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Free Wireless Broadband for the Masses

AgniTEK — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT

When you think of basic human rights, access to wireless broadband Internet probably isn't at the top of the list. But a new company backed by a Skype cofounder disagrees, and plans to bring free mobile broadband to the U.S. later this year under the slogan "The Internet is a right, not a privilege." Called FreedomPop, the service will give users roughly a gigabyte of free high-speed mobile Internet access per month on Clearwire's WiMAX network and forthcoming LTE network. It will offer other low-cost prepaid plans that provide access to more data. FreedomPop vice president of marketing Tony Miller gave few specific details about the company's offerings and how it plans to make money—and won't yet name executives or founders—but says he expects the service to roll out in the U.S. sometime between July and September and to eventually branch out to other countries as well. FreedomPop's arrival coincides with the ...

Winners of the 2012 AgniTEK NCAA Tournament Challenge

AgniTEK — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:26:00 GMT

We can’t believe it’s already the middle of April – mostly because that means that March Madness was officially over a couple of weeks ago! If you had a chance to enter a bracket, we hope you enjoyed the tournament as much as we did. Our staff looks forward to March Madness each year, and we are excited to congratulate the winners of the 2012 Tournament Challenge. You can see the final standings below: In case you don’t recognize our winners by their Tournament usernames, they are: 1st Place: Kole Puckett 2nd Place: Mike McBerty 3rd Place: Jennifer Franz 4th Place: Richard Weber 5th Place: Jeremy Ksionda Our honorary staff winner (no prize included) was Kevin Crenshaw, who came in a close 6th after Jeremy, with just one less point. You can also check out our Facebook page for pictures of the winners who dropped by the AgniTEK offices to pick up their prizes! Don’t forget to mark your calendars for next March and join us for the 6th Annual Agn ...

Tip: How to cut and paste without messing up formatting

AgniTEK — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Why does formatting sometimes get messed up when you cut and paste text? And what is that thing that appears at the end of the last sentence every time you paste--like a fly returning to honey. That thing--the Paste Options button--is your friend, a worker bee and not a fly whose only job is to follow your formatting instructions. Learning how it works keeps you from wasting time manually formatting pasted text. Using the Paste Options Button Click the down-arrow on the Paste Options button and you'll see a menu with icons that lets you format copied text in different ways. The options you'll see depend on where you're cutting and pasting from and to, e.g., from within or between documents. Roll your mouse over the icons and you can see how your pasted text will look before you click. These are the four most common options: Keep Source Formatting: Keeps the formatting of the text you copied Use Destination Styles: Matches the formatting where you pasted your ...

Spray-On Antenna Material Turns Just About Anything into a Signal Array

AgniTEK — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:28:00 GMT

Presenting at Google’s “Solve for X” gathering, a Utah startup has unveiled a spray-on antenna that improves signals by anything, just about anywhere, into a signal array. Using a novel nanoparticle spray, Chamtech Enterprises demonstrated how their product can be used on all kinds of materials--trees, walls, fabrics--and in all kinds of environments, even underwater. The material relies on a proprietary formula that uses thousands upon thousands of nano-capacitors that automatically align themselves properly when sprayed onto a surface. They charge and discharge quickly, and notably don’t generate much heat--a major selling point for a product that might be sprayed onto anything from wood structures to cell phone cases to vehicle exteriors. The explanation of exactly how this works is better demonstrated than written, and Chamtech’s CEO, Anthony Sutera, does so in detail in the video below. The company is currently riding high on the results of successful tests ...

Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics

AgniTEK — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:18:00 GMT

Remember the last time you were being pressured into doing something you didn't want to do? Whether the pressure came from a boss, colleague, spouse, or child, your natural response was to resist and push back. It's human nature to resist high-pressure tactics. So, how should the closing of the sales call be structured? The answer is to create a primary closing strategy, utilize fallback positions, and select the appropriate technique to deliver the close. Your primary closing strategy should be based upon securing the main objective for the meeting. The objective could be to be granted a follow-on meeting, have the customer start a product evaluation, receive approval to conduct a site survey, or negotiate final purchase terms. You also need fallback positions, alternatives you prepare ahead of time to present should the customer reject your primary closing strategy. Your primary closing strategy and fallback positions are based on choosing to issue a command or presenting foreground and b ...

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