The prestigious itSMF (IT Service Management Forum) UK Awards 2012 saw Marval customer Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) ICT pick up the IT Service Innovation of the Year Award for RoamKey; a stand-alone operating system stored ...
IDG News Service - Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network. The suits were filed ...
Tags: Apple, RIM, US telcos, mobile network
IDG News Service-Cisco Systems is modifying the licensing options for its Unified Communications Manager's UC Release 9.0 in an attempt to simplify the process and make the use of a variety of client devices easier,the company said on ...
Tags: Cisco, modifies licensing, unified communications platform
Huntingdonshire District Council is to switch from enterprise software vendor Aptean's Onyx CRM solution to Microsoft Dynamics and Optevia Local Government Essentials(OLGE)to cut costs. he council had shared the Onyx CRM platform under an ...
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Microsoft has entered into an agreement to buy Perceptive Pixel (PPI) a vendor of large-scale, multitouch displays, an acquisition Microsoft expects will boost its enterprise collaboration and communication offerings. PPI was founded in ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft has announced the consumer and small-business prices for the new Office suite, which will be sold both via traditional single-device, perpetual licenses and via a new annual, multi-device cloud subscription. ...
Tags: Microsoft, cloud subscription, new Office suite, software, company news
The Ethiopian government is blocking access to the Tor Network that enables online anonymity, according to Reporters Without Borders. Tor client software routes internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers to conceal ...
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Microsoft has announced plans to acquire enterprise social networking firm Yammer for$1.2bn in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office division,led by division president Kurt DelBene,and the team will continue to report to current ...
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 14, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cyara today announced the latest release of Cyara Solutions Suite, version 4.1, which was made generally available in early July and includes key performance, usability and reporting ...
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Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own after it was sold in 2010. In December 2010, Advent International and Bain Capital acquired WorldPay for over ...
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Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
With more than 70 percent of Africa's population living in rural areas, access to broadband service in remote regions was a key issue at the recently concluded Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) meeting in Sierra Leone. In ...
Tags: CTO, Public, Private Sector Balance, Africa, ICT Development
Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized. Avaya has teamed with VMware to ensure that Aura - the company's UC platform for managing voice, video ...
Tags: Avaya, Aura platform, VMware, UC platform
IDG News Service - The launch of the first commercial Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) services took place last week, but most operators are likely to take a cautious approach as they face technical and business challenges. U.S. operator MetroPCS ...
Tags: VoLTE services, cautious approach, MetroPCS, SK Telecom
Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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