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We are delighted to announce a number of price reductions and several new accessories to our store to help improve your VoIP experience.

Phones

The Linksys 94 has been reduced in price from £69.99 to £64.99 and is now included as an option, alongside the Grandstream GXP2000, in our Centrex Unlimited calls packages.

Headsets

The Snom MM3 headset has been introduced for use with Snom 300 phones

The JPL Comms JAC headset with 2.5mm jack has been reduced in price from £19.95 to £11.95 and is suitable for all phones with 2.5mm socket, including Siemens, Linksys and Grandstream phones.

The JPL Comms Mono headset price has been reduced to £31.50 and comes with a choice of bottom connectors, for use with all our phones, at £14.95 each, reducing the overall price from £49.95 to £46.45.

Accessories

We have introduced a range of Snom stands to raise the profile of Snom business phones on your desk.

Full details can be found at http://store.gradwell.com/

If you have any questions please contact Sales on 01225 800800 or via sales@gradwell.net

We’re just back from 24 hours of ideas, interesting people and pizza at BathCamp08 and a huge amount of interesting topics were discussed by some very interesting people.

Talks ranged from linking CurrentCost and social media to influence people to reduce their power consumption (an idea I am keen to try out at Gradwell HQ), through to talks on how computing is changing the face of Archeology. There was some hacking, voip and lego in there too! We all had a great time.

But why is such a conference important? Specifically, why as a company, did we put some money behind it? Why should more people sponsor these sorts of things.

There are a few reasons:

• Product Research: It’s ultra-useful to be able to present an idea, without having to give the answer. BarCamps are full of people who know what your subject is and have a useful all round knowledge. So your presentation is more of a discussion - and in our case, Peter Gradwell presented some ideas about mixing up VoIP, Web Hosting and SMS. That’s important as an enthusiast, and ultra-useful as a company.
• Employee & Supplier Search: You get to meet the right-people. At <Gradwell> we want to find good web developers in the locality, who are uptodate with the current trends and technology. Both as an employer, but also as a client, especially for our corporate website, which is permanently in-need of attention! What’s cool about BathCamp is that there was a mix of techies and non-techies, the outcome of which was some really great discussion about how things should be done.
• Technology Trends: It helps us develop and you get to learn about what is going on. We had no idea how many people used twitter and that helps us with our decision to use it for customer communication.

So, after a fascinating 24 hours, we have yet more ideas and things to do on monday when we get back to work.

If you’re an organisation that uses the internet, technology or social media, then we’d encourage you to get involved and cough up a bit of sponsorship too.

Finally, lots of people said how kind we, and other sponsors where for parting with hard-earned cash. The fact is, that writing the cheque is the easy bit - organising an event is not, and we’re very grateful to the BathCamp Organisers for doing so.

Hopefully, we can fill the time between now and BathCamp09 with some informal meetups of the Bath web community.

Peter Gradwell

We’re very pleased that BathCamp is happening next weekend, which we’re co-sponsoring along with a number of other very interesting companies.

BathCamp is a BarCamp-style conference, taking place in Bath (UK) on Saturday 13th to Sunday 14th September 2008. BarCamps are user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

The “what I’m gonna talk about” list has been growing. From herbs to “The Gurgitator” to archaeological computing to learning Chinese, this is shaping up to be a fantastically diverse and interesting weekend.

Peter Gradwell will be presenting, reflecting on some of the interesting things we have done and are planning to do with VoIP+Web Integration.