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2010 Unified Communications TMC Labs Innovation Award

Technology Marketing Corporation, a global integrated media company, has announced the Third Annual Unified Communications TMC Labs Innovation Award.

This TMC Labs Innovation Award will honor ground-breaking products in the unified communications world. Innovation frequently involves taking an existing idea and improving it, as challenging established standards and introducing different approaches often yields distinctive results.

Crusial Analysis and Modeling of OSS Projects

In this day and age there seems to be a lot of confusion about what is right and what is wrong when it comes to doing a proper deployment of an OSS project. This is partly because not enough analysis is done to help guide the developers in the right direction.
Having said this what is good analysis and how does one take this analysis of various operational entities and translate them into good modeling which will eventually act as a baseline for great code development.

Syntellect Offers Enterprise Workforce Management Optimization to the new Partner GMT

GMT Corp., a provider of enterprise workforce management and performance optimization solutions, has announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with Syntellect Inc.
A provider of enterprise-class contact center solutions, Syntellect will now be able to resell through its global sales network, the GMT Planet, an enterprise workforce optimization solution, and GMT Sure Services, a suite of end-to-end client lifecycle professional services.

CTI Group and CommPartners: This New Partnership Brings Hosted VoIP Call Recording to SMBs

In today’s marketplace, with more and more businesses turning to VoIP communications for the cost savings and other benefits it provides, the need to deliver top quality solutions is increasing.

For small businesses that are looking to take advantage of the various tools and applications also offered with VoIP, a new partnership between CTI Group and CommPartners Connect, a nationwide CLEC certified network operator, is the answer.

SaaS Industry Growth is in OpSource and Japan’s Bplats Capital and Partnership

Web applications vendor OpSource has announced that it entered into a partnership with Japan’s Software-as-a-Service(SaaS), consulting company Bplats Inc to capitalize on SaaS industry growth in the world’s second largest economy.
Under the agreement, Bplats and OpSource will work together on joint sales and marketing opportunities as well as on specific customer implementations.

The Planet will Open its Eighth Data Center

The Planet, a provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, will reportedly host a grand opening event of its eighth data center in the north Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas.

The opening event is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 16 and will include remarks from Douglas J. Erwin, chairman and chief executive officer at The Planet and Plano City Manager Thomas H. Muehlenbeck.

The new data center features the latest modular cooling technology from Turbine Air Systems (TAS), with high-efficiency, water-cooled chillers that eliminate the possibility of an interior water leak.

PBX and IP-PBX of U.K. Market Drops to the Lowest Record

The U.K. telephony market suffered another weak quarter after shipments plunged by more than a third in the first quarter, according to a marketing consultancy service provider. And if the trend continues, the industry could be on pace to experience its worst year since 1998.

IDVideoPhone has one month free trial

IDSolutions is allowing the customers to use its high definition video conferencing service, IDVideoPhone, at no cost for one whole month.

Powered by the technology and products of Vidyo, IDVideoPhone allows customers to attend high quality multi-party video conferences from their laptops or desktop computers from their home, office or anywhere that has an Internet connection.

SMB: Target of IBM for a New Software

Information technology giant IBM has teamed up with finance management software vendor Intuit Inc. to launch an appliance in the United States that eases the business operation of small and medium-sized enterprises.

The appliance, the “Smart Cube,” is in fact designed to capitalize on the growing need for technology in the small and medium business sector. Moreover, the launch came at a time when the U.S. stimulus bill is set to offer financial support and subsidy for smaller enterprises investing in technology.

CommScope Intros SYSTIMAX 360 Network Infrastructure Solutions

CommScope, a provider of infrastructure solutions for communication networks, supplies structured cabling systems for business enterprise applications via the brand names SYSTIMAX and Uniprise. Both these product lines mainly offer voice, video, data, and converged solutions.
The company has now introduced its latest SYSTIMAX 360 solution platform at Interop.