BT offers IP telephony service in U.S.

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	BT offers IP telephony service in U.S. On the same day Verizon announced it was planning to launch a hosted unified communications and collaboration service based on Cisco's solution, BT also announced plans to extend its hosted IP telephony service to business customers in the United States. The BT service, initially launched in the UK in December 2009, also allows businesses to bring converged services to the desktop in, using BT and Cisco's cloud computing-based technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Regulatory Compliance: Value of Data Security Solutions Amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000, have created additional and more stringent compliance requirements relating to cyber security, highlighting more than ever the value of data security solutions. Read More Now In this Issue Give Us Google Voice, Online Petition Demands Reports: BlackBerry, Skype, Google face India data demand Developing for the iPhone and Android: The pros and cons WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Give Us Google Voice, Online Petition Demands After a recent leak showing a Google Voice desktop application in action, fans of Google's telecommunications service have started an online petition demanding Google release the app to the public. "We have asked, begged, and pleaded for a desktop VoIP application...This petition is brought forth to show you the overwhelming demand for such an application," the petition reads. At the time of this writing, the petition at giveusvdesktop.com, had more than 2,400 signatures with an ultimate goal of 500,000. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel TCO Whitepaper Comparing competing solutions on equal footing can be difficult. We also know that a system with the lowest purchase price may not have the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) over the lifespan of the IP unified communications system. To help with your comparison, learn the 12 cost components that must be incorporated in any TCO analysis. Read more! Reports: BlackBerry, Skype, Google face India data demand India's Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has been asked by the government to serve a notice to Skype and Research In Motion (RIM) to ensure that their email and other data services comply with formats that can be read by security and intelligence agencies, according to reports in two Indian newspapers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Simplify System Management Telephone system manageability depends to a great extent on the underlying architecture of the voice system. The architectural approach for integrating new systems has serious implications for management. In this paper you will learn more about how various architectural approaches impacts overall system manageability. Read now! Developing for the iPhone and Android: The pros and cons Smartphones and their apps are the new way of the world, and developers are lured by their increasing popularity. But with two major platforms -- Apple's recently upgraded and renamed iOS 4 and Google's Android -- competing with one another, how does a developer choose between them? Read More
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