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Payless Shoes lifts its sales with improved EFTPOS system

Australian retailer, Payless Shoes, has seen a lift in sales following the implementation of a network-based EFTPOS system provided by Primus Telecom.

By Hamish Barwick | 18 January, 2012 11:34

Tags: Eftpos, hosted IP, Payless Shoes, Primus Telecom, unified communications

Cisco Cius arrives in Australia on Telstra network

A combination tablet and IP phone aimed at the enterprise, the Cisco Cius, has arrived in Australia following its overseas launch in July this year.

By Hamish Barwick | 28 October, 2011 14:52

Tags: Cisco Cius, Telstra

MyNetFone announces new VoIP offering

Australian VoIP and IP service provider, MyNetFone (ASX:MNF), has announced its new offering of a VoIP only phone system in an effort to better service its small business users and cement its position in the SME market.

By Chloe Herrick | 07 September, 2010 12:11

Tags: mynetfone, telecommunications, VoIP

LG-Ericsson venture aims at SMBs' network needs

A networking joint venture formed out of a series of deals over the past several years is launching Monday in the U.S. under the name LG-Ericsson USA.

By Stephen Lawson | 17 August, 2010 03:34

Tags: Accton Technology, Ericsson, LAN, LG Electronics, LG-Ericsson USA, networking, Telecommunication

T-Mobile ties Wi-Fi BlackBerries to PBXes

T-Mobile USA is expanding beyond its consumer roots on Monday with T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice, a service that lets businesses extend capabilities of their desk phones to BlackBerry smartphones.

By Stephen Lawson | 05 October, 2009 15:07

Tags: IP PBX, pabx, RIM BlackBerry, t-mobile, wi-fi

iSoft preaches best-of-breed for UC

Health industry software company iSoft has taken a best-of-breed approach to unified communications and videoconferencing resulting in an integrated system that has reduced costs and increased productivity.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 June, 2009 14:33

Tags: AV, Cisco, iSOFT, iVision, ocs, tandberg, unified communications, videoconferencing

Citrix buys high-def video conferencing player

Citrix has bought Vapps, a provider of high-definition voice conferencing services geared for businesses and service providers.

By Tim Greene | 19 November, 2008 10:32

Tags: Citrix, voice conferencing

Unified communications products abound

Network convergence, as in unified communications across applications and between wired and wireless modes, again is a big theme at VoiceCon in San Francisco this week.

By Matt Hamblen | 11 November, 2008 12:08

Tags: unified communications

Avaya puts voicemail into written words

Avaya will let enterprise workers leave voicemail messages and combine them with e-mail, giving both callers and recipients new options for retrieving and saving their communications.

By Stephen Lawson | 11 November, 2008 12:18

Tags: Avaya

Networkers 08: Virtual office to meet cloud computing

Today's "virtual office" solutions generally require customer-premises equipment (CPE), but the rise of cloud computing-based services will allow people to be "at the office" from any location with an Internet connection, according to Cisco.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 September, 2008 10:53

Tags: Cisco

Cisco Virtual Office package targets teleworkers

Cisco is announcing a bundle of gear and services aimed at helping companies design and install remote-site communications that replicate the connectivity workers have when they're located in corporate sites.

By Tim Greene | 10 September, 2008 08:36

Tags: Cisco, teleworking

Procter & Gamble cites progress, issues with TelePresence

Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble wants to be the most collaborative company in the world.

FreshTel to supply VoIP services to Star-Tech's on-campus customers

FreshTel Holdings Limited [ASX: FRE] and telecommunications provider Star-Tech Communications have partnered in a plan to bring VoIP services to several Australian universities.

NEC releases modular IP phones

As part of its new unified communications strategy, NEC has revamped its range of IP and digital desk phones and added the ability for devices to be taken apart and different modules added.

Skype won't say if it decrypts VoIP calls

The encryption of Skype VoIP phone calls might not be as secure as you think.

Travel agent takes off with VoIP

Online flight travel agency Skywest has ditched its old land line telephone system for a unified communications and reporting suite.

Vic's Eastern Health moves from legacy to leader

A four-year IT modernisation overhaul of Victorian health provider Eastern Health will spell the end of server sprawl, expensive Private Automatic Branch Exchanges (PABXs), and soaring printing costs.

Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel

Media processing vendor Pika Technologies announced Friday that its Warp appliance line is customer-ready and ready to slay the Nortels and Ciscos of the world in a bid for the small to mid-sized corporate tele-space.

Unified Comms forge ahead in the enterprise

Australia's $485 million Unified Communications market increased its growth by almost a third in 2007, with CIOs and IT managers increasingly turning to UC applications to improve efficiency and save money, according to Frost & Sullivan's 2008 Australia Unified Communications Report.

Polycom aims to lower SOHO videoconferencing costs

Polycom is announcing at Interop Las Vegas a new small office/home office router tuned specifically for low-cost, high-quality videoconferencing.