The company hopes the software will be used as a 'bridge' between the PC and telephone. Microsoft has added a corporate IM product to its Office suite. Microsoft on Tuesday added the Office moniker to its upcoming enterprise instant messaging...
Unlike Skype and FWD, Bellster lets users reach the public switched telephone networks anywhere in the world where there is a member gateway. The basic ingredients are a local landline or cell phone line, a personal computer loaded with phone...
There's one specialised device in an almost every office with more than a couple of staff - the private branch exchange or PBX, which handles incoming telephone calls, and distributes them to telephones on workers' desks.
The first product that will actually integrate Microsoft and Nortel technology to form a single piece of hardware is the Unified Communication Branch. The partnership between Nortel, one of the largest makers of telephone infrastructure equipment...
The deal will provide an IP-based telephone system and other improvements aimed at delivering significant operating cost savings to KPMG businesses, which it said would ease future expansion and improve employee productivity.
One example is session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking interfaces being added to equipment by many PBX manufacturers, which makes it easier for business telephone exchanges to be connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via the...