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The prototype Firefox extension will bring unified messaging to the open-source browser, if early experiments are promising. Mozilla has launched a prototype messaging Firefox extension that it says could eventually enable users to keep track of all of their electronic communications, including email, RSS, social networks and…
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Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has saved the equivalent of 4,000 emergency department staff hours per year with an internal Star Trek-style wireless voice communicator. Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has saved the equivalent of 4,000 emergency department staff hours per year with an internal Star Trek-style…
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Creating an epidemic of BlackBerry dependency may serve short-term business interests. But the trouble is one day the addicts might just fight back. Although he’s supposed to be on holiday, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown admits his BlackBerry will remain on as he wanders pensively along the North Sea…
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What is needed to spur unified communications deployment and deliver on the vision of spontaneous collaboration is simple and inexpensive tools that can integrate the existing IT, says Dialcom US’s Bob Johnson. Commentary–Normally, when Cisco, IBM and Microsoft move into a market, their presence does…
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If you have doubts about the cost and reliability of VoIP phone systems read on says Tristan Degenhardt of Digium Switchvox. Commentary–If you are like most small businesses, you are considering investing in a VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol phone system for your business,…
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GypSii application gives users access to maps, directions, other location-based information, and social-networking services. Finland’s GeoSentric unveiled on Wednesday its mobile social-networking service GypSii for Apple’s iPhone. The GypSii application lets iPhone users to get maps and directions and access other location-based as well as social-networking services….
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iberty Media’s acquisition of News Corp.’s stake clears a major hurdle as regulators give conditionally approval to the deal. Liberty Media’s acquisition of News Corp.’s stake in DirecTV cleared a major hurdle on Monday as U.S. regulators conditionally approved the deal. The Federal Communications Commission said…
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Policy analyst Randolph J. May says the Federal Communications Commission should make needed market reforms to communications policy. There’s an area ripe for change that we’re not likely to hear discussed on the campaign trail–communications law and policy. While perhaps understandable, this is too bad. Because…
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Alcatel-Lucent posts better-than-expected revenue, but its outlook for 2008 is weak. Alcatel-Lucent wrote down $4.3 billion against the assets it bought in its 2006 merger, and said the outlook was bleak. Chief Executive Patrica Russo rejected the view that the charge showed Alcatel overpaid for Lucent, a…
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Work starts on one of three broken undersea cables that provide data services to parts of the Middle East and Asia. Repair work has started on one of three broken undersea cables providing data services to parts of the Middle East and Asia, a cable operator said, and…
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New version of Internet Protocol data has been added to six of the world’s root servers, assuring supply of unique IP addresses. The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses…
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In study, U.S. tops ratings for “innovation-driven economies”; Russia tops list for “efficiency- and -resource driven economies.” The United States, Sweden, and Japan topped a new ranking that measures how well countries use telecommunications technologies–networks, cell phones, and computers–to boost their social and economic prosperity. Connectivity Scorecard,…
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Product inveiled on Monday allows special telephony features, including transcription, to be embedded on Web sites and PCs. Ribbit, a Silicon Valley start-up that lets software programmers embed phone-like voice features in everything from Web sites to computers to phones themselves, unveiled its first product for consumers on…
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It might be trying to win the hearts and minds of consumers, but the company hasn’t forgotten that its biggest customers still pay the bills. Cisco Systems might be trying to win the hearts and minds of consumers, but it hasn’t forgotten that its large business customers still…
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