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Report: Internet Addresses Almost Used Up

Friday, May 16, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

In a new report, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned that governments are going to have to take action to ensure the supply of Internet addresses.

Source(s): The Register, PC World

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Comcast Considering Capping Downloads

Thursday, May 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Comcast, which has been plagued by complaints about its practice of restricting network access for some heavy users, is weighing the idea of a straight 250GB cap on monthly downloads, with additional fees for exceeding that limit.

Source(s): Associated Press

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Wireless Carriers Reported to Be Planning Skype Alternative

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

AT&T, in conjunction with several other telecom companies and wireless carriers worldwide, is working toward launching a Skype competitor, according to a ThinkEquity analyst.

Source(s): Light Reading, GigaOm

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Sprint, Clearwire To Build Next-Gen Mobile WiMAX Network

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have joined forces to build a next-generation broadband wireless data network they say will "enhance the speed and manner in which customers access all that the Internet has to offer at home, in the office and on the road."

Source(s): The New York Times

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Zimbra Gets E-Mail Continuity Solution

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

SMB-oriented messaging vendor MX Toolbox has released a hosted e-mail continuity service for open-source messaging and collaboration vendor Zimbra.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Microsoft Releases New Messenger for Mac

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft has released Messenger for Mac 7, adding new features including video chat for business users.

Source(s): ZDNet, Ars Technica

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Yahoo, AOL Push Phone-Over-IM

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

AOL has opened the programming interface to AIM Call Out, which should make it easier to develop products that use AIM for making calls over the Internet, while Yahoo is moving its similar Yahoo Messenger-based Internet phone service to the Jajah platform.

Source(s): CNET News, CNET News

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Broadband-over-Powerlines Hits Snag

Monday, April 28, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia has agreed with amateur radio operators that the FCC has not adequately considered their concerns about interference from broadband service delivered via powerlines.

Source(s): CNET News

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Senate Taking Up Net Neutrality Issue Again

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has taken up the long-simmering question of net neutrality, or the idea that ISPs should give all Internet traffic equal priority.

Source(s): CNET News, InfoWorld

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Skype Debuts Flat-Rate Plan For Calling Abroad

Monday, April 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Skype has announced a flat-rate service that will be of interest to any business that wants to save money on its international phone bills.

Source(s): Associated Press

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AT&T Sees Maxed-Out Internet by 2010

Friday, April 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T has warned that the current network architecture of the Internet will be at capacity by 2010 without billions of dollars of investment.

Source(s): CNET News

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Avocent Finds Home for IT Management Tools Inside Cisco Routers

Friday, April 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Avocent aims to simplify IT management across branch offices by enabling its MergePoint and LANDesk Patch Manager software to run in Cisco's Integrated Services Router (ISR).

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Jive Updates Clearspace Collaboration Suite

Monday, April 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Jive Software has released Clearspace 2.0, a new version of its internal collaboration solution for businesses.

Source(s): CNET News, TechCrunch

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Tech Woes Cause BA To Cancel Flights

Friday, March 28, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Business travelers heading through British Airways' new Terminal 5 building at London's Heathrow airport could be in for another long day -- with technology to blame.

Source(s): The Economic Times, InformationWeek

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Comcast Backpedals on P2P Traffic Management

Thursday, March 27, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Comcast has changed its mind about blocking peer-to-peer (P2P) network traffic, announcing that it will treat all types of Internet content equally.

Source(s): New York Times, CNET News

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Cemaphore Syncs Outlook to Gmail Without Exchange

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Cemaphore Systems, specialists in e-mail backup for Exchange environments, is introducing MailShadowG, which provides Exchange-like syncing services without using Exchange.

Source(s):  PC Magazine, CNET News

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Comcast + Time Warner + Sprint + Clearwire = New Wireless Network?

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable are reported to be in talks with Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to fund a new wireless company that would create a nationwide WiMax network.

Source(s): Wall Street Journal

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Quanta, OoVoo Announce Plans for HDTV-Based Teleconferencing

Monday, March 24, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Laptop manufacturer Quanta and videoconferencing provider OoVoo will work together on a device to connect a standard HDTV to the Internet for high-def video conferencing.

Source(s): Yahoo, Electronista

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Google Proposes Universal Broadband Via Unused TV Spectrum

Monday, March 24, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google presented the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with a plan for using some of the TV spectrum for low-power mobile broadband access.

Source(s): Scientific American, Computerworld

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Microsoft Pumps Up Small Business VoIP

Monday, March 24, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft is readying a service pack for its SMB VoIP system that will be downloadable for free this summer.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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FCC, Comcast, and Net Neutrality: Round 2

Thursday, March 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The FCC will hold a second public hearing on Comcast's limiting of peer-to-peer traffic on its network, after the communications firm paid people to take up the limited space at the first hearing last month. But Comcast claims the agency can't do anything about it anyway.

Source(s): Wired, ZDNet, Ars Technica

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Tech Data Calls to SMBs With IP Suite

Thursday, March 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Tech Data has put together a suite of IP communications services geared for SMBs that include a hosted option, making VoIP an affordable reality for those that don't have the budget to invest in infrastructure.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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HP Debuts Lower-Cost Telepresence System

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Hewlett-Packard hopes to jumpstart demand for telepresence centers by introducing a two-seat, office-size version at half the price of its existing offerings.

Source(s): The Register, Computerworld

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Microsoft and Aspect to Continue Push for Unified Communications

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft and Aspect Software, maker of customer contact center software, have entered a 5-year partnership to promote unified communications via Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.

Source(s):  Computerworld, InformationWeek

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Web Startups Offer Telephony Relief to Small Businesses

Friday, March 14, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Third-party application providers are talking up their Web-based telephony options that work with a company's existing infrastructure -- a viable option for SMBs that don't have the budget to rip-and-replace what they already have.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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NEC Unveils SMB-Oriented Unified Communications Systems

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

NEC announced an assortment of new products based on the company's Univerge360 people-based approach to unified communications.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, TMCNet

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Microsoft-Nortel Announce New Unified Communications Products

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The Innovative Communications Alliance between Microsoft and Nortel has produced four new unified communications solutions, including a hosted solution aimed at SMBs.

Source(s): ChannelWeb, Market Wire via Reuters

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FCC Chairman Criticizes Comcast

Monday, March 10, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Kevin Martin, has expressed his unhappiness with Comcast's network management practices, calling them "troubling."

Source(s): Reuters, CNN Money

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IBM Makes $1B Commitment to Unified Communications

Monday, March 10, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Big Blue is making a big investment in the big area of unified communications, to the tune of more than $1 billion during the next three years.

Source(s): CNET News

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AOL Opens AIM Instant Messaging to Third Parties

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

With the announcement of Open AIM 2.0, AOL is making its Instant Messenger (AIM) network available to developers and third-party instant messaging applications, giving businesses more options in how they manage communications.

Source(s): TechCrunch, CNET News

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