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Digium introduces new family of HD IP phones
Digium, the company that leverages Asterisk open source software, has introduced a new family of high-definition IP phones. The phones are engineered...
ShoreTel acquires M5 Networks
ShoreTel had a blockbuster week, announcing it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks, giving its customers a choice between...
India to auction 2G spectrum from scandal-tainted licenses
India initiated plans Friday to auction 2G spectrum, a day after the country's Supreme Court ordered licenses and spectrum issued in 2008 to be...
Scattered Genesys needs to regroup after Alcatel-Lucent split, says analyst
Alcatel-Lucent has closed the sale of its customer-service software and contact-center business Genesys, which now needs to regroup and start working...
FCC overhauls telephone subsidy for the poor, adding broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved an overhaul to its Lifeline program, which subsidizes telephone service for poor people, with...
Avaya embraces BYOD trend with iPad app
Avaya has launched its next-generation mobile collaboration for consumer devices with an Apple iPad application. The Avaya Flare Communicator is...
Zultys adds Android client for its IP PBX
Zultys has upgraded the software in its MX family of IP PBXs and added a Mobile Communicator client for Android-based smartphones, the company said...
AT&T offers 'UC as a service' to enterprise customers
AT&T is now offering cloud-based unified communications to its enterprise customers, adding to its existing portfolio of hosted VoIP services (with...
Logitech updates webcam technology
Logitech has introducing its next generation of webcam technology for business with the Logitech C920 offering full 1080p HD video, onboard H.264...
T-Mobile enhances Bobsled with mobile calling app and messaging
One of the announcements we missed in our wrap-up from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) was news from T-Mobile on the latest feature for its...
Avaya releases IP Office 8.0
Avaya unveiled the latest version of the company's unified communications (UC) solution for small and midsize enterprises (SME) with the release of...
UC and VoIP updates from CES 2012
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas was very well attended with an estimated crowd of more than 140,000 and despite all the...
New paper offers advice on UC deployment
For those readers who found sound advice in our last newsletter delivered from Avaya on how to avoid pitfalls with unified communications (UC), we've...
Avaya: Top 10 pitfalls with UC implementations
Webtorials and Avaya have once again provided a great reference for those considering a unified communications (UC) deployment. The white paper,...
Top 5 UC predictions for 2012
Today we unveil our top five predictions for 2012, looking at expected trends for telepresence, wireless substitution, cloud-based unified...
Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012
Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in...
Looking back to our 2011 predictions -- how'd we do?
As has been our custom for over a decade, today we'll look back at the predictions we made a year ago and see how well we did with our crystal ball,...
Cell Phone Driving Bans, State by State: Where You Break the Law
When you're traveling, make sure to know the local laws about mobile phone use and text messaging while driving. Some infractions carry weighty...
ShoreTel UC developments empower enterprises
ShoreTel is in the news again with two separate announcements: It has extended virtualization support to the enterprise contact center and it has...
Microsoft, IBM deploy mobile apps for UC
In two separate initiatives that advance mobile unified communications and collaboration, Microsoft has deployed mobile clients for Lync 2010 while...