Microsoft is set to go one up on Cisco with the announcement -- just a day after the chief executives of both firms sang the co-operation tune -- that it plans to offer unified communications on an on-demand basis.
The world's largest IT and communications vendors are divided in the way they intend to offer unified communications.
Cisco Systems and Microsoft's partnership in the small- and midsize-business market is bearing fruit.
Microsoft and Cisco plan to work more closely together to ensure their products interoperate, while remaining fierce rivals in other markets.
Queensland's information and communications technology minister Robert Schwarten has scheduled a trip to the US and Canada to meet with global tech giants and top-ranking public sector technology officials.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
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Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
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Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.
The dawning era of "end to end" security architectures is squeezing customers between the proprietary efforts of two dominant vendors.
Cisco's Nick Watson discusses 802.11n, the battle with Microsoft in unified communications, and security issues with Unified Communications Manager.
The IT security industry has come to a frank realisation that the current approach to preventing malware is simply not working. Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current approach, the answer?
If you're thinking about voice over IP, we take a look at the steps involved in getting it set up and what's on offer from four major vendors.
By being very easy to configure and manage, the 3CX Phone System for Windows scores well on functionality and is compatible with most SIP handsets, gateways and services. However scalability could be an issue for larger organisations.
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Distributed companies increasingly use VPN connections to access and share information. We test ADSL firewall routers that are designed for this purpose.
Microsoft said Monday that it isn't among those to fully back new wireless wunderkind 802.11a.
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