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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

We know how serious Cisco is on becoming 4G Leader in the mobile space as a provider. But what we see today, gives cisco another opportunity in Mobile space: Rich multimedia on Mobiles. Cisco has announced they’ll be acquiring Starent Networks for $2.9 billion.  When the deal is completed, expected to close during the first half of 2010, Starent Networks will become the new Mobile Internet Technology Group at Cisco, led by Starent Networks’ President and CEO Ashraf Dahod. Starent Networks enables mobile operators to Read further »

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Collaboration is one key area every company still need alot to work on. Right kind of Collaboration tools can do wonder for you and your business. Most Business models today rely on basic collaboration that includes nothing more than Email, IM, Screen sharing. Which is barely sufficient, for atleast the way they think about it. What is meant by a Good Collaboration has alot more than these inferior ways of communication. - Unified Communications – A single device that lets you control over everything. It can be a single messenger/ gadget that can handle your VoIP, Messages/Emails, instant messaging, Realtime Video conferencing and NextGeneration Screen sharing/control. How do you end up cutting Cost? - Travel - As per Read further »

Saturday, August 15th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

NTT, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, is world’s 2nd biggest Telecom company revenue wise after AT&T. With AT&T Standing at $124Billion, NTT has reached $104Billion, leaving Verizon behind last year with Total Revenue of $97.3Billion. NTT DOCOMO is a Japanese Telecom famous for it’s most high-end telecom VAS, value added services, is Japan’s premier provider of leading-edge mobile voice, data and multimedia services. With more than 54 million customers in Japan, the company is one of the world’s largest mobile communications operators. After having winning in Japan, and China’s Invasion, they are stepping into another Read further »

Sunday, August 02nd, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

eBay filed a concern with SEC – A legal dispute between the Skype unit and Joltid - the organisation from which Skype was purchased.  If nothing is done, the entire Skype service could die. Skype is the largest carrier of international telephony in the world (around 8% of global traffic). though Skype provides alot of free calls, but an increasing number of customers are using the paid Skype Out service – amounting to 8.4 billion minutes alone in 2008. On page 15 of eBay’s quarterly SEC filing, it wrote the following - (Don’t worry if you don’t understand this, I’ve Read further »

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Google Wave is one stop solution that will change the way you communicate to your Friends, Family, and at Work. Wave a complete Collaboration tool, that let’s you do everything in REALTIME! In other words it’s a LIVE communication platform that will converge your Email, IM, Docs, Apps, Videos, Photos, wikis, Office Collaboration(Bugs, Reviews, Meetings, Discussions,etc.), Social Media, and any type of External tools (using Extesnions which are easy to integrate) to build one elegant, in-browser communication and Extensible to Desktop client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss or share all the stuff described above. Describing Google Wave in a Read further »

Wednesday, July 01st, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Earlier, I wrote how Google Voice can kill skype and redefine Unified communications. Here is the best example. OnState Communications has adopted Google voice for Virtual Call-Center services. They announced today that their cloud-based call center and PBX solutions will fully integrate with Google Voice, enabling customers to leverage full benefits of Google Voice. This support combines with existing Google Talk and Google Apps support as part of OnState’s virtual call center and PBX solutions, and allows Google users to retain all of the inherent product features while building upon them to improve customer-facing communications. “With this new support, OnState allows you to turn Read further »

Monday, June 29th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

The VOIP and Unified communications are coming to the next steps. Days are gone when you needed collaboration tools from your service provider. Your Virtual service providers can do it all for you, and that too at a negligible or No cost. The best examplee to quote is Google Voice. Google Voice started from GrandCentral, will eventually conquer large part of US and the world. Google last week started sending out invitations for Google Voice, its new VoIP service built on technology it acquired  in 2007. Google Voice will be rolled out slowly, according to Google, but as of last Thursday, the service is now available to anyone who had requested to try the beta version. What is Google Voice Hype All about? Google Voice provides users with a Read further »

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Cell towerFor those who don’t know what Cellular antenna does, here is brief- Cellular antennae are shaped for perfection. The cells are situated exactly 120 degrees apart to cover maximum area. These 3 Vertical (white colored) cells cover the RF carrier frequency to your cell phones (800Mhz, 900Mhz, 1800Mhz). The circular antenna is used as microwave carriers for high bandwidth Communications across different BTS, alternative is to use Optical fibers. Cells were considered good innovation till date. Where wireless communications company Ericsson usually deals in products meant to be unseen, it has taken a different approach with its new Capsule cell site, and designed a mobile broadband base station that is meant to be seen Read further »

Friday, May 29th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Wave is Google’s new collaboration and communications software that combines aspects of e-mail, instant messaging, document sharing, blogging and wikis in a single application. A demonstration of an early version of Wave reportedly drew a standing ovation at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday. While the software isn’t expected to be generally available to the public until later this year, Google is reaching out to developers to help the company fine-tune the software and suggest ways it can be used and improved. Wave will pose a competitive challenge to SharePoint, Microsoft’s collaboration and communication Read further »

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Unified communications has been a topic in IT management circles for years. It’s a topic that can lead to packed houses at conferences and Cisco, Avaya, Microsoft and IBM all have extensive unified communications suites. The problem: Users. Here’s the unified communications blue print: Enterprises spend heavily on suites that bundle instant messaging, Web conferencing, video presence, collaboration and email so there are secure communications that enhance productivity. The reality: Those suites can be tough for users to navigate and some folks don’t quite get that PC as a phone thing. As a result, the unified communications bandwagon doesn’t quite fill up like IT execs hoped. And then we all go about our Skype, AOL and Yahoo messaging anyway. Plantronics is aiming to alleviate some of those problems. Plantronics, which is best known in the enterprise as Read further »

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