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Exciting Week at Global Conect
Posted by Phil Jun 15, 2009

While attendance was down this year from last years record (it was equivalent to 2007), much of this may be attributable to the economy and the venue location. While Pittsburgh wa a wonderful location to have an event like this (and the 6th game of the Stanley Cup fell in the middle of the sessions), there is no denying that it is harder to get to than Dallas or Chicago, a fact that probably reduced attendance from both international and western customers.

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Exciting Week at Global Conect
Posted by Phil Jun 15, 2009

While attendance was down this year from last years record (it was equivalent to 2007), much of this may be attributable to the economy and the venue location. While Pittsburgh wa a wonderful location to have an event like this (and the 6th game of the Stanley Cup fell in the middle of the sessions), there is no denying that it is harder to get to than Dallas or Chicago, a fact that probably reduced attendance from both international and western customers.

The BlackBerry 8703e can integrate up to 10 business and/or personal email accounts with the BlackBerry Internet Solution. Set–up is simple, and can be done right from the device
The BlackBerry 8703e works with the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution to provide functionality such as single mailbox integration, remote address book look–up and more

Month to Month Price $429.99
1-yr Contract Price $99.99
2-yr Contract Price $29.99

Bummer I don't have that kind of money Plus I'd be paying U2 to shill for RIM. RIM is Satan (whenever Cisco takes a day off).

At that price I'd likely need to buy some kind of replacement insurance for it. A button on it gets wiggly the whole things junk, so I see that mountain of trashed phones continue to grow.

I can almost smell it: 12-18 months into my 2-year Blackberry contract my employer signs some obscure cost-saving deal with a cheap upstart Chinese company selling pirated phones made in child labor sweatshops and I somehow can't use my beloved Blackberry anymore at work – unless I buy an upgrade.

Call me a Luddite now, too, but church and state, business and private must remain separated.

http://www.voip-news.com/webcast/act-now-nortel…

April 7, 2009
WEBINAR On Demand: Why You Can't Wait…Migrate Your Nortel Meridian PBX Now! Why companies need to act now and upgrade. If you have a Nortel Meridian PBX – This is a must watch event:

-Ever wonder what impact there may be to your company when you don’t stay current with your PBX's software?
-Curious to see how your company could benefit from an upgrade to your PBX?
-Ever wonder why, exactly, you should be considering an upgrade?

Watch this FREE on-demand webinar, presented by Nortel’s Senior Product Team, to learn why you should NOT wait to upgrade and migrate your end-of-life Nortel Meridian PBX now!

Hear why an end-of-life PBX can break your network:

-Avoid the costs and risks of NOT migrating
-Your benefits of acting NOW
-Why migrating now and keeping your network reliable means cost savings, productivity and staying competitive NOW
-Seamlessly migrate your existing Nortel Meridian PBX now to newer, more cost-effective, secure and stable IP PBX or Unified Communications platforms
-Upgrade your end-of-life PBX now to save costs and drive business in this tough economy
-Safeguard and grow your business today

A phone call is a phone call is a phone call. Or is it?

Without a Powerpoint slideshow and stuff…

There is much truth to that. Software-based systems are a game-changer, as they say. The real difference is that software development, while hideously expensive, is a lot less expensive than hardware development, so there are enormous cost drivers to move a function from custom hardware (e.g., all CPE in existence) to custom software on commodity hardware. Nortel has already started doing this with the ACE and SCS projects (or whatever they are called today), and probably others that I am unaware of.

Once the system becomes software-based, you can afford to put a good user interface on the system, rather than having to have a specially trained “installation engineer” configure the system.

The result is that the total sales $ go down, because the product becomes cheaper and so does the ongoing maintenance. This isn't going to make either the vendor or the ecosystem of sales partners happy.

It will make the customers happier, though.

And since software can pack in more features at a lower cost, customers are going to get more specialized routing and “track down the employee and keep him working 24×7″.

They should be blank.

Isn't the form asking to describe talent? i rest my case~

In a nutshell, Nortel garage sell will not be a Canadian government deal, nor an issue seen by the government.