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Cisco Moves to Make Collaboration More Mobile
Cisco’s Collaboration in Motion initiative ties together a variety of existing and new products, as well as a new program for third-party vendors, to help shift partners from selling 802.11n access points to selling combined solutions that can go into very specific horizontals and verticals with a professional services wrapper. "The general concept that we’re trying…
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Mobile Phone Buyers Flock to Smartphones
Looking for another recession-proof technology to sell or integrate into customer sites? Smartphone unit sales—including units from Nokia, the Apple iPhone, the Google Android-based phone from T-Mobile and RIM’s BlackBerry, among others—climbed to more than 36.4 million units worldwide, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period a year ago, according to a new report…
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Polycom, Glowpoint Team Up to Deliver Quality Video Conferencing
Ever wonder why your expensive telepresence and video conferencing system sometimes doesn’t have sharp, high-definition video quality or audio latency issues? Polycom says blame the telecommunications carriers. Polycom says the major obstacle to quality video conferencing adoption resides in the carrier networks. The carriers, Polycom says, do not ensure quality of service across their peering…
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Symbian Sees Strong Growth in Smartphones
PARIS (Reuters) – Sales of smartphones are set to grow 12-15 percent in 2009, said Lee Williams, chief of the Symbian Foundation, the consortium of companies around the world’s most popular smartphone operating system. Smartphones are seen as a bright spot on the shrinking cellphone market this year, with some analysts forecasting above 30…
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Twitter Makes No Plans to Add Advertising
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company is developing various add-on tools and services for the businesses and professional users of…