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LinkedIn Enhances Groups Collaboration Features

Friday, August 29, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn has added features to its Groups platform that both add functionality and make it easier to use.

Source(s): TechCrunch

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Report: SMBs Drawn To 802.11n

Thursday, August 28, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

A survey by ABI Research asking "What do Cisco SMB Wi-Fi Customers Really Want?" identified increased bandwidth and greater security among the answers.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Cisco Buys Exchange Competitor

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Cisco Systems has acquired PostPath, an open-source online collaboration software vendor with e-mail and calendaring applications.

Source(s): MarketWatch

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Nortel Takes Audio 3D With DiamondWare Buy

Friday, August 22, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Continuing its quest to provide collaborative communications, Nortel has made its second acquisition in as many weeks, scooping up 3D voice software maker DiamondWare.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Google, Verizon Getting Cozy?

Friday, August 22, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google and Verizon could become partners should their reported mobile pact go through.

Source(s): The Wall Street Journal

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Business & E-Business | Mobile | Networking & Communications

Intel Demonstrates Wireless Power

Thursday, August 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

At its developers forum, Intel demonstrated a way of transmitting 60 watts of power two or three feet, without wires or other physical connection.

Source(s): Brighthand

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FCC Spanks Comcast For Traffic Blocking

Thursday, August 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop blocking peer-to-peer traffic and make other changes to the way it manages its network, or face the possibility of an immediate injunction.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Oaisys Upgrades SMB Call Center Software

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Version 5 of the company's Tracer SMB-oriented call center software adds several new features and will also come with the Talkument voice documentation package.

Source(s): CBR

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Google Readies Smartphone for Mid-September Release

Friday, August 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Rumors appear to be solidifying that Google's Android-based smartphone will hit market next month.

Source(s): Wired, VentureBeat

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Intel Unveils Tech That Remotely Wakes Sleeping PCs

Friday, August 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Wakey, wakey: Intel is adding Remote Wake technology to four of its motherboards, enabling users to stir their desktop computers out of sleep mode from afar.

Source(s): Computerworld, PC Magazine

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Nortel Buys Pingtel for Unified Communications Software Know-How

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Nortel is broadening its reach in the unified communications market with the acquisition of software maker Pingtel.

Source(s): Ottawa Business Journal

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HP Bolsters ProCurve Arm With Colubris Acquisition

Monday, August 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

HP is expanding its presence in the wireless space with a definitive agreement to acquire Colubris Networks, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of wireless networks.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Unison Brings Unified Communications to Ubuntu Linux

Thursday, August 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Canonical, sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and Unison Technologies have agreed to bring Unison's unified communications suite for SMBs to the Ubuntu Linux platform.

Source(s): The Register

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FCC Rules Against Comcast

Friday, August 1, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The FCC has ruled that Comcast unlawfully limited its customers' access to certain Web sites and services, marking the first time the agency has formally ordered an ISP to comply with Net neutrality guidelines.

Source(s): InformationWeek, DSL Reports

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SMBs to Spend $6.5 Billion on Hosted IP VPNs by 2012: Report

Friday, July 25, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

SMB spending on managed IP VPN services will more than triple by 2012, according to a new Light Reading report.

Source(s): Market Watch

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Brocade Challenges Cisco With Foundry Acquisition

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Two network equipment companies are becoming one: Data storage vendor Brocade Communications Systems has announced that it is acquiring Foundry Networks, which makes routers, switches, security and traffic management products.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Software602 Releases Web Collaboration Server

Friday, July 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Software602 has released Groupware Server 6, a Web collaboration suite aimed at SMBs.

Source(s): Marketwire

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Mozilla Releases Stability, Security Update for Firefox

Thursday, July 17, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

New updates for the just-released Firefox 3, as well as Firefox 2, address several critical security issues documented in security advisories issued this week.

Source(s): The Inquirer, IT Pro

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Apple Acknowledges MobileMe Stumbles, Gives 30 Days Free

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Last week's launch of Apple's online synchronization service MobileMe, touted as "Exchange for the rest of us," was plagued with enough glitches that the company has given users 30 days free.

Source(s): CNET News

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Microsoft Broadens Live Mesh

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft has doubled the number of tester slots for its software-plus-services-plus-synchronization platform Live Mesh, from 10,000 to 20,000.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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LifeSize Express Offers Affordable HD Videoconferencing

Monday, July 14, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

SMBs looking for an affordable HD videoconferencing system have a new option to explore: LifeSize Communications' Express line.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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FCC Chief: Comcast Needs To Change Its Ways

Friday, July 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

In what could be a victory for Net neutrality advocates, FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin said the agency should uphold complaints that Comcast was unlawfully blocking peer-to-peer traffic on its network.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, The New York Times

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SMBs Should Consider Saas for Unified Communications: Panel

Friday, July 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

SMBs that have shied away from unified communications due to budgetary restraints or just plain fear of implementing a new technology can reap its benefits via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach, according to a panel of UC experts during a Web broadcast.

Source(s): InternetNews

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Apple MobileMe Ready for Launch

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Apple is launching its new MobileMe online services -- billed as "Exchange for the rest of us" -- on Wednesday evening Pacific time.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Microsoft Updates Small-Biz Phone Software

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft has upgraded Response Point, its small-business VoIP system software, and announced the availability of a Response Point-based platform from Aastra Telecom.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, PRNewswire via The Earth Times

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Microsoft Releases Remote Desktop Connection for Mac

Monday, July 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has released Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 (RDC 2) to enable Mac users to access files, applications, devices, and networks on remote PCs.

Source(s): MacNewsWorld

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Google Puts Instant Messaging on iPhone and iPod Touch

Thursday, July 3, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

According to a Google engineer's blog post, Google has made it possible to use its Google Talk instant-messaging application on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Source(s): CNET News

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Mobile | Networking & Communications

Study: Dialup Users Don't Want Broadband Anyway

Thursday, July 3, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

A new study suggests that the slow spread of broadband may have as much to do with lack of consumer interest as with accessibility.

Source(s): Associated Press via Wired

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Unison Announces SMB-Oriented Unified Communications

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Unified communications vendor Unison announced pricing and sales details for its Linux-based software.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Mitel Upgrades Unified Communications Software Suite

Monday, June 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Unified communications solution provider Mitel has unveiled a new version of its IP-based Mitel Applications Suite.

Source(s): Marketwire

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