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IBM Scores Record Cloud Deal
In what’s being touted as the largest enterprise cloud-based communications deployment to date, IBM (IBM) said that Panasonic will shift its entire workforce to the hosted LotusLive e-mail and collaboration service – abandoning the Exchange server, from Microsoft (MSFT).Panasonic will start by porting over 100,000 workers in various departments, then include 380,000 …(311 words) Related Topics: IBM,... »
Windstream launches new VoIP/SIP service
Windstream is launching a new VoIP and SIP Trunking solution called Dynamic Office-SIP. The tier 2 telco’s business services solution will combine voice, data, high-speed Internet with IP communications using SIP to provide cost-savings over legacy phone systems. The new IP communications offering provides customers with access to Windstream’s private IP network allowing customers to... »
Will 2010 Finally Be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
Google Boosts Price of On2 Deal to $133M
Google Inc. (GOOG) is revising the terms of its takeover of video compression developer On2 Technologies. The news comes several months after the two companies agreed to a merger, although the approximately $106 million purchase price struck many observers – and investors, as it turned out – as a steal. To …(246 words) ... »
Google Boosts Price of On2 Deal to $133M
Google Inc. (GOOG) is revising the terms of its takeover of video compression developer On2 Technologies. The news comes several months after the two companies agreed to a merger, although the approximately $106 million purchase price struck many observers – and investors, as it turned out – as a steal. To …(246 words) Related Topics: Google,... »
Oracle Helps Korea VoIP Provider Offer New Service
VoIP service provider MSA Communication of Korea has adopted Oracle Communications’ Converged Application Server to develop a new VoIP phone service called “IMTEL Wiz.” The companies expect it will help MSA achieve higher revenue and gain a competitive edge.MSA Communication was the first provider in Korea to adopt the Oracle …(241 words) Related Topics: application,... »
Tweet2DIal Makes Google Voice Twitter Friendly for Asterisk Users
The folks at Nerd Vittles have gotten uber geeky, and have fallen in love with how to make a marriage between Twitter and Google Voice. But unless you have an Asterisk server, you won't need to read just how they managed to make Twitter a calling engine that fires up Google Voice to call you... »
My WiMax Experience
I was in Las Vegas a few days ago and got to experience Mobile WiMax for the first time via the Sprint/Clearwire network that's been installed there. My reaction. Think the best of WiFi and a MiFi all rolled into one. Speeds were solid and I was able to make VoIP and Skype calls, including video,... »
Top Stories of 2009: SIP trunking and Unified Communications gain momentum
In 2009 it was hard to look through VoIP news and not bump into another announcement about a SIP or Unified Communications (UC) deal. Both items have gained momentum and are becoming the rule in the VoIP world. According to Infonetics, SIP trunking service revenue is expected to have an 89 percent compound annual growth rate... »
Top Stories of 2009: It’s the economy stupid!
With the 2009 economy almost in the can, there has been much debate about what that means for VoIP. The nature of our industry gives it both pros and cons in times of financial cut backs and companies looking to save a dime. VoIP upgrades often mean expensive equipment purchases and buildouts but also... »
VIPER Technology appointed as Pakistan’s First IASP
Pakistan’s leading IT solution providers, Viper Technology, has been nominated as Pakistan’s first Intel’s Authorized Service Provider (IASP), enabling the firm to provide its clients with support and efficient warranty services on Intel based Machines. This is the first time that any IT company in Pakistan has been awarded the status of IASP by... »
StarTech KVM Console to USB 2.0 Portable Laptop Adapter Review
If you are an IT or network manager you know how frustrating it can be to try and troubleshoot a rackmounted server that doesn’t have a monitor or keyboard hooked up to it. After all, LCD rackmount console can be pretty expensive. Often referred to as “headless servers”, in many cases you... »
Congressman Sets Realistic Broadband Speed Goals
Congressman Rick Boucher of Virginia is my kind of elected official. He wants us all to have 50 megs down and 20 megs up of broadband. And as the post on DSL Reports mentions, with Docsis 3.0 coming to a cable box near you rather soon, those speeds are more than attainable. In my Sacramento... »
Why O2 Wants to Buy Jajah
O2, a division of Telefonica, a Spanish telecommunications company, is in talks to acquire Jajah, a VoIP startup, for about $200 million, Reuters reported today. The company had raised $35 million from various investors including Deutsche Telekom, Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. According to some rumors, Microsoft and Cisco Systems were also bidding for... »
Holiday E-Commerce Up 15%
Large online retailers are seeing a big jump in their sales — more than 15 percent — so far this holiday season, according to data collected by Chase Paymentech, a big Internet payment processor, which claims to have handled more than 50 percent of Internet transactions in 2008. The data that’s collected as Chase... »
Dialogic, Digium team on media gateway interoperability
Dialogic, a provider of media gateways that provide PBX integration between applications on SIP-based media servers and the installed base of TDM and hybrid IP-PBX systems, has just signed an interoperability partnership with Digium. With this interoperability partnership, Dialogic’s 1000 Media Gateway Series and the Dialogic 2000 Media Gateway Series are now certified for compatibility... »
How Facebook Squeezes Maximum Performance
Facebook has more than 350 million active users. Digest that for a second. Can you imagine how many servers would be required working in a distributed fashion with redundancy to handle 350 million users? Well to answer my own question, Facebook has more than 30,000 servers and adds about 10,000 new servers every 18... »
Positron Telecommunication’s Innovative Asterisk-on-a-Card
In the January issue of Internet Telephony Magazine is a TMC Labs review of Positron Telecommunication Systems V114 analog PCI “Asterisk-on-a-card”. They also have an ISDN version and a E1/T1 version. I thought I would share the review here since this is a very innovative product. It is pretty cool to have... »
How Facebook Squeezes More From Its Machines
Back in June, during an onstage conversation with me at our Structure 09 conference, Facebook VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger lamented how chip makers such as Intel and AMD don’t quite understand the needs of web behemoths like his company, instead touting benchmarks and metrics that are far removed from reality. Industry-standard benchmarks, such... »
Dragon Dictation for iPhone Addresses Privacy Concerns
There was a bit of controversy surrounding the cool Dragon Dictation speech-recognition app for the Apple iPhone. Namely, some privacy advocates weren’t happy that the app would upload their entire iPhone contact list to Dragon Dictation’s servers. The purpose was merely to improve name recognition and no personally identifiable information such as phone... »
Nuance Dragon Dictation for iPhone Rocks!
Nuance Dragon Dictation for iPhone is the most amazing text-to-speech application you will find on the iPhone. Employing a client-server architecture along with the iPhone’s superb high-quality microphone means near dead-on accuracy. When you click the record button your voice is temporarily stored locally on the iPhone. When you are finished recording or reach... »
Green light for Australian internet filter plans
The Federal Government has detailed its plan to require internet service providers (ISPs) in Australia to block a list of banned material. When Parliament resumes next year the Government plans to introduce amendments that will require ISPs to block banned material on overseas servers. Broadband and Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy says some internet content is... »
Voxeo teams with Remego for contact centers in APAC
Florida-based VoIP platform provider Voxeo is teaming with Remego, a Sigapore-based VoIP provider to provide open source contact center services in the Asia Pacific region. Using Voxeo’s open technology platform in Interactive Voice Response (IVR), instant messaging, SIP, VoiceXML, CCXML and mobile web for the creation and management of unified communications and unified self-service applications,... »
Adtran throws hat into UC arena
When you think of Adtran, you might usually think of DSLAMs, routers and LAN equipment, but you might also have heard they are dabbling in IP-PBX systems and SIP trunking. As they ramp up their VoIP technology line-up, they are also exploring Unified Communications (UC). The company plans to launch an IP-PBX capable of supporting 2,000... »
TANDBERG Enhances Movi PC Video Conferencing
TANDBERG has announced new advanced capabilities for Movi, its business-quality PC video solution. Movi delivers the total package for mobile video collaboration by coupling the ability to share content with its video and audio capabilities and centralized management. In combination with the TANDBERG Video Communication Server, Movi enables any PC …(357 words) ... »
Send It To My Kindle
As device divergence grows, and the Amazon Kindle, is clearly the first market for an ecosystem to develop around on, we'll see inventive ideas come to life. In this case, it's a whiteboard capture and send to Kindle technology that GigaOm's Kevin Tofel has discovered. Aimed at the education market, initially, I can see this... »
International contact center provider adds Asterisk to the mix
Altitude Software has announced that it will be using Digium’s Asterisk SIP telephony offerings for its vBox communications platform. Altitude Software is an independent contact center vendor with the Altitude Unified Customer Interaction (Altitude uCI) product line serving around 800 customers of all sizes in about 60 countries worldwide. By partnering with Digium, the Altitude... »
Weekend Video: The Sixth Sense of Computing
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry, a Ph.D. student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab, demoed SixthSense, a device that allows interactions between the physical world and the world of data. Take a moment and watch Mistry’s talk — great stuff. Twitter This Article Facebook This Article Email This Article Greentech Guide to Cop15Earth2Tech – by Katie Fehrenbacher “; e-Book... »
App Developers Not Happy With Android
IMPORTANT POINTS The design of the Android Marketplace makes it difficult for apps to be noticed. The number of app downloads is small. Developers are worried about the fragmentation of the Android market place. With dozens of Android-based smartphones likely to be sold by global brands such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Dell and Motorola, it’s no surprise that... »
FanSnap Launches SeatAlerts, Still Snapping Up Fans
Mike Janes, chief executive and co-founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based FanSnap, a search engine for live event tickets, is no fan of the New York Yankees (he loves the Red Sox), but he was happy to see them in this fall’s World Series. Why? Since they were playing the Phillies, a rivalry as old... »