Telecom New Zealand subsidiary Gen-i has taken itself out of the running for the Commonwealth Bank's tender process to provide the bank with Australia-wide telecommunications services.
New converged voice and data services launched this week by Telstra's competitors have the potential to eat into one of the few legacy revenue streams the carrier relies on, according to one analyst.
Vodafone Australia today took its first steps outside of the mobile world, announcing a new converged communications bundle designed to provide small businesses with their total communications needs.
Three-quarters of the way through a massive consolidation and overhaul of its core business applications, dairy and juice giant National Foods has found that the most difficult parts of the project aren't related to technology, but to processes and the simple challenge of keeping skilled people on track.
Optus is decommissioning its Nortel-powered hosted VoIP Centrex offering in favour of a new voice module delivered over its next-generation Evolve network.
Writing a blog about mobile technology on 28 April almost necessitates holding forth on CDMA shutoff. But if you ask me, there's something far more disruptive happening in the wireless world right now.
Tevye, the much loved protagonist of Fiddler on the Roof, was full of wisdom. "A bird may love a fish," he memorably said, "but where would they build a home together?"
As the iconic BlackBerry goes from strength to strength in subscriber numbers, so do the threats to the device and the business model.
If you're responsible for managing IT infrastructure, then the last thing you want to do when you leave your over-crowded office at the end of another day is to think about storage. However, the shift to digital entertainment means that's very likely to be what happens when you eventually return to suburbia.
Convergence can be convenient, but do we really want our phones to do everything?
Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
Apple has made a push towards enterprise with the release of its SDK roadmap yesterday -- but will enterprise take the bait?
Lorie Buckingham, CIO of telecom solutions provider Avaya, talks about the promise of unified communications for its more than one million business customers around the world. She also discusses her passion for technology and strategy for integrating innovative communication technologies.
During the holiday season, snow isn't the only thing analysts shovel. With that in mind, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon Oltsik, takes a look forward on networking technology and related industry trends in 2008.
JP Rangaswami, managing director at BT Design, talks about transformation and convergence at one of the worlds' largest telecommunication companies, and, his belief in Web 2.0 and the power of social networking. Rangaswami speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber, sharing his visionary thoughts about the tech industry. And why he calls himself the managing director instead of chief information officer.
Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT enterprise collaboration at Alcatel Lucent, tells ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of digital devices.
What the S500i lacks in the high-end gadgetry of its competition, it makes up for it in style, ease-of-use and its budget price tag.
Smartphones have come a long way in the last few years, and it's now feasible to consider going on a business trip leaving your notebook PC behind and relying solely on a mobile phone. Here are the most popular business phones this month, as determined by our readers.
An impressive set-up well worth the consideration for any small office looking to bring their telephony systems into the 21st century.
Fortinet has taken their proven UTM firmware and hardware experience and combined those with a 24-port network switch. While perhaps not suited to larger enterprises, the FortiGate-224B certainly represents an excellent proposition for SMB or branch office deployment and worthy of further research.
If you need an all-in-one communications, navigation and imaging device and don't mind charging it every night, Nokia's N95 raises the bar in the mobile world.
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