Microsoft makes equity investment in Aspect to bring Microsoft’s unified communications and voice platform to contact centers worldwide.
ORLANDO, Fla. — March 18, 2008 — Today at the VoiceCon Orlando 2008 conference, Microsoft Corp. and Aspect Software Inc., a leading contact center company, announced a multiyear strategic alliance to help deliver unified communications (UC) to contact centers around the world. Aspect will design its Aspect Unified IP contact center solution to interoperate with Microsoft’s platform for software-powered voice and unified communications and will offer it as the leading option to new …

Petaling Jaya, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 - PIKOM, the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia hopes that the new cabinet ministers which the association works closely with will further excel the country’s information and communications technology (ICT) industry.
Chairman of PIKOM David Wong Nan Fay stated that the association hopes the new cabinet will work well as a team, continue to collaborate closely with the private sectors, promote transparency and openness in the decision-making process, emphasize on human capital development, actively promote the local ICT industry, to address …

Beginning at 15 cents per day per employee – including video - new unified communications solutions enable improved customer service, speed collaboration
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Avaya Inc., a global leader in business communications applications, systems and services, today introduced the industry’s most affordable Unified Communications solutions, designed specifically for a new era of global, virtual business. For as little as 15 cents per day per employee – including video,1 Avaya Unified Communications Solutions for remote workers and branch offices help businesses address their top communications challenges to build a more …

IRVINE, Calif., March 17, 2008 - WebVisible, Inc., a global leader in local interactive advertising, announced today that it has received $12 million in series B funding led by Silicon Valley’s Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from existing investor Redpoint Ventures. In conjunction, Sutter Hill Ventures Managing Director Jim White will join WebVisible’s Board of Directors. WebVisible, whose robust software platform manages interactive advertising campaigns for small-to-medium-sized businesses around the world, will use the funds to achieve the next level of technology innovation, promote growth in its …

JERSEY CITY, NJ March 13, 2008 - Under a new initiative, Comodo, a leading Certification Authority, introduced the HackerProof Reseller Incentive Program aimed at highlighting to its channel partners the value of HackerProof to online eMerchants and the new revenue opportunities this presents for resellers. This program offers qualifying resellers special channel pricing and a year of free HackerProof service as a way for partners to experience first hand the value of this innovative service. This HackerProof offer is part of Comodo’s partner program designed to provide partners with an …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – March 12, 2008 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, announced today it has made a strategic investment in INVIDI Technologies Corporation, a leader in advanced addressable advertising for the television industry. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
INVIDI’s proprietary technology delivers addressable commercial messages tailored to the television viewer. The technology has the ability to accurately identify viewers’ age, gender, location and other characteristics for greater personalization while always maintaining absolute privacy and confidentiality.
“Addressable television advertising is a growing …

March 10, 2008, Dallas, TX – SoftLayer announces the immediate availability of a second datacenter facility in Dallas as well as a complete upgrade of the company’s core networking infrastructure in Dallas at an investment of more than $5 million.
The new facility features 220 new racks, more than doubling SoftLayer’s server capacity in Dallas. It has its own multiple power feeds supported by independent UPS systems and generators for failover, while leveraging the same network operations (NOC) as the existing SoftLayer facility.
“The new datacenter resides within the same building as …

Announce Availability of Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
SANTA CLARA, CA REDMOND, WA March 10, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced two new milestones in their ongoing alliance - the official opening of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft’s Redmond campus for optimizing Microsoft applications on Sun Fire x64 server systems and storage, and the availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. More information on the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is available …

Malaysian stocks tumbled the most in a decade today with government-linked companies hardest hit after the weekend’s political upsets.
At 2:58pm, trading was stopped for an hour as the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) fell 130.01 points to 1,166.32, from the previous day’s closing level 1,296.33 - about 10.03 percent.
Trading resumed at 3:58pm, and the stock market recovered slightly.
After it closed for the day at 5pm at 1,117.2, a drop of 123.11 or 9.5 percent.
This was the biggest one-day percentage loss in recent years. The turnover was valued at RM2.47 billion.
State-owned …

Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services company, today announced that it has been awarded the VMware EMEA Hosting Partner of the Year Award.
The award was presented at the Partners Awards ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, as part of VMworld Europe 2008, which was attended by more than 4,500 IT professionals from around Europe to experience Europe’s largest virtualisation industry event.
The award is a mark of Attenda’s success as a leading VMware Service Provider, bringing to market new virtual infrastructure hosting and managed services offerings.
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