Market research firm TheYankee Group predicts that that the number of VoIP users will jump to 10 million by the end of 2007. Maintaining and monitoring the service presents quite a challenge. The problem comes from the back-end infrastructure, network co...

Earlier this month, Sprint Nextel Corp. reported that it secured a $1 million settlement from 1st Source Information Specialists, data brokers, over the sale of call detail records. This is the second of three settlements by the telecom giant over fraudul...

Business Week Magazine Online recently addressed how to choose the best call accounting software for your business. ?A number of call-tracking software packages (some are available online) are now on the market or you can use a standard database progra...

One Chicago hotel was billed by a carrier for calls originating from another company located in the same area. The hotel had no idea it was footing the bill for the other firm's phone calls, reports Hotel and Motel Management. An 800-room hotel in a ma...

How do you judge the best Disability Insurance? First, the simple answer: 1. Which company is financially strongest? 2. Which policy will pay the most in the most different claims scenarios? The first thing that one hears about disability insura...

When you're researching Disability Insurance one of the areas you run into is something called the "occupational class". Insurance of all types is based on an estimate of the financial risk to the insurance company. Based on that data a premium (payment) ...

How do you judge the best Disability Insurance? First, the simple answer: 1. Which company is financially strongest? 2. Which policy will pay the most in the most different claims scenarios? The first thing that one hears about disability insuran...

When you're researching Disability Insurance one of the areas you run into is something called the "occupational class". Insurance of all types is based on an estimate of the financial risk to the insurance company. Based on that data a premium (payment) ...

A tool used in financial planning that one often sees is the financial planning pyramid. The bases of the premium are the items that protect the rest of the pyramid. This is the foundation. They are made up of protection factors. The greatest retirement a...

Without getting into too much detail, if your estate is of sufficient size - $5 million plus - to be concerned about estate planning there are unique planning ideas that can help you and your family minimize estate taxes, increase retirement cash flow to ...

Life insurance companies are given for financial strength ratings as are most financial institutions and many financial instruments such as bonds. What do these ratings measure? A life insurance company's relative ability to meet their financial obliga...

Life insurance is an interesting product. It can be looked at as a commodity and also have similarities to an investment vehicle. Term life insurance is most similar to the commodity concept. You can shop for it like you would for a can of beans or a c...

As you are about to go into practice and you've spent years training, you're about to begin your years of higher earnings. Physicians are the single largest buyers of disability insurance. The reas...

Call accounting software has long been associated with hotel industries or telecom companies as a means of cost allocation and telecom billing. The benefits and return on investment are many regardless of corporate industry. What's in it for me? This ...

First of all, life insurance is not really an investment. It's insurance like any other insurance that pays in case of an unfortunate economic event, in this case, the financial losses that o...