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Covers the latest news, insight, analysis, blogs and product reviews of unified communications equipment and software. Topics include transmission of voice communications over a wired or wireless network using technologies such as VoIP, IP Telephony, IP PBX, press-to-talk and computer-based voice.
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Enhancements to its RealPresence video content management platform enable Polycom users to bring live-stream and recorded video to smartphones and tablets.
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Mitel's solution will enable businesses to deploy the company's virtual UC environment that is hosted by Mitel NetSolutions, its service provider division.
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Cisco CEO John Chambers said his company is ready for the challenge from Huawei, which is putting significant resources behind its enterprise push.
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A limited-edition Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, with Visa's NFC-based payWave mobile app, may be just the push the mobile payment market needs.
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Android-supporting smartphone makers have vowed to make fewer but more distinctive devices in an effort to compete in a market that already offers business users and consumers many different options. Increasing numbers of smartphones, in increasing sizes—not to mention names that echo or build on earlier models—can make the options seem a blur of deep-black displays, curving design work and multicore processors. How can a user differentiate? Which is the right smartphone to get? Here, eWEEK brought together three newer Android phones, each running 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), and capable of running on a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network. While each has features that bring the others to mind, these smartphones also have details that set them apart. The HTC One X went on sale on the AT&T network May 6 for $199. The Samsung Galaxy S III was introduced May 3 and will arrive in the United States this summer, though carrier news and pricing are still unknown. And from the CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans, which started May 7, Verizon introduced the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE, which will arrive in "the coming weeks" at a price that's yet to be determined. Are these phones distinct enough? Would a user switch networks for one? Alternately, could a $50 price tag, or possibly a waning interest in Android, get you to consider the Samsung Focus 2? Running Microsoft Windows Mobile 7.5, it was also introduced May 7.
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T-Mobile has partnered with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks to build its LTE network. While due in 2013, subscribers will feel speed increases this year. Could it mean that a T-Mobile iPhone is on the way?
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Google's Hangouts on Air allows users of the company's social media site, Google+, to broadcast live on the Web.
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From CTIA, Verizon Wireless and AT&T each showed off 4-inch, LTE-running smartphones. Verizon’s HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, while the $50 Samsung Focus 2 runs Windows Phone Mango.
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The Samsung Galaxy S III, which uses the 4.0 version of Google’s Android operating system, or Ice Cream Sandwich, got its official rollout in London May 3 with much fanfare, and demonstrated how far the smartphone market has come. Calling, messaging, emailing, Web browsing, high-definition video, two cameras—these are all on board, of course, and should perform perfectly. However, these features are far from what Samsung had spent big bucks to show off. "At Samsung, we believe a phone should be more than smart, and that is where the Galaxy S III comes in," said Jean-Daniel Ayme, a Paris-based Samsung vice president, introducing the device. What's more than smart? Intuitive, proactive—a phone that jumps to the right conclusions. Understanding that important emails or calls have been missed, the S III buzzes a specific way in a user's hand to alert him or her. It recognizes friends in photos, helping people to share and organize content, and—with its front-facing camera—it watches the user, staying alert when it knows that someone is looking at it, even if he or she hasn't touched the display in a while. The S III, said Ayme, "knows precisely what we are doing, and it follows our intentions." To help illustrate some of this new mobile technology, eWEEK takes a first look at the new Galaxy S III smartphone.
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A consumer advocacy group wants all the documents connected with the FCC's investigation, while some European regulators may give the Google program a new look.
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The Android-running HTC One X is HTC's newest flagship smartphone, and the faltering phone maker has pulled out all the stops: Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich; version 4.0 of its Sense user interface; a high-definition 4.7-inch display; Beats Audio; Long-Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity; a dual-core processor; 16GB of internal memory; mobile hotspot capabilities for up to five devices; a video camera that records in 1080p and an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with extremely easy-to-use tools for editing and enhancing images. For video calls, there's also a 1.3MP camera on the front. The One X's initially most striking feature, though, is its size. It measures 5.3 by 2.75 inches—not inconsiderable—but manages to stay 0.36 inches thin and weigh less than 4.6 ounces, thanks to a polycarbonate frame. While its stature will feel a bit unwieldy to some, those users wanting a large screen—whether for gaming, watching movies or even just Web surfing on the HTML5-suppported browser—can expect a fast, responsive phone that may well help HTC take back some market share from rival Samsung. AT&T will begin selling the HTC One X May 6 for $199 with a two-year contract.
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REVIEW: HTC One X, coming to AT&T May 6 for $199, runs Sense 4.0, Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich and is skinny, light, big, fast, responsive and generally a pleasure to use.
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Marius Milner, who created the code that enabled Street View vehicles to capture personal data from WiFi networks, has worked at the company since 2003.
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The full FCC report on its investigation shows that the engineer who designed the code that collected the personal data had told at least two colleagues.
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The debut of the Lava XOLO X900 in India is the first step in the latest efforts by Intel to gain traction in a mobile chip market dominated by ARM.
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An appliance-based approach gives SMB customers access to enterprise-class features.
The Toktumi Line2 VOIP app for iPhone delivers outstanding voice quality and features with good SMS messaging, but only for Apple devices.
Skype 5.0 for Windows delivers decent multiparty video calling that remains lacking on the data collaboration side of things, along with new Facebook integration, and simpler call quality troubleshooting tools.
The Grandstream GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone adds Skype voice and video calling to an already rich suite of multimedia and social networking features.
Jabra PRO 9470 extends one wireless headset simultaneously to desk, soft and mobile phones.
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