NetFlash: Ten for TEM, the ten turkeys and robot action

Ten for TEM

There are a hundred telecom expense management companies in North America. Here are the 10 to watch.

Happy Thanksgiving

NetFlash will be taking a couple of days off for Thanksgiving. We hope you have a happy and safe holiday. And if you haven’t already, check out our somewhat related feature: our picks for 2006’s biggest turkeys in IT. And boy, there were some doozies. Click here to see the slideshow.

Q&A: VoIP pioneer details the importance of being SIP

Interactive Intelligence, an Indianapolis provider of VoIP software largely used in contact centers, is having a banner year. Sales are double what they were a year ago, which is validation for a pioneer in the use of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan chatted with CEO Don Brown about his company and broader industry trends. Read the full interview.

Oakley rolls out laptop protection software

Oakley Networks this week rolled out software that lets organizations remotely locate a lost or stolen laptop, determine whether data on the laptop has been compromised, and destroy the data to protect it from exposure. Click here for more.

Gift Guide Video: The robots

The iRobot Scooba scrubs floors and the Roboreptile eats just about anything. But what happens when you get them in the same room?

From JavaWorld: Dynamic Web pages with JSON

A JSON-based design approach lacks AJAX’s cross-domain restrictions. Click here for more.

Today on Layer 8, where Pilgrim belt buckles never go out of style:

Apple to annoy retail customers this holiday season; the only time we’ll side with a record label; if it weren’t for Steve Ballmer, we’d never have anything to write about; and why the Google cafeteria outdoes your Thanksgiving feast every day; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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