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SPOTLIGHT: Euro VoiceCon

TechWeb (the company formerly known as CMP) announced VoiceCon Amsterdam, the first European venture for the VoiceCon brand. Large increases in exhibitors and attendees at events in San Francisco Read more...

IBM foresees no email, phones nor PCs

IBM is predicting the virtual office will become the norm driven by expanded globalization and environmentalism. The new workplace will be centered around mobile computing with instant messaging the Read more...

Avaya wants to be king of presence

Avaya has announced its multi-party presence server, designed to integrate presence data from a variety of sources and devices using standard protocols such as, SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP. Dubbed Read more...

VoiceCon vs. VONx

The two competing conferences this week, United Business Media's VoiceCon in Florida and Pulver Media's VONx, reflect some of the industry trends at play. VON has always been an evangelist's Read more...

Microsoft and Cisco make nice

Microsoft and Cisco pulled together a press event in New York to show how they could simultaneously compete and cooperate. Cisco CEO John Chambers and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down before a Read more...
Tags: Cisco   IPTV   VoiceCon   Microsoft  

ALSO NOTED: Canadian firms partner on international VoIP; ATSI connects Hong Kong telecom; and much more...

> Canadian firms Call Center Development Services and Ubity Solutions, both of Montreal, Quebec, struck a strategic partnership so CCDS can offer its service internationally via Ubity's VoIP Read more...
Tags: Skype   SIP   IM   VoiceCon  

SPOTLIGHT: New technologies planned for VoiceCon debut

VoIP venders are gearing up to demo their latest technologies at VoiceCon in San Francisco, Aug 20-23 at the Moscone North Convention Center. Among those on hand--8x8, purveyor of Packet8 VoIP Read more...
Tags: 8x8   VoiceCon  

Editor's Corner

As you're reading this on our new Monday publication day (if all has gone according to plan), I'll be in a great silver bird aimed at San Jose for Spring VON. Two weeks ago, Read more...

Cisco buys WebEx for $145,000 per customer

Cisco's chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo gave a keynote last week at VoiceCon. Given Cisco's position in the VoIP market, he kind of had to, since Nortel and Microsoft gave talks of Read more...

Tags: Cisco   VoiceCon  

Nokia, Siemens in enterprise FMC deal

Not to confuse matters, but Nokia and Siemens have another, unrelated deal in the works. Siemens Communications--the enterprise part of Siemens that's staying (for now) with the parent company--is Read more...