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Next-Generation Unified Messaging
The Issue
For some, migration to unified messaging is a key component of VoIP plans. For others, voice messaging replacement has a new urgency and is being addressed separately. Many factors lead to this renewed interest: obsolescence of legacy voicemail systems, e-discovery and compliance rules, and the need for new capabilities to support remote workers. Finally, enterprises are looking to reduce the cost of managing complex disparate systems assembled by distributed purchasing or acquisition of other businesses.

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Top Macintosh Opinion
Apple's MobileMe joins Sharpcast SugarSync and Microsoft Live Mesh, among others, in the battle to provide seamless data synchronization and data sharing for mobile computing. But Apple MobileMe has come out with some cost and service issues that need resolving. J. Gerry Purdy, mobile and wireless analyst at Frost & Sullivan, explains.

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VirtualBox is an able hypervisor for running guest OSes with a minimum of fuss and even less money.
News
The free software Linux desktop KDE 4.1 advances the KDE Project's goals of cross-platform support and helps make the user interface more attractive. The KDE Project looked to Apple as an example of the importance of an attractive UI.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs does not have recurrent cancer or a life-threatening illness, a newspaper reports. Jobs' health has been a concern among Apple investors.
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AT&T posted higher quarterly profit as stronger-than-expected growth in wireless subscribers compensated for shrinking traditional landlines. AT&T added more than 1.3 million net wireless subscribers in the quarter, including iPhone customers.
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Intel delivers a Linux-compatible open-source library aimed at improving the performance of C++ applications on multicore processors.
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Apple's iPhone 3G is a very cool device. But do enterprise IT staffs really care? They already support RIM's BlackBerry and the Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian OSes. Do they want to also manage Apple? The BlackBerry remains the hands-down leader for mobile enterprise users and that's not likely to change anytime soon.
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Industry and investor concerns about the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs have not dimmed more than a month after he appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference.
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eWEEK Labs has gathered up a trio of suggestions for the best ways to capture screenshots, manage iTunes and control your desktop with the shiny new Apple iPhone 2.0 mobile device.
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Gartner and IDC both show that worldwide PC shipments increased by double digits in the second quarter of 2008 despite the downturn in the U.S. economy. Hewlett-Packard and Dell remained the top-selling PC vendors with notebooks sales helping to increase their overall PC shipments.
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Business-class e-mail vendor Mailtrust offers wireless synchronization between the iPhone and hosted Microsoft Exchange.
Review
Apple delivered on its promise of a configuration tool for iPhones, but leaves security, application delivery and device visibility by the wayside.
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The Palm Treo 800w adds GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and a few tricks the iPhone 3G lacks.
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New iPhone 3G applications straddle the line between consumer and enterprise use.
Opinion
You can't hold back the floodgates forever, but don't let anyone bully you into letting untested devices and software onto your network.
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