Bright House to acquire cloud communications provider Telovations

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	Bright House to acquire cloud communications provider Telovations Bright House Networks, the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S., announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Telovations, a Florida-based cloud communications provider that delivers businesses hosted voice solutions, including PBX and managed SIP trunking. The transaction is expected to close within 45-60 days, pending regulatory approvals. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Sprint Streamline your business with UC&C from Sprint If you're still weighed down by an outdated communications infrastructure, you're holding your business back. Our comprehensive cloud-based unified communications & collaboration (UC&C) solution offers a risk-mitigating migration strategy, providing scalability, network & cost efficiency, greater reliability, & enhanced mobility for all employees. GET THE DETAILS In this Issue Key to BYOD isn't multiple devices, but single user experience The 100 Best Products of 2012 User ranked top LTE smartphones Company denies being bought by Google RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ShoreTel ShoreTel UC cuts costs like no other Unlike most IP phone systems, ShoreTel was actually made just for IP. So where others offer built-in complexity & cost, ShoreTel builds in ease, scalability, and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership – guaranteed. See the difference. Key to BYOD isn't multiple devices, but single user experience According to recent reports, the average business traveler carries three mobile devices for work and 25% of IT decision makers believe desk phones will be replaced by mobile phones within two years. The data points to an increasingly mobile workforce, one that expects a single user experience for accessing unified communications (UC) applications and services across all their preferred devices -- whether it is an employer-issued smartphone or an employee's BYOD tablet device. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Forrester: Virtualization and the Mobile Workspace How will you meet evolving security requirements? Discover IT approaches to BYOD and other workspace challenges in a Forrester study that examines policy management, desktop virtualization and mobility solutions. Read Now The 100 Best Products of 2012 Around this time each year, the editors at PCWorld and TechHive gather to recognize the best new tech products--the hardware, software, gadgets, and devices that had the biggest impact on the world. The process starts out casually enough, because editors get to name their favorites from their respective beats, and everything is included in the first pass. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Standards-Based Platforms are Transforming IT More and more businesses are saving time and money by transforming proprietary, siloed computer environments for resource-intensive workloads into consolidated IT infrastructures built on industry standards and open systems. Learn More User ranked top LTE smartphones Here's what customers of three carriers say about their LTE smartphone purchases. Read More Company denies being bought by Google An apparently fictitious press release purporting to announce the acquisition by Google of a Wi-Fi provider called ICOA has some in the tech press scrambling to find their erasers. No such acquisition has occurred, insist both non-principals. According to TechCrunch: Read More
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