Popfax has once again suprised us with their commitment to producing innovative features for their Popcompanion app, currently available for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

With their latest feature, your smartphone is now a real fax machine, allowing you to snap photos with your phone's high resolution camera of each page of your document, which the app then optimizes and turns into a multi-page black and white document that you can send to your fax correspondent with a tap of the screen. A customizable cover page can also be included.

Read more: Popfax Turns your Smartphone into a Pocket Fax

If your website news or blog posts have an RSS feed (most blogging platforms such as Wordpress do!), you might want to give GetResponse's new RSS-To-Email service a try.

To explain it quickly, the service takes your RSS feed of news or blog posts, syndicates it within the GetResponse system, makes an email newsletter out of the posts (as chosen by parameters set by you), and sends it out to all your subscribers on a set time schedule. Here is their own announcement blurb:

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We want to congratulate Jürgen Bühler, winner of a new Samsung Galaxy S III in the Popfax Summer Contest! The marketing team at Popfax asked their customers to submit a memorable description or photo that would show how Popfax would be helping them stay connected with their office this summer. Entries were accepted between July and the end of August, 2012 and were judged by the marketing teams.

Here is Jürgen Bühler's winning photo and description:

Free like Seagulls! Thanks to Popfax service we are able to manage our affairs and interact with our customers, while enjoying the fresh sea air, on an island located 1000 km away from our office.

Read more: Winner of the Popfax Summer Contest Announced!

Since they acquired Select Start Studios, Shopify has announced that the first big release by their mobile team has been the launch of their completely overhauled Shopify for Mobile iPhone App, which the company claims allows you to manage your entire store right from your iPhone from wherever you are.

Among some of the noteworthy features, are push notifications of new orders, the ability to send order tracking information straight to your customers, track sales performance via several formats of graphs and charts, and contact your customers via phone or email in one tap.

Read more: Shopify Releases Updated Shopify for Mobile iPhone App

Many companies use Zendesk as their email ticketing and support platform, which helps staff keep track of support and sales emails and provides far more control over assigned tasks and the time it takes for the customer to get a response.

Harvest Invoicing, an online billing platform, has just announced an integration with Zendesk, allowing staff to track time spent on each support or sales ticket by starting a timer directly within Zendesk itself. The timer then adds the ticket numbers to staff notes and matches the open ticket with it's related project and task automatically.

Read more: Track Time in Zendesk using Harvest Invoicing

RingCentral has just unveiled their new service called CloudFax, which allows RingCentral Fax users to send documents via fax directly from documents stored in Box, DropBox, or Google Docs. According to RingCentral, this is "the first ever cloud-based, fully integrated fax service".

Free for all RingCentral customers, RingCentral CloudFax allows users to fax their Box, Dropbox or Google Docs documents to multiple recipients, attach multiple documents and even schedule faxes for future delivery.

Read more: Fax Directly from Box, Dropbox or Google Docs with RingCentral

FreshBooks has recently improved their automated recurring billing features. Recurring billing allows you to send a scheduled invoice to a customer on a specified date interval, but until now has been limited to static pre-set amounts. This is useful when you need to bill for the same item or service on a regular basis, such as a recurring monthly fee; but not so much for people who bill for a variable amount of hours worked and expenses.

With the billable hours and expenses tracking services that FreshBooks offers, you can now create a recurring billing profile that will automatically generate a new invoice for your client on a schedule that you choose. You can also decide whether you want to have the invoice saved as a draft for review before it is emailed to the client, or have it sent immediately after it has been generated.

Visit the Freshbooks listing for user reviews or take a free, no credit card required trial!

Read more: Recurring Billing For Hours and Expenses added to FreshBooks

Popfax.com - the global provider of unified messaging solutions – has enriched its productivity features by launching a Conference Call service for its clients.

Cloud based services have changed the way business professionals interact. Professionals can operate with their partners from abroad, being able to initiate a virtual conference in just few clicks on the web. Whether it’s for a business meeting, financial reporting or a sales presentation, there is no need to organize in-house meetings and gather all business partners together in the same meeting room. The Conference Call tool is an alternative to traveling and commuting, and it allows professionals to participate in conferences from any place in the world, whether in or out of their office.

Popfax.com - the global provider of unified messaging solutions – has enriched its productivity features by launching a Conference Call service for its clients. The option was designed to facilitate business communication by connecting multiple professionals to a hosted service, in a single conference. The process flow is really simple: a host creates a conference call, invites its participants and attends the conference by calling a dial-in number.

Read more: Popfax Launches Conference Call Services