Hi again, Darren here from My Hosted Exchange.

Today, the team are travelling around Akaroa, near Christchurch, with a goal of testing how these devices cope with internet access and email communications under ‘not so good’ signal strength for the Apple iPhone 3Gs and Nokia’s e75 handsets.

You see, there’s been a lot of talk and ‘noise’ in the industry regarding these handsets and just how reliable they are in challenging conditions.
I personally have used both phones, however I no longer use either. This is probably a good thing as my opinion won’t sway and testing outcomes.

Stay tuned as we head around regional (and metropolitan cities) in New Zealand to find challenging terrain for testing of these leading handsets on the Telecom and Vodafone networks.

Cheers,

Darren
My Hosted Exchange

Hi, Darren here from My Hosted Exchange New Zealand.

There has been a great deal of “comment” and opinion regarding the performance of Apple’s new iPhone 3Gs, so we’ve decided to put this handset to the test - on a road trip around New Zealand.

We’ve also experienced an increase in the number of Nokia e75 handsets joining our Hosted Microsoft Exchange service, so we thought we’d take this handset along for the ride and put it to the test.

There’s a bunch of objectives for this test, we won’t bore you with the detail, essentially we are out to test how these mobile phones perform overall as an internet access device both surfing the web and accessing Hosted Microsoft Exchange from our platform at www.MyHostedExchange.co.nz.

In addition, as our country has a diverse (challenging) landscape, we’re putting these handsets to the test under marginal and poor signal reception areas in an attempt to stretch the tolerance capability whilst downloading internet content and sending/receiving emails on the move.

The test is based on our team of engineers travelling around New Zealand, with each phone containing a SIM for Telecom and Vodafone.
Our staff are reasonably intimate with web surfing and accessing emails, so who better than to give these phones a good workout.

The first leg of our testing starts in my favourite town, Tairua. Then, Whitianga and down to Tauranga before reaching Wellington before Friday 26th February.
Stay tuned for our junkett… I mean, tour of the south.

The timing of our tour is a little scary, and we were thinking of postponing after Telecom announced further issues on the XT network earlier this week, however they have managed to resolve the outage issue and Gen-i assures us the network is fully operational in all the areas we are visiting.

Yes, it’s informal, and maybe even a little comical at times, so join us for a little fun and some information along the way for two of New Zealand’s leading handsets, the Apple iPhone 3Gs and Nokia’s e75.

Best,

Darren Moss
New Zealand’s Webhosting Network
My Hosted Exchange New Zealand

Good Morning and welcome to the start of another great working week.

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If you have any questions regarding this service or our message quarantine, please get in touch with the Auckland HelpDesk.

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Kia Ora, Darren here from My Hosted Exchange.

One of the most common questions we see from new customers is
“can we have multiple office locations and staff email lists across each office?”.

The good news is Yes, of course.

An example of how this is working with some of our real estate clients is multiple office locations across the country with their own email address lists.
We have clients with mailing lists (or Distribution Lists as they are called in Microsoft Exchange) such as:

Sales Staff North
Sales Staff South

Admin Staff North
Admin Staff North

Management Team North
Management Team South

These are commonly used for internal staff who want to send emails from Microsoft Outlook or via their mobile phone without typing the name for every individual person they are sending to.

This can save a lot of keystrokes (and time) when sending from your mobile, especially when you are as bad at typing on your Apple iPhone as I am.

Another common Distribution List is Reception.North@CompanyName.com which routes requests from websites and general enquiries to the relevant office reception contact.

These Distribution Lists can have their own email address so customers and people outside your organisation can also send emails to the entire list of staff in the list using a single email address.

So, how do you set up a staff list (or Distribution List) ?
Easy, just go to the Technical Support page and create the list using the support wizard.

Something handy to know is that we automatically create a staff list for your entire organisation and any individual office locations during the setup process.
And most importantly, creating staff lists is free. You can have as many as you need.

Best,

Darren Moss
New Zealand’s Webhosting Network
My Hosted Exchange New Zealand

Happy New Year from the team at New Zealand’s Webhosting Network.
We hope 2010 is a fantastic year for your business and family.

Over the break, we’ve been working on our new website, ordering and support systems.

New Website, New Hosting Plans, New Pricing.
We’ve released new website hosting plans and pricing for Kiwi businesses, starting from just $11 per month.
Website and email hosting plans also now include free MailProtect Spam and Virus protection and 2 Months Free hosting when paid yearly.

Hosted Microsoft Exchange Service.
Our popular Exchange Hosting service for business is also now available via the information pages on our website, in addition to our new dedicated website at www.MyHostedExchange.co.nz, so feel free to fire up your browser, logon and browse our plans - there’s one for your business.

We look forward to working with your business in 2010, have a great year.

Darren and The Team
New Zealand’s Webhosting Network
My Hosted Exchange New Zealand