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The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC provides heavy callers with an excellent way to use the same Bluetooth headset for both cell phone- and PC-based unified communications systems. eWEEK Labs tested the Voyager Pro UC WG200/B, which comes with an earpiece and a pre-paired Bluetooth dongle. The system is designed to work jointly with a Bluetooth 2.0-enabled cell phone or smartphone plus a Windows-based PC softphone via the dongle.
– The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC provides heavy callers with an excellent way
to utilize the same Bluetooth headset for both cell phone- and PC-based unified
communications systems. This can free mobile users from juggling multiple
headsets, while delivering excellent voice quality and distance per… Read the rest of this entry »

 
As the bafflingly popular multiple shitgasm that is the [Genre] Movie series proves, parody is very difficult to do successfully for anything longer than, ooh, about four minutes. This is especially true when the thing youre cocking a whimsical snook at is pretty much a self-parody anyway, like modern horror movies, or in this case, Fox News. Luckily for us, where David Airplane Top Secret Naked Gun BASEketball Zucker set about buggering up his legacy by taking on the task of Scary Movies three and four, along with Superhero Movie and, very probably the worst film we have ever sat through, Michael Moore Movie, Stephen Colbert has succeeded magnificently. Despite his on-screen persona largely being an extended caricature of Fox News personality pundits, most directly head gobshite Bill OReilly, Colbert has managed to keep his satirical plates spinning for well over 500 episodes (or plates) to date, with a remarkably high hit rate. Or, if were keeping an already ill-judged analogy going, a remarkably low smashed plate rate.

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The Showbiz Set was a wonderful look back through the golden age of British television, the bitter battle between the BBC and ITV. and the footsoldiers on either side. Starting with the launch of ITV in 1955 and ending with the death of Eric Morecambe in 1984, the series looked at a age when The Tom Jones Show could be trumpeted into Britain’s living rooms as being part of "a 20million contract", as that be taken as an amazing thing, rather than merely causing a lot of frothing at the mouth and bilious comments on message boards. The fact that the 20million figure had been completely invented by Lew Grade just before meeting the press only made moments like that all the more interesting.

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Verizon is looking to “simplify” its offerings by paring down its handset lineup and upping its data charges per megabyte. The company announced Friday that it would begin rolling out new service plans ahead of its 4G launch that were geared towards higher revenues, but also bringing in more customers. And, while that news may sound annoying to some of us data hogs, it will probably work for the wireless carrier.

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A month after closing a $915 million deal to buy bankrupt Nortel’s enterprise business unit, Avaya is preparing to unveil its integrated road map. The industry will see in which direction Avaya is moving, and Nortel customers will find out the future of their products.
– Avaya was one of the biggest winners in the 2009 fire sale that was Nortel
Networks.
The communications technology vendor bought Nortel’s enterprise business,
which includes Nortel’s UC (unified communications) products. Avaya on Dec. 18
completed the acquisition, which analysts at the time of t… Read the rest of this entry »

Bleakness. Bleakness, modest living and a creeping sense of ennui offset by bouts of bloody-minded misanthropy. Not just the central tenets of our day to day life, but also the hallmarks of many great British situation comedies Rising Damp, Hancock, Filthy, Rich & Catflap, take your pick. These days, what with your field removed video and establishing-shots-of-outside-the-building-with-one-eye-on-getting-your-series-flogged-to-a-US-cable-network, its not something you see quite as often, but its something 15 Storeys High had in spades.

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The partnership between Siemens Enterprise Communications Group and Shared Technologies is designed to help organizations take better advantage of the business communications set up they now have in place, and to help them plan their move to a UC environment.
– Siemens Enterprise Communications Group is partnering with Shared Technologies to help businesses make the move to a unified communications environment.
The five-year partnership is aimed at offering customers best practices for taking advantage of what business communications technologies they hav… Read the rest of this entry »