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Works Under Water…

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:28:08 GMT

Sonim Technologies, makers of the XP1 ruggedised mobile phone, has announced the latest addition to their Xtreme Performance Series, the Xtreme Performance 3. Sonim say the XP3 will be the world's only rugged waterproof (submersible) GSM mobile phone. The XP3 has a more rugged specification tha...

Siemens Joins Telephonetics VIP for Voice Automation

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:04:16 GMT

Telephonetics VIP and Siemens have extended their public sector partnership to provide voice automation solutions to the enterprise sector. Siemens has successfully partnered with Telephonetics VIP to provide voice automation solutions to the public sector for over five years. Responding to incr...

Record 3300 Engineer Haul

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:57:40 GMT

Networks First, the provider of support services for network infrastructures, has announced it now has the highest number of Mitel 3300 accredited engineers of any channel only support company. With eight years average Mitel experience, Networks First's engineering team is currently involved in ...

Cheap as Chips from Node4

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:20:46 GMT

Hosting providers, Node4 have this week launched a brand new website devoted to dedicated servers, serversupermarket.net. The site was created in response to an increase in requests for dedicated servers in their state-of-the-art data centre. Using pre-built, high specification DELL kit, the ser...

Alcatel Lucent to Help Partners with Credit Crunch

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:47:13 GMT

Alcatel-Lucent is launching free "Train & Gain” partner training initiative to assist end user organisations in becoming more efficient during turbulent financial times With businesses from all sectors feeling the credit crunch, business partners are seeing demand drop as companies tighten their ...

InTechnology pushes new mobile experience to lone workers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:43:44 GMT

InTechnology has launched Push to Experience (PTX), a new mobile service which helps protect workers at risk, enabling companies to comply with Health and Safety legislation and the Corporate Manslaughter Act. The company says that PTX is the natural successor to traditional 2-way radio (PMR) ser...

MLL Telecom Appoints New CEO

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:12:09 GMT

MLL Telecom the UK specialists in the delivery of wireless wide area connectivity and wireless/fibre hybrid networks has appointed Eddie Minshull as its new Chief Executive Officer. Minshull joins MLL from Juniper Networks where he was the Executive Vice President for Worldwide Field Operations. ...

Telecoms Will Ride Out the Storm say Nimans

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:06:06 GMT

Distributor Nimans is gearing up for a bright and prosperous 2009 and says dealers can shrug off the effects of any economic downturn - insisting that the telecoms industry is equipped to ride out any financial storm. Armed with a host of key products, such as the new Univerge SV8100 from NEC and...

Recording Solution for Blackberry Smartphones

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:12:52 GMT

Call recording manufacturer and specialists Retell, recently launched a new recording solution that offers customers mobile phone call recording integrated with their landline recordings. By integrating BlackBerry Alliances Partner Voxsmart's RecordMobiles application with its Ruby Line and Sense...

Cabling Specialist Wins Green Medal

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:04:47 GMT

‘Greening' the way it does business has won cabling specialist Brand-Rex a significant environmental award. The company's speciality division, which is based in Leigh, Lancashire, won the inaugural Corporate Social Responsibility category at the final of the North of England Excellence awards. ...

MTV Telecom in Positive Mood and Recruiting for 2009

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:02:19 GMT

Martin Hatcher, Chairman of distributor MTV Telecom, has told Comms Business Magazine that his company is set to grow in 2009-2010 and that he is recruiting more sales staff to handle demand for communications applications that drive down user cost and increase productivity. Hatcher said, "Whilst...

Daisy Increasing Workforce for 2009

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:44:41 GMT

Daisy Communications is planning further expansion and recruitment after a fruitful 12 months and the imminent arrival of new products to add to its rapidly evolving portfolio. Despite the gloomy economic backdrop, the company was recently placed 18th in Deloitte's Fast 50, and in line with this...

BT to put Next-Generation Network on Hold

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:41:26 GMT

The Guardian has reported an interview with BT Chief Executive Ian Livingston in which it claims the economic recession has called into question BT's plans to spend £1.5bn bringing the next generation of super-fast broadband services to 10m British households within the next four years. The repor...

BT Second Quarter Results Rally Share Price

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:37:22 GMT

BT Group was the FTSE 100 index's biggest gainer last week, up 10.7 percent after it reported second-quarter earnings just ahead of revised forecasts and said it was in the process of cutting 10,000. Highlights of the BT performance include: - Revenue of £5,303 million, up 4 per cent - EBIT...

No Time off for Good Behaviour at BT as Retirement Age Rises

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:32:40 GMT

New staff at BT will have to work an extra five years before they can retire and pay more for their pensions under proposals thrashed out with unions and pension trustees. As part of an agreement that is likely to become the template for all struggling final salary schemes, the telecoms group lo...

Oak delivers VoIP call recording on Mitel platform

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:26:42 GMT

Oak, a Mitel Developer Partner, has completed its Mitel SRC Server development delivering VoIP call recording on the Mitel platform. "Oaks new call recording software, the Record module from its integrated Comms Suite of applications works incredibly well with both TDM and VoIP and, of course, a...

VoIP Distributor ProVu gets Overnight Success

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:40:22 GMT

Huddersfield based distributor of Internet-telephony solutions ProVu Communications is boosting its customer service through an innovative online service provided through delivery firm APC Overnight. ProVu is benefiting from instantaneous order processing and parcel pre-labelling using the Internet...

Video conferencing goes mainstream say vc-net

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:31:51 GMT

Up until recently, integrating desktop video with the existing room-based video network infrastructure was very difficult to achieve. To combat this, award-winning managed video services provider vc-net and Visual Nexus have announced the launch of their new generation of online virtual meeting sol...

Majority Would Change ISP if their Internet Connection Became Unreliable

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:11 GMT

Zen Internet, one of the UK's leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs), today released the findings from an independent survey carried out by Shape the Future Limited. Over 1,000 Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) responded to the independent survey which was carried out between September and Octob...

Chess is named as a finalist for MEN Business of the Year

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:11:20 GMT

Chess Telecom was last week named as a finalist for the 2008 Manchester Evening News Business of the Year Award. 2008 is the 15th year of the Business of the Year awards which are a seminal event within Manchester's business calendar. This is the second time Chess Telecom has been named as a fin...

Telappliant Announce Interoperability with Aastra IntelliGate IP PBX

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:47:35 GMT

Telappliant, a provider of end-to-end VoIP business solutions and an operator of its own VoIP network, has announced that they have achieved interoperability with Aastra's IntelliGate IP PBX range and its VoIP network - VoIPtalk. Telappliant's VoIPtalk is a UK based VoIP service provider, offe...

Discover Your Sales Potential!

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:25:51 GMT

Egham based distributor MTV Telecom has put together an innovative training seminar designed to help resellers maximise their opportunity in the mid market. Together with renowned industry coach Trim MTV Telecom is hosting the first in a series of discovery events aimed at unlocking the true pote...

Revenues & Profits Show a Very Healthy Rise at Adept Telecom

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:27:33 GMT

Royal Tunbridge Wells based network services company Adept Telecom has posted excellent first half figures with revenues up by 59% to £14.76 million (2007: £9.27 million) and underlying operating profit increasing by 32% to £1.72 million (2007: £1.30 million) Operationally Adept is now taking 95...

Chess Telecom Wins Green Business Award

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:29:29 GMT

Chess Telecom has been named North West winner of the Green Award in the British Chamber of Commerce Awards 2008. The rapidly growing telecoms business won the Westfield Health sponsored award because of what the judges described as "an excellent approach to corporate responsibility within their...

Lancom Business VoIP routers are Swyx certified

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:23:03 GMT

Networking specialist Lancom Systems is the first hardware manufacturer to achieve the highest level certification for their business VoIP routers in the Technology Partner Program (TPP) from Swyx. Certification guarantees problem-free interoperability with the IP communications solution SwyxWare, i...