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Next-Generation Unified Messaging
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For some, migration to unified messaging is a key component of VoIP plans. For others, voice messaging replacement has a new urgency and is being addressed separately. Many factors lead to this renewed interest: obsolescence of legacy voicemail systems, e-discovery and compliance rules, and the need for new capabilities to support remote workers. Finally, enterprises are looking to reduce the cost of managing complex disparate systems assembled by distributed purchasing or acquisition of other businesses.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks up Facebook Connect but little else during a question and answer session with reporters. The rub is that services such as Connect, Google's Friend Connect and MySpace's Data Availability initiatives are the future of social networks.

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Gateway is expected to announce plans to abandon online and phone sales and move to an indirect channel, focusing exclusively on retailers, e-tailers and channel partners.
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Gartner analyst Ray Valdes discusses Facebook's F8 developer conference with eWEEK. The one-day event included the formal unveiling of Facebook Connect, the company's external social service, as well as the international expansion of its developer site and some new developer programs. The event disappointed some attendees, who expected the company to launch a payment processing service. Valdes discusses how the lack of a payment processing system won't get Facebook lovers down, as well as what Connect means to the social networking community.
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The Debian project’s maintainer Luk Claes said July 21 he will freeze “testing” the “Lenny” tree “next week” as he prepares for the stable release of Debian Linux in September.
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The Yahoo Zimbra Beta allows all 263 million Yahoo Mail customers to access mail and calendars offline. Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3, available July 24, will let users run their Yahoo mail as desktop POP or IMAP mail client software.
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Garmin unveils its latest crossover GPS device, the Nuvi 500 series, at the British Automotive show in London.
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Linux Pundit's Bill Weinberg, Motorola's Christy Wyatt, Intel's Ram Peddibholta, and a panel with executives from Access, Funambol, Sprint, and Sun will present at the Mobile Linux Conference during the larger LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Aug. 5 to 7, at the Moscone Center, San Francisco..
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The Intel EP80579 microprocessor is the first of a new generation of embedded processors designed to power a range of devices from television set-top boxes to mobile Internet devices to telecommunications infrastructure.
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Google's OpenSocial guru David Glazer speaks optimistically about the social Web at F8, where it looks like he and his colleagues could be hugging it out with Facebook over Google's Friend Connect service. Will Facebook allow Friend Connect to grace its site one day?
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Rear projection, front projection, short throw, ultrashort throw, touch-screen whiteboards and LCD screens. Business projectors are more than just the home theater of the office and conference room. A little know-how and a few tricks enable more than presentations and make the projector a business tool. Knowing your options can prove valuable the next time someone asks you to review or recommend a projector or large-screen display.
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AMD is denying reports that it will sell off its fabrication plants, or fabs, in Germany as part of a plan to cut expenses and refocus the chip maker’s energy of processors and graphics.
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Four of the top consumer electronics manufacturers are backing a technology to send wireless signals from a single set-top box to multiple devices around the home or office.
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MindTouch hopes to replace MediaWiki as the premier collaboration platform by integrating with as many popular business applications and legacy systems as makes sense. Its target customer? The Microsoft systems integrator looking to enhance user value.
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The New York Civil Liberties Union says it will challenge the new law, which mandates that video games sold in New York clearly label ratings for violent content.
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Intel delivers a Linux-compatible open-source library aimed at improving the performance of C++ applications on multicore processors.
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