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	Alcatel-Lucent enhances OpenTouch Suite Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is evolving its businesses communications solutions by expanding and extending the OpenTouch Suite capabilities and applications -- including better native conferencing capabilities and support of mixed media. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Verizon Wireless Verizon Mobile UC: Easily integrates office and smartphones Get the most from Verizon Mobile Unified Communications with the Universal Docking Station. The station lets you utilize all of your existing PBX network features on your smartphone, and requires minimal resources and setup. You can undock your smartphone, instantly, and take the conversation on the go for increased productivity and efficiency. Click to continue In this Issue Was killing VCX IP PBX the right move for HP? Vidyo's claims of free, unlimited video calls could exacerbate industry issues Tatu Ylonen, father of SSH, says security is 'getting worse' 18 Notable Apple Alumni War policy makers could learn from these robots WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems IPv6 Migration Deployment Guide Enterprise networks must adapt to meet new and evolving business requirements. The introduction of cloud services (private, public, or hybrid) poses new challenges to current enterprise network designs. View Now Was killing VCX IP PBX the right move for HP? Earlier this month HP quietly announced the end-of-sale for the VCX IP PBX that was part of its portfolio from the acquisition of 3Com. The end-of-sale date is expected to be December 2012 and puts to rest any speculation that HP might try and revive that product and move into the VoIP/UC space. The company announced it would support existing customers for the next five years, but the product is, for... Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You'll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. Learn More! Vidyo's claims of free, unlimited video calls could exacerbate industry issues The promise of fully interoperable, enterprise-wide video has been much more a vision than a reality over the past decade. Why? Because it's a really hard problem to solve. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Changing the Competitive Dynamics of the Business Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality. Register Now Tatu Ylonen, father of SSH, says security is 'getting worse' Tatu Ylonen has garnered fame in technology circles as the inventor of Secure Shell (SSH), the widely used protocol to protect data communications. The CEO of SSH Communications Security -- whose crypto-based technology invented in 1995 continues to be used in hundreds of millions of computers, routers and servers -- recently spoke with Network World on a variety of security topics. (At the Black Hat Conference this week, his company is also announcing CryptoAuditor.) Read More 18 Notable Apple Alumni Read More War policy makers could learn from these robots The Boston Globe this morning reports that some 248 robots belonging to the Navy - specifically, 248 Man Transportable Robotic System MK 1 MOD 1 robots -- will be getting new software from their manufacturer, iRobot. The upgrade will cost taxpayers $7.7 million, which would seem a bargain considering the capabilities being touted. From that Globe story: Read More
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