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Kolmisoft and 5gFuture to deliver next-generation visual monitoring capabilities

editor@iwith.org ( ) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:05:00 +0100

Billing software MOR and 5gVision, an advanced VoIP & SNMP monitoring system, are both set to be fully integrated by Kolmisoft to provide powerful, next-gen visualized monitoring tools.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 15/04/2013

Jabber now available for virtual desktops

editor@iwith.org (Editor) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:37:00 +0100

Cisco has announced that Jabber, its unified communications (UC) product, is now available for virtual desktops. Cisco says based on an estimate by research and advisory firm Gartner, there will be around 77 million Jabber users on virtual desktops by 2016.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 28/02/2013

Survey Reveals Mobile Users Prefer Voice Over IP

editor@biz-news.com (Editor) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:53:00 +0100

A study conducted by BroadSoft revealed greater than 2/3 of mobile device users showed a preference for voice over IP or UC services and regarded it the most worthwhile application. BroadSoft surveyed 700 people who work in assorted industries located in Sweden, Spain, and in the United States.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 20/02/2013

Radvision Unveils eVident and Scopia Elite 6000 MCUs

editor@biz-news.com (Editor) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:26:00 +0100

Unveiled by Avaya's Radvision, the software-based multipoint control unit (MCU) Scopia Elite 6000 Series, is the newest monitoring tool available for video networking and video conferences. This MCU supplies 1080/60fps double channels that provide content and video, with synchronized H.264 high profile bandwidth effectiveness, and H.264 video coding.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 19/02/2013

Net2Phone’s SIP Trunking Solution Now Rated “Avaya Compliant”

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:55:00 +0100

Net2Phone, one of the largest distributor-based VoIP providers in the world, today announced that its SIP Trunking solution is compliant with key small and medium enterprise solutions from Avaya, a global provider of business collaboration systems, software and services.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 15/02/2013

Alcatel-Lucent and Reliance Communications enter long term billion dollar contract

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:56:00 +0100

Alcatel-Lucent and Reliance Communications (RCOM), a telecommunications service provider for India, announced that they had signed a contract for an innovative, end-to-end network that will provide service for customers in the Eastern and Southern regions of India through the year 2020.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 22/01/2013

Voxbone Launches VoIP Emergency-Calling Service in Europe

editor@dreamattic.com ( ) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:45:00 +0100

Voxbone today launched an easily-set-up,cost-effective solution: VoxOUT, which enables providers of cloud communications, SIP trunking and other enterprise VolP services to support emergency calling.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 22/01/2013

Mobile UC Deployment the Key to Higher Productivity, Says Survey

editor@iwith.org ( ) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:18:00 +0100

Adding mobile technology to a Unified Communications strategy could allow the average business to recover $5,500 per employee per annum in lost productivity. Webtorials has collected survey responses from 200 people employed at companies which have over 500 employees, most of which are located in the United States. The survey, which was commissioned by the SIP communications company Sonus Networks, has some results that will interest business owners.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 18/12/2012

Infonetics: Cisco is the Ruler Among PBX Vendors

editor@iwith.org ( ) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:14:00 +0100

According to a recent market study made by Infonetics Research, the third quarter of 2012 saw a few positive changes in the leading business PBX telephony systems. Cisco was found to be the leading PBX business phone system vendor, followed closely behind by Avaya.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 30/11/2012

KeKu Celebrates 500,000 Users With Group Calling App

jason@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:57:00 +0100

KeKu, the VoIP telephone service only launched early this year, but is already reaping the rewards of a fantastic service. With 500,000 customers internationally using their service on both iOS and Android devices, the sky seems to be the limit for this New York-based startup.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 21/08/2012

Imo Pairs VoIP Capabilities With Its IM App

jason@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:50:04 +0100

Imo has been widely used for years now by fans of instant messaging looking to bring all their various accounts under one umbrella. The company recently announced that it is expanding its free VoIP calling service from an Android-only option to users on iOS devices as well.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 21/08/2012

LifeSize Communications Launches Virtual Video MCU

jason@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:36:29 +0100

LifeSize Communications is well respected in the VoIP industry for their UVC video conferencing platform, especially since it is entirely software-based. They’ve recently announced some incredible innovations that will make video calls on mobile devices easier than ever.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 21/08/2012

UK's Rural Communities About to Experience Upgraded VoIP

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:45:00 +0100

VoIP has become a prevalent digital solution in most parts of the world, offering quality phone service with the inexpensive convenience of the internet. But business owners in rural communities have not enjoyed the service as much as their urban counterparts. Well it seems like progress is being made, and soon more rural customers will enjoy VoIP service.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 13/08/2012

Arizona-Based Nextiva Expands VoIP Business

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:01:00 +0100

As broadband phone services continue to rise in popularity, regional VoIP providers are finding the means to expand their businesses. Nextiva, a VoIP firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona, expects to hire an additional 100 employees by the end of the year.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 10/08/2012

Obi202 VoIP Adapter Allows for Free Local Calls

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:09:00 +0100

A company called Obihai Technology has created the Obi202, a VoIP adapter that, when used in conjunction with Google Talk gives consumers the ability to make unlimited free local calls.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 07/08/2012

Global VoIP Revenues on the Rise

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:15:00 +0100

It seems as if 2012 will go down as a turning point in the rise of VoIP technology. According to a recent report by industry analyst Visiongain, global VoIP revenues will reach $65 billion in 2012.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 07/08/2012

Users Complain of Spotty Google Talk Services

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:25:00 +0100

Google spends an awful lot of time and money advertising some of their services, and Google Talk, featured on Gmail and Google+, receives a large percentage of that attention. Yet any users who attempted to use Google Talk on the east coast of the United States and around the world during one day last week disappointedly met only dead air.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 04/08/2012

Skype Questioned on Privacy Policy Changes

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:43:00 +0100

Recent media reports have accused Skype’s management of changing their privacy policy following their sale to Microsoft, in an effort to help law enforcement agencies keep tabs on video and voice calls. Mark Gillett, Skype’s chief development and operations officer, recently took to the internet to refute those claims, in a statement released through the company’s blog.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 02/08/2012

Rebtel Competes With Skype in the Windows Phone Market

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:47:00 +0100

Rebtel is the largest VoIP service in the world after Skype, and has been working hard to close that gap in recent months. This week they took another large step towards further industry dominance, with the launch of a Rebtel app specifically for the Windows Phone.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 27/07/2012

Vonage Granted New VoIP Patent

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:09:00 +0100

Vonage has long been an industry leader in cloud-connected communications, with more than 2.4 million current subscribers. This week, the company announced it had been granted a new patent, U.S. Pat. No. 8,223,720. This latest patent, called “Systems and Methods for Handoff of Mobile Telephone Call in a VoIP Environment”, gives users who make VoIP calls on a mobile device the ability to continue the call while moving from one wireless data connection hub to another, without ever dropping the call.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 26/07/2012

Skype Working Out Instant Messaging Bug

editor@dreamattic.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:21:00 +0100

Skype offers their service to users running Windows, Mac, Linux, and most of the mobile operating systems, and the majority of users utilize the application completely for free. But many consumers have run into issues in recent weeks, as instant messages sent over Skype have been accidentally sent to the incorrect contact, creating a host of awkward situations.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 24/07/2012

New Smartphone App Gives Verizon Customers VoIP Capabilities

editor@biz-news.com (Jason Tyrrell) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:37:00 +0100

South Carolina-based Zipit Wireless launched a new app, one they expect to help healthcare professionals deliver faster, more complete aid to their patients than ever before. It’s called Zipit Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution, and it has grown out of an exclusive partnership with Verizon.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 17/07/2012

Sonetel to Give All Customers iNum Numbers From Voxbone

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:04:00 +0100

Voxbone announced today that Sonetel, a Swedish VoIP provider with users in more than 200 countries, has begun giving all of its subscribers free iNum numbers from Voxbone. The agreement to provide iNums expands Sonetel's relationship with Voxbone, which has provided the certified reseller more than 17,000 geographical phone numbers since 2010.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 23/05/2012

Vonage Reports First Quarter 2012 Results

tomek@iwith.org (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:21:00 +0100

Vonage announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Reflecting the company's previously stated plans to increase investment in its strategic growth initiatives, Vonage reported adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $32 million.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 03/05/2012

Alcatel-Lucent Takes Over Number Two Spot From Juniper

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:26:00 +0100

Synergy Research Group announced the publication of the 4Q11 Carrier Infrastructure Market Share report that provides quarterly market shares for Service Provider Core Routers, Edge Routers, and Carrier Ethernet Switches. According the the report, the fourth quarter of 2011 saw carrier infrastructure revenues hovering around the $3 billion mark for the third successive quarter.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 24/02/2012

Yowie Adds Group Video Chat to Its Platform

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:11:00 +0100

Yowie has announced it is now offering enhanced group video chatting for consumers, competing against the likes of Skype, Google Hangouts and Tiny Chat. Yowie, known for connecting fans with celebrity chat hosts such as Colin Farrell, Amy Poehler, Interpol and presidential hopeful Gary Johnson, now compete head to head in hot consumer video chat space.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 16/12/2011

Vidyo First to Achieve 100 HD Rate Matching Ports on a Virtualized Machine

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:17:00 +0100

Vidyo announced it has virtualized the first video conferencing infrastructure and delivered an HD video conference on over 100 concurrent lines. To date, virtualization in the video conferencing market has been limited to call control. Vidyo has now virtualized media processing, enabling service providers to offer unlimited multipoint scalability and low latency rate matching capability on demand to accelerate the adoption of high quality, universal video conferencing on any endpoint.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 11/11/2011

4PSA Enhances VoIP Suite with Cloud Telephony Service

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:57:00 +0100

4PSA, known for its VoipNow Unified Communications platform, has announced the public availability of Cloud Telephony, the flexible, next-generation SIP trunking service that "can be provisioned within minutes."

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 11/10/2011

VoX Communications Partners with LightSquared to Launch Mobile Voice and Video Services

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:09:00 +0100

LightSquared, a nationwide wireless broadband network, announced that it has signed a multi-year wholesale agreement with VoIP provider VoX Communications. VoX is culminating its strategy to add mobile functionality to its existing IP network platform by launching new mobile services and applications, including voice and video, on LightSquared's network.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 13/09/2011

Cisco Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Earnings

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:48:00 +0100

Cisco has reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year results for the period ended July 30, 2011. The company reported fourth quarter net sales of $11.2 billion, net income on a GAAP basis of $1.2 billion or $0.22 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.2 billion or $0.40 per share.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 11/08/2011

Vonage Reports Record High Net Income of $22 million

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:53:00 +0100

Vonage Holdings announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. The Company reported record high net income of $22 million and record high adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) of $44 million.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 05/08/2011

Telesphere’s VideoConnect Makes HD Business Videoconferencing a Reality

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:16:00 +0100

Telesphere recently announced the launch of VideoConnect, a cloud-based videoconferencing service for businesses of every size. Today the company announced that VideoConnect is the first worldwide commercial deployment of Broadsoft’s BroadCloud Video, an enterprise-grade videoconferencing and telepresence service that incorporates Polycom’s standards-based HDX systems and VVX 1500 business media phones, along with CounterPath’s Bria softclients.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 27/07/2011

Viber 3G VoIP Mobile App Coming to Android

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:28:00 +0100

Viber, a mobile application that offers users free phone calls and text messaging to other Viber users over 3G and Wi-Fi, announced the official launch of the Android version of the app, bringing Viber to millions of additional users. Viber also announced that it has acquired over 12 million active users (last 30 days) and has an impressive call traffic volume of over one billion minutes of calls per quarter.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 20/07/2011

Ciscos Cius Tablet Coming to Verizon LTE

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:05:00 +0100

Cisco Cius, the first Android tablet aimed at enterprise customers will be launched by Verizon Wireless later this summer. According to Verizon, the company is combining the power of its 4G LTE network with the Cisco Cius to improve "Mobile Enterprise Collaboration."

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 15/07/2011

Level 3 Delivers SIP Trunking with Nomadic E-911 Solution for Microsoft Lync

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:24:00 +0100

Level 3 Communications has announced that it is working with Microsoft to provide SIP Trunking with nomadic E-911 (enhanced 911) designed to integrate with Microsoft Lync.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 12/07/2011

Cisco Unveils AppHQ Application for Cisco Cius

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:11:00 +0100

Cisco introduced AppHQ, an application ecosystem built specifically for Cisco Cius that provides new ways to create, manage and rapidly deploy tablet applications in the enterprise. According to Cisco, with the Cius, organizations can now deliver an optimized tablet with enterprise-grade security, as a natural extension of the enterprise network.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 30/06/2011

fring Brings Mobile Group Video to iPad

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:53:00 +0100

fring, the mobile communication service that pioneered mobile video over internet calls across smartphone platforms, now brings the world’s first dedicated group video chat service to the iPad.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 28/06/2011

Logitech Teams Up with GN Netcom on Unified Communications Solutions

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:28:00 +0100

Logitech is teaming up with GN Netcom to fuel the Unified Communications market. As a first step in their collaboration, the two companies have entered into a distribution agreement under which Logitech will offer select products from the award-winning line of Jabra headsets and speakerphones through distribution channel partners in North America.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 23/06/2011

Carrier router and switch market Back on Track, Up 10% Year-Over-Year

editor@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:19:00 +0100

Although carrier router and switch revenue was down sequentially in Q1 (as it usually is in the first quarter), the market is up year-over-year, and the last three quarters represent the three all-time highest-revenue quarters ever, a good sign that the market is back on track, according to the analysts from Infonetics Research.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 31/05/2011

Speedflow Offers Multifunctional Software for VoIP Providers

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:46:00 +0100

Speedflow Communications now offers a wide range of carrier-grade software products, including class 4 and class 5 softswitches. The company’s highly innovative VoIP software solutions are designed for VoIP carriers and other IP telephony-related companies.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 23/05/2011

Video Conferencing Becomes More Common Among U.S. Physicians

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:47:00 +0100

Seven percent of U.S. physicians use online video conferencing to communicate with any of their patients, according the new Taking the Pulse study of physician digital adoption trends from pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 20/05/2011

Microsoft to Acquire Skype for $8.5 Billion

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:36:00 +0100

Microsoft and Skype have just announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 10/05/2011

Voxbone, Jajah Create Service That Localizes International Calling

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:28:00 +0100

Voxbone has collaborated with Jajah to develop a value-added telecommunications service, which is said to make international calling "simple and affordable." The International Favorites service, which Jajah provides for mobile customers of O2 in the United Kingdom, offers a subscriber a virtual overseas number so the users can call at local rates.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 15/04/2011

Black Diamond Video Launches the Sapphire-QHD1 Conferencing Solution

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:38:00 +0100

Black Diamond Video launched its comprehensive high definition conferencing solution, Sapphire-QHD1, a four-faceted package that offers bi-directional HD video and audio conferencing, unidirectional HD video and audio streaming, HD video recording, and HD image capture. Black Diamond Video’s HIPAA compliant Sapphire-QHD1 can be incorporated into BDV’s popular Integrated Digital Surgical Suite (IDSS) for medical applications or stand alone as a commercial, business, or military conferencing system.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 29/03/2011

Telanetix Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:12:00 +0100

Telanetix, a communications solutions provider offering voice services and solutions to the business market, reported financial results for its 2010 fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010. The company's fourth quarter core voice revenue increased 10 percent over the same quarter last year and full-year core revenue grew nearly 16 percent over 2009.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 29/03/2011

Hosted Communications Services Present Excellent Growth Opportunities to European Service Providers

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:30:00 +0100

Although the on-premise model with its control and security advantages will dominate the enterprise communications market in the immediate future, the revenue share of hosted services is poised to increase significantly, according to Frost & Sullivan. Hosted communications services present an ever more popular alternative for deploying IP telephony and unified communications applications.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 24/03/2011

Polycom Announces Acquisition of Accordent Technologies

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:14:00 +0100

Unified Communications provider Polycom has announced the acquisition of Accordent Technologies, a provider of video content management and delivery solutions, for approximately $50 million in cash. Polycom expects this acquisition to be neutral to earnings in 2011 and slightly accretive to earnings in 2012.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 24/03/2011

VoIP-PAL Working on New iPad 2 App

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:32:00 +0100

VoIP-PAL announced the development of integrating the video conferencing feature on forthcoming new PointsPhone Mobile App for the iPhone 4G and Apple's new iPad 2. The App and the new Video Calling feature will soon be available for free downloading at the Apple App Store.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 09/03/2011

LifeSize Video Center Introduces Mobile HD Video Streaming

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:10:00 +0100

LifeSize, a division of Logitech, has just announced HD video content streaming on mobile devices using LifeSize Video Center. According to the company, now organizations can benefit from "greater communication reach and flexibility" by using HD video streaming, recording and auto-publishing to make video content available to teams working remotely on mobile devices, such as iPads and iPhones.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 22/02/2011

Bandwidth.com Enters Into a Groundbreaking Agreement with Verizon

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:50:00 +0100

Bandwidth.com, a privately held telecommunications company, announced that it has signed a commercial deal with the Verizon wireline companies under which the parties agree to terminate each other's VoIP traffic at a rate of $0.0007 per minute.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 24/01/2011