Business News 

Friday, October 16th

• Nextiva Launches New Online Fax Service

  Nextiva, Inc., a leading SaaS provider of communication services for small business, has expanded its extensive portfolio of services with its new Nextiva vFAX. Developed as a reliable and secure online fax application, Nextiva vFAX service was created in response to customer requests, and to complement its line of business communication offerings. The new Nextiva vFAX service is a comprehensive online fax system, designed to send and receive faxes from anywhere that a client has internet access....

Sunday, September 20th

• VelocityDial Business Plus plan added to WhichVoIP Plan Database

  VelocityDial Business Plan details have been added to the WhichVoIP Plan Database. Plans start from $39.99 a month for unlimited local dialing....

Tuesday, June 9th

• The Resilient VoIP Enterprise: True Voice Resiliency for the Enterprise

  The VoIP PBX is becoming more prominent on the enterprise scene, driven primarily by cost reductions and improved flexibility in a dynamic environment. A significant problem, however, is looming in the guise of improper architectures and deployments....

Monday, April 13th

• VoIP Makes Top Five IT Investments for Next 12 Months

  A new survey of chief information officers revealed that VoIP made the top five IT initiatives that companies are anticipating investing in over the next 12 months. The survey was conducted by Robert Half Technology. More than 1,400 CIOs were interviewed. All were from U.S. companies with more than 100 employees....

Monday, March 30th

• 8x8 Hosted VoIP Now Aimed At Larger Enterprises

  VoIP carrier 8x8, the second largest 'pure play' VoIP house in the industry and largest business VoIP house, has turned its sights on large enterprises with a beefed-up version of its flagship Virtual Office hosted IP PBX....

Wednesday, March 25th

• Smoothstone Awarded Hosted VoIP 'Members Choice 2009' Distinction by Telecom Association

  Smoothstone, a provider of fully managed Unified Communications services for the mid-sized enterprise, today announced that it has received a 2009 'Members Choice' award from the Telecom Association. Smoothstone was recognized for its overall program excellence by Telecom Association agent and channel partner voting members....

Monday, March 23rd

• Famed Steak House Serves Up Tadiran's VoIP

  Global IP business telephony and communications player Tadiran Telecom recently extended its reach into the restaurant space with its cost saving services when the Israel-based outfit announced that Bern's Steak House, a Tampa Bay, Florida staple in the city’s restaurant scene since 1956, has picked its solutions to deploy throughout its operations....

Friday, March 20th

• Nextiva Receives Unified Communications® Magazine’s 2008 Product of the Year Award

  Nextiva Inc. announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Unified Communications magazine has named the Nextiva Hosted PBX Connect 360 as a recipient of its 2008 Product of the Year Award.  ...

Thursday, March 19th

• What it will take for mobile VoIP to get enterprise-ready

  By all rights, mobile VoIP sounds like an enticing proposition for a lot of companies.
  
  After all, what enterprise wouldn't jump at the opportunity to save money on their mobile phone bills by sending their wireless calls over an IP network rather than a cellular network? But despite this attractive premise, current mobile VoIP technology has yet to evolve to the point where users can simply switch on their phones anywhere and expect to connect to a secure IP network
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Wednesday, March 11th

• Verizon Business Introduces Managed Microsoft OCS Offering

  Verizon Business today introduced a new managed service— Application Management for Office Communications Server—which provides a wide range of hosted unified communications functionality, including IM, presence, Web conferencing, and VoIP, via Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2. ...

Tuesday, March 10th

• Birmingham council hopes to cut costs with VoIP

  Cabinet members at Birmingham City Council are to vote on whether to spend more than £5m renewing the authority's telephone system. If plans are approved at a cabinet meeting on 16 March, 2009, Birmingham will replace its 10-year-old phone system with 17,000 handsets which use VoIP technology.
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Thursday, February 26th

• Broadsoft Eases Hosted VoIP Deployments

  BroadSoft Inc. wants to make life as painless as possible for businesses opting for hosted VoIP. To that end, it has enhanced its BroadWorks VoIP application platform to support on-site provisioning of CPE, and to allow phone-based login capability for Polycom IP phones....

Tuesday, February 24th

• Nextiva Takes an Environmental Leadership Position by Joining Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree Program

  Nextiva announced today that it is partnering with Carbonfund.org, the country’s leading nonprofit climate solutions organization. By joining Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree® Partner program, Nextiva has joined a national movement of environmentally responsible businesses and organizations that are leading the fight against global warming, and establishes Nextiva as the environmental leader in the small business VoIP communications industry. ...

Tuesday, October 7th

• FreedomVOICE VoIP Hosted PBX Solution to Aid Resellers Eyeing SMBs

  Bringing what it calls a 'smart, affordable' alternative to expensive PBX hardware, an Encinitas, California-based provider of telephone communications solutions reportedly announced today that it’s forged a deal with a national organization....

Monday, September 29th

• Broadcom Intros VoIP Digital Signal Processor for Next-Gen Networks

  Broadcom Corporation, a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, reportedly has announced a new, high-performance VoIP digital signal processor.
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Sunday, September 28th

• About Mailstreet Voice

  MailStreet, a division of Apptix, Inc., is a leader in Microsoft Exchange Server based email and collaboration hosting services. The MailStreet service enables organizations of all sizes to communicate more efficiently while reducing the costs and eliminating the headaches of maintaining dedicated in-house servers....

Friday, September 26th

• For Small-Business VoIP, Ease of Use Is Paramount

  Small businesses looking to upgrade their telecom situation are sometimes apprehensive. Solutions are often complex and typically require some degree of technical expertise to deploy. If you don’t already have it in house—and most with fewer than 20 employees do not—that expertise is going to cost you. ...

Wednesday, September 24th

• VoIP Phone System Benefits for the Remote Workforce

  In today's business world, employees are working from a number of different locations around the world thanks to the technological advancements provided by VoIP phone systems. With a VoIP phone system, remote workers located at home, across the country or in an airport or hotel can continue to effectively and efficiently communicate and collaborate with others via IM, video and Web conferencing, and more. ...

Monday, September 22nd

• Andiamo Partners Increase Revenue by Utilizing M5 Sales Engine

  M5 Networks, a leading business to business VoIP phone system provider announced Andiamo Partners, an information technology recruiting firm has increased revenue by utilizing M5 Sales Engine. With M5 tools, Andiamo Partner’s have access to a highly reliable and timely network with greater responsiveness, multiple features at predictable costs. ...

• Bandwidth.com Announces Technology Partnership with Telchemy to Ensure VoIP Service Quality

  Bandwidth.com, a leading business communications provider offering advanced VoIP, Internet Services and Managed Network Services, has entered into a technology partnership with Telchemy,® Incorporated, the global leader in Voice and Video over IP performance management technology, to integrate Telchemy’s DVQattest quality assessment technology into their management framework. Telchemy’s performance analysis technologies enable network administrators to monitor the quality of individual calls, aggregate data to determine overall quality of the network, and then implement changes to enhance the quality of service for users. ...