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RIM Revenues Surge on Demand for New BlackBerry Units
Research in Motion announced that third-quarter sales jumped 66 percent compared with a year ago. RIM closed at $38.44 today, down 5.48 percent on expectations of a miss, but jumped almost 10 percent in after-hours trading. Profit grew 7 percent over last quarter with reported revenue of $2.78 billion for the quarter ending Nov. 30.…
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Survey: IT Organizations to Spend on Video Conferencing in 2009
Plenty of technology industry observers have predicted that video conferencing would stand to benefit in 2009, since travel is often the first thing that companies cut from budgets when money is tight. But now a new survey of existing users of video conferencing technology has proven the theory. Over the past year, both interest and…
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Unison’s Free Unified Communications Software Challenges Microsoft and Google
Unison Technologies is making a direct challenge to the traditional sales model for unified communications software, aiming directly at industry giants Microsoft and Google. Unison’s new sponsor-supported model lets businesses download and use the company’s self-branded UC software for free, says Rurik Bradbury, chief marketing officer at Unison. The Unison software combines the best features…
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Ingram Micro Programs Finally Make Cell Phones a Moneymaker
The typical business would rather deal with only one supplier for all its IT needs, be it software applications, network maintenance or hardware procurement. And with the advent of voice and data technology, businesses-technology consumers increasingly expect the IT solution provider to also handle all its wireless and mobility activation needs, from cell phones to…
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ObjectWorld
ObjectWorld This Microsoft-based UC vendor offers three bundles aimed at small- and midsized businesses exclusively, each tailored to address both end customers’ business needs and to allow for solution providers’ differing levels of expertise with UC technology. Mitel The merger of Mitel and Intertel in 2007 gave solution providers access to the best of both…
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Microsoft, RSA Partner to Develop Next-Gen Data Loss Prevention
In unveiling a new technology sharing and development alliance, Microsoft and RSA—the security division of storage giant EMC—took the first step toward creating the next-generation of data loss prevention technology in which the protection of sensitive digital assets will eventually reside in the fabric of the IT infrastructure. Microsoft will integrate RSA’s data loss prevention…
