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Covers the latest news, insight, analysis, blogs and product reviews of unified communications equipment and software. Topics include transmission of voice communications over a wired or wireless network using technologies such as VoIP, IP Telephony, IP PBX, press-to-talk and computer-based voice.
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You've heard of college students going to class in pajamas, but what about applying to school in your slippers? Webcam technology allows prospective students to meet admissions staff face-to-face from the comfort of their couches.
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For 2009, Wall Street is nervous that the global economic crisis will invade the Apple orchard and kill the crop. But 2008 brought a bountiful harvest, the biggest since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in late 1996. We pick the three most important events from each month.
For a fuller chronology, please visit Apple Watch.
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Sprint wants to ensure your celebratory New Year's text messages reach their destination, so it is bolstering its wireless networks in key areas like New York's Times Square.
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The global economic crisis may darken 2009 skies, but it was all sunshine and cloud computing for Microsoft this year. We pick the three most important events from each month. For a fuller chronology for each month, please visit Microsoft Watch.
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LG plans to debut a 3G-enabled mobile phone that fits on your wrist. A 1.4-inch touch-screen, a text-to-speech feature, Bluetooth capability and MP3 playback make it an instant curiosity, so why did LG decide to call it the LG-GD910?
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Some enterprise VOIP systems are all but unusable from the time they are implemented because nobody took the time to properly profile the existing network. Before implementing a VOIP system, a thorough application impact study should be completed. Knowledge Center contributor Tim McCreery offers five critical steps enterprises should take to ensure a successful VOIP system implementation.
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Nearly 18 percent of households in the United States have no traditional telephone and rely on wireless services only, which is up several percentage points from a year earlier, the government said on Wednesday.
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AT&T strikes back at competitors like Verizon and Comcast by offering midmarket companies its U-verse High Speed Internet Max 18 service.
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Right now, solid-state drives are a specialty item, available for laptops as a premium and fairly expensive option. But that’s going to change as the technology gains popularity over the next three years. Researchers forecast dramatic growth for SSD shipments, and as they approach capacities of 512GB, they’re shaping up to be viable alternatives to hard drives in mobile devices and even server equipment.
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During this current recession, companies are looking for ways to cut costs. One way is to cut out travel costs and leverage collaboration systems such as Web conferencing. Products in this category include Cisco WebEx, Citrix GotoMeeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte—all of which let users conduct meetings via the Internet.
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A Pew Center survey says mobile phones will be the primary Internet access point by 2020, with features such as voice recognition and touch sensitivity growing in use.
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Forrester Research says Apple's iPhone 3G will penetrate the SMB space, while the Google Android-based G1 from T-Mobile is getting nary a whimper of support among businesses in the early going. Forrester also expects enterprise mobile and wireless support for enterprise applications to pick up in Asia-Pacific, while mobile wannabees -- those who sit in front of their corporate desktop or notebook but use their mobile device instead -- will proliferate.
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Unison Technologies delivers a free, ad-supported unified communications software suite for SMBs that includes e-mail, instant messaging, contacts, calendars and VOIP for messaging and collaboration. Unison hopes to pry some seats from Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Google shops during the lagging economy. SMBs install the platform on-premises and Unison promises it won't snoop on users through its ads.
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Loopt, the mobile social networking service for smartphones, is now available in Google's Android Market, the mobile application store. So far, you can only use it on the T-Mobile G1, the only official smartphone built on Android, the Google-led open source mobile and wireless operating system. However, users say Loopt on G1 is superior than on the iPhone because G1 enables background processing.
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Vodafone's membership in the Google-led Open Handset Alliance isn't necessarily a bad thing for the LiMo Foundation, which makes an open-source mobile operating system based on Linux that some see as vying for smartphone supremacy with Google's Android mobile and wireless stack. LiMo's Morgan Gillis says overlap among Android, LiMo and Symbian camps is par for the course as they combat Windows Mobile, RIM and the Apple iPhone.
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Scopia Conferencing Platform manages to coax disparate conference room and desktop videoconferencing solutions into relative harmony.
Microsoft’s VOIP and unified communications platforms don’t intersect significantly—yet.
Review: Microsoft's VOIP system for SMBs boasts a few glitzy
next-generation features that make the system incredibly easy to use,
and comes in an appliance form factor that makes the system a snap to
deploy.
Review: Cisco's Smart Business Communications System extends to small businesses the same networking technologies available to larger companies in a platform that can take on video, instant messaging and other apps.
Review: magicJack, a small USB dongle device that makes it possible to plug any phone into a computer and make calls over the Internet, provides some interesting capabilities but these are outweighed by its shortcomings.
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