Skype released its Skype Connect 1.0 unified communications offering for businesses. This version of Skype can connect directly to IP-enabled PBX or other unified communications systems, allowing businesses to leverage Skype’s network and calling rates through their existing telephony infrastructure.
Microsoft has recently released its Microsoft Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1. The service pack includes a wide range of upgrades, new features, and bug fixes that are aimed towards improving Exchange’s functionality and capabilities.
FaceTime has just recently launched its Socialite SaaS solution to help monitor and secure social networking usage within the enterprise. It’s a groundbreaking step towards extending security and compliance to enterprise social networking, which in itself is a relatively new addition to the enterprise.
HP’s acquisition of Palm instantly changed the landscape of the wireless market. Even without knowing HP’s exact roadmap for the near future, or which direction (or directions) they plan to take, it is clear that this deal will have major implications on device vendors, users, wireless carriers and everyone in between.
There has been quite a buzz within the tech community with articles and blog posts on Apple’s latest “game-changing” and “revolutionary” device, the iPad. The hype surrounding the iPad’s release has reached excessive levels in recent weeks. One popular tech blog has even included a feature that allows visitors to block all Apple iPad-related content, [...]
Iron Mountain, known for traditional document storage capabilities, has been an active player in the e-mail archiving market for a number of years. It is currently the second largest e-mail archiving SaaS vendor, after Autonomy ZANTAZ. Unlike Autonomy ZANTAZ, which expanded into the on-premises market a number of years ago, until now, Iron Mountain has [...]
Last Tuesday, January 12th, VMware announced that they have acquired Zimbra from Yahoo!. Originally purchased by Yahoo! in 2007 for $350 million, Zimbra became expandable earlier this year when Yahoo! decided to refocus their attention on the consumer market with their “It’s You” campaign. Zimbra’s focus on the enterprise market clashed with Yahoo!’s new direction, [...]
It has been just over a month since Motorola released their highly anticipated Droid handset, which is based on Google’s Android mobile platform. Motorola has made no secret that the Droid is aimed squarely at Apple’s iPhone, but Motorola is hardly the first device manufacturer to proclaim that they possess the “iPhone killer”. RIM’s release [...]
Our newly released “Business User Survey, 2009” shows that for the first time since we started monitoring email traffic patterns, the amount of email that reaches business user inboxes is actually decreasing. Survey respondents indicated that they sent and received an average of 108 email messages per day in 2009, which is noticeably lower [...]
In a competitive price cutting frenzy, earlier this month, Microsoft slashed prices of its cloud services for messaging and collaboration. The company cut in half the per user price of its Exchange Online services, from $10 per user/month to $5 per user/month, and cut by 33% the price of its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) [...]