It seems likes almost everyone these days is using the internet to find old friends and high school classmates. After all, with the internet, you can maintain a friendship with someone even if they live across the country or around the world. Plus, when you find an old chum, you get to reestablish a friendship that used to mean a lot to you. And if the pal you're looking for is an old high school classmate, then the two of you can enjoy reminiscing about the good old days, long gone though they may be. If you're looking for one of your high school classmates or another old friend, there's a good chance that you can use an online alumni finder to find them. But many people may be unsure exactly how online alumni finders work.

Online alumni finders are websites that specialize in helping old friends and high school classmates find each and reunite. The main way that these sites work is by letting users just like you sign up and find others. As more people join, they, in turn, recommend it to the friends they still keep in touch with, and so on. In the end, many people can find huge numbers of old friends and high school classmates, simply because there already members of the free online alumni finder.

Plus, using an online alumni finder is simple and easy. All you have to do is enter the name of the friend or friends that you're trying to search for, and within only a short amount of time, you could be back in touch with them. And when you're a member of an online alumni finder, you'll be notified as other members of your high school class join the site. This way, you can reconnect with old friends, almost on accident.

But the best part about using an online high school friend finder isn't how fast and accurate they are, it's how much fun you'll have, once you get back in touch with the friends that you've been looking for.

There are many reasons why you may not know where a relative is living. Perhaps you never met your biological father (or mother) and you feel the time has come to do so. There may have been a rift in the family a long time ago, and you want to know more about your cousins. You could have been very close to a relative at one time, but life moved you away from each other. It happens all of the time. If you know where to go online, you can find them again. Sometimes, they turn up very quickly.

For starters, the search engines like MSN Live Search and Google can be very helpful. Type in the name and see what comes up. With common names, you may get a lot of people that are not matches. If you have a good idea of where they may be living, try to add that location to your search. Make sure you have the right spelling of names, and use as many searches as you can. Each will give you something a little different in the way of results.

There are ways you can do what private investigators can do, but it is free of charge for you. There are some great web sites that you can try on your own, and each may give you what you want. Yahoo People Search is just one of these great sites. Type in the name to see if you can get a phone number, address, or email address. If you have an old phone number, see if you can find a reverse search through them.

The white pages can also be very helpful. These cover the entire US, so you can find more people who live further away. Type in the name to see if you can find anything. When you do get a hit, you may not be sure of having the right person, but you also get an address at times. That can narrow things down for you. Use that old number you have to use their free reverse search as well.

If you feel that you are getting nowhere, don't give in just yet. You can take an old phone number to a site that looks up and tells you who owns a phone number. They may not have come up through the white pages because the number is unlisted or a mobile number, but that will not be a problem with this site.

Though it is easier to find out more about an email address, or to find one in connection with someone you wish to find, than a phone number, you do have to know where to look. Email is one of the more common forms of communication that you find today, and probably one of the easiest to use. When you want to know more, look around at various online sources for what you need to know.

If you want to find an email address for a person, you can search them out by name. Put quotes around the name, and then add the tag email to the search criteria. It should look something like this: "Mary Smith" +email, or Mary+Smith +email. When you do this, you should find mention of that full name, and if an email address (or alternative way to email) is present on that page. This is one of the easiest ways to go about this.

You can also see if you can find email searches through some of the major web-based email providers. Most have a database, but you should know that users can opt out of being listed. Some sign up for email accounts with initials, or they may use a different name so that they can not be found this way. You don't know until you try though, so see what you can find in the way of a search through some of the larger email providers.

You can also see if you can find anything through sites that are meant to help you find more ways to communicate with someone. People finders are out there and made just to help you do just that. You can search for someone by name and you may get an address or email address. You may also find that some of these sites have reverse email lookups so that you can see if a name comes up with an unknown address.

When nothing else works, you can find sites devoted to helping you learn more about email addresses and to whom they belong. This type of email address search may, at times, be the only source that can help you with more protected addresses. See what they can do for you.

Again another country we're going to look at in our cheap international calls. When wanting to make a cheap call to the United States you only need to look online and find some outstanding deals. There are some great prices out there, just like there were with other countries.

First let's look at "cheapcallsusa", this location seemed to be a good deal for most cheap international calls we have looked into. Again it's not a disappointment. With landlines from the UK to a US landline or mobile phone it is only 2p per minute. And if you call the US from a mobile phone in the UK it will run you 1p per minute, and if calling Alaska it will be 2p per minute. Both are extremely cheap amounts.

How about those calling cards that you find in a bunch of stores. There is a web site that is dedicated to selling different cards and will match you up from and to location depending on what you put into the screen. The connection rates are not as inexpensive they range anywhere from 3.4 to4.5 when buying a 20 pound card. Again it was cheaper with the other site, but let's not give up so easy!

"ukcheapcalls" offers you 4p per minute when making a call to a landline in the United States.

Well it wasn't a guarantee that any other site was going to beat cheap calls, they seems to have the market when it comes to offering an inexpensive way to make an international phone call. And they have indeed again done so with making a cheap call to the United States.

Again as stated before you should always look into as many of these sites as you can, some will offer you no connection fees and at times the connection fees are what runs up the bill to a ridiculous amount. So if you can look into something that won't break you and make your calling card go away so fast you can't even remember using it much.

Some other sites also offer you to have the bill on your phone bill each month. This is a huge plus that way to can actually save up for the bill. That's always nice not to have to pay something right away.

Cheap calls to the United States are easily made if you look a bit on the internet. You may even be able to find a cheaper rate then one that we have found here. It's not going to be easy, but just imagine the satisfaction you will get when you know that you have look several places and have found the cheapest way to call the United States from the United Kingdom.

So good hunting to you may you find some more than these, and hope that you will be able to talk to that friend in the United States soon!

If you happen to know someone who lives in another country, it's usually hard to call them because it seems like the charges are just way too high. But don't worry, if you look hard enough and long enough you will surely find a way to call your friends or family in another country and not spend a bunch of money.

Say for example you happen to have friends in Iran, well check out "callIran", they offer a way for you to call using any phone, and not have to have a pin number to do so. You will also not need to change your phone service or wireless provider. With this company you can save up to 90% and you have no connection fees or activation fees either on this card. They say it will cost you 10.5 pounds per minute to call using their system.

Another place to look at is "cheapcallsiran", to call a Tehran landline it will only cost you 3 pounds per minute, while a landline call to Iran will run you 5 pounds per minute. While a call to a mobile phone in Iran will also run you 5 pounds per minute. Seems like these guys offer you a cheaper alternative when you compare it to the first place.

But let's take another look at a third choice for you. Let's look at "briing"; they are high up on the list when you do a Google search. They offer you 5 pounds per minute when calling to a mobile phone in Iran, and to any Iran landline it will also cost you 5 pounds per minute. If you use your mobile phone to call Iran it will be 8 pounds per minute to a landline, and to another mobile it will run you 10 pounds per minute. Pretty decent prices when compared to other places.

When you go to make a phone call from a landline to another country you will be able to save a bit more than if you are using your mobile phone. So keep that in mind when you are trying to save money on an international phone call. With just a little looking though you should have no problem finding an offer that will allow you to call inexpensively to any country. In this article we have looked at different ways that you can call to Iran. There are only a few of thousands of listings that are out there on the Internet that can save you money. Some of these places will not show you the fee up front, but with a little studying of their site, and looking at other places you can decide whether or not you really need to sign up for the website, or just go with another one, that will tell you how much their prices are up front. So just look around a little bit and you should have no problem finding a cheap way to call Iran!

Finding an unlisted number is a difficult thing to do as the name suggests because that number has been taken "off the radar" from traditional telephone directories at the request of the owner of that number. If you come from the other end of the spectrum however and you have a phone number and have performed a reverse lookup to find the owner only to discover this reverse unlisted phone number search of course comes back with no details what can you do?

The first thing you do is to not bother with a free reverse telephone directory because these services are a dime a dozen on the net and get their data all from a central authority of phone numbers that are freely available to the public. This is because all land line numbers are a part of what is known as the public domain and anyone has access to them unless they ask to be unlisted (usually at a cost).

The other kind of unlisted phone number are cell phone numbers which are also not a part of the public domain so if you find a cell phone number you need to look up the owner of you will be out of luck with most general reverse lookup services.

So what do you do if you desperately need to know who owns this number? How can you track that prank caller? How can you find who your kids have been calling or are being called by or perhaps your wife or husband? There are many reasons to look up an unlisted or cell phone number and these people may think they are safe an anonymous.

In reality they are not because you can do a reverse, unlisted phone number search on the internet as long as you find the right one. You see a reverse cell phone directory and unlisted phone number directory is the same as a traditional reverse directory except the owners of this service have purchased (legally) the numbers and details of cell phones and unlisted numbers from a variety of sources and have compiled them into one mega database that you can use to discover a mystery caller.

Prank callers forcing you to leave the phone off the hook? Threatening calls have you upset and scared? Maybe you have found a suspicious number on your spouse's phone and want to investigate? The reasons for finding the owner of a phone number are many and varied and if it was a normal phone number it would be easy to a reverse lookup on the net but an unlisted phone number reverse look up is a different kettle of fish.

A phone number lookup is a simple thing if the service provider has a complete database, you simply enter the phone number into their search box and it matches it with a number it knows then returns the details of its owner, some even provide more information on this person but an unlisted phone or cell phone look up is harder because both unlisted numbers and cell phone numbers are not a part of the public domain where as ordinary land lines and the details of who owns them are a freely available commodity that any reverse phone number directory can get access to.

What you need is an unlisted phone number reverse lookup service that has a database of cell phone number and unlisted numbers and the details of their owners. These sites do exist on the internet because entrepreneurial companies have purchased peoples numbers and details off other a variety of companies who collect this information and compile all of these smaller databases of numbers into one mega database that you can use like any ordinary reverse directory.

Unlisted phone number reverse lookup services are also entirely legal as people who request their number to be unlisted are just like a cell phone number, they are not required to be publicly available but they are not protected by law to not be published. In this way their privacy is protected somewhat but when you need to know their details it does not stop you from finding out especially if they are doing something wrong!

A reverse phone number search can be a very handy thing when you are left holding a number and you need to know who owns it. From discovering the identity of prank and threatening callers to perhaps doing a little detective work in find out who your children or spouses are calling or being called by this aspect of telecommunications has been made quite easy by online reverse lookup. Unlisted phone number or cell phone numbers which are also typically unlisted are much harder to trace because of something called the public domain.

All land line based phone numbers are a part of the public domain which means that they are freely available to the public and anyone who wants to publish a phone number directory or a reverse phone number search engine can get these details from a central authority. The problem with unlisted numbers of course is that they have taken steps to be removed from this list so a free reverse lookup service will not typically have the information you seek.

This is not the end of the road however! Reverse lookup unlisted phone number search engines do exist, some websites have taken the extra step to provide you with the tools you need for your investigative skills by purchasing numbers and their owners details from private databases from many different companies who track these details. This is completely legal as being unlisted just takes you out of the public domain it does not protect your number and details by any law.

So if you are ready to find the owner of that number you have in your phone or jotted down on a piece of paper click below to enter their number into the nets most complete cell phone and unlisted number reverse lookup directory.

Telecom Expense Management, or TEM as it is often called, generally consists of five basic services.

* Asset Management
* Invoice Validation
* Expense Optimization
* E-Procurement
* Help Desk Support

First we'll discuss Asset Management. The premise of Asset Management is to accurately track telecom inventories as well as keep on top of contract dates. The larger the company, the more complicated this procedure is. A good TEM team will be able to determine who has what wireless device. That job alone can be daunting to someone without the skills or tools needed for tracking. The same attention is given to wireline equipment, as well. Even though wireline equipment doesn't 'move around' like wireless devices, it can still disappear from one office to another, or be disconnected and end up in a closet somewhere.

Redundancy is detected and eliminated. It is easy to acquire new equipment or devices, but doing so in an efficient manner is much more difficult, especially if the person responsible must spread his time among other jobs within the company.

Another step in reducing costs and overhead is to make sure that all needed devices are not obsolete. Replacing old equipment with cost effective equipment can streamline your organization, making it more efficient.

Having a complete and up to date inventory of your equipment and devices allows your TEM team to find out if you are paying for any disconnected devices. Those kinds of unnecessary expenses are impossible to determine without knowing exactly what assets you have.

Asset Management is one step in paring away at the waste that plagues many companies telecom systems. It can directly affect your bottom line, and that is what business is all about, right?

The next topic to be discussed is Invoice Validation, another aspect of Telecom Expense Management that can reduce costs for your business.

Every penny counts in today's economy. Waste is your enemy. In order to keep the bottom line fat and happy you may need to cut some costs. Where do you start? Do you want to cut staff? If you have employees with nothing to do, that would work. Another option would be to reduce services and/or products to your customers, but is that going to make them happy? How about taking away some employee benefits? No more health insurance would surely boost morale, right?

Those might be options, but they aren't necessarily good ones. If you must cut expenses, why not do it so it will increase productivity at the same time? It can be done.

Telecom Expense Management is the process of making your telecom devices and services as efficient as possible for the least amount of money. Period. It isn't an easy task, though. Go ask the person(s) responsible for it now and find out what they think. Unless they are Telecom Expense Management professionals they will probably tell you it is like trying to put an octopus into a Tupperware bowl. You get one tentacle in, and two more pop out. It's often an uphill battle.

Professional Telecom Expense Management (TEM) teams have the tools and training to track your telecom assets, check monthly invoices for errors and discrepancies, assure proper procurement of compatible devices, and make sure that your service is tailored to your needs and that you're not paying for unneeded frills. TEM isn't free, but it generally will more than pay for itself by reducing your costs more than you pay for the TEM service.

If you are serious about watching your bottom line, you need to consider Telecom Expense Management. Contacting a company and getting a detailed idea of what they can do for you is easy. Find one that has been in business for a while and operates with integrity and you can't go wrong.

Searching for a friend can often be as easy as searching for a phone number using a reverse phone lookup. Reverse phone lookups can provide data about many different types of phones, including wireless devices, so no matter what kind of phone your friend uses, you can pretty much always find out a few specific pieces of information, including the name and address connected to the phone number. An address-either service or billing-is just about all the data you really need to not only find someone, but keep in touch for years to come.

Your first step when using a reverse phone lookup to search a phone number is to make sure that the service you are using is a free reverse phone lookup. These access public directories and determine based on the results of this free search what kind of phone was used to make a call. If it is a published business or residential land line, the results will be returned automatically, because all national phone directory data is a matter of public record, and it's always free to access.

If the number you are searching for is a cell phone number, you may need to use a reverse phone lookup capable of accessing private directories in order to search this phone number. Since each cell phone provider owns its own directory of its customers, you should expect to pay a small fee to find out more about a cell phone number.

Once you determine what kind of phone your friend uses, it is easy to make a decision about the next step. Investing in a cell phone lookup might be well worth the expense just to reconnect with old high school classmates. Once you decide to search a phone number, you are only a few minutes away from finding just about anyone.

Between phone number lookups and reverse phone lookups, it is easy to get a current address for just about anyone. You can use a phone number lookup to find business and residential land line numbers, and a reverse phone search for unknown numbers or to find out more about cell phone numbers. The fact is that people's contact data tends to be clumped together, so chances are, once you have a phone number, you can find other important facts, like their service and billing address.

Phone number lookups search public directories for entries matching the first and last name combination that you entered. Once you locate someone's land line data, you are usually a mouse click or less away from finding exactly the information you need. Although not all land lines are published in public directories, you have to ask to be excluded, so the vast majority of numbers are, in fact, listed.

You might find that a reverse phone lookup can help more than a phone number lookup, if you already know the phone number of the person you are looking for. If you do, you can enter it into the reverse phone lookup and wait for results. The best part about using these kinds of services is that you can feel secure that your results are both accurate and up to date. People might move or even change phone services or numbers, but they will always let the phone company know, and thus any phone number lookup or reverse phone lookup service that searches public and private directories.

Using a phone number lookup is really quite easy, and it can reveal far more than simply a phone number. Reverse phone lookups can tell you the name, phone number, and billing or service address registered to the number in question.

People searches are one of the first online resources commonly used to locate friends or family member's addresses and can provide much relevant information quickly and easily. People search sites browse the Internet for records pertaining to the keywords, which means a name as well as additional information. They can return a lot of information including phone lookups and social networking sites.

Phone lookups have access to public and private directories, and can tell you not only what someone's phone number and address is, but will allow you to find out who owns a phone number. Public directories are automatically available through a people search, and can provide you with information about anyone that has a published landline listed in their name. Though this is most commonly used to find out a phone number, a people search will also return the service address registered to the phone.

If you cannot find your relative's address using the phone lookups, don't give up. There are many other existing online resources including blogs, personal webpages, and of course, social networking sites. People searches can return results from all these Internet sites, but of those, social networking sites are perhaps the most potentially useful. Social networking sites are collections of user personal profiles. Although not everyone lists their address, phone number, or other form of contact information on their social networking profile, it is very common to do so.

Of course, social networking sites and other online resources pose an additional challenge in that you may not always get a name or other personal data listed with any address or phone number you find. In this case, you can follow the phone lookup links turned up by a people search to find out who owns a phone number.