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| Mobility, not Unified Communications, top priority for businesses |
| 2008-06-17 15:13:20 |
Unified Communications (UC) is getting a lot of publicity in the tech media these days. But the big push by manufacturers to integrate chat and presence with existing communication systems may not drive sales as much as initially expected.A recent Forrester survey of 2,187 North American and European companies stated there is "confusion about the value" of unified communications for their company. It seems that UC is regarded as a "nice, but not critical" application for communication systems. In fact, UC is not even the number 1 priority for corporations, mobility is. 64% of the respondents in the Forrester survey indicate that "providing more mobility support to employees is a priority", with 23% citing ...
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| Microsoft CEO: "No print media in 10 years". I say it may be sooner than that!! |
| 2008-06-06 15:13:56 |
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been quoted as saying there will be, "no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network." Ballmer continued to say there “will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.”To this I say, duh!!!Somebody sign me up for CEO out west and I'll shout from the mountain top obvious statements. I don't mean to be over the top here, but for many people including myself, this all digital media concept is already a reality.Every morning, I wake up and turn on the TV (delivered via an IP network), eat breakfast, get dressed and check some news on my PDA. After that it's off to the office where a flurry...
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| Increased Travel Costs Driving Demand for Video Conferencing |
| 2008-06-05 09:07:41 |
It's no shocker that higher oil and energy prices are putting pressure on business travel. CNBC.com is reporting that these increased travel costs are beginning to reflect on the bottom line of technology companies that can provide video conferencing and collaboration products.The article reports that "Manpower has ramped up use of its video conference equipment in the last couple of months" and "office furniture maker Herman Miller has encouraged employees to use video conferencing in addition to conference calls and car-pooling to cut operating costs".Manufacturers that focus on unified communication, video conferencing and teleworking can offer businesses enhanced cost savings and increase ROI in these difficult times. ...
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| ShoreTel 8 demo video |
| 2008-06-03 08:29:38 |
ShoreTel has posted a ShoreTel 8 demo video on YouTube and we have it for you on this site. You can check out the video in the left hand column. We will keep the video up for a while so everyone has a chance to view it. The demo is only about 9 minutes long and showcases ShoreTel's newest features including video conferencing, presence and chat at the user desktop.Check it out and send us your thoughts....
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| Web search a prioity at tech's top players |
| 2008-06-03 07:34:27 |
It looks like Google's world domination plan is still full steam ahead. According to comScore, Google's search share checked in at 61.6% in March with Yahoo finishing a distant second at 20.4% and Microsoft posting 9.1%. These staggering figures demonstrate Google's massive superiority in the industry and provide a lot of insight into the recent tech merger talks.ZDnet.com's Larry Dignan commented about this topic stating "These search market share figures put a lot of recent events in context. For starters, Google’s search gains are a big reason why Microsoft has been hot for Yahoo in either a full acquisition or some sort of search purchase."Microsoft and its quest for Yahoo has been a hot topic in both the technology and financial worlds lately. With the proliferation of web based ...
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| Is LTE the next must-have mobile broadband technology? |
| 2008-06-03 07:08:56 |
Credit: Networkworld.comLong Term Evolution (LTE)-based services are garnering a lot of attention in the mobile broadband industry, despite the fact that they are at least two years away from being deployed. LTE, considered by many analysts to be the next big wave in 4G wireless technology, is due to be launched commercially in 2010 by Verizon and AT&T, roughly two years after the Clearwire coalition’s big commercial WiMAX launch slated for later this year. Technically speaking, LTE is a modulation technique that is the latest variation of Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology. Its developers at the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) dubbed it “Long Term Evolut...
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| Mozilla shoots for geek world record |
| 2008-06-03 07:04:45 |
Credit: Networkworld.comMozilla is aiming to create what may be the geekiest world record ever with its upcoming Firefox 3 browser release. The company on Wednesday started a campaign asking users to pledge to download the next full release of its browser on the day it is available so the release can set a Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Mozilla has not yet unveiled exactly when Firefox 3 will be available, but expects it could be as soon as mid-June. A test release of Firefox 3 is currently available online. The company is deeming the day of its release "Download Day" and is asking fans to not only pledge to download Firef...
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| Windows 7 & Multi-Touch Technology Demo |
| 2008-05-28 12:26:37 |
Here's the latest buzz on the tech front today, the sneak peek of Windows 7 and Microsoft's Multi-touch technology. Check out the video below and be aware that you may encounter difficulties trying to view it in a browser other that IE.Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7...
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| HP ProCurve Growth Accelerates at Nearly Four Times Industry Rate |
| 2008-05-28 07:28:53 |
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 27, 2008 – HP ProCurve experienced year-over-year port growth for the first calendar quarter of 2008 that nearly quadrupled the growth rate of the networking industry, according to data from a quarterly report by market research firm Dell’Oro Group.(1)According to the analyst firm’s data, ProCurve, the world’s second largest enterprise LAN networking vendor, grew worldwide port shipments by 28.4 percent in the first calendar quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The industry growth rate for this same period was 7.82 percent.“In the face of a challenging global economy, ProCurve’s impressive growth is based on the ability to provide customer...
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| MIT researchers: morphing Web sites could bring riches |
| 2008-05-27 07:49:05 |
This is pretty cool and a little big brotherish as well. Network World originally posted this article a couple days ago, but it caught my eye and looks to be an interesting concept. Check it out and send us your thoughts.Credit: NetworkWorld.comWeb sites that automatically customize themselves for each visitor so they come across as more appealing or simply less annoying can boost sales for online businesses by close to 20%, MIT research says. These sites adapt to display information so everyone who visits sees a version best suited to their preferred style of absorbing information, say the four researchers who write about such sites in "Website Morphing", a paper being published this month in Marketing Sci...
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| ShoreTel upgrades its call manager and adds new voice switches |
| 2008-05-27 07:33:00 |
Network World has posted an article about the ShoreTel 8 release that was reported here back in April. The article gives an overview of the new ShoreGear switches and Personal Call Manager software. You can find some of it below and the remainder here.Credit: NetworkWorld.comShoreTel earlier this week announced several software and hardware upgrades and two new voice switches. Included in the announcement are enhancements to the ShoreWare Call Manager product line, more open interfaces for integration, and adds two new voice switches: the ShoreGear 24A and the ShoreGear 30. The ShoreWare Personal Call Manager has been upgraded to provide more intuitive interfaces. Added features inclu...
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| Managed services market to crack $66 billion by 2012 |
| 2008-05-21 07:35:10 |
Managed services is a big part of the IT industry these days. Accent's managed services product (AMS) is a large part of our forward looking business plan and is a service that many of our customers are evaluating as a way to ease the burden of the internal IT staff (if one exists at all).NetworkWorld.com has an article up about the IT managed services market and its continual growth through 2012. The article states "the global market for managed services will deliver revenues of $66 billion by 2012."The Cisco commissioned study was performed by Ovum, a consulting firm that specializes in telecom and software consulting. Ovum "finds that the managed services generating the most interest among corporate users are manag...
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| Where does video fit in a unified communications strategy? |
| 2008-05-19 09:47:02 |
Credit: NetworkWorld.com Michael Osterman, 05/15/2008The average American watches television more than 4.5 hours each day. A Nielsen study found that 81 million people, or 63% of broadband users, watched broadband video at home or at work as of March 2007. But how often do we use video in the context of workplace communications? More to the point, when was the last time you participated in a videoconference as part of your work?Obviously, e-mail and telephony are widely used for workplace communication. Instant messaging and audio conferencing are used somewhat less, but are still very popular. But videoconferencing really doesn’t get all that much use. Here are my theories as to why:* Videoconferencing is not as ...
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| Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7 |
| 2008-05-15 15:40:24 |
Credit: Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet.comImproved collaboration and connectivity between Windows PCs and cell phones is going to get a major shot in the arm with Windows 7, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. During a speech for members of the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo last week, Gates referred a few times to Windows 7, the next version of Windows which Microsoft has said will ship in 2010. Gates highlighted improvements to Windows 7’s lower power and memory requirements that are in the works. But he also played up extensively during his speech the new connectivity between mobile phones and Windows which will be introduced as part of the release. From a transcript of Ga...
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| BlackBerry users tie into PBX for unified communications |
| 2008-05-15 15:33:35 |
Credit: NetworkWorld.comEnterprises are starting to use the BlackBerry in a new way: as a means of taking their desk phones mobile. Research In Motion, known mainly as a mobile e-mail vendor, is making a surprising effort to leverage the voice side of the BlackBerry smartphone, positioning its server software as a way to blend cellular and corporate voice networks by linking the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) with the corporate PBX.The result is a set of capabilities, achieved without major infrastructure changes, that many enterprises probably will find compelling. They include a single corporate telephone number that rings on a cell phone, an office phone, a business phone at home, or on a BlackBerry, extending PBX features to the BlackB...
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| HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion |
| 2008-05-13 09:24:07 |
Credit: NetworkWorld.comHP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for $13.9 billion, or $25.00 per share. The deal has been approved by both companies' boards of directors, and is expected to close in the second half of this year. HP said it will more than double its services revenue. The deal will greatly expand HP's IT services business and catapult it to the number two spot close behind IBM, whose Global Technology Services division has long been a strong profit generator for the company. "I see [the acquisition] as an attempt by HP to really go head to head with IBM in a much more meaningful way, especially in technology services and IT outsourcing," Dana Stifler, research director with AMR Research, said Monday, while the two companies we...
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| Japanese Internet satellite hits 1.2Gbps |
| 2008-05-13 09:17:13 |
Credit: NetworkWorld.comEngineers testing a recently launched Japanese data communications satellite have succeeded in establishing a two-way Internet link running at 1.2G bps (bits per second) each way, they said Monday.The speed represents a record for satellite communications, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.The tests were carried out on May 2 as part of verification of the Kizuna satellite. In the tests data was transmitted on two 622M-bps channels both up to the satellite and down to a receiving antenna. Together the combined data transmission speed was 1.2G bps.Kizuna was launched on Fe...
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| Can you define cloud computing???? |
| 2008-05-08 10:45:58 |
Cloud computing is all the rage these days, you've even seen articles about it on this site. But can you provide the true definition of cloud computing? Can anybody!?!?Well, Joyent hosting got together with some of the big boys in technology and tried to define cloud computing. Interviewees include Tim O’Reilly, Dan Farber, Rafe Needleman, Brian Solis, and Stowe Boyd.Check out the video below and let us know what you think of the cloud computing phenomenon....
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| IT departments must prepare for $200 a barrell oil and rising demand for teleworkers |
| 2008-05-08 10:33:39 |
Here's an interesting article from TechRepublic blogger Bill Detwiler regarding the price of oil effecting demand for teleworking and the impact on corporate networks. As oil prices rise, businesses will take a harder look at allowing employees to work from home instead of incurring the cost of commuting on a daily basis.Many organizations provide automobiles and pay for the cost of gas for some of their employees, which can be a large financial burden as oil prices rise. Accent has a large fleet of service vehicles and vehicles for certain office personnel that accumulate a significant fuel bill each month. Personally, my business travels amount to $100 - $125 per week in fuel. Multiply that by 20 and one can understand the reason for increased demand in teleworkingCheck out the artic...
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| ShoreTel partner brings HD videoconferencing for less to marketplace |
| 2008-05-06 10:55:36 |
This is an article from Networkworld.com regarding LifeSize Communications. LifeSize is a ShoreTel development partner that recently developed ShoreTel's IP8000 conference phone. LifeSize's recent development of HD video conferencing should blend well with ShoreTel's enhancements in their platform regarding video conferencing.ShoreTel's latest software release, 8.0, already supports embedded video conferencing through the Personal Call Manager application. This feature allows users to simply click a button and create an ad-hoc video call at the desktop. With a strong partnership between LifeSize and ShoreTel already in existence, it seems logical to conclude that we may see HD video conferencing supported by the ShoreTel system in the near future.Cred...
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| IBM, Google stirring up a cloud environment |
| 2008-05-02 10:01:55 |
Credit: NetworkWorld.comGoogle and IBM are testing a cloud computing infrastructure that could become an important avenue for them to deliver software and services to consumer and business users. Google's Eric Schmidt and IBM's Sam Palmisano addressed a gathering of IBM business partners in Los Angeles on Thursday and revealed the two companies have developed a cloud computing environment that runs on Linux and includes Xen virtualization and an Apache implementation of the Google File System called Hadoop.Last year, the two companies teamed up on a parallel-computing initiative. The IBM/Google cloud environment is being tested at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Carnegie Me...
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| HP Breakthrough Could Spawn Computers That Don't Forget |
| 2008-05-01 15:40:47 |
Another sign of the apocalypse, it looks like HP has taken another step toward a scene out of The Matrix. The below article is from TechNewsWorld.com and it details HP's discovery of a potential 4th fundamental circuit element that has the ability to remember information.For those of you that remember electrical engineering from your college years, you know that there are three fundamental circuit elements (resistor, capacitor, inductor). HP's development of the "memristor" is supposedly the first circuit element that can remember information.Check out a sample of the article below and give us your thoughts.Credit: TechNewsWorld.comResearchers at HP Labs have proven the existence of the "memristor," a component of electrical circuits that could lead to computer systems with memories that ...
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| Microsoft Pulls XP Update After 1 Day |
| 2008-05-01 15:40:18 |
Here's an update to yesterday's post, it looks like Microsoft jumped the gun a little on SP3 for Windows XP.Wired.com is reporting that the update encountered some issues with Microsoft's Dynamic Retail Application System and had to be pulled off the website. The report also states "ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports that the temporary solution is going to involve a filter so that PCs running RMS won’t automatically update. Once that’s in place the general public release will be re-posted. Obviously Microsoft plans to fix the issue ASAP, but in the mean time, those of us who would have never known there was an issue can still get our hands on a copy of the update."Microsoft seems to be in the business of rushing softw...
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| Mitel Wins Best of Interop Award 2008 |
| 2008-05-01 15:36:11 |
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 30, 2008 — Mitel innovation was recognized by InformationWeek, the leading multimedia business technology brand, and Interop, the leading global business technology event series, today as winner of the 2008 Best of Interop Awards in the VoIP and Collaboration category during Interop Las Vegas 2008.The Mitel Communications Suite was selected by InformationWeek's panel of expert judges and won against products from Cisco and Siemens. Each year, Best of Interop winners prove to be the key players in the continuing evolution of business technology.Mitel Communications Suite delivers simplified system installation and management, business process improvement, and a reduction in operating costs by consolidating low-power consumption telephony and server hardware platfor...
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