If Steve Ballmer had been presenting Office 2010 today, he might have riffed on his old “developers, developers, developers” line with a quip about “productivity, productivity, productivity.” That’s the focus of the new version of Microsoft’s flagship suite of office tools, now available to business customers. Read More »
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Microsoft unveiled Exchange Server 2010, which has been in beta testing since April, at its TechEd conference in Berlin today, and showed it working with Outlook 2010. Exchange 2010 is the company’s latest server technology for on-premise software deployments, but it also incorporates many… Read More »
Google announced today a new Google Apps feature that enables syncing with Microsoft Outlook mail, calendar and contacts data, giving Outlook users a way to use Google Apps without changing their behavior. It will launch worldwide this afternoon (but only available in English; Google said… Read More »
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday. I run product development at Xobni, maker of… Read More »
The battle between Truphone, a mobile VoIP service provider and T-Mobile UK has turned ugly and is heading to the court. T-Mobile UK is refusing to interconnect with mobile VoIP provider Truphone. Truphone has asked the UK courts for an interim injunction against T-Mobile… Read More »
Things are not looking good in VoIP land, and some of the marginal players are feeling the pressure of resurgent cable operators, and scorch earth tactics of Vonage. Presence of natural born channels AOL and Yahoo is giving some people a pause. e911 is proving to… Read More »
Matt Marshal is batting better thank the Yankees. He just hit one right out of the park and scooped everyone on this most interesting development: Citrix buying NetScaler for $326 million. NetScaler, is one of the many companies that are in the business of “
The Oregonian: reports that Portland, Oregon-based Network Elements is desperately looking for a buyer. Founded in 1998, the privately held Beaverton company made optoelectronic devices and had raised $115 million in funding altogether, including $15 million in new investment secured in November 2003. But as… Read More »
Another day, another ATA. Apparently this one from Vocal Technologies is different, or so the company claims. It is about to introduce a new kind of analog telephone adapter design based on SIPv2 & patent pending algorithms that will cut per unit cost by… Read More »
In the penultimate issue of Red Herring, I had written a long piece about IP-TV, and pointed out that Europeans and Asians would whole heartedly adopt the IP-TV, but it will be a bit of a slow starter in the United States. A story in
Totaltele.com is running a poll on who are the most influential people in telecom. The interesting thing is that 5 of the top 10 are non-telecom figures. I am glad to see folks from China, India and Brazil represented in the list. Hey these guys… Read More »
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