Compaq, in partnership with TelePost, is offering a free unified-messaging service aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The Message Centre Lite service will allow customers to store emails, voice mail and faxes in a central Web site and...
Lucent Technologies is to offer telecoms service providers a unified messaging system. The Unified Messenger for Service Providers will incorporate Lucent's voice and fax messaging technology, with Microsoft Exchange used as the email component.
Oakley said Openwave plans to bring out unified messaging services that will let users access voice and data from a variety of devices. Software.com's messaging services are used by internet carriers including Excite.
The Business Communications Server combines HP server technology with voice technology from Nortel, offering a unified platform for managing voice and data transfer. Hewlett-Packard (HP) has joined forces with Nortel Networks to develop a voice and...
The DRC plans to add text-to-speech (TTS) so that staff can hear email messages via their voicemail. Cable & Wireless has provided a unified messaging system to the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) whereby voice messages can be read as emails as...
Despite a slow start, unified messaging (UM) and unified communications (UC) will grow strongly over the next few years, driven on by organisations moving to IP for their voice and data communications needs.