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NETWORKWORLD
FMC status: Who’s delivering what?
Joanie Wexler examines the increasing number of options for businesses to install and manage their own solutions rather than use service-based alternatives from mobile network operators.
   
Information Week
Fixed-Mobile Convergence Gets Revved Up
This InformationWeek feature focuses on the wide range of approaches and challenges to FMC, and the differences between wireless carriers and PBX vendors.
   
ZDNet
Here’s My Take on Blackberry Moving Forward
Russell Shaw posts a follow-up commentary post to his colleague, Larry Dignan’s blog post.
   
ZDNet
RIM: Unite, Enterprise, Prosumer Market All Promising
As a result of RIM’s Q2 earnings announcement, editor Larry Dignan covers several notable topics highlighted by RIM on its conference call on his blog, “Between the Lines.”
   
TechNews World
AT&T Puts WiFi BlackBerry on the Menu
This article examines RIM’s latest offering, the 8820, and how the company has entered the business smartphone market with a WiFi-enabled phone.
   
Network Computing
FMC Vendor Tango Takes Another Half-Step
This article focuses on an announcement from Tango Networks, a player in the enterprise FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) space that focuses on a carrier-centric implementation, rather than a carrier-agnostic implementation.
   
Unified
Interoperability Among UC Suites and Devices
Richard Grigonis discusses how interoperability among communications systems is more than simply exchanging voicemails and faxes.
   
SearchMobileComputing
Push voice is the next mobility must-have
Although push email has been the mission-critical form of communications to date, voice is still the dominant force in business communication, particularly for the mobile worker.
 
ThomasNet
Software allows convergence of mobile and office desk phones
BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System, encompassing BlackBerry® MVS Client, BlackBerry® MVS Connectors, and Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite, extends corporate identity to the handset with same number for desk and smartphone, and includes menu interface allowing smartphone users to place, receive, and manage enterprise calls from handset and to access various desk phone features.
   
Advance News Magazine
A Ringing in Providers' Ears: Examining Nurse Communication Systems
Detailing the results of Ascendent System’s Nurse Call Management Survey, conducted at the HIMSS Conference this spring, Heather Howland discusses the significant need for Health IT providers to develop technologies that alert nurses and doctors to patients’ needs without overloading existing hospital protocols.
   
Phone+
Lahey Clinic Chooses Ascendent Systems to Improve Communications and Response Times Across Campuses
This case study discusses the reasons behind Lahey Clinic’s decision to use Ascendent Systems. Ascendent’s voice mobility solution was integrated into the hospitals’ existing telephone infrastructure to deliver instant access to wireless phones used throughout the hospitals. The technology enables physicians, nurses and hospital staff to be reached anywhere, at any time.
   
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