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Staying connected with customers, partners and co-workers is vital in today's competitive economy. Missed calls can result in lost opportunities and can weaken companywide job performance. Integrating cell phone and Wi-Fi environments, and adding the benefits of presence and instant messaging, is the holy grail. Call it mobile unified communications (UC).

Bringing wireless network access to remote work sites like mines and railways is always a challenge so a team of Aussie engineers have thrown a Wi-Fi mesh access point on the back of a custom-built tailor which is powered by the sun.

Cisco and Nokia have announced new dual-mode smart phones that can operate on a Cisco enterprise VoIP infrastructure and a public GSM network.

For years, "Wi-Fi" has been synonymous with "wireless" for the majority of laptop users looking to connect on the go.

A router announced this week by Agito Networks is designed to help companies with wireless local-area networks (WLANs) save money on mobile phone calls.

EBay-owned Skype has released into open beta testing a client for mobile phones that supports phone calls, chat and other features of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) application.