Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
The appeal of unified communications (UC) has long been acknowledged. A growing business with far-flung staffers beavering in isolation has much to gain from this concept, which brings together disparate enterprise business communication applications and integrates them into a single interface. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Unified Communications, Telecommunications, Telephony
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
You can hear all about how some fancy new bit of technology is going to change your life, but you won’t really feel it until someone’s produced a schematic that outlines the ROI.
Go for it. Sharpening your pencil and calculating exactly what an investment in an Internet Protocol (Internet Protocol) PBX (private branch exchange) telephony system—a highly sophisticated business telephone system designed to deliver voice and/or video over a data network—amounts to, is an eminently worthwhile exercise.
To start, the savings you’ll enjoy on (more…)
Tags: ip-pbx, pbx, phone system, VoIP
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
It is instructive to watch, in the wake of the disaster in Haiti, the humble telephone emerge as the planet’s ultimate tool.
In the very first minute after the earthquake, 106 people filed status updates with the word “earth” in them. In the first three minutes, that number jumped to over 700. Since then, updates with the word “Haiti” have been coming at the rate of 1,500 a minute, according to the Mobile Giving Foundation.
But not only are texting, Tweeting survivors alerting the world to their plight, many of us on the receiving end are responding with our keypads, too. (more…)
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