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Palm Pre

BadBizInc. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:35:53 +0000

Business without boundaries.

The Palm Pre^™ phone lets you tackle your entire workday like never before. Keep multiple applications open and move back and forth between business and life. View your work and personal calendars layered together or separately. See your business and personal contacts in one place. And stay in touch with customers, colleagues, or anyone else with email, messaging, and advanced calling features like three-way conferencing and call forwarding.

Key Features

Email and messaging

Get Microsoft^® Exchange email as it arrives thanks to Microsoft Direct Push Technology.
Send and receive from multiple email accounts including Exchange, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! from one application. Ideal for those who need to monitor several business and
personal inboxes.
View text messages and IM in a single thread, so you can focus on the conversation no matter where it started.

Layered calendars and linked contacts

Quickly access all your contacts. The Palm Synergy^™ feature links them from different sources such as Outlook or Google, giving you one place to find what you need.
View Outlook, Google, and other calendars together for one logical view of your day that also helps to keep your business and personal appointments from conflicting.
Get to meetings on time with automatic calendar notifications, or notify attendees that you’re running late with just one touch.

Multitasking

Keep multiple applications open at the same time and easily switch between them with activity cards.
Save time by searching contacts, apps, or the web from one place with universal search.
Maximize productivity by viewing Microsoft Word, Excel^®, PowerPoint^®, and PDF documents, even while on a
conference call.
Perform business functions with a variety of third-party applications designed for the Palm webOS^™ platform.

Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G

Connect to the web at the speed of 3G for fast data access.
Get safer access to your corporate information. Browse websites using SSL and 128-bit encryption. Connect to Wi-Fi networks with support for corporate security (WEP, WPA, WPA2) and authentication protocols (EAP-TLS, PEAP v1/v2, EAP-TTLS, EAP-FAST, LEAP).
Get where you’re going faster with turn-by-turn driving directions, business look up, traffic reports, maps, and other location-based services with built-in GPS.

Palm Services

Remotely erase data from your device if it gets lost or stolen even if your company doesn’t require an advanced IT infrastructure.
Safeguard important information with automatic backups of selected data.
Keep your phone working well with simple over-the-air
software updates.

Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync^® policy support

Help maximize company security by requiring employees to have a password, requiring alphanumeric passwords of a specific complexity or length, or determining the number of failed password attempts allowed before data is erased.
Set the number of minutes of inactivity after which devices auto-lock and require a password for re-entry.
Remotely erase devices that are lost or stolen. The Microsoft Exchange remote device wipe feature can be implemented by your IT Administrator or through Outlook Web Access.

Breakthrough design

Slide out the full keyboard to type emails and messages quickly and easily.
Navigate quickly with simple gestures on the color touchscreen.
See web pages the way they are meant to be seen in full HTML.
Keep going longer by replacing the removable battery on the fly.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive & Others Die

BadBizInc. — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:33:15 +0000

Mark Twain once observed, “ A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—businessmen, educators, politicians, journalists, and others—struggle to make their ideas “stick.”Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that “stick” and explain sure-fire methods for making ideas stickier, such as violating schemas, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating “curiosity gaps.”

In this indispensable guide, we discover that “sticky” messages of all kinds—from the infamous “organ theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a product vision statement from Sony—draw their power from the same six traits.

Made to Stick is a book that will transform the way you communicate ideas. It’s a fast-paced tour of idea success stories (and failures)—the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher’s simulation that actually prevented prejudice . Provocative, eye-opening, and funny, Made to Stick shows us the principles of successful ideas at work—and how we can apply these rules to making our own messages “stick.”

iPhone 3G

BadBizInc. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:45:54 +0000

Phone, iPod, Internet, and more.

Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one – a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do again.

Phone

Make a call by tapping a name or send a text with the intelligent keyboard.

Phone
SMS

iPod

Enjoy music and video on a widescreen display and shop for music with a tap.

iPod
iTunes

Internet

Browse the real web, get HTML email, and find yourself with GPS maps.

Safari
Mail
Maps

What’s new on iPhone 3G

3G Speed

Surf the web and download email over fast 3G cellular networks.

App Store

Browse games and applications, then download and install them directly onto your iPhone.

Maps with GPS

Find your location, get directions, and track progress along your route.

iPhone in Enterprise

Get push email, calendar, and contacts with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.

Spybot Search & Destroy

BadBizInc. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:38:33 +0000

Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been “hijacked” (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don’t see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there’s no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.

To see a list of threats Spybot-S&D can remove, in the navigation bar at the left click on Support –> Threats. For an introduction to Spybot-S&D, please read the tutorial. If you fear incompatibility with other software you are now using, although we can assure you that there is no danger you can review our compatibility overview which lists some software whose compatibility has been analyzed.

Spybot-S&D can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don’t want them to see what you have been working on. And for professional users, Spybot-S&D allows you to fix some registry inconsistencies and extended reports. A list of all the application’s features is also available.

Ask Sponsored Listings

BadBizInc. — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:16:38 +0000

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• 70% of Ask users don’t use MSN
• 51% of Ask users don’t use Yahoo!
• 31% of Ask users don’t use Google

Connect customers with your business when they’re looking for it –
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drop.io

BadBizInc. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:28:42 +0000

Use drop.io to create drops and privately share your files by web, email, phone, fax, and more. Drops are protected from search engines so you can conveniently share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.
Check out our ‘How To’ video.

Drop.io is an easy to use, online file sharing service that provides users with a simple and private way to share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called ‘drops.’

In just two clicks, users are able to seamlessly create personal sharing points, upload content via web, e-mail, MMS, Facebook, Firefox extension, phone and fax inputs and share it with friends, family and colleagues through drop.io’s various web, e-mail, MMS, twitter, iTunes and fax outputs.

Each ‘drop’ is non-searchable, non-networked, does not require any type of account registration and can be password-protected and set to expire after a period of time.

Drop.io is used by a wide range of users seeking a convenient and secure method for sharing all types of digital content, ranging from mothers sharing baby photos to large companies using ‘drops’ as collaborative workspaces.

FileZilla

BadBizInc. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:59:20 +0000

FileZilla Features

Overview

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Features

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

Easy to use
Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
IPv6 support
Available in many languages
Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
Drag & drop support
Configurable Speed limits
Filename filters
Network configuration wizard
Remote file editing
Keep-alive
HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support

Constant Contact Email Marketing

BadBizInc. — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:44:19 +0000

Look what you can do today!
With Email Marketing & Online Surveys.

Whether you’re looking to send an email newsletter, a high-impact email promotion, an email event invitation, an online survey, or build your email list, discover how Constant Contact can help you get it done.

Email Marketing and Online Surveys from Constant Contact make it easy and affordable for you to connect with your customers or members.

WordPress

BadBizInc. — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:47:47 +0000

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

New to blogging? Learn more about WordPress, then follow the three easy steps below to start blogging in minutes. Or, for the ultimate in ease of use, get a free blog on WordPress.com.

WordPress can also be used for Podcasting.

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.7) is available.