Unified Communications: News

Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft's first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco's enterprise UC offerings.

The heightened pressure on IT budgets within the public service sector is set to have a profound effect on the way government departments and local councils communicate with constituents in 2013, according to NSC Group managing director, Trevor Boal.

ICT solution provider, Huawei, has announced its fibre to the door (FTTD) solution, increasing broadband speeds from 100Mbit/s to 1Gbit/s.

The five forces of post-digital affecting Australian business are Cloud, mobile beyond smartphones and tablets, social, analytics and cyber defence.

The rise in service orientated purchasing and a move towards hosted offerings will be the major trends that drive the unified communications (UC) industry this year, according to newly appointed head of services at NSC Group, Col Rennie.

Supporting customers with the right products and services to match should be top of mind for the channel this year.

Unified communications (UC) vendor, Polycom, has appointed new executive sales leaders for two separate regions.

The IT industry in general tends to be focused on pushing a product or solution.

AT&T will expand its Business Exchange collaboration service by adding Polycom back-end infrastructure to complement the Cisco Systems technology it's been using for several years.

ARN's Community Manager, Hafizah Osman, has disappeared under a flood of community picture stories and reports of company events, so we thought what better to do than put them all in a slideshow summing up the week in the channel. This week features company awards and partner events amongst others. Are you pictured in the first channel round-up for the year?

It's the inside story every channel business knows will deliver the information it's business needs - ARN's annual State of the IT Channel.

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 kicked off in the Las Vegas Convention Centre on January 8, and will finish on January 11. The event showcases existing and upcoming products from global vendors. Here are some of the highlights.

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 kicked off in the Las Vegas Convention Centre on January 8, and will finish on January 11. The event showcases existing and upcoming products from global vendors. Here are some of the highlights.

Qualcomm opens CES 2013 with a baffling keynote speech featuring a surprise appearance from Steve Ballmer, Sesame Street's Big Bird, excerpts of graphic violence from Blade 2, Sesame Street's Big Bird, and Desmond Tutu.

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 kicked off in the Las Vegas Convention Centre on January 8, and will finish on January 11. The event showcases existing and upcoming products from global vendors. Here are some of the highlights.

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 kicked off in the Las Vegas Convention Centre on January 8, and will finish on January 11. The event showcases existing and upcoming products from global vendors. Here are some of the highlights.

Dog years may snag all the metaphors, but canine aging doesn't blaze by nearly as fast as the news cycle in the technology world. With 2012 drawing to a close, it's hard to parse the flood of major stories that have taken place since Labor Day alone, much less during the whole 12 months.

St. Nick and his reindeer have begun their Christmas Eve work delivering presents to children around the world and NORAD is tracking their progress today.

There will be over one billion users of over-the-top (OTT) mobile voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services by 2017, reflecting a major transition in the progression of voice traffic, according to a new report by analyst firm, Juniper Research.

2012 was a year of change for the channel. Evolving business strategies, keeping up with the demands of new technologies, and running a business with the constraint of a weak economy were just some of the challenges it faced.