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  • Avaya, Skype Deal on Unified Communications and Collaboration

    Watch out Cisco, Polycom and LifeSize. Avaya and Skype plan to announce a strategic agreement for unified communications and collaboration solutions on September 29. Click here for Avaya, Skype Deal Update News of the planned partnership comes soon after Avaya announced that it hired ex-Polycom executive Joe Sigrist to head up the video business at…

  • IBM Midmarket Leader: Midmarket, Solution Provider Business Evolving

    Recognizing the changes happening within mid-market businesses and looking to help partners make inroads into the lucrative mid-market space, IBM’s new general manager for Midmarket, Andy Monshaw has spent the last nine weeks talking to partners, analysts, clients and others about the challenges out there in the market today. A couple of the more important…

  • 1. It’s An Advertising Game

    1. It’s An Advertising Game Every decision Google makes is in some way related to advertising. The company realizes that Web-based advertising is big business. And the last thing it wants to do is put that in jeopardy for the sake of breaking into another market. No matter the industry or the focus, advertising is…

  • Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Experiencing Slow Adoption

    Microsoft SharePoint 2010, was released to manufacturing in April, but, according to a new market survey by BPM vendor Global360, the new version has not yet gained a loyal band of followers in the enterprise. According to the study, 80 percent of current SharePoint deployments are still based on SharePoint 2007, and only 8 percent…

  • Avaya Gets Ex-Polycom Video Executive

    Avaya has hired former Polycom executive Joe Sigrist as its new vice president and general manager of video. The Avaya executive announcements follows a host of product and solution announcements around the video business last week. Avaya said Sigrist will play a key role in expanding Avaya’s focus on video and business collaboration as well…

  • Facebook Suffers Second Outage, Issue Resolved

    SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Facebook experienced technical difficulties on Thursday that slowed its website to a crawl or blocked off access for some of its 500 million users, a glitch that has since been resolved. A separate Facebook feature integrated into other websites, allowing visitors to "like" particular articles or videos, also appeared…

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