The Branham300 is a comprehensive listing of publicly traded and privately held IT companies in Canada. This annual list, published today, ranked MyFax parent company Protus at 56 out of 300. The Branham300 also recognized Protus as a Top Ten application service provider, and among the Top 20 “Movers and Shakers” within Canada’s competitive technology industry.
The full list can be found here.
No matter how many times you’ve told yourself, “next year, I’m not going to wait until the last minute”, April 15 still manages to creep up on you. Here’s something that might ease some of that pain. Last minute tax filers have been taking advantage of free online fax services, like MyFax, to send their documents to tax preparers. Their free service, like with many of their competitors, allow you to send a certain number of faxes and/or pages a day. In the case of My Fax, you are allotted two faxes per day of up to 10 pages without going through the fuss of setting up an account or providing a credit card number. Users beware, if you start abusing the free service, they will start asking you to upgrade to the paid version and potentially suspend your free service. With this in mind, procrastinators need to plan a little in advance to ensure their tax preparers get all their documents within the 2 faxes per day of up to 10 pages limit.
Internet Telephony Magazine awarded RingCentral the Product of the Year Award in their February 2010 issue. Internet Telephony recognizes the vision, leadership, and attention to detail of the most innovative products and services with this award.
According to the magazine, “RingCentral has demonstrated its commitment to the advancement of business communications with the development of new and innovative solutions like RingCentral Office,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief.
Go to www.itmag.com for a complete list of Product of the Year winners.
eFax announced today that the eFax integrated application is available on the Google Apps Marketplace, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services.
Domain administrators of Gmail hosted services can now assign and manage eFax accounts directly from the Google Apps Marketplace. What does this mean exactly? It means that it is even easier for domain administrators to setup eFax accounts for onsite staff, remote offices, and mobile users. With eFax, team members can send and receive faxes, including hand-notated documents such as contracts and agreements, from their desktops, laptops, or mobile devices.
One of the benefits of eFax is faxes can be sent and received via email in a wide range of formats, including PDF and TIFF. Another is documents can be stored online for up to two years, and can be tagged and searched for archival or reference. Typing in a file name, hitting search, and letting your computer do the legwork is a lot better than standing knee-deep in file folders trying to search for that document from 2 years ago.
Technology Marketing Corporation’s Internet Telephony magazine granted Protus a 2009 Product of the Year Award for MyFax and my1voice. This list was published in Internet Telephony magazine’s February 2010 issue.
You can view the whole list here.
j2 Global Communications, eFax’s parent company, reported today financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.
Subscriber revenues for Q4 2009 increased 1% to $60.2 million. Total revenues for Q4 2009 increased 0.5% to $60.9 million.
Net earnings per diluted share on a Non-GAAP basis, which excludes share based compensation, impairment of auction rate and related securities, gain on sale of investments and disposal of long lived asset, was $0.45 for Q4 2009 compared to $0.49 for Q4 2008. GAAP net earning per diluted share for Q4 2009 was $0.39 compared to $0.45 for Q4 2008.
The Company ended the year with approximately $244 million in cash and investments compared to $162 million as of December 31, 2008.
The full press release is available here.
For the fourth year in a row, Customer Interaction Solutions magazine awards RingCentral the Product of the Year Award.
Customer Interactions Solutions magazine features CRM (customer relationship management), call centers and teleservices.
According to the magazine, Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC, says “I am pleased to honor RingCentral for its hard work and success. The company has demonstrated excellence in contact center technologies as well as providing ROI for the companies that use them.”
A complete list of the 12th Annual Product of the Year Awards winners can be found in the January 2010 issue at www.cismag.com.
eFax launched a series of podcasts featuring interviews with business professionals who rely on their services to help other small business owners understand how they too can use eFax in their day to day lives.
The podcasts feature professionals from magician Rob Lake to web pioneer Aliza Sherman who all believe they can’t live without the service.
The eFax Solutions podcasts are online at www.efax.com/podcasts. iTunes users can subscribe to the eFax Solutions channel by going to the iTunes Store and typing “eFax” in the “Search Store” box.
eFax’s parent company j2 Global Communications acquired Quexion, TrustFax, and a United Kingdom company. This purchase will help J2, which is based out of Los Angeles, to grow its email, fax, and voice businesses. Efax is currently available in 3,500 cities in 46 countries and it will be interesting to see what these acquisitions will do for the company.
eFax Messenger, the free Internet fax application that eFax bundles with all of their subscriptions, is now compatible with all current Microsoft OS versions. The new OS versions now make eFax Messenger available for Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit, 64-bit, and Vista 64-bit operating systems, as well as Mac 32-bit operating systems.