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Unified Communications

Finally Unified

by Nancee Ruzicka

We haven’t heard much about unified communications (UC) lately –not because it’s gone away‚ but because IT departments are busy transforming businesses into connected enterprises. Read the full article here.

Making the Right Connections

Putting M2M to Work

by Nancee Ruzicka

Whether this phenomenon is called machine-to-machine (M2M), connected devices or the Internet of things, nearly every business on the planet is trying to understand M2M. What is it? Why now? Read the full article here.

M2M Communications

Technology to Transform Business

by Nancee Ruzicka

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications has the power to reinvent business. Transformative technologies, such as PCs, assembly lines and mobile devices, have dramatically altered the way we do business, and M2M will be one of those technologies. Read the full article here.

Telepresence

Moving From Rooms to Desktops and Smartphones

by Richard Grigonis, Grigonis Research

The value of telepresence—a concept that was once only dimly perceived by visionaries and futurists—is now fully appreciated at all business levels. Read the full article here.

LTE: The Future of Mobile Data

by Steven Hartley

Long Term Evolution (LTE), a new generation of mobile network technology, promises to revolutionize the use of data services on the move. Over the past year, it has gained unparalleled support from mobile operators around the world, particularly in North America. Its introduction is now inevitable, despite the major investment needed. Read the full article here.

WiMAX

The Reality and the Potential

Why WiMAX…and why now? A few years ago, the technology promised to change the economics of Internet access by providing faster, more efficient broadband service over unprecedented distances and growing into a ubiquitous open wireless network. Read the full article here.

Unified Communications

Seven Ways To Deliver Value

by Nancee Ruzicka

The promise of unified communications (UC) is simplification and real-time access to people, applications, data and collaborative support. Read the full article here.

Unified Communications
Enabling Innovation While Reducing Costs

By Nancee Ruzicka

A look at how unified communications are helping to keep mobile businesspeople connected and productive, as well as the newest technologies that are making communicating while on the go even easier. Read the full article here.

Telepresence

Business Travel Goes Virtual

By Richard Grigonis

In this era of globalization, the need to easily communicate and collaborate among geographically dispersed individuals and groups of people has become a significant concern. Read the full article here.

Interactive TV Rises Again,
Pushed On by IPTV

Television industry strategists are again whispering the once disgraced term “interactive TV.”

By James L. McQuivey
In the past year, a phoenix has been
rising from the interactive TV ashes in the form ofGames, Sports trackers, Information inserts...Read the full article here.

Going Global

The BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition Smartphone — supported by Verizon Wireless — is the ideal traveling companion.

By Curtis Rist

That’s the busy traveler’s dream? A BlackBerry device that works around the world and around the block. Read the full article here.

Unified Communications
Are Businesses Ready?

By Nancee Ruzicka

Every day decision makers are presented with new applications and alternatives for communicating. Desktops and smart phones are crowded with applications for e-mail, voicemail, messaging, conferencing, video and Internet. Read the full article here.

Industry News

Yankee Stadium Implements State-of-the-Art Technology from AT&T

AT&T, in partnership with Cisco, implemented a comprehensive state-of-the-art multimedia network for the Yankee Stadium, which was newly constructed prior to the 2009 baseball season. Read the full article here.

Google Begins Risky Experiment

On February 10, Google posted on its official blog, its intention to "build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. Read the full article here.

The Empire Strikes Back: Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 7 Series

In the last two years, there has been significant advancement in Smartphone Mobile Operating Systems, with no less than 5 new mobile operating systems being introduced (Mac OS X for iPhone, Android, Palm webOS, Maemo and Bada). Read the full article here.

Samsung Makes Mobile Enterprise Bid

Mobile World Congress 2010 was full of major announcements: the unveiling of Windows Phone 7, Intel and Nokia's MeeGo, a first glimpse at several new Android powered devices, BES Express, and the Wholesale Applications Community, among others. Read the full article here.

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