NEWPORT – Salve Regina University will add Cox High Speed Internet and Cox Telephone services to its campus residence halls. Cox Business Services already provides video services to the university.
“Salve Regina’s goal in this agreement is to provide the highest quality telephone, video and secure Internet access services possible for our resident students. In addition, they will benefit from Cox Business Services’ technical support team to provide around-the-clock help should they need it,” said Mark Robson, Salve’s director of network services.
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Over five years, Cox will install 535 phone lines and more than 1,250 ports of high-speed Internet service in all residence halls as part of a managed communications network solution. Cox Business Services, which offers business-grade broadband Internet service in Rhode Island, will more than double Salve’s Internet connection for its on-campus students and provide them with 24-hour support. This agreement makes Cox the exclusive provider of telecommunications services for Salve’s resident students.
“The managed solution package we are providing in partnership with Salve Regina allows for a higher level of communications services expected by students in today’s digital age,” said Mark Scott, vice president for Cox Business Services New England.
WavBoard equips cars with Internet hookup
PROVIDENCE – The WavBoard, an in-car Internet system, has taken the broadband Internet connection and put it on wheels. Developed by San Diego-based Omniwav Mobile, the patent pending WavBoard offers a multiple-user feature. Parents can stay connected on their laptops while children play video games, do homework and chat online with friends.
Omniwav is now providing service in Providence, Boston and Hartford.
While Omniwav cautions against using the connection while driving, the WavBoard creates mobile offices in car pools that allow commuters to get a start on the workday. Professionals who work outside the office can now have seamless connectivity, the company said.
Mobile broadband is also available for boaters; the WavBoard maintains an Internet connection up to 30 miles offshore.
Omniwav says emergency-response vehicles can rely on the high-speed connection while moving up to 100 miles per hour. Ambulances can synchronize data with computers at a hospital, and fire rescue crews can download building schematics en route.
The 10-inch by 6-inch WavBoard can be mounted in the trunk or glove compartment and connects to the Internet using high-speed cellular technology. Internet users connect via Wi-Fi or Ethernet like any home wireless router. The speed averages 600 to 800 kbps, the same as a household DSL line. The WavBoard vehicle package is $979 and service is $79 per month for unlimited use. Service is available in more than 50 metro areas.
Personal Internet use adds up, employers say
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Checking sports scores or sending instant messages to friends may seem inconsequential, but time spent online on personal activities adds up.
Executives polled in a recent survey said they believe employees, on average, spend 56 minutes each day on non-business-related e-mail, instant messaging and Internet use at work.
And while surfing the Web may seem like a guilty pleasure, it’s not a secret one. Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed (64 percent) said their organizations monitor employee Internet activity at least somewhat closely.
The national poll includes responses from 150 senior executives with the nation’s 1,000 largest companies. It was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Accountemps, a staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals.
Local firm introduces work force software
EAST PROVIDENCE – ADI Time, developers of the ADI Time suite of Time and Attendance solutions, has introduced ADI Time Version 10. The East Providence firm said the new version is a software product designed to help a variety of businesses with work force management, implement and enforce best practices, reduce labor costs up to 5 percent, reduce payroll preparation time up to 80 percent, reduce payroll errors and achieve accurate and consistent application of their pay rules, ADI said.
ADI Time Version 10 was developed using Microsoft .NET Web architecture. The application leverages technologies like XML and Web Services that use open standards. Other technology benefits include real-time, zero footprint, centralized management and 100 percent managed code.
ADI Time Version 10 combines a package for attendance tracking, HR, enhanced scheduling, hours and attendance, paperless leave requests and intuitive ad-hoc reporting.
APC: Update required for business software
WEST KINGSTON – American Power Conversion announced that customers using older versions of its PowerChute Business Edition software must soon upgrade. The upgrade is necessary to ensure continued availability of servers on which the software is installed, the company said in a press release.
“We have made this upgrade available for free on our Web site,” said Rob Johnson, vice president and general manager of APC’s Availability Enhancement Group.
On July 27, a component library bundled with PowerChute Business Edition versions 6.0.0 through 6.2.2 expired, rendering the software inoperative the next time it loads. Windows servers with the affected versions installed may hang when the PowerChute process loads at reboot time. Other PowerChute editions are unaffected by this issue.
