Cloud-app strategies can help business

What clever businesses are discovering is that a cloud-app strategy pushes the concept of collaboration, improved workflow and idea sharing among office and remote workers taking productivity to new heights, states NotebookReview.com.

Requiring only a Web browser interface, cloud-based apps paired with a communication-centric device, such as a desktop computer, laptop, netbook, iPad or smartphone, are prompting companies to write the next chapter on how employees communicate, collaborate and stay productive.

Assurity Life Insurance Company, for example, uses iPipeline's leading on-demand iGO e-App across its broker distribution channel consisting of almost 30 000 brokers located nationwide, with the exception of New York State.

Time Warner Cable has released five essays on the future of digital communications, policy and technical perspectives based on its Research Program on Digital Communications, reveals Market Watch.

Posted on the Research Programme's Web site, the essays will also be published in Volume 63 of the Federal Communications Law Journal later this year.

The Research Program was initiated in February 2010 to increase understanding of the benefits and challenges facing the future of digital technologies in the home, office, classroom and community.

Sharp will introduce into the Japanese market the new MX-2310F digital full-colour MFP featuring enhanced environmental performance and high-quality colour output in a compact size that is the smallest and lightest in its class, says The Financial.

This model features a compact design that is the smallest and lightest in its class. The use of a newly developed polymer resin frame has reduced the weight of the main unit by approximately one-third of its predecessor model.

In addition, this MFP delivers the environmental performance demanded in today's offices by reducing power consumption by approximately 77% of its predecessor thanks to a significantly faster warm-up time, adopting LEDs as the light source in the scanning section, and holding down power consumption while on network standby to just one watt.