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	Verizon announces bundle for business customers In little more than a week after it unveiled wholesale VoIP packages, Verizon announced a new bundle targeted for its business customers, which combines a Verizon Business IP Trunking with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NEC How did The Peninsula Shanghai improve their guest services? They partnered with NEC. Peninsula wanted to create a fully converged voice and data wireless LAN throughout the hotel to respond to guests requests instantly. See how NEC, a leading provider of IT and network solutions and services, helped Peninsula deal with this challenge in this case study. Click to continue In this Issue Vendors ally with Microsoft at Voicecon Video: Vivox adds VoIP to social applications Verizon Skype application available Thursday WHITE PAPER: Sprint SIP Addresses Unified Communications Deployment This white paper gives strategic guidelines for deploying UC. Read why SIP matters. Read More Vendors ally with Microsoft at Voicecon At Voicecon's opening Monday in Orlando, vendors are poised to push unified communications and Microsoft is stepping into the spotlight by announcing alliances with other vendors whose gear interoperates with Microsoft Office Communications Server. Read More DOWNLOAD: RIM Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Now. Video: Vivox adds VoIP to social applications At DEMO 2010, Vivox had a very good demo of its Voice over IP software that it can add to social applications, including Facebook. The company has already worked with gaming applications, and is bringing that knowledge to social networks. For anyone who wants to have a voice chat via Facebook, this is pretty cool. Here's the video: Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Verizon Skype application available Thursday Users of nine Verizon smartphones can download and use the Skype Mobile application starting on Thursday, the operator announced at CTIA on Tuesday. Read More
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