EYEMAGINE Gets the Edge With Toshiba's IPedge EP VoIP ...

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 4, 2012 ? Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba) ?www.telecom.toshiba.com, helped EYEMAGINE Technology, an Irvine, Calif.-based eCommerce innovator, meet its communications goals with a new IPedge? EP Voice over IP business telephone system. Founded in 2003, EYEMAGINE empowers Fortune 500 clients nationwide to meet and exceed eCommerce goals by delivering effective eCommerce solutions, including design, development, mobile applications, systems integration, conversion optimization, enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration, custom online payment solutions, and more.

Cindy Natoniewski, EYEMAGINE?s operations manager, specified the need for an IP business telephone system that would meet EYEMAGINE?s communication objectives, which include:

  • Establishing a voice communication presence with an affordable IP business telephone system;
  • Replacing the previous system, which had been outgrown, with the latest in IP technology;
  • Delivering the scalability that allows new users, features, and applications as the company grows;
  • Having an Automated Attendant with different time-of-day outgoing greetings so that incoming calls are always answered; and
  • Allowing users to personalize their telephone features, including their voice mailboxes.

EYEMAGINE turned to smplsolutions of Lake Forest, Calif., an Authorized Toshiba Dealer since 2001.? Mark Gallagher, sales engineer smplsolutions, recommended Toshiba?s IPedge EP Voice over IP business telephone system.? He said, ?Toshiba?s IPedge EP is the perfect telephone system for growing small businesses.? It has all the bells and whistles of a bigger system but is designed for companies with less than 40 users per server.?

Solution:? Toshiba?s IPedge EP Delivers Scalable and Effective Voice Communication Presence

Installed and serviced by smplsolutions, EYEMAGINE?s Toshiba business telephone system consists of:

Result #1: An Effective and Efficient Communication Solution for Callers

Toshiba met EYEMAGINE?s requirement for a scalable telephone solution by providing features required by growing small businesses.? With Automated Attendant, EYEMAGINE?s telephones are always answered with appropriate outgoing greetings, based on time of day.? Users now also have direct-dial extensions, individual voice mailboxes, and the ability to manage multiple lines while receiving important voice mails via email.

Result #2: Unified Messaging and Automated Attendant Improve Efficiency

Unified Messaging enables users to access their faxes, voice and email messages right from their inboxes.? Adding Automated Attendant and direct-dial extensions empowers employees to be more efficient as they receive only the calls that are actually meant for them.? It also improves client communication.? The IPedge EP processes hundreds of incoming calls every month, helping EYEMAGINE employees increase productivity and profitability.

Result #3: Ability to Scale the Phone System Along With the Business

With Toshiba?s IPedge EP, EYEMAGINE has an affordable, feature-rich IP business telephone system that can grow as the business grows.? EYEMAGINE can add and network its IPedge EP with additional IPedge systems and/or Toshiba?s Strata? CIX? business telephone systems.? For remote users, EYEMAGINE can simply add IP telephones without having to install a system.

Bottom Line:? Centralized Toshiba Business Telephone System Saves Costs and Improves Communication

Toshiba?s IPedge EP Voice over IP telephone system met and exceeded EYEMAGINE?s communications objectives.? Bottom-line benefits include:

  • An effective voice communication platform with an Automated Attendant and direct-dial extensions;
  • An affordable Voice over IP telephone system designed for a small business;
  • Flexibility of IP telephones, which can be moved around with plug-and-play efficiency;
  • Cost savings over a digital telephone system as less cabling was needed and Unified Communications was included with the IPedge EP; and
  • The ability to scale the telephone system as the business scales.

?Together, Toshiba and smplsolutions exceeded expectations, giving us exactly what we wanted: an effective telephone communication platform in an affordable IP business telephone system that was designed for small businesses,? said Natoniewski.? ?And, we have room to grow.?

?With Toshiba?s IPedge EP single server solution, EYEMAGINE?s users are empowered to communicate more effectively, be more efficient, and have greater access to their customers, partners and each other,? added Gianna Santi, marketing manager for smplsolutions.

For an Authorized Toshiba Dealer, Visit:? www.telecom.toshiba.com

Source: http://www.telecomreseller.com/2012/12/04/eyemagine-gets-the-edge-with-toshibas-ipedge-ep-voip-business-telephone-system/

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New York's most famous shoeless man stashes new boots

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The homeless man who received a new pair of boots from a police officer in New York's Times Square last month in what became a nationally celebrated act of kindness is once again walking the streets barefoot, having hidden the boots.

Unidentified for days after a photo of him with the boots and New York City Police Officer Larry DePrimo attracted national media attention, Jeffrey Hillman, 54, was spotted without shoes on Sunday evening on Manhattan's Upper West Side, according to the New York Times.

"Those shoes are hidden. They are worth a lot of money. I could lose my life," Hillman, 54, told the Times when asked about the boots.

Despite not wearing DePrimo's gift, Hillman still said he was grateful for the officer's charity.

"I appreciate what the officer did, don't get me wrong. I wish there were more people like him in the world," he told the Times.

Hillman, originally from South Plainfield, New Jersey, served as a U.S. Army food service specialist in the United States and Germany until the early 1980s, according to the Times. He declared bankruptcy in New Jersey in 1993 and has been homeless in New York for most of the past decade, according to the Times and the New York Post.

Exactly how Hillman ended up living on the streets is unknown. His family had not heard from Hillman in nearly a year before they recognized him in the viral photo but said they would welcome him into their homes.

"Jeffrey has his own life and he has chosen that life but he knows that our hearts and home are always open to him," Hillman's niece Alegra Hall told the Post.

(Reporting by Peter Rudegeair; Editing by Dan Burns and Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/yorks-most-famous-shoeless-man-stashes-boots-182026486.html

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Flaherty: Canada economy to grow modestly, debt trend encouraging

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday he is encouraged by steps Canadians are taking to lower their personal debt obligations and that the economy is on track for modest growth.

"We are on track, as we anticipate, for modest growth, moderate growth, in the next fiscal year," he told reporters in Ottawa.

"When it comes to consumer debt, I am encouraged by the reaction of Canadians. More Canadians are paying down their mortgages, more Canadians are paying their credit cards on time. This is very desirable," he said.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Writing by Alastair Sharp in Toronto; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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'E1' may be one Israeli settlement too far

E1, West Bank (Reuters) - The hillside called E1 is one of the few places around Jerusalem that Jesus Christ might still recognize: a stony, dusty, barren slope on the way down to the desert and the Dead Sea.

If Israel carries out plans announced this week, it is destined to be the site of another Jewish settlement city, on occupied land that the Palestinians believe must be part of the state for which they have just won de facto U.N. recognition.

Roads that seem to go nowhere run up its rocky slopes and streetlights provide slivers of shade from the often fierce sun. There is an Israeli police station, but no houses or shops.

Known simply by its administrative name, E1 (East One), this exposed stretch of West Bank land is at the centre of a growing diplomatic dispute pitting Israel against both the Palestinians and also many of its Western allies.

Stunned by the vote last week in the General Assembly that accorded Palestine the status of a "non-member state" at the United Nations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government resurrected an old plan to build on the empty outcrop.

Critics immediately warned that populating E1 with Israelis would cut off East Jerusalem and carve up the West Bank, effectively thwarting any chance of viability for a Palestinian state and thereby extinguishing the Middle East peace process.

"This is not a routine settlement. This is the doomsday settlement," said Daniel Seidemann, the founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, an Israeli non-governmental organization that monitors urban development in and around the holy city.

"The message Israel should have learned from the U.N. vote is that we are on very thin ice," he added. "By threatening E1 you are standing on thin ice and jumping up and down."

That view is rejected by supporters of the project, who say construction is long overdue and represents natural expansion from the neighboring Maale Adumim settlement - a city of red-roofed apartment blocks that is home to more than 30,000 people.

Over half a million Israelis now live on land taken in the 1967 Middle East war, claiming historical and biblical ties to territory that the Palestinians say belongs to them.

The E1 site covers only some 4.6 square miles (12 square km) but is geographically sensitive because it not only juts into the narrow "waist" of the West Bank, but also backs onto East Jerusalem, where Palestinians want to establish their capital.

CORRIDORS

Building on this area would complicate efforts to draw the contours of a contiguous state for the Palestinians, making it more difficult for surrounding Arab communities to link up.

However, supporters of the project say it is not a deal-breaker for any peace treaty, arguing there would be enough space on either side of the hill to enable a broad corridor that could connect the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem, respectively north and south of Jerusalem.

"The media are telling lies about this conflict all the time," said Eli Har Nir, the municipality general director of Maale Adumim.

"You can't even see Jerusalem from here. There is still six kilometers of open land that does not belong to E1 or to Maale Adumim," he said, arguing that this space could be used to build roads for Palestinians.

Israel's closest ally, the United States, sees it differently and successive administrations have cautioned against any building on the largely unpopulated expanse of E1.

The White House swiftly denounced Friday's announcement, which came along with news that the government also plans to build 3,000 additional homes in other, undisclosed West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements.

A number of European Union governments went further, with Britain, France and Sweden summoning their respective Israeli ambassadors to protest at what they saw as an unacceptable reprisal against the Palestinians for the U.N. vote.

The mood in neighboring Maale Adumim was more celebratory of the Israeli move. Locals urged Netanyahu not to buckle under pressure but to push ahead with the long-delayed E1 plans.

"Successive governments have all promised to build here, but what you can see around me are empty hills, rocks and sand, not apartments," said Maale Adumim mayor Benny Kashriel.

"I hope that this government, with this decision, will come through immediately," he told reporters gathered on top of E1.

Israelis have already named the prospective settlement Mevasseret Adumim - Tidings of Adumim. Maale Adumim itself means Red Heights - a reference to the surrounding mountains that glow at sunset.

Preparation for building started long ago and a sealed-off bridge stands ready to link Maale Adumim with its projected sister settlement, while a major road intersection swings up into E1 from the highway that heads down to the nearby Dead Sea.

If you take the exit today, the only people you are likely to find are Bedouin shepherds following their ragged goat herds in search of the occasional tuft of grass.

Israeli authorities drew up plans in 2006 to move the Arab Bedouin to another site. They have yet to act on it, but rights groups say the project is specifically designed to clear the way for E1 development.

Israel's Maariv newspaper said on Monday that the Israeli planning committee for the West Bank would convene on Wednesday to approve plans for public review. Without further delays, the earth-movers could be sent in within a year.

(Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Alastair Macdonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/doomsday-hill-may-one-israeli-settlement-too-far-162433380.html

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Mercedes-Benz Leasing eyes MNCs - The Nation

Sucheera Pinijparakarn
The Nation December 3, 2012 1:00 am

Managing director Supavut Jiramanusnakorn said last week that the company will segment its target market based on age, country and income so that it can offer appropriate financial programmes to customers.

The company will go after successful executives aged under 30 in line with its study that showed that those young professionals prefer comfort, flexibility, individual lifestyles and firm financial status, he said.

Its loan portfolio of Bt14 billion represents mostly individuals and SMEs, while multinational corporations (MNCs) account for less than 3 per cent. The share of corporate customers is set to jump to 10 per cent next year.

The company earlier aimed at capturing individuals and SMEs, but it realised that segmentation is important for developing financial programmes and growing its portfolio.

MNCs are expected to move towards investing in Asean especially in Thailand because it is the best transit country for foreign businesses looking to expand in the region. Thailand is a country that welcomes investment, while Asean is in the spotlight of many European countries that want to build their business amid the economic slowdown in the eurozone.

More Japanese companies are expected to come here after they experienced that investing in China was uncomfortable for them.

Marketing activities will be aggressive next year, when the company will promote financial lease programmes to MNCs through associations such as the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce. It will also rope in

Japanese companies that are not involved with the automobile industry.

Besides their investing, MNCs are interesting because of their policy of giving car allowances ranging from Bt60,000 to Bt100,000 per month to their executives.

"We will chase companies with an allowance budget of Bt60,000-Bt70,000 because current financial programmes such as SmartDrive, which was introduced in the first half of this year, will draw MNCs from Europe and Japan," he said.

SmartDrive is a leasing scheme for corporate customers wanting to qualify for tax benefits with flexibility in the form of instalment plans and a chance to change to a newer vehicle at the end of the term.

The programme was popular in Europe, where this kind of financial lease is 40-50 per cent of the loan portfolio.

In Thailand, customers still prefer vehicle ownership rather than trading up to a newer vehicle, but the new generation, especially younger executives or executives who graduated abroad, will play a role in changing the market.

Financial programmes like SmartDrive in Thailand will grow more popular in five years. SmartDrive will increase to 30-40 per cent of the loan portfolio in five to seven years from 5-10 per cent this year.

The stable interest rate is a positive factor for leasing companies and Mercedes expects its loan portfolio will be at least 15 per cent bigger next year, he added.

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Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Mercedes-Benz-Leasing-eyes-MNCs-30195461.html

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Retailers' price war can save you big bucks

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This holiday season, the hottest trend among retailers isn't found on a store shelf. It's taking place at the cash register.

Major retailers, from Best Buy to Toys R Us, are promising to match their competitors' prices. Generally customers just need to bring in an advertisement or printout to prove that the same item is available elsewhere at a lower price. In some cases, shoppers can come back with a receipt and get a refund for the difference if the price of an item they bought fell.

Best Buy, Target, Walmart and Sears offer price matching to customers all year round. But what's different now is that Best Buy and Target are matching online retailers such as Amazon.com for the first time. That's a big deal, since online prices tend to be lower than those at stores.

Shoppers will be able to save some extra money, but they're going to have to read a lot of fine print to do so.

"Price matching sounds good, but there are so many exclusions, it sometimes isn't as good as it sounds," says Edgar Dworsky, the founder of ConsumerWorld.org, which tracks deals for shoppers.

For instance, Target limits the number of online retailers that it will price match against to just five. Best Buy has selected 20, but only matched online prices from Nov. 1 to Nov. 17 and will start again from Nov. 27 to Dec. 24.

Toys R Us is offering price matching for the first time and will only match prices that customers find in other brick-and-mortar stores. Walmart also matches against in-store prices. However, both retailers will match prices found on their own websites if the prices are lower than what you find in their stores. It's not uncommon for retailers to offer steeper discounts online than in their actual stores. (But Toys R Us says it won't match prices on its own website if the item is marked as an "online-only price.")

Even the most experienced bargain hunters can get tripped up by all the rules. But shoppers can save some money if they're diligent.

"It really is a way to save money and shop at the store you want instead of one that's inconvenient," says Dworsky.

Here are five ways to get the most out of price matching offers:

1. Know the policy
If you want to take advantage of a price match offer, read the store's policy closely. You can find the guidelines on the store's website.

Print out the policy and bring it with you. Having a hard copy will be helpful if you need to argue your case.

"Know their policy backwards or you may be bluffed into thinking something doesn't qualify," says Dworsky.

2. Bring proof
Always bring the advertisement or the printed web page for the item you want to price match. Walmart doesn't require bringing the ad because it says cashiers have access to all local advertisements. But Dworsky recommends bringing ads in anyway. If there's any confusion, you'll be better prepared to make your case no matter where you shop.

The cashiers and customer representatives are always looking for a reason not to approve the transaction, says Dworsky.

3. Save receipts
Some retailers will give you money back if you see a lower price after you buy an item. Keep a hold of your receipts and, particularly for big-ticket items, continue to look for lower prices.

Best Buy will issue refunds until the end of January. Toys R Us lets you seek a refund up to seven days after buying an item. Sears customers can get a refund after 14 days. Target is letting customer's price match against brick-and-mortar retailers until Dec. 24 for any item bought after Nov. 1. You can only ask Target to match the price of an online retailer until Dec. 16.

4. Go straight to the customer service desk
Many retailers have hired cashiers specifically for the holiday rush, so the new employees may not be up-to-speed on the store's price-matching policy. Heather Wheeler, who runs savings website TheKrazyCouponLady.com, recommends handling the transaction at the customer service desk instead on the cashier.

"(Those staffers are) trained a little more and are more knowledgeable," says Wheeler.

5. Look beyond retailers
You can also price match depending on how you pay. PayPal, the payment processer, promises to match a lower price if you've already made a purchase using the service. That includes airline tickets. PayPal will match the prices of retailers that don't let customers use PayPal, however. Just fill out a form and upload a receipt when you find a lower price. PayPal will give you back up to $1,000 for all purchases made until Dec. 31.

You should also ask your credit card company to see if it offers price matching. It's rare, but there are a few cards that do.

Citi just launched a program for its credit card holders. Called the Citi Price Rewind program, it promises to do the work for you. Register your purchases made on the Citi credit card online and it will send you a check for the difference if it finds a lower price from an online retailer.

The program is aimed at pricier purchases: It will only issue a discount if the price difference is $25 or more. Citi will give you the amount up to $250 for each item, and up to $1,000 a year. Of course, you're going to need pay your credit card bill in full and not incur interest charges to truly make this a deal.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/retailers-price-war-can-save-shoppers-big-bucks-1C7308451

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    Bersani wins big in Italian centre-left primary

    ROME (Reuters) - Pier Luigi Bersani won a run-off primary by a huge margin on Sunday to become the Italian centre-left candidate for prime minister in national elections early next year.

    Bersani has said repeatedly that in power he would stick to tough budget commitments made by technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti, but seek to soften the impact on workers and the poor and put more emphasis on economic growth.

    Markets have expressed some wariness over an alliance between Bersani, who is head of the center-left Democratic Party and a former communist, and a party called Left, Ecology and Freedom.

    "They won and we did not," Bersani's rival for the center-left candidacy, fellow Democratic Party member Matteo Renzi, said at a rally in his native Florence, where he conceded defeat.

    "Congratulations and we wish you well."

    With some 80 percent of the 9,200 polling places reporting, Bersani had 60.8 percent of votes to 39.1 percent for Renzi. The results were in line with two exit polls.

    Bersani, 61, will now stand in national elections, likely in March, against a still-to-be-chosen center-right candidate to take over from Monti.

    The contrast was strong between the bald, slow speaking professorial Bersani and Renzi, who bounced around platforms at rallies in open shirts and jeans.

    Renzi had painted himself as a Kennedy-esque reformer, saying Italy's largest center-left party needed a big shakeup.

    He had accused the older generation of the Democratic Party of failing to present a credible alternative, allowing former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center right to govern for so long.

    Monti, favorite of the business community, has said he will not be a candidate next year but might come back if the election does not provide a clear winner.

    Another possible future role for him is as president of the republic and guarantor that austerity reforms agreed with Italy's European partners continue.

    Italy's gross public debt is equivalent to 126 percent of national output, according to the IMF.

    Berlusconi's scandal-plagued right, forced from government by the financial crisis a year ago, is in disarray.

    Berlusconi said on Monday he would wait to see who wins the center-left primary before deciding whether to run himself. He has repeatedly changed his mind in the last few weeks on whether to do so.

    Some analysts said the victory by Bersani might spur Berlusconi to get back into the game.

    "Indeed, a Bersani-led PD is likely to embolden Silvio Berlusconi to form his own party in the hope of keeping the center left out of power and reviving the fortunes of Italy's center right," said Nicholas Spiro, managing director of Spiro Sovereign Strategy in London.

    (Additional reporting by Silvia Ognibene in Florence and James Mackenzie in Rome; Editing by Andrew Roche)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bersani-seen-winning-italys-centre-left-primary-exit-192649816--spt.html

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    Egypt's Morsi: Dec. 15 referendum on constitution

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    A supporter of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a Quran and a poster of the president at a rally in front of Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Tens of thousands of people waving Egyptian flags and hoisting large pictures of the president are demonstrating across Egypt Saturday in support of Morsi and Islamic law. The rally, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood, is seen as a test of strength for Islamists seeking to counteract large opposition protests held this past week by liberal and secular groups who the Brotherhood say do not represent the vast majority of Egyptians. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

    A supporter of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a Quran and a poster of the president at a rally in front of Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Tens of thousands of people waving Egyptian flags and hoisting large pictures of the president are demonstrating across Egypt Saturday in support of Morsi and Islamic law. The rally, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood, is seen as a test of strength for Islamists seeking to counteract large opposition protests held this past week by liberal and secular groups who the Brotherhood say do not represent the vast majority of Egyptians. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

    In this image made with a mobile phone camera, supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi march in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Thousands of people waving Egyptian flags and hoisting large pictures of the president demonsteated across Egypt in support of the president. The Muslim Brotherhood, from which President Morsi hails, hopes for a large turnout at the Saturday rallies to counter opposition protests. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets twice this week opposing Morsi?s decrees last week to grant himself sweeping powers. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

    In this image made with a mobile phone camera, a supporter of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a Quran at a rally in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Thousands of people waving Egyptian flags and hoisting large pictures of the president demonsteated across Egypt in support of the president. The Muslim Brotherhood, from which President Morsi hails, hopes for a large turnout at the Saturday rallies to counter opposition protests. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets twice this week opposing Morsi?s decrees last week to grant himself sweeping powers. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

    A supporter holds a campaign poster depicting Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at a rally in front of Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Tens of thousands of people waving Egyptian flags and hoisting large pictures of the president are demonstrating across Egypt Saturday in support of Morsi and Islamic law. The rallies, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood, are seen as a test of strength for Islamists seeking to counteract large opposition protests held this past week by liberal and secular groups who the Brotherhood say do not represent the vast majority of Egyptians. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

    CAIRO (AP) ? Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has called for a Dec. 15 referendum on a disputed draft constitution.

    Morsi spoke Saturday in a nationally televised speech to the Islamist-led panel that hurriedly approved the draft charter amid widening opposition from secular and Christian groups.

    Morsi urged Egyptians to participate in the referendum and praised the role of the judiciary in observing past elections. He says the referendum will be a brick in Egypt's democratic experience.

    Associated Press

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