Enhancements to its RealPresence video content management platform enable Polycom users to bring live-stream and recorded video to smartphones and tablets. - Polycom is updating its RealPresence video content management technology to enable the streaming of live and recorded video to Google Android and Apple iOS mobile devices, the latest efforts by the unified communications vendor to deliver video to any device at any time. The updates, announced May ...

Mitel's solution will enable businesses to deploy the company's virtual UC environment that is hosted by Mitel NetSolutions, its service provider division. - Mitel is unveiling an offering that will enable businesses to deploy a virtualized unified communications service in a private or hybrid cloud setting that is hosted by Mitels service provider division, Mitel NetSolutions. Mitels AnyWare IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) will let IT department...

Included in the bundle are Polycom SpectraLink 8400 wireless telephones, which provide in-building wireless communications. - Toshibas Telecommunication Systems Division announced a wireless solution for small and midsized businesses featuring the Polycom SpectraLink 8400 series of wireless telephones. Available through Toshiba's Authorized Dealer Network nationwide, the wireless business solution is compatible with Toshib...

Thrupoint at the Enterprise Connect event introduced the latest additions to its Thrupoint Fusion framework, designed to enable enterprises to leverage multiple UC platforms. - Thrupoint officials are looking to fix what they say is a broken model for unified communications, where there is little interoperability as the major players push to build up their platforms without giving enough thought to how they work with those from other vendors. UC applications from tra...

Cablecaster launches a new cloud-based voice and unified communications package for enterprises that aims to replace old-school PBX and key-type voice-channeling systems. - Cable telecaster and services provider Comcast, like about everybody else in the information-delivery business, is moving to the cloud. On March 27, the business services division of the Philadelphia-based cable giant launched a new cloud-based voice and unified communications package for ente...

The networking vendor is extending its Jabber UC platform to iPads and Windows systems, while offering a newly designed TelePresence solution. - Cisco Systems is continuing to make its vast collaboration portfolio more like a single platform that enables users to leverage everything from a room-based TelePresence solution to a unified communications application on a tablet. At the Enterprise Connect 2012 show March 27 in Orlando, Fla., ...

Sprint and Cisco are launching a cloud-based unified communications bundle for large enterprises. It's the first of several cloud initiatives Sprint will launch this year. - Sprint, with partner Cisco Systems, is launching its first major cloud initiative and the first of several cloud-based services the carrier says it has planned for this year. Powered by Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) platform, Sprint Complete Collaboration is a hosted, fully managed...

Logitechs ConferenceCam is aimed at enabling small groups to collaborate via video conference anywhere. - Logitech, a longtime vendor of consumer tech products, made its first foray into the corporate side in 2009 with its $405 million acquisition of video conferencing company LifeSize Communications, a move that brought it into direct competition with the likes of Cisco Systems and Polycom. Since ...

The U.S.' No. 4 mobile telecom provider said that it must reorganize its call center functions in order to help control costs -- and eventually will rehire 1,400 people. - T-Mobile revealed March 22 that it is forced to close seven of its 24 call centers and eliminate 1,900 staff positions. The move impacts 3,300 people, a majority of whom share jobs. The Bellevue, Wash.-based telecommunications provider, which parent company Deutsche Telekom AG tried but failed to s...

A new Siemens-sponsored report found that pure IP infrastructures offer businesses and IT departments more savings, compared with traditional PBX. Additionally, the survey found that businesses are taking a hybrid approach to the cloud. - Pure IP infrastructures can offer enterprises a 43 percent annual savings, compared with traditional PBX systems, according to a March 5 study released by Siemens Enterprise Communications. The savings was one of three key points to come from the study, which surveyed more than 1,000 IT decision ...