Voxbone Partners with Alianza for Cloud-based Voice Solution

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	Voxbone Partners with Alianza for Cloud-based Voice Solution Voxbone has announced a partnership with cloud voice platform company Alianza that is intended to help service providers deliver new international voice services. The integrated solution will allow service providers to combine Alianza’s Cloud Voice Platform with Voxbone’s VoxDID.Integration of VoxDID will allow Alianza's service provider customers to order, manage, and provision telephone numbers from over 50 countries, creating virtual number solutions that can enable new regional and national markets for Alianza clients. Voxbone customers will now have access to Alianza’s cloud voice platform, which offers creation and management of residential and business VoIP, SIP Trunking, and mobile VoIP services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Brother International Corp. How Secure are your Web Meetings? OmniJoin offers a full suite of security features to give you the peace of mind that your web meetings are as secure as you need them to be. Learn More>> In this Issue Microsoft announcements: From TechEd Europe innovations to baking Skype into IE Apple Watch will need to be charged daily, Tim Cook confirms Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Which will retailers choose? Facebook sales, driven by mobile, shoot up nearly 60 percent WHITE PAPER: Curvature Smart Companies are Migrating their Maintenance Contracts By refocusing their strategy to maintenance contracts that are independent of OEM policies, companies can maximize their IT budget while managing their infrastructure more efficiently. Read about alternative strategies and debunk IT market myths. 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View now Apple Watch will need to be charged daily, Tim Cook confirms There's still much we don't know about Apple's highly anticipated Apple Watch. First and foremost, we don't know when the device will launch, aside from a somewhat vague window of "early 2015." What's more, we have no idea how Apple plans to price its impressive lineup of Apple Watch devices.When Apple typically introduces a new product, it loves talking details. The Apple Watch, though, was rather light on the details. Indeed, one data point Apple neglected to mention was what type of battery life users can expect to see with the Apple Watch. And for a company that loves boasting about best-in-class battery life across its range of mobile products, the omission certainly raised a few eyebrows.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Curvature The State of IT Infrastructure & Operations The challenge that IT decision-makers face is the pressure to reduce costs paired with the pressure to progress digital maturity. Curvature analyzes why businesses miss significant CapEx and OpEx cost savings and how to refocus IT strategy. View now Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Which will retailers choose? CVS and RiteAid’s much-derided break with Apple Pay makes perfect sense for them.Apple Pay, like Uber, is a good product with a great user experience, but unlike Uber, Apple Pay is not disruptive. Apple Pay won’t reduce costs or improve efficiency in the credit card payments industry, which taxes merchants 2% to 5% of top-line revenues to pay transaction fees. Merchants’ acceptance of Apple Pay is for their consumers’ convenience, no different than accepting cash, checks, and credit cards. Saving the consumer the time it takes to put down his or her iPhone to pull out a credit card is Apple Pay’s only advantage.Currently, at least three organizations are involved in every credit card transaction: the merchant acquirer bank that represents the merchant taking the payment, the issuing bank that issues the credit card to the consumer making the payment, and the credit card company that transfers the funds between them. All share the fees.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Facebook sales, driven by mobile, shoot up nearly 60 percent Facebook continues to reap rewards in mobile, growing its crucial ads business in large part due to ads placed on smaller screens, the company reported Tuesday.Total sales for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 amounted to US$3.2 billion, up 59 percent from the same period last year, and beating consensus analyst expectations of $3.12 billion, as polled by Thomson Reuters.Roughly two-thirds of sales, or 66 percent, came from ads placed on mobile devices, Facebook reported, up from just under half of all revenue coming from mobile a year ago.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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