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  • Listen up: Rock and roll artifacts under surveillance
    IP-based video surveillance technology keeps a digital eye on gear from the likes of John Lennon and Mick Jagger that's on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York City.
  • Skype for Business sounds the all-clear on legal pitfalls
    Businesses that were scared of saving money by using Skype because lawsuits might take away its essential VoIP technology may not have to worry anymore.
  • Google buys Gizmo5 Internet calling service
    Google is bulking up its phone offerings with the acquisition of Gizmo5, a company that offers voice-over-IP software for mobile phones and computers.
  • Cisco pushes to open up telepresence
    Cisco is making a concerted effort to improve the compatibility of its telepresence gear, something that industry observers say has been lagging, but that is sorely needed if it and other vendors are to succeed.
  • Logitech's LifeSize buy bewilders
    Logitech's only video products are commodity Web cams, but that will change when the company closes a deal to buy high-definition videoconferencing vendor LifeSize Communications.
  • Logitech to buy HD video company for $405 million
    Logitech plans to acquire LifeSize Communications, a company that makes HD video communications equipment, for US$405 million in cash, the companies said Tuesday.
  • Google's Purchase of Gizmo5 Could Benefit You
    Has Google found the final piece of its voice-calling puzzle? Rumors have it that the acquisition-happy search giant has acquired Gizmo5, a Skype-like VoIP startup. TechCrunch is reporting that Google has plunked down $30 million in cash for Gizmo5, which offers a software app that lets you make free phone calls to other Gizmo users, as well as inexpensive calls to landlines and cell phones. It supports SMS and instant messaging, too.
  • Cisco crafting telepresence Rosetta Stone
    At its big collaboration event this week, Cisco is wheeling out what it describes as the Rosetta Stone of high-definition videoconferencing to address one of the biggest problems facing the technology -- interoperability.
  • Cisco warns UC users of limited support for Windows 7
    Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is warning customers of its unified communications products that support for Windows 7 won’t be forthcoming until the product’s 8.0 release scheduled for the first quarter of 2010. About a dozen more UC products will not support Windows 7 until version 8.5, in the third quarter of 2010 and at that time, only the 32-bit version of Windows 7 will be supported.  http://www.networkworld.com/community/taxonomy/term/7678
  • Siemens invokes Twitter to lure unified communications application developers
    Siemens is invoking the model of iPhone-application development by opening a site in Amazon's cloud to encourage creation of unified communications apps, priming the pump with a mashup it created that mixes its UC gear with Twitter.
  • Nortel customers: Don't panic yet
    Nortel users shouldn't panic, but they should put off any long-term decisions about their communications infrastructure until after Avaya buys the bankrupt company and reveals its product road map for the combined companies, VoiceCon attendees were told Tuesday.
  • iPhone helps forge new relationship between IT and users at Kraft Foods
    Kraft Foods uses iPhones in part as a peace offering between users and IT by letting some workers use the devices even though they are not optimal for many corporate uses, VoiceCon attendees were told Monday.
  • Avaya developing "chameleon" units for business communications
    Avaya is coming out next spring with chameleon-like appliances that will take on the characteristics of phones, desktop video systems, locked-down contact-center terminals – a whole range of dedicated communications gear.
  • Skype for Business too risky?
    If you're thinking about using Skype for Business as a way to save money you might want to put it off until the courts settle lawsuits that swirl around plans to sell the company.
  • Asterisk teams with IBM for small business VoIP
    Small businesses can buy Asterisk open source IP PBX software as an add-on to IBM’s Smart Cube office-in-a-box package.
  • Cisco struggle to move TelePresence down market prompts Tandberg buyout
    Cisco's $3 billion bid this week for Tandberg is a gamble that video conferencing can take off in the small/medium business and consumer markets, which to date haven't embraced Cisco's TelePresence systems.
  • Cisco unified communications saves money for Henny Penny
    Henny Penny swapped out its aging Avaya PBXs for Cisco unified communication gear and wound up with a more expensive system that saves money on travel and improves communication with distributors.
  • Apple decision on Google Voice was made by senior execs
    Apple's decision to reject the Google Voice app for the iPhone was spelled out to Google by one of Apple's top executives: Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.
  • Skype, ShoreTel announce interoperability
    Skype and ShoreTel announced late last week that they have demonstrated interoperability between ShoreTel's UC system and Skype for SIP. ShoreTel’s enterprise customers can now register and use the beta version of Skype for SIP. The interoperability will allow ShoreTel's nearly 11,000 business customers to receive inbound calls from more than 400 million registered Skype users around the world at no cost to the Skype user.
  • Steganography meets VoIP in hacker world
    Researchers and hackers are developing tools to execute a new data-leak threat: sneaking proprietary information out of networks by hiding it within VoIP traffic.
  • Network in budget lockdown? No problem for this prison system
    State government IT budgets are as tight as ever, but the Nevada Department of Corrections is in a good position to hunker down and ride out the recession thanks to a recent network upgrade.
  • ROI doesn't always pan out with unified communications
    Return on investment is a big but unfulfilled promise of unified communications.
  • Apple Fans Uneasy Over App Store Rule on Google Voice
    Apple's pretty used to doing things its way. It guards access to its wildly successful app store, controlling access to its inviting virtual shelves by a mysterious set of sometimes seemingly random criteria.
  • China iPhone pictures posted on news site
    A Chinese news Web site has posted pictures that it claims show the iPhone model being tested for release in China, adding to expectations that the phone will launch there soon.
  • Start-up set to take on Skype over video
    A U.S. company has upgraded its cross-platform videoconferencing service and at the same time launched a new plan designed to broaden its appeal to the small to medium business segment.

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