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Mitel Sues ShoreTel (Again)

In 2007, Mitel filed suit against ShoreTel alleging patent infringement on the same day of ShoreTel's planned NASAQ IPO. ShoreTel responded by delaying its IPO and filing a counter-suit of patent infringement. Now, prior to Mitel's planned IPO, Mitel filed suit against ShoreTel for making "false or misleading statements about Mitel".  

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Added Security for Microsoft Hosted Services

Microsoft added new standards and compliance certifications for the BPOS and introduced a new, dedicated government cloud offering as part of BPOS.

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NET Acquires SmartSIP – Simplifies Full Use of SIP Phones with OCS

Many enterprises find themselves in a difficult quandary, both technically and financially when they are considering deploying Microsoft’s OCS as a full UC solution, including telephony. The first quandary – is the price of phones – most users need and or

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Cisco’s 2QFY10 UC Results Shine – Indicating Strong UC Market Recovery

Cisco’s reported exceptional recovered results for its second quarter of its fiscal year (2QFY10) on February 3, 2010.

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Voxeo Acquires ClackPoint to Build on Unified Communication and Unified Self Service Strategy

Voxeo continues to build out the company’s unified communications strategy and portfolio with the acquisition of ClackPoint, a real-time multi-media collaboration platform, that is both simple and easy to deploy, and inexpensive compared to traditional standalone conferencing/collaboration offerings.

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UCStrategies Joins Twitter

While many members of the UCStrategies team are regular Tweeters, we have decided to begin actively tweeting as UCStrategies. You can follow us at www.twitter.com/ucstrategies.

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Plantronics Becomes Preferred Avaya UC Headset Provider

Plantronics has been named the Avaya preferred headset provider for Avaya Unified Communications and contact center solutions.

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Avaya Completes Acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions

Avaya announced completion of its acquisition of the Nortel Enterprise Solutions business. Now things get interesting.

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Siemens Enterprise Networks (SEN) Names New CEO

SEN has again named a new CEO. Hamid Akhavan, currently COO of Deutsche Telecom is being named as CEO of SEN, replacing interim CEO – Mark Stone. 

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HP Announces Intent to Acquire 3Com

HP today announced its intent to acquire networking vendor 3Com. This acquisition certainly ups the growing competition amongst IT industry leaders – HP, Cisco, IBM and Microsoft. As a networking infrastructure and VoIP UC provider, 3Com brings