Unified Communications Featured Article
April 29, 2008
2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award Winners Announced by Unified Communications Magazine
By Tom KeatingNorwalk, CT (April 29, 2008) - Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), an integrated global media company helping companies build communities in print, in person and online, has announced winners of the first Unified Communications magazine TMC Labs Innovation Awards.
This TMC Labs Innovation Award honors ground-breaking products in the communications and technology world. While innovation is frequently a question of firsts, often it is taking an existing idea and improving upon it. Challenging established standards and introducing different approaches to achieve distinctive results signify innovation within the industry.
“Unified Communications saw tremendous growth in the past year. Because of the major advances in UC technologies and the number of new entries in this market, TMC Labs chose to honor only those who made significant strides in advancing UC solutions with this newest Innovation Award,” stated Tom Keating (News - Alert), CTO and Executive Technology Editor for TMC Labs. “There were many entries and while all entries should be commended for their efforts in the advancement of UC technologies, only a select few that showed the most advanced innovations were chosen.”
This TMC Labs Innovation Award honors ground-breaking products in the communications and technology world. While innovation is frequently a question of firsts, often it is taking an existing idea and improving upon it. Challenging established standards and introducing different approaches to achieve distinctive results signify innovation within the industry.
“Unified Communications saw tremendous growth in the past year. Because of the major advances in UC technologies and the number of new entries in this market, TMC Labs chose to honor only those who made significant strides in advancing UC solutions with this newest Innovation Award,” stated Tom Keating (News - Alert), CTO and Executive Technology Editor for TMC Labs. “There were many entries and while all entries should be commended for their efforts in the advancement of UC technologies, only a select few that showed the most advanced innovations were chosen.”
Company revenue or number of products sold is not a factor in determining winners. The TMC Labs Innovation Award is based on the concept thattheproduct or service demonstrates raw innovation, uniqueness and represents a significant contribution to the industry.
"TMC Labs sought trendsetters in unified communications solutions to honor with this newest Innovation Award. Like all TMC Labs Awards, only the highest standards of accomplishment were recognized. The companies whose products broke the mold with a new product launch or devised a brilliant spin to an existing application were singled out,” said Rich Tehrani (News - Alert), President and Group Editor-in-Chief. “The TMC Labs engineers have extensive knowledge of the UC market and selected only those companies that proved their out-of-box thinking to transform the industry. My congratulations to all winners."
TMC Labs is the communications industry’s only in-house testing lab providing objective testing and reviews.
TMC Labs Innovation Award winners will be published with individual in-depth reviews in Unified Communications magazine’s May 2008 issue.
For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.
TMC Labs is the communications industry’s only in-house testing lab providing objective testing and reviews.
TMC Labs Innovation Award winners will be published with individual in-depth reviews in Unified Communications magazine’s May 2008 issue.
For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.
2008 Unified Communications TMC Labs Innovation Award Winners
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HearMe
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C4 IP
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Telephony Office-LinX version 7.1
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PBXtra with HUD
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GXE502x Series
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Messaging Interaction Center (MIC)
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Jabra GN 9350 OC
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LG Nortel IP Phone 8500 Series
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Versera ICE
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Unified Communications Exchange (UCX)
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NTRsupport
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OpenScape UC Application
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Tango Abrazo
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About Unified Communications magazine
Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an 'industry' section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 160,000.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. According to Quantcast*, TMCnet reaches nearly one million U.S. unique visitors each month. TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors globally each month according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELPHONY Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference. (*Quantcast is an independent Web site that monitors U.S. Web traffic)
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