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Just like the alphabet E defined everything electronic and got tagged on to many words in order to denote the electronic or online nature of things, the alphabet now doing the popularity rounds is M. It does not take a long while to guess that M stands for MOBILE and some of the new terms that are fast becoming part of our regular vocabulary include:

• mCommerce
• mLearning
• mBanking
• mHealth

and so on.

The development of a new connected economy has been made possible by the advent of smartphones. Simply put a smart phone is a ‘phone that does more than just a standard phone…so it is called a smart phone’. Some of the standard features of the new-gen smart phones include all the services mentioned above plus offer you 24/7 connectivity to your email, friends and social media tools. The new smart phones are also highly productivity oriented tools connecting you to your work place and increasing your output even while on the move.

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Are you having a tough time with your present mobile phone? Is making calls becoming a boring and extremely tough job for you? Do you want something that would make life easier for you? Why don’t you try phone shortcuts? This certainly is no joke. The tech and software market now boasts of the most unimaginable software applications that can make phone calls, and not just that, but also iPod operations an easy and exciting proposition for you.

Apple has already introduced it and other companies are following in the same direction. The phone shortcuts can help start the phone applications a lot faster than they actually do. Not just phone applications, but one can also operate and control the iPhone with it. All that one needs to do is to pick up an application and synchronize it with the software.

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Living in the 21^st century is all about being able to manage multiple tasks without losing attention on any single one of them. People are constantly on the go, busy closing deals or scouting for new ones. Hence, when a person is constantly on the run, busy climbing the corporate ladder, it is inevitable that the number of contacts she or he builds is going to constantly going to be on the rise.

But, the challenge is learning how to manage your contacts and not end up losing out on all of them if any single device crashes. Having this kind of a single point of failure can be catastrophic and really make life a living hell if you don’t back all your contacts up somewhere safe. Here are some techniques that you can make use of to have your contacts synced.

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During the holiday season, I received an actual hand-written note from a friend in the mail. Believe it or not, the novelty of it was a highlight of my holidays. We are so far into the digital age (possibly even a texting age) that there are no excuses for poor online etiquette. What are some of your rules in online communications?

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Switching email providers can sometimes seem like an utterly daunting task. From Outlook, its uber easy – all you have to do is export in to a clear and easy CSV file that’s then uploaded to your new email provider, like  mail2web.com. Here’s how its done.

The first step is to open Outlook, go to the File menu and choose the Import and Export option.

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Last week we posted An Exclusive Outlook 2010 Beta Review to some great  comments and positive response. I’m happy to see the vested interest as I bring you our continuation with some tips, tricks and highlights.

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Hi Folks!

Couple days ago, I started using Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta. Office Professional 2010 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher.

My first impressions are very positive: If you have ever used Office 2007, it will be an easy transition to Office 2010. Some of the changes from the technical side are small; others are more significant. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote are different colors and therefore easier to distinguish.  Also, my desktop is usually tres messy but I tidied it up just so you can get a good screen shot… The things I do for you

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Apple is known for loading its software with handy shortcuts and tricks to make your life easier. There are some hidden short cuts in iPhone too. You might have noticed some of them accidently, but there are more short cuts then you know. Let’s begin with button shortcuts for the headset. Check them out:

While not in a call, you can press the button once to activate iPod and playback your music.

When a call is ringing:

1. Press once to pick-up the call
2. Press twice to send the call to voicemail.
3. Press and hold center button for about two seconds to decline the call. You’ll also hear two low beeps that confirm you the call is declined.

While in a call, press once to end the call.

While you’re in a call and there is a second incoming call:

1. Press once to switch the calls and hold the previous call.
2. Press and hold the button for two seconds to ignore the new call.

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With so many smartphone launches coming up, it can be really confusing to choose which smartphone to buy.

HTC, Blackberry, Apple, Nokia, Samsung, and other smartphone manufacturers have launched many new models recently. Here I have prepared a short guide to help ease the confusion.

First of all, we have to clear up the question, “What is a smartphone?”

Wikipedia explains as follows: A smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with PC-like functionality (PC-mobile handset convergence). There is no industry standard definition of a smartphone. For some, a smartphone is a phone that runs complete operating system software providing a standardized interface and platform for application developers. For others, a smartphone is simply a phone with advanced features like e-mail, Internet and e-book reader capabilities, and/or a built-in full keyboard or external USB keyboard and VGA connector. In other words, it is a miniature computer that has phone capability.

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With today’s launch of Snow Leopard, the updated version of Mac OS X, Apple has included a number of improvements, including the highly touted out-of-the-box Exchange support. This includes Exchange support within it’s native applications, including Mail, Address Book and iCal.

Previous versions of Mail have included support for Microsoft Exchange, allowing you to connect to your mail2web Mobile Email Pro account or myhosting.com Hosted Exchange Email using WebDAV integration. This release provides improved Exchange support within Mail by using Exchange Web Services (EWS) integration. This allows for full Email, Notes and Task support within Mail, Contact List and Global Address List support within Address Book, and and Calendar synchronization within iCal.

This raises the bar for Mac OS X, matching a number of the improvements recently released with the Entourage Web Services Edition upgrade and taking it one step further. This now gives Hosted Exchange users a choice to use the tools they are most familiar, be it the built in Mac applications, or the Microsoft Office suite which includes Entourage.
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