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Today, individuals and companies able to employ smart cost-saving strategies are the ones who flourish in business. Among other things, they would actively explore multifaceted channels to get more done with less. For instance, a multidisciplinary company with diverse interests ranging from Office Administration to Import/Export as well as Events/Entertainment is likely to fare better operating from its own building so as to keep “rental” overheads low. This approach would make it easier for such a company to offer clients affordable services, consistent with their budgetary needs. But we all know that not every business – especially a solo enterprise or small business operation – can afford to own its own building. At least not in the early phases of growth. Even when the money is there, chances are high that other considerations for which it can be more profitably used will exist. To compound matters… A. maybe you want to rent one, but the prices you kee...

Are you a dial-up user looking for a faster connection, but don’t like Broadband prices? If so, you should take a look at a new service called OnSpeed, which has received rave reviews in Internet technology publications. What OnSpeed does is to re-route web pages and email via its own servers, compressing the data on the fly prior to sending it onwards to your PC. A small program then decompresses the data, so that you can view it in the normal way via your browser or email client. In my own dial-up tests, with a modem running at a nominal 49kb/s I appeared to get speeds close to that of my normal broadband connection of 598 kb/s – very impressive. Image quality is often reduced but the compression for this can be improved, though with an adverse effect on the speed of course. Some file types like MP3 also cannot yet be compressed. The company is working on these issues however and expects to find solutions soon. Unfortunately I was unable to use email in my tests, due to a...