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Microsoft moves to business telephony

On Tuesday, Bill Gates took the stage in San Francisco to announce Microsoft's new line of software aimed at unifying voicemail, e-mail and business meeting technology.

Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Telecommunications, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Networking, microsoft, business, telephony, phone, voicemail, email, data, windows mobile, meeting, roundtable, software, bill gates

Videos 2007-10-16

Reporters' Roundtable: Goofiest tech moves of 2006

This year featured wacky decision-making in the IT industrySomebody must have been hitting the egg nog early this year. How else to explain some of the more bizarre happenings in the computer business in recent memory? Join Charles Cooper, Jim Kerstetter, Ina Fried and Michael Kanellos for the final edition...

Tags: Roundtable

Videos 2006-12-16

A cheaper alternative to Microsoft's Roundtable

TotalView video conference phone gives 360-degree viewAt DemoFall 2006 in San Diego, CNET's Rafe Needleman spoke with Be Here CEO Stephen Von Rump about the company's upcoming video conference phone system TotalView. Touted as a cheaper, every company's alternative to Microsoft's upcoming Roundtable, it sports a full 360-degree view with...

Tags: Roundtable

Videos 2006-09-30

Microsoft lays out unified communications and RoundTable

Later this morning Microsoft is rolling out its unified communications strategy at an event in San Francisco. Part of the announcement, already available in news stories and press releases, includes a video-conferencing camera, Microsoft Office RoundTable. It's a 360-degree camera that provides a panoramic view of all in a conference...

Tags: camera, Microsoft Corp., Roundtable, Netscape Communicator

Blog posts 2006-06-26

Additional Resources

Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009

Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009So soon?Damn our SA will expire soon. Wish this was a free upgrade.RE: Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009I use Office Communicator OC 2007 with server-based OCS 2007, and use both headset (attached to my laptop/dekstop) along with stand-alone VOIP phone...

Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, instant-messaging/VOIP server, instant-messaging/VOIP, OCS 2007, server, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

News to know: Yang's runway; Apple patch; Google; Gates' last week

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go too. Techmeme Google's display ad gravy train rests with YouTube Richard Koman: Ad targeting technology violate privacy, groups say Ryan Naraine: Microsoft blames 'human issues' for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Data Center, Apple Inc., Data Centers, Web Browsers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-20

iPhone developers roundtable

iPhone developers roundtableIt's official, Silverlight is now part of the "killer" groupI found this link on the page you linked to:[url=http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/index.cfm?newsid=21706] SproutCore is Apple's Flash, Silverlight-killer [/url]As soon as "" is labeled a " killer", it means is a fantastic product and isn't. Thanks MacWorld for admitting that...

Tags: fantastic product, Apple iPhone, SproutCore

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

iPhone developers roundtable

Macworld has posted an interesting Podcast with three heavyweights in the Mac/iPhone development world. Editorial director, Jason Snell then sits down with three key Mac developers—NewsGator's Brent Simmons, The OmniGroup's Greg Titus, and The Icon Factory's Craig Hockenberry—to talk about their experiences developing for the iPhone. by Jason D....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Apple Macintosh, Podcasts, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-19

TechNet Webcast: Deploying and Managing Your Unified Communications Devices (Level 300)

Devices are critical for ensuring an excellent voice and video experience. Microsoft Unified Communications UC devices, such as Microsoft Office Communicator Phone Edition and Microsoft RoundTable, are plug-and-play devices; hence they have a number of infrastructure requirements for DHCP, DNS, and NTP, in addition to certificate configuration and implementation. This...

Tags: Device, Webcast, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Collaboration

Webcasts 2008-06-12

Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech

The kind souls at LimeLeap, a technology services company that has donned a green mantle as its new business mantra, have taken an item off my to-do list, which was to follow up on a green business roundtable that they hosted in Washington last month. As I...

Tags: Green Technology, Government, Congressman, Entrepreneurship, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Spike in enterprise 'events' spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society

The recent growth -- and expected spike -- in business event data in enterprises has led a group of IT industry leaders to form the Event Processing Technical Society EPTS, designed to encourage adoption and effective use of event processing methods and technology in applications. Among the...

Tags: Event, Podcasts, Utility Computing, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-03

What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lot

Someone asked me the other day if I thought IT solution providers (what you might call a reseller, VAR or systems integrator) could build a reasonable branding message around green tech or environmental issues. While I haven't seen a whole lot of these companies do anything publicly, two jumped to...

Tags: Green Technology, Luzuriaga, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-01

D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emerge

As expected, Microsoft's brief multi-touch demonstration of Windows 7 garnered most of the headlines, but when the crowd goes one way sometimes it makes sense to go the other way. And if you go away from the crowd you'll notice more than a few subtle hints were dropped about how...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Windows 7, Multi-touch, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week? Touch

Is this week the week that Microsoft finally will shed a bit more light on what's coming in Windows 7? Istartedsomething.com blogger Long Zheng recently reported that Microsoft is planning to show off Windows 7 at the D6 conference in Southern California this week. But given the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-27

SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables

There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...

Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Indian device makers want regulation and get it

Strange story came across the Internet this morning. It was from a site called Thaindian News saying India's medical device industry was seeking, and getting, new regulations from the government. This seemed positively unAmerican which by definition it was so I checked it out with the story's...

Tags: India, Medical Device, Regulation, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Avaya Changes the UC Game

The battle for enterprise Unified Communications took a pivotal turn this morning when Avaya announced its Intelligent Presence server here at VoiceCon.    The Intelligent Presence server collects and integrates presence information from multiple sources for a richer view of a worker's status. More specifically, the Presence Server will...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Avaya Inc., Intelligent Presence Server, Presence Server, Presence Source, E-mail Providers, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML

Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and more patents to protect that IP. Following its interoperability announcement on Feb 21, the...

Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenXML, Interoperability Initiative, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Linux-based Unison server to challenge Microsoft Unified Communications Platform

A group of former execs from a Microsoft messaging hosting partner are going to launch a Linux-based unified communications platform that will compete directly against Microsoft. Unison, a two-year-old developer based in New York, plans to release into beta testing the Linux server and Windows client code...

Tags: Platform, Unified Communications, Enterprise Version, Microsoft Corp., Unison, Linux, E-mail, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Claims Fraud Prevention and Management Roundtable

The presenters of this webcast will divulge how predictive analytics, network-based scoring and cross-channel claims validation systems help to uncover more fraudulent claims and prevent fraud before it happens.

Tags: SAS Institute

Webcasts 2008-01-15