Get rid of carrying bulky laptops

Sometimes you feel not to carry your laptop and yet dream of striking a good business deal, making your boss proud. This is one of the most fascinating needs of humans in today's computer age.

It is said needs are the mother of all inventions and innovations. History is replete with such examples of inventions and innovations. Who can forget Albert Einstein and Aryabhatta. They gave shape to human civilization with their scientific creations. Needs will continue to tumble and there will be Einsteins and Aryabhattas in all ages.

One such need of humans today is to untie lives from their laptops or personal computers. They want instant connection to their desktops even on borrowed machines found on the rear seat of a plane or in a hotel room. They are able to do it now with the help of virtualization - it eliminates hardware constraints and take businesses to the next level.

Virtualization is a means to facilitate humans and computers with resources the moment they need them. Nivio, an online desktop, fulfills this need.

Nivio is a virtualization suite of licensed software applications from providers like Microsoft and Adobe among others. Hosted on a high performance, high reliability computing grid, it removes the need for constant system updates to keep up with software changes and free people from being tied to just one PC.

Nivio offers a user an enthralling experience of virtual computing. It is like working on one’s own PC whenever one logs on to Nivio (www.nivio.com) through his unique username and password from any location around the world.

The basic idea behind this technology is to allow better manageability, cost reduction and consolidation by increasing agility, reducing space requirement and carbon footprints, through reduction in power utilization for equipments.

Buzz on Nimbuzz..

Every time my office had to make international calls, we would either fret over the rising phone bills or opt for cheap calling through Skype, a service only some tech-geeks in my office are familiar with.

I, on the other hand, didn’t bother myself too much with trying to understand technology. So I would just call up the operator and ask me to connect to the international number that I needed to call… optimistically thinking that my boss wouldn’t notice the skyhigh bills… or even if he does, wouldn't link it back to me ;)

Though Skype, Fring, Nimbuzz were all names that I was familiar with, I really didn’t care much about them till I actually went on to the Nimbuzz website one day – http://www.nimbuzz.com/

The first thing that hooked me onto the site were the vibrant colours (me being not the techie sorts, as I mentioned earlier)… but as I spent about five minutes of my precious time there, I actually figured out that it was totally worth it!! The product completely hooked me to it… so much so that I typed in my cell number on the website (something which I’ve never done before) through which I could download its Mobile version.

In very simple terms for other laymen like me, it is a way through which I can make international calls for free (I’ll only have to pay for the net on my phone) and also aggregate all my instant messengers (I’ve got only gmail and yahoo accounts) on one! But really good for people who work across 4-5 IMs in one go! One thing what I also liked in it over Skype is that its completely free… and as far as my understanding goes, Skype is not (please correct me if I’m wrong here). But it wouldn’t be wrong to say that I got completely hooked onto Nimbuzz in just one visit.

Would recommend it to all my tech-crazy friends!!! J maybe we can now look at another alternative to saving phone costs in office… one that I enjoy… :)