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Cisco Cozies Up to BT on Unified Communications Soon After Polycom-BT Deal
BT and Cisco Systems announced Dec. 9 that they will collaborate to put unified communications in the cloud, letting customers buy UC services on a per-user utility basis, a service available in the United Kingdom now and in the United States and Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2010. The companies say the "scalable, business-grade,…
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Google Revamps Search Engine for Real Time
(Reuters) – Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google’s flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a partnership to license…
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Dell Reorganization Puts Focus on Smartphones
For the second time in less than a year, Dell is reorganizing its business divisions, this time adding a communications division to head up its smartphone initiative and combining its consumer and SMB divisions into a single division. A Dell spokesman tells Channel Insider that the combination of the consumer and SMB divisions will simplify…
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Cisco Gains More Than 90% of Tandberg Shares
The Cisco/Tandberg deal will be completed after all, for the raised price of about $3.4 billion. Cisco announced on Dec. 4 that it now controls 91.1 percent of shares and voting rights of Tandberg, meeting the networking giant’s set requirement of 90 percent of shares it needed to acquire the company. Cisco’s acquisition means that…
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Cisco, Tandberg Acquisition Deal Is Do or Die
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) will announce Dec. 3 whether enough Tandberg (OSL:TAA) shareholders have accepted its offer, effectively enabling Cisco to acquire the video conferencing giant. Cisco says as of Dec. 1 it controlled about 84 percent of outstanding shares of Tandberg, but the company had set a 90 percent condition for its offer to acquire…
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Tandberg Unshackles High-End Video Conferencing with T3 Custom Edition
Tandberg (OSL:TAA) is unshackling its high-end telepresence video conferencing system from the confines of the board room. The video conferencing giant, which is in play as a Cisco acquisition, is offering a “custom” version of its T3 telepresence system. The high-end T3 telepresence system normally is packaged with all the accoutrements of a board room,…