Ever wonder where Tommy Lee ended up? Turns out he was recently spotted on snom's road show at the ACUTA Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio.
No, we're not talking about the drummer for Motley Crue (or at least we don't think we are!). Rather, we're talking about the chronicles of a senior snom official who is taking the company's VoIP phones on the road.
"Snom IP phones are ideal in the higher education marketplace for both SIP and OCS Unified Communication platforms because they operate in PC, Mac and mixed environments," Lee explained. "Providing this level of flexibility will enable universities to preserve their endpoint investment no matter which way they decide to upgrade."
The snom Americas team later went to Los Angeles as part of the same road show, and were seen at The Cable Show in Los Angeles, an exhibition for the entire cable television ecosystem including content providers in the world of entertainment (television and movie producers and executives), multi-service operators (MSOs), and technology providers (infrastructure, equipment and applications).
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In 2009, NEI announced new enhancements to its Element Manager 3.0, which now includes enhanced smart services for software developers. Mike Slattery, director of software development at NEI, recently sat down for an interview with TMC's Marisa Torrieri to discuss how these smart services help developers build secure, hardened offerings that deliver on the promise of low-lifecycle maintenance.
Speaking specifically about the HUB, the backup feature, Slattery said they coined the term to refer to "health, update and backup. And these are really the core tasks of an element manager."
Any product, when placed into a data center, he explained, needs to be able to report problems - that's the health aspect. It needs to be kept up to date, with patches and that sort of thing, that's the update capability. And, Slattery said, "they have to have a recovery plan for the backups. These all come integrated with our element manager, so we're able to meet those particular needs."
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Officials with a fitness services provider recently announced they partnered with ConnectMeVoice to "provide a hosted PBX service designed to improve the quality of information that every caller receives when they contact their franchise location."
In addition to the features available with this service, company officials say the franchisee will save money on their phones bills - creating a combination of benefits in sales, efficiency and costs savings - all in one package.
The digital phone system that was set up includes call recording for all inbound and outbound calls, where users can have all of these recordings calls sent directly to their e-mail, or listen to them anytime using the company's online portal.
Users can also get an immediate dial tone to make outbound calls, as well as unlimited calling for all Internet phone calls
The system lets users forward calls coming into their local, toll-free number, or the Digital Phones, to as many as six phone numbers.
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Thanks to the fact that it supports SIP, or session initiation protocol, Parlance's nameConnector auto attendant service offers seamless integration with unified communications systems, including Cisco Unified Call Manager and Microsoft Office Communication Server.
This combination, company officials say, allows enterprises to use nameConnector's call connection performance while "attaining all the various benefits offered by IP-based communications."
In addition, they say, the fully-managed service eliminates the need for IT or telephony staff time devoted to the maintenance of the speech system, "providing operational and economic efficiencies over the course of a given year."
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We're not what you'd call regular readers of the magazine Essence, which tends to offer up fare such as what the hot Afro hairstyle is. We tend more towards, say, Sports Illustrated or City Journal.
But we hear that there's a new digital extension campaign from essence.com, where from October 2010 the magazine "is going barcode and mobile crazy," to industry observer Bena Roberts.
As Roberts explains, Essence is a lifestyle magazine for African American women in the United States. It hits about eight million readers. And in October, Roberts says, "the special Hot Hair issue will offer cross platform (mobile, iPhone, iPad) services to readers with features and instant money saving or coupon style codes and vouchers."
Didn't know there were too many hair applications, did you?
Hot Hair's digital extension "speaks to essence.com's track record of leading the way in technology innovation for the African-American audience," the magazine's officials say, adding that the Web site "will offer a robust digital platform to enhance both consumers and advertisers buying into the issue."
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