18 result(s) displayed for IBM (26 - 43 of 43):

Communications Webinars

I came across some webinars of potential interest coming soon from TMC. There are a bunch and they are quite varied so it would seem there is certainly something for everyone. I am certainly interested in the 10 myths of...

Posted on November 26, 2007 6:34 PM

COTS to the Service Provider Rescue

There was a time when service providers had to purchase massively expensive proprietary equipment in order to deploy telephone service. Class 4 and 5 switches required enormous investment and could be justified as this equipment would be depreciated over many...

Posted on November 20, 2007 5:53 PM

IP Communications News Week of November 3, 2007

What’s new in the world of IP communications? Well, as it turns out, quite a bit. For example, Allworx has just released version 6.8 of its software which includes follow-me functionality as well as allowing specific callers to be forced...

Posted on November 5, 2007 6:12 AM

Fluke

In the world of advertising the expression commonly used is “perception is reality.” Moreover companies are often branded by customers. If I say IBM, you will say mainframes. Oracle? Databases.   Sometimes I feel it is my job to help...

Posted on November 3, 2007 4:58 PM

Siemens Unified Communications

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Mark Straton the Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Siemens about his thoughts on unified communications and where the telecom market is headed. Straton spent the early part of the conversation...

Posted on October 7, 2007 5:41 PM

SCO Bankrupt

In the 1980s I was MIS Director here at TMCnet. In case you aren’t aware I introduced desktop publishing to TMC around 1986 or so and we were one of the first publishing companies to standardize on PCs instead of...

Posted on September 17, 2007 2:38 PM

Nortel on Microsoft/Cisco

The following comments are from Nortel’s Tony Rybczynski regarding the new relationship between Microsoft and Cisco. I found them interesting and worth passing along.   ---   I was on holidays in Eastern Europe when the photo shoot took place....

Posted on September 4, 2007 4:11 PM

Virtual Customer Interactions

This is my next Customer Interaction Solutions High Priority column. If memory serves it will be the October, 2007 issue. As often happens this will be the unedited version. If this is of any interest be sure to subscribe digitally...

Posted on August 25, 2007 7:20 PM

Aastra Intecom/BroadSoft

The IP communications market gets more and more exciting by the day and if you aren’t paying attention it even may get confusing. Today’s big news comes in the form of a partnership between two companies who you may not...

Posted on July 30, 2007 7:48 AM

IBM Webinar

We have a very exciting webinar running on TMCnet this week titled IP Convergence - Tearing Down the Barriers Between Telecom and Information Technology   The number of registrations is approaching a record and we are pretty excited about hosting...

Posted on February 23, 2007 4:36 PM

IBM VoIP

IBM is not a stranger to VoIP but I thought this news about IBM seriously embracing video and VoIP was worth reading. Oh, and by the way, there is a Linux hook as well. ...

Posted on August 15, 2006 12:15 PM

TMC News Snapshots

Here is a new service from TMCnet – News Snapshots™ that will allow you to have a single page to go to keep track of important companies and topics in communications and technology. Bill Gates even gets a page. A...

Posted on February 25, 2006 11:23 PM

VoIP and CRM Happenings

My youngest daughter woke up a few times last night meaning of course I got a late start which translates into blogging late. I have been scanning the net for a while and here are some of the stories that...

Posted on February 24, 2006 11:49 AM

Salesforce.com Outage

According to this article Salesforce.com had an outage yesterday. The company today confirmed that there were interruptions in system availability between 9:30 a.m. and 12:41 p.m. Eastern time and 2 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. Eastern time on one of the...

Posted on December 22, 2005 8:54 AM

Information Technology

Today TMC announced an information technology portal. We have been working on this site for months and it is expected to improve even more over time. To access the site just go to tmcnet.com/it. Please send me your comments on...

Posted on December 21, 2005 1:03 PM

Lenovo Gets Busy

The biggest change we see here at TMC due to the Lenovo acquisition of the IBM Computer Division is that ThinkPads sent for repair now go to China and back. This has the unfortunate side effect in our case of...

Posted on December 13, 2005 7:03 PM

SOA, SCA and SDO

Service oriented architectures are something I have been writing more and more about recently. Expect SOA and communications to become more intricately intertwined. Announcements like this are great because it shows the massive amount of collaboration SOA is bringing to...

Posted on November 29, 2005 7:03 PM

Killing Backlights

I have learned a valuable lesson as of late. Perhaps the most fragile component in a laptop -- while it is off anyway is the screen backlight. The way I know this of course is because I have recently killed...

Posted on November 12, 2005 10:17 AM