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The Future of Open Mobile Devices- Set My Handset Free!

There is no more frustrating a market to watch than mobile devices. The phenomena success of the iPhone demonstrated that customers would plunk down several hundred dollars for a compelling (or at least “eye-appealing”) mobile device; however,

Do Vertical Markets Fit Within UC?

My UCStrategies colleagues have agreed on a definition for UC “Communications Integrated to Optimize Business Processes” that appears to be consistent with and being adopted my many of the industry’s players – both providers and users.  Also,

Will the iPhone 3G Capture the Enterprise Market?

The introduction of the more functional iPhone 3G has raised the intriguing question of whether Apple now has a mobile device that will get them into the enterprise market in a big way. While the second coming

The Definitive Unified Communications Market Study is Here

At long last the Unified Communications market study I’ve been working on for months is now complete. This study, Unified Communications Market 2007 2012, has been a massive undertaking, and covers not just premise based market forecasts,

Bringing Unified Communications to Mobile Devices with WebMessenger

WebMessenger Mobile for Microsoft OCS lets enterprises access Microsoft OCS on BlackBerry and other mobile devices.

UCc or UC-U – What’s in a Name?

Nortel is thinking along the same lines as ucstrategies.com, and explains that there are two types of UC - UCc and UC-B.

Yes, Virginia, There are Unified Communications Case Studies

In order to better understand the benefits of Unified Communications, I’ve started collecting customer examples and case studies.Here are a few examples of Nortel customers and how they are using UC.

Qualify What Your End Users Really Need From UC And Why

The benefits of UC to end users are hard to describe unless there is actual usage and productivity metrics. Those benefits are not only important for usage adoption, but also key to business process ROI. The new UC Strategies study digs into the experience of end users who have actually used new UC capabilities in order to get qualitative feedback about the value of UC functions to different types of business users.     

The Big News in WLANs: 802.11n

Since their commercial debut in 1999, wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 or “Wi-Fi” standards have been one of the major success stories in wireless. Freeing users from their network tethers increased the productivity of office workers, and allowed mobile unified communications solutions to take root. Along the way it also revolutionized home networking and launched the market for commercial Hot Spots.

UCStrategies Launches Reseller Resource Section

Beginning this month, UCStrategies offers a special portal for resellers only – with channel views, reseller success stories, resellers in the spotlight, product information, “partners wanted” ads from those vendors looking for a select group of partners, white papers, organization resources, forums, etc.