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Verizon announces bundle for business customers

Vendors ally with Microsoft at Voicecon | Video: Vivox adds VoIP to social applications

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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


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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


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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


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Connecting to Better Customer Service
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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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