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Telecommuting Experiment Shows Increased Productivity, Big Savings
Share We hear the concerns from clients all the time. On one hand, they want to give their employees the freedom and flexibility to telecommute, which can create better work-life balance and decrease travel costs. But on the flip side, these companies fear that productivity may suffer. However, through new means of Unified Communications (UC), the [...]
Full StoryFueled VoIP Market Grows 16 Percent in 2011
Share Thanks to an uptick in the enterprise market, voice over IP (VoIP) sales rose dramatically in 2011, according to two recently released studies. Global service provider from business, residential and small office/home office (SOHO) services totaled nearly $58 billion in 2011, up 16 percent from the previous year, according to data from Infonetics Research. [...]
Full StoryMeru Launches Virtual Tools for Wireless Connectivity
Share With tablets and smartphone s becoming part of every business person’s toolkit, it’s becoming more difficult for businesses to provide the kind of wireless connectivity their mobile team members are demanding. Plus, as the mix of data moves toward more streaming audio and video, the need for greater bandwidth is exploding. New products from [...]
Full StorySpending More on Mobility Makes For Faster Corporate Growth
Share Does spending more money on mobile technology for your employees automatically translate into higher growth? A recent report suggests that the answer is a resounding, “Yes!” The 2011 Runzheimer International Total Employee Mobility Benchmark Report shows that high-growth organizations – those growing 10 percent or more annually – invested an average of $12,352 on each [...]
Full StoryLifeSize Transforms Training with Engaging Social Learning Solution
Share Schools and curriculum writers are spending time and money trying to make learning for schoolchildren more visual, interesting and fun. But shouldn’t the same principals apply to adults? LifeSize thinks so. That’s why the company has introduced an online social learning platform called LifeSize Enablement Network (LEN). Designed for everyone who uses LifeSize – [...]
Full StoryTelework Faces New Threat from State Tax Authorities
Share For years, technology companies and telework evangelists have been combating the challenges facing telecommuters. These have ranged from inadequate technology to difficulties feeling like part of the team and more. Now, thanks to unified communications solutions and other advances in technologies, teleworkers can function just as effectively as team members who come in to [...]
Full StoryShoreTel Completes M5 Acquisition, Expands Cloud Capabilities
Share ShoreTel expanded its ability to provide hosted and cloud-based unified communications (UC) solutions this week as it closed an acquisition of M5 Networks. At the same time, ShoreTel announced the release of M5 Communicator, a desktop application that offers a wide range of UC features for M5 users. With the addition of M5’s hosted [...]
Full StoryLogitech Launches Low-Cost All-in-One Audio and Video Camera
Share Just when you thought unified communications (UC) couldn’t get cooler, Logitech has introduced an entirely new product category for UC. The all-in-one audio and video ConferenceCam is billed as the first communications tool to combine a full HD webcam with a high-quality, omni-directional full-duplex speakerphone in one USB device. With the ConferenceCam, small groups [...]
Full StoryLifeSize Takes HD Video Conferencing Public, with Regus Partnership
Share Want to speed adoption of your HD video conferencing solutions? What if you could expand your reach to hundreds of locations around the globe in one fell swoop? That’s the strategy LifeSize adopted this week, when it announced a venture to place its LifeSize HD video conferencing equipment at more than 240 Regus locations [...]
Full StoryAvaya Gives Clients The Power to Develop in The Public Cloud
Share Avaya took another shot in the war of the cloud this month, unveiling its new strategy for collaboration and cloud-based unified communications. Avaya Collaborative Cloud enables customers, channel partners, service providers and developers to use, build, deliver and enhance cloud collaboration solutions based on Avaya applications, platforms and infrastructure. The framework allows a wide [...]
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