Digium adds support for instant messaging; VoIP Logic integrates it iPhone

Unified communications news from IT Expo Convergence & VoIP Alert NetworkWorld.com | VoIP & Convergence Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Akamai Web Application Accelerator & NetScaler Get all of the details on how to optimize your applications within the Internet "cloud" and within your data center by combining multiple accelerator technologies. Spotlight Story Digium adds support for instant messaging; VoIP Logic integrates it iPhone By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick Today a few highlights on announcements coming in from this week's IT Expo being held in Miami, Fla. with news from Digium (with Switchvox SMB 4.0), VoIP Logic (with some now mobile applications), and Dash Carrier Services (with some good news on growth). And we'll also sneak in a brief item on SIP Print, which recently won an award for its SIP-based call recording platform. Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. 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