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Alcatel-Lucent Helps You Add a 'Phone' to Salesforce
A funny thing happened on Alcatel-Lucent’s way to breaking ground on its Rapport Communications-as-a-Service platform. To the surprise of many, even within the organization, it completed its under-the-radar negotiations with Nokia, in a deal which may bring the caretaker of Bell Labs under the wing of a newly empowered
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And Then Alcatel-Lucent Said, 'Hello, Nokia'
If a buyout deal was truly in the works between Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia for a while now, as certain folks have retroactively predicted in recent hours, then the timing of yesterday’s deal announcement came as a shock at least to some at Alcatel-Lucent.
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Alcatel-Lucent Invites You to Get on Its Cloud
Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent introduced a new Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform called Rapport today. Like other IP-based communication networks, Rapport uses cloud platforms to pool network resources. This way, voice and video communications and conferencing can be managed using the same principles as any other type of traffic on an IP network.
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Social Ideation Finds Ideas Worth Pursuing
IP is not only a product idea. It may also be a better way of doing business, a price model that offers a competitive advantage, or a way to achieve operational efficiencies. Finding the Good Ideas Surfacing and then vetting these ideas represents a serious problem for companies.
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DemandBase Targets Drupal Users With Real-Time Identification Module
Since 2010, Demandbase users have been able to use its Real-Time Identification service to better identify business web traffic, as it happens. Now, however, the module can be used for Drupal CMS users.
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Microsoft, Facebook Announce $550 Million Patent Deal
In a half-billion dollar cash deal between two technology titans, Microsoft agreed to sell up to 70% of the patents it recently acquired from storied AOL just two weeks earlier for about twice that sum (US$ 1.056 billion) in cash. Terms of the Microsoft/ Facebook deal include ownership of 650
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Feeling Our Way Around a Dark Internet #SOPAStrike
Today, parts of the Internet have gone dark in protest of proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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The Day the Internet Goes Dark
While it seems likely that the Stop Online Piracy Act has died in the House of Representatives a week before Congress was set to vote on it, the Internet is still not breathing a sigh of relief. The fate of the Protect-IP legislation is still in the hands of the
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Why We're Against SOPA
By now, you’ve probably heard about the legislative bills that the United States Senate and House of Representatives are currently debating. Both the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT-IP) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) aim to prevent online piracy and copyright
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Transitioning to IPv6: What Your Marketing Department Needs to Know
Last week, the world celebrated IPv6 Day. If the event didn’t make it onto your calendar, you’re not alone. The event was meant as a “test flight” for IPv6, a successor to the current Internet address system (IP4) that -- if successful -- will help to ensure that the Internet doesn’t run out of addresses. Yet,
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B2B Marketing Explosion: Tips, Tricks and Tools to Help Identify Leads
Among the trends predicted for business to business marketing in 2011, a focus on intelligence and transparency tops the list. This week, a few companies that provide technologies aimed at driving marketing performance for B2B have unveiled some useful tools that live up to the forecasted trends.
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IPv4 Out of Stock! Will IPv6 Finally Make it Mainstream?
IPv4 addresses are almost out of stock. This isn't the first time somebody rang a bell about it, but now the situation is getting desperate. According to reputable institutions and individuals, within the first quarter of 2011, we could run completely out of IPv4 addresses.
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