American Airlines has announced the launch of a new mobile broadband service, Gogo,™ provided by Aircell. Customers traveling on American’s Boeing 767-200 aircraft can access complete coast-to-coast coverage on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami. Aircell’s Gogo service will be available to customers as a fee-based service in all cabins. Aircell will charge $12.95 on flights … [Read more...]
New Search Service: Viewzi
Google is by far the most used search engine. The biggest drawback is that it is text-based. Enter Viewzi, a new type of search site that offers results as visual images. The company is hoping to radically change how people find information on the Web. Viewzi draws its flexibility from its “views,” each of which is essentially a customized search aggregator. After entering a search term, Viewzi tries to figure out what you’re looking … [Read more...]
FlyDoc: Streamlining Snail Mail
Although the delivery of electronic documents is growing rapidly, agencies continue to send many standard letters. Flydoc.com is a Web-based service that allows you to streamline the process of sending printed letters. To use the service, you simply install a new printer driver that you’ll use to “print” documents. You can print in black and white or color, on a single side or on both sides of the paper. You can choose from three … [Read more...]
Microsoft Online Services Extends SaaS to SMB Users
Microsoft recently announced plans to provide a software-as-a-service offering not just to the large enterprises already eligible for such a service from Microsoft, but to companies of all sizes. Through the new Microsoft Online Services, businesses with less than 5,000 employees will be able to subscribe to Internet-based applications from Microsoft and its partners instead of buying hardware servers and software licenses. Initially, the … [Read more...]
Capture Pictures as Documents
scanR is a service that helps you capture information contained in whiteboards, documents, and business cards. You simply use your cell phone camera or digital camera to take clean photos of whiteboards, paper documents, and business cards. If you use your camera phone, you send the picture via MMS (also called Multimedia Messaging, PIX Messaging, or Picture Mail) or e-mail to scanR. To send an MMS, take a photo, select the option to send the … [Read more...]
Progressive Goes Paperless
Progressive Insurance stopped sending agents paper copies of policies and endorsements some time ago. They've now taken the next logical step: turning off paper to policyholders. This new service is an extension of a Paperless Billing service introduced in early 2007 that allowed customers to request that they receive an electronic bill versus a physical paper bill delivered by the U.S. Mail. New or existing clients can request that all of their … [Read more...]
Send Letters via Email
Sometimes you just need to send a letter. And that's the basic concept behind Postful. This Web site service is designed to allow you to easily mail a letter just by sending an e-mail. This lets you use e-mail as a single method for connecting with all your contacts, whether they have access to e-mail or not. There are several ways to use the service. QuickLetter is the easiest. You simply send an e-mail to quickletter@postful.com with a name … [Read more...]
