Mobile phones are ubiquitous, especially in Asia, one of the fastest growing regions of the world. In Japan, many business people carry two phones. It started with those flip phones from NEC, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Kyocera, as well as international and other domestic brands. With the entrance of the smartphone, started by Nokia but hit ‘out of the ball park’ by Steve Job’s Apple...
Since AINEO introduced CIRCLE Cloud in 2016, we’ve been running like wild horses to keep up with the demand. We’ve focused on voice, video, and chat as our core. But repeatedly, we were asked to build a internet-based fax service. Thanks to a great team, we were able to eventually help people with a fax service. That was the beginning of QuickFAX. This year, with our...
Congratulations to the bright, quick, and flexible team at AINEO, for 23 years of service to Japan! Never could we have imagined that a company started in a spare bedroom just North of Tokyo would become the underlying technology to help smart companies to support billions of dollars of business each year. Just two more years and you'll be celebrating your Silver birthday with...
We hear a lot about the cloud. Companies are installing fewer servers and less equipment in their offices. In Japan, many talked about Google’s Gsuite and then Microsoft’s Office 365 offerings. Good services and essential for business messaging. However, smart firms in Japan are going to the cloud from their most important customer tool, their communications (video, video, and chat). This month in Japan we’ve...
The Team at CIRCLE has been enhancing and building our cloud communications service into the most secure and redundant service in Japan. However, one challenge over the last 3 years (since we rolled out CIRCLE), has been cordless phones. We have tested many brands but have not been able to approve any due to various issues. That has all changed and organizations need wireless. CIRCLE...
If someone is recommending that you buy a telephone system, you should tell them to let go of the past. Everything is going to the cloud. Google, Twitter, Facebook, Merukari, Yahoo, Oishix, Yayoi, and thousands of other business services are run via the internet and cloud. That includes cloud phone systems in Japan. You can select companies based on price...
On November 2nd, while doing maintenance in the middle of the night, our data center teams discovered an amazing statistic. Users on the iPBX Hosting Cloud phone service made and received over 12 million phone calls on our platform nationwide! That’s not including any chat, video conferences, or document sharing. Just phone calls. Amazing! Putting it into perspective, if you were to...
Business travel used to consist of carrying a laptop (Notebook PC) to the airport, running it through security, and working on the plane as we travel from place to place. For those of us in the train societies, it is very similar just less the the security hassle of the airports. Now we travel with a laptop and at least one...