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NEC’s Software-Based Unified Communications Integrates with Polycom
NEC Corp. of America is stepping up its unified communications game with enhanced integrations for its Univerge Sphericall software-based unified communications solution, including Polycom HDX HD video conferencing products and its own UC for business contact center agent. Univerge Sphericall 6.4 is a software-based UC solution that can be installed on standard servers and is…
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Mobile, Smartphone Market Forces in Flux
While some VARs may have stayed away from the smartphone business because they can’t complete the transaction for their business end customers, others are starting to embrace the devices and the smartphone integration services they can provide to customers. That’s what a handful of VARs have told Channel Insider—the opportunity is not in the hardware…
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Polycom Adds Video Conferencing to Microsoft Exchange
Polycom this week unveiled tighter integration of its video conferencing systems with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange e-mail server, and has also introduced a new 42-inch all-in-one HD video conferencing solution. The moves come as Polycom has sharpened its focus on tighter integration with other vendor partners for video conferencing and unified…
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Skype, Yahoo and Gmail Beat Out Cisco and Polycom Among Business Users
Think Cisco, Polycom and Logitech have a monopoly on video conferencing in business? Think again. A new survey of 1,200 business users in the United States, Japan, South Korea and China shows that the vast majority of them—79 percent—use consumer applications such as Yahoo, Gmail, AOL and Skype for video conferencing while just 21 percent…
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Businesses Get Serious About Social Software
Businesses Get Serious About Social Software Lines Blur Between Social Networking And E-mail E-mail will take on many social attributes, such as contact brokering while social networks will develop richer e-mail capabilities. Gartner expects to see steep growth rates for sales of premises and cloud-based social networking services. E-mail won’t disappear, but by 2014, social…
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Kerio Connect 7 Undercuts Microsoft Exchange Price
Cross-platform e-mail server vendor Kerio is taking its technology to a broader audience, introducing Kerio Connect 7, which increases scalability and groupware functionality, and introduces the capability to serve multioffice deployments. The San Jose, Calif.-based company is introducing the major update to its Kerio Mail Server at Macworld in San Francisco this week. Available on…
