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Visual Communications Company Delivers Scalable Solution for Unified Communications

TANDBERG, a leading visual communications company and Microsoft® Certified Partner, provides video conferencing solutions and services worldwide. The company's customers need solutions that work with their existing Microsoft infrastructure. To meet that need, TANDBERG designed its business-quality visual communications tools to work with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft...

Tags: Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Communications Company, Tandberg, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

White papers 2009-06-17

The Value of a Utility GIS

Utilities are striving to decrease their operating costs to increase their revenues, while improving customer service at the same time. However, market pressures such as safety, reliability, critical infrastructure protection, regulatory compliance, aging infrastructure, and process improvements are increasing the cost of operations. Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions GIS provide utility and...

Tags: Utility, Communications Company, Intergraph Corp., Geospatial Technology, GIS, Benefits, Roi/Tco, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2008-03-01

Communications Company Enhances Cross-Sell Opportunities by Building One True View of the Customer

A communications company in Canada operates a variety of distinct media and telecommunications offerings. The corporation has millions of cable television and high-speed Internet subscribers as well as wireless telephone customers across Canada. Because each business unit (cable, wireless, Internet) had different lists of customers, the organization had no comprehensive...

Tags: Customer, Communications Company, Wireless, Cable, Data Management, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Consumer Electronics

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Business Week: 1.4 million Google Voice users, global push in the works

In documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, Google said it had more than 1.4 million Google Voice users - with some 570,000 using the service seven days a week - and hinted that it has plans to expand the service, or possibly elements of it, beyond the U.S. ...

Tags: Google Inc., BusinessWeek, Google Voice, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-30

Facebook beats the 'spam king'

Good luck collecting that judgment award. ntntRE: Facebook beats the 'spam king'Ive always wondered why governments/courts don't do more on tackling spam. Surely regardless of where they are based, some pressure can be exerted by the government, onto local governments, if they don't comply, limit/block the whole countries internet...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Government, INTERNET, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, e-mail, Facebook, spam king, spam

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

AOL names its Board of Directors

AOL, which is expected to be spun off from Time Warner as an independent company later this year, has named the members of its Board of Directors, who will join CEO and Chairman Tim Armstrong at the table. They are: Richard Dalzell, former Chief Information Officer of...

Tags: America Online Inc., Board, Board Of Directors, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'

Nice and Sharp Future Focus of Verizon!! BUT....The article covered most of the solid facts containing the research of verizon. They are the strong contender for the future of Wireless Industry of US.But still, the roadmap of telecom is not predetermind.Also the dwindling policies of FCC are creating roadblocks for...

Tags: Smart phones, Telephony, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Communications Inc., fourth quarter device

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...

Tags: SOAP, Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsofts, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Work Smarter with Telephony Integration and Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions from IBM

In a rapidly changing world economy, organizations need to become more efficient, more innovative, and more responsive to their customers -- all the while reducing telephony and collaboration costs. Keeping up with change and information overload for companies is becoming much more difficult, but is critical to staying competitive. Listen...

Tags: Collaboration, Telephony, Unified Communications, IBM Corp., Integration, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Webcasts 2009-10-23

Nokia frustrated by iPhone US success? Sues Apple over wireless patents

Yes, Nokia has to be frustrated, but, they should put their efforts into anAndroid phone and forget the patent lawsuits. Patents...If Apple didn't get an agreement to use Nokia's IP, then Apple should face a court of law and be held to account.Considering all the other phone makers realize this...

Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, wireless, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., patent, GSM

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

AT&T to FCC: Close loopholes and write rules that apply to Google, too

AT&T has taken off the boxing gloves in its fight with Google over the Google Voice service and proposed Net Neutrality rules. In a letter to the FCC PDF this week, AT&T went on the attack to portray Google as a big powerful company that's trying to fool the FCC...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Federal Government, Telephony, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Google Wave: Begging for a classroom

I got my Google Wave invitation Saturday night and, as much as I wanted to race home, log in, and see what all the fuss was about, I decided instead to relish the rest of my 3-day weekend. Now, however, the weekend is essentially over, the sham of a...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Wave, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize

Ellison should have ripped M$ and Inhell tooIBM is less dangerous to the Oracle and the world than M$ and Inhell.RE: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prizeFairly typical of desperation attempts, use wordsnot real proof through history."Unbreakable"And that one did not turn out too well...Your trolls...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, DB2 Databases, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM DB2

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces

The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much  - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...

Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Lawmakers to FCC: Time for a closer look at Google Voice

There's been yet another twist in the ongoing drama surrounding Google, AT&T and the FCC. Washington lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have asked the FCC to launch a formal investigation of Google Voice, specifically Google's blocking of calls to certain rural exchanges, according to a...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Voice, AT&T Corp., Federal Government, Telecommunications, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy

Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Did Yahoo provide Iran with names of 200,000 users?

disgracefulthis is certainly one of the more irresponsible actions on behalf of a corporation in modern times. Why is it that these media centric .com's .. grouping in Google noting some of their more recent activity seem to lack the controls, privacy and humanitarian fibre that their more traditional bricks...

Tags: Government, Blogging, Yahoo! brand, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-09