Monday, October 24, 2011

Contact Center and UC Developments: Avaya, ALU

ShoreTel links Android phones to corporate PBXs | Wi-Fi devices crowd 2.4GHz band; IT looks to 5GHz

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Contact Center and UC Developments: Avaya, ALU
One acquisition and one divestiture to report in this edition: Avaya has acquired Aurix to add speech analytics features to its portfolio while Alcatel-Lucent has announced the selling of its Genesys contact center business to a private equity firm. Read More


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Avaya: Creating Fit for Purpose Data Center Networking
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ShoreTel links Android phones to corporate PBXs
Enterprise IT groups can now tie in Android-based mobile devices to corporate directories and IP PBXs, with the latest update by ShoreTel to its mobility software. Read More

Wi-Fi devices crowd 2.4GHz band; IT looks to 5GHz
Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band, representing an extreme example of how today's surging number of Wi-Fi clients is crowding the band least able to accommodate them. Read More


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Got cyber insurance?
Heartland Payment Systems figured it was in pretty good shape when it took out a $30 million cyber insurance policy. Unfortunately, the credit card transaction processor was the victim of a massive data breach in early 2009 that resulted in losses estimated at $145 million. The insurance company did pay Heartland the $30 million, but the company was on the hook for the remaining $115 million. Read More

Researchers ID Skype users who also use BitTorrent
Entertainment companies seeking to trace people who are illegally file sharing may be interested in new research that could identify filesharers through their Skype accounts. A research team has figured out how to link online Skype users to their activity on peer-to-peer networks, a correlation that could represent a major threat to users' privacy. Read More


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Smarter Commerce -Cross-channel experience
Social networking, increased mobility, adoption of digital channels, increased consumer expectations and transparency across industries are just a few of the factors fundamentally reshaping customer interaction. Read More!

Skype Exploits: I know where you are, what you are sharing, and how to best stalk you
While lurking at Wilders Security Forum, I ran across a link to a research paper filled with terrible news for the half-billion registered Skype users. Security researchers have uncovered some really serious security and privacy flaws in Skype that could reveal the identities, locations over time, digital files, and even P2P activity of hundreds of millions of Skype users. In fact it's bad news for... Read More

10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Job Search
Is your job search lagging? Not seeing the results you'd like? Check out these ten expert tips from CIO.com's Kristin Burnham to enhance your search. Read More

UAE police claim Blackberry outage made driving safer
Make of this what you will: Police in the United Arab Emirates contend that last week's extended BlackBerry service outage significantly reduced traffic accidents there. From a story in The National, based in Abu Dhabi: Read More



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