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Featured Articles » General Telecom Rolls Out VoIP Partner Program » ShoreTel to Acquire M5 Networks, Reports Q2 Revenue of $58 Million » Making Unified Communications and VoIP Solutions Truly Unified   Sponsored By: Panasonic SIP Corded and Cordless Phone Systems Thanks to Panasonic, there are now a variety of SIP phone options designed specifically to meet the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. Customers can choose from cordless and and corded lineups, the latter of which just added its newest model, the KX-UT670, Panasonic's Smart Desk Phone. Panasonic is making a big splash in the SIP market. Last year, Panasonic's SIP UT Series was named Best-of-Show in the Open Source Category at ITEXPO West 2011. Introducing Panasonic's SIP phones - the perfect communications tool for businesses or home offices.   Top Stories » Affant Communication Launches Efficient, Cost-Effective Unified Communications » VoIP Solutions Provider Debuts Out of the Box Unified Communications Platform » Linking HD Video Conferencing with 24/7 Call Centers May Save Lives   From The Expert Corner February 06, 2012 Does UC Have a Product Life Cycle? If So, Where is UC in That Life Cycle? By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor Thierry Breton, Atos CEO, has said his company would ban email for internal communications within the next year and a half. The plan is to replace email with an enterprise social networking platform, which would handle all communications among Atos' 70,000 employees worldwide. Melanie Turek thinks the Atos’ strategy is unwise. But it is hard to ignore the growing amount of talk one hears about “adding social elements to unified communications.” Nor is it hard to miss the shift of supplier language from “unified communications” to “collaboration.” The issue is “why” this might be so. Perhaps something is different. It might be fair to note that, in the past, when suppliers change nomenclature, it generally is for the purpose of reinvigorating sales of some product that either is failing to catch fire, or has slowed, or to try and emphasize some element of a product that a particular supplier believes is favorable... Read More     Featured Video Interview with SMTP.com   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Accelerate Microsoft Lync Deployments with snom UC » Powerful Reporting for Cisco UCC Contact Centers    Latest Blogs » Why Apple's A5 Processor is Big (Siri) + Why Doesn't Siri Support Dictating Emails? » Verizon Puts the Move on Video   Featured Channels » Unified Communications Headsets » Mobile VoIP » VoIP Gateways   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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