sim card from all over the world. Users can also enable the iPhone to have full iPod capabilities. Aside from the iPod capabilities, you can also use your iPhone to watch YouTube videos and use popular applications such as Google Maps.

Some more great features of using the software to unlock the iPhone is that users will be able to read RSS Feeds, use their client chat interface, and browse the net through the easy to use WiFi connection interface. Another great feature that users will receive is the iPhone Stumbler, which is only mated to the iPhone and will allow the user to view any wireless network in his or her area. Roam and connect at will with your unlocked iPhone.

Not only does the iPhone Unlock Software allow all of these great features, it is also extremely easy to use:

• Connect the iPhone to a computer
• Launch the software
• Click the “Unlock Iphone” button
• The iPhone will now be unlocked

The process will take under five minutes to complete, and is accomplished easily and with no hassles or worries. This is the simplest iPhone unlocking software on the market today, and anyone can easily take advantage of it today for a very reasonable price. Product Reviews Welcome.

If made into a shirt, the fabric could harness power from its wearer simply walking around or even from a slight breeze, they reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“The fiber-based nanogenerator would be a simple and economical way to harvest energy from the physical movement,” Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who led the study, said in a statement.

The nanogenerator takes advantage of the semiconductive properties of zinc oxide nanowires — tiny wires 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — embedded into the fabric. The wires are formed into pairs of microscopic brush-like structures, shaped like a baby-bottle brush.

One of the fibers in each pair is coated with gold and serves as an electrode. As the bristles brush together through a person’s body movement, the wires convert the mechanical motion into electricity.

“When a nanowire bends it has an electric effect,” Wang said in a telephone interview. “What the fabric does is it translates the mechanical movement of your body into electricity.”

His team made the nanogenerator by first coating fibers with a polymer, and then a layer of zinc oxide. They dunked this into a warm bath of reactive solution for 12 hours. This encouraged the wires to multiply, coating the fibers.

“They automatically grow on the surface of the fiber,” Wang said. “In principal, you could use any fiber that is conductive.”

They added another layer of polymer to prevent the zinc oxide from being scrubbed off. And they added an ultra-thin layer of gold to some fibers, which works as a conductor.

To ensure all that friction was not just generating static electricity, the researchers conducted several tests. The fibers produced current only when both the gold and the zinc oxide bristles brushed together.

So far, Wang said the researchers had demonstrated the principle and developed a small prototype.

“Our estimates show we can have up to 80 milliwatts per square meter of this fabric. This is enough to power a little iPod or charge a cell phone battery,” he said.

“What we’ve done is demonstrate the principle and the fundamental mechanism.”

Wang said the material could be used by hikers and soldiers in the field and also to power tiny sensors used in biomedicine or environmental monitoring.

One major hurdle remains: zinc oxide degrades when wet. Wang’s team is working on a process that would coat the fibers to protect the fabric in the laundry.

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The biomechanical energy harvester comprises an aluminium chassis and generator (cylindrical component at the top of the chassis with green plastic attached) mounted on a customized orthopedic knee brace (black), totaling 3.5 pounds. Credit: Greg Ehlers/SFU

Scientists have created a new machine that harvests energy from the movement of the knees while walking.

Six volunteers wore the devices on their legs while strolling on a treadmill and were able to produce about five watts of electrical power each. That’s enough energy to run 10 cell phones simultaneously.

“Since muscles are the powerhouses of the body, my colleagues and I designed our device to generate electricity from the motion of the knee joint,” said Max Donelan, director of the Locomotion Laboratory at Simon Fraser University in Canada. “It resembles a knee brace and weighs about 1.5 kilograms [3.3 pounds] including the gearing and generator.”

Results from tests of the device were published in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal, Science.

The apparatus captures the energy of a person’s movement by coupling an electrical generator to knee motion.

When the wearer extends the knee, a gear on the device turns and spins the generator, which builds up energy.

When the knee is flexed, the device turns off so as not to tax the wearer. The machine senses motion and knows when to activate itself.

The design allows a person to use the tool without expending much additional energy beyond the normal demands of walking. The researchers measured the volunteers’ oxygen intake and carbon-dioxide output to make sure it wasn’t strenuous to use.

Work on a similar device built into a backpack was announced in 2005.

“People are an excellent source of portable power,” Donelan said. “An average-sized person stores as much energy in fat as a 1,000-kilogram battery. People recharge their body batteries with food and, lucky for us, there is about as much useful energy in a 35-gram granola bar as in a 3.5-kilogram lithium-ion battery.”

The device could be used to power computers in remote regions where electricity is scarce, Donelan said.

“The early markets are people whose lives depend on portable power, such as people with artificial limbs,” Donelan told LiveScience. “On the military side, soldiers have an incredible dependence on batteries these days, so both these groups could benefit.”

The latest iPhone features 16 gigabytes of memory and retails for $499. The previously released 8 GB version of the hybrid cell phone, multimedia player and wireless Internet device costs $399.

The new iPod Touch comes with 32 GB of memory and retails for $499. The older 16 GB and 8 GB versions of the combination multimedia player wireless Internet gadget cost $399 and $299, respectively.

The new devices are available through Apple’s online and retail stores. The updated iPhone is also available through AT&T Inc.’s online and retail stores.

Apple said that all iPhone and iPod Touch models come with updated software that the company announced in January. It includes a new maps application and the ability to watch movies from the iTunes movie rental service.

Apple shares fell $2.29, or 1.7 percent, to $129.36 Tuesday.

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