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Featured Articles » West Wireless Health Council Creating Open Architecture Framework for Hospitals to Work Seamlessly Together » Small Businesses Rely Heavily on Mobile Technology » Reseller Jenne To Carry NICE's eXpress Call Recording Platform » HD Voice: Better Mobile Voice Quality on the Way   Sponsored By: snom WEBINAR: Accelerate Microsoft Lync Deployments with snom UC How to Deliver Lync to the Enterprise with snom's New IP Phone Portfolio Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 2:00 PM EST. Join us for a special webinar about deploying Microsoft Lync in the enterprise with snom UC, the company's new portfolio of IP phones designed for unified communications and Lync on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 2:00 PM EST. Learn how the new snom UC portfolio provides you with the most diverse array of cost-effective, Lync-qualified desktop phones and new management tools and training for accelerating your Microsoft Lync deployments with snom endpoints.   Top Stories » New Zealand Debates Mandatory Location on Mobile VoIP Phones » Online Phone System Supplier TelcoDepot.com Announces Reduced Price Offer on RCA 25801 Routers » Samsung Smartphones with 4G Connectivity Arrive in Europe » Councilman Requests Chicago Police Not Pull the Plug on Wireless Communications During G-8/NATO Summits   From The Expert Corner February 16, 2012 Hate Cold Calls? Get Ready for the Cold Stop-and-Chat, Courtesy of Google By Beecher Tuttle, TMCnet Contributor Late last week, TMC (News - Alert) CEO Rich Tehrani penned a blog post capturing all the recent headline-making news from Google, ranging from the rising success of its social networking platform, Google+, to the ramifications of its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola (News - Alert) Mobility, which just got okayed by E.U. and U.S. regulators. The premise of the post is the Google is EVERYWHERE, providing free, useful services to consumers but also potentially "suffocating the rest of the tech space with its ever-expanding growth into new and perhaps unrelated spaces." Ironically, Google's (News - Alert) next feature may actually suffocate us users, or at least the enterprise workforce that utilizes Google+. In a new interview with Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram, Google's enterprise business head, Amit Singh, explains what's next for Google Apps, an addition that may turn the cold call into the cold stop-and-chat... Read More   Featured Video Unified Communication as Key Enabler for Telemedicine   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Plantronics Wireless Voice in the Office Environment White Paper Abstract » Licensing for SaaS Applications: ISVs Take to the Cloud » Offering Managed Services with Opeangear Remote Monitoring and Management Gateways    Latest Blogs » FCC Now Requires VoIP Outage Reporting » LightSquared Gets Square Rooted - 4G LTE Network Killed by FCC » Cisco Underestimated Skype's Value. Acts against Microsoft Acquisition   Featured Channels » Business VoIP » Virtual PBX » VoIP Solutions   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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