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June 27, 2007 |
| Verizon fuels FMC momentum |
| Verizon blazes into the FMC market with Ascendent’s technology, and Joanie Wexler gives a detailed synopsis of what this strategy means for voice mobility and convergence in her weekly newsletter. |
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June 22, 2007 |
| Verizon Business Now Offering Ascendent's Voice Mobility Suite |
| FMC comes to the enterprise in full force, thanks to Ascendent’s new relationship with Verizon Business. Ascendent’s Voice Mobility Suite can securely push the features and functions of the PBX to all types of mobile devices, and according to Verizon, “We are [now] able to offer a solution that works with any PBX to enable business-grade voice communications across a customer’s wired and wireless enterprise.” |
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June 20, 2007 |
| Verizon Business Arm Taps RIM for FMC service |
| Verizon Business’ FMC launch included three new services, with Ascendent’s PBX Mobile Extension being the most significant of the three because it represents Verizon's first proper foray into FMC. |
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May 25, 2007 |
| RIM, Ascendent Systems, Marry the BlackBerry to the Corporate PBX |
| Seamless functionality and feature-rich voice capabilities come to the BlackBerry, thanks to the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System, delivered by Ascendent. |
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May 20, 2007 |
| BlackBerry Mobile Voice System allows access to PBX |
| RIM's new BlackBerry Mobile Voice System is set to offer access to your office's PBX (IP, TDM or mixed vendor) from your BlackBerry handset. |
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May 16, 2007 |
| BlackBerry Hops Aboard Early FMC Train |
| Joanie Wexler highlights RIM’s forays into FMC which describes the basic functions of the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System, stating: “Employees get a single business phone number to call, but users can have multiple wired and wireless phones ring simultaneously to avoid voicemail pileups and telephone tag.” |
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May 11, 2007 |
| RIM Announces PBX Integration, Wi-Fi |
| Thanks to Ascendent’s Voice Mobility Suite, BlackBerrys and other mobile devices are able to receive calls on up to four different numbers and include all the functions of a corporate PBX. |
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May 10, 2007 |
| BlackBerry Turning Enterprise Wonder? |
| The BlackBerry is hitting its stride as a total business device. It is becoming more and more useful in the constantly growing virtual world. |
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May 10, 2007 |
| RIM Plugging Into Your Business’ PBX |
| Plugging into your business' PBX just got easier with BlackBerry MVS, which was touted extensively at the recent WES 2007 conference. |
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May 9, 2007 |
| RIM Announces BlackBerry PBX Functionality |
| At its annual user conference, the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES), RIM said that MVS would enable access to PBX functionality through a "new intuitive menu interface" and allow users to have one "Reach Me Anywhere" phone number. |
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May 9, 2007 |
| BlackBerry MVS – A Step Toward Unified Communications |
| BlackBerry MVS allows the BlackBerry to integrate seamlessly with the corporate PBX system. According to GCN, “for the end user, the main advantage of the system is that you can place and receive calls using your BlackBerry just as if you were sitting at your desk… |
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May 9, 2007 |
| BlackBerry Extends Reach to the Office Desktop |
| BlackBerry MVS brings simplicity to the fingertips with the user-friendly “Reach Me Anywhere” number feature which rings the PBX and cell phone simultaneously, while protecting key business information. |
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May 9, 2007 |
| RIM Links BlackBerry to PBX |
| Ascendent’s new software links BlackBerrys to a corporate PBX allowing the BlackBerry to perform all of the functions of a PBX deskphone and making it a total mobile device for employees on the go. |
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May 9, 2007 |
| Q&A: How RIM Marries BlackBerry Smart Phones to the Corporate PBX |
| A detailed Q&A with Ascendent’s Director or Sales and Marketing, Theron Dodson, reveals the features and functions of the Ascendent Mobile Voice Suite. |
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May 9, 2007 |
| Research In Motion Introduces BlackBerry Mobile Voice System |
| RIM’s new BlackBerry MVS successfully converges the BlackBerry with the corporate PBX, resulting in an extended virtual office. |
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May 8, 2007 |
| BlackBerry Smartphone to Become a Secure Mobile Extension of a Desk Phone |
| The BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) is the first integrated enterprise solution to enable the seamless convergence of a BlackBerry smartphone with an office desk phone. |
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May 8, 2007 |
| BlackBerry, Office Phone Systems Merge |
| BlackBerry MVS allows access to PBX functions directly from your BlackBerry menu. According to PDAStreet, “Intuitive menu-driven interface – makes placing and receiving enterprise calls and accessing desk phone functionality amazingly simple.” |
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May 8, 2007 |
| RIM Ties BlackBerry to Office Phone |
| RIM is set out to reinvent its BlackBerry with a new mobile voice feature that extends the office out of the reaches of walls and into the reaches of the BlackBerry world. |
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May 7, 2007 |
| BlackBerrys Cozy up to Office Phone Systems |
| The synergy between Ascendent’s voice mobility technology with RIM’s data push technology is touted, as David Yach, senior vice president of software at RIM, explains that “it just looks, smells and feels like you're using the BlackBerry.” |
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May 7, 2007 |
| RIM Does Unified Communications |
| Pocket-sized unified communications appeal to BlackBerry users, millions of which already rely on the devices to provide them seamless e-mail. |
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April 2, 2007 |
| How to sell VoIP |
| Highlights the colliding worlds of the VoIP landscape, and quotes Heather Howland of Ascendent System’ response to hesitation in adoption. |
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February 24, 2007 |
| Options Widen For Fixed-Mobile Convergence |
| With converged networks allowing people to use the same mobile device for both cellular and landline voice calls, via IP access, and switch between the two, ABI Research predicts that by 2011, some 250 million people will make and receive phone calls over such networks and access points. |
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February 23, 2007 |
| “Year of the…” |
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| Article predicts that FMC will be one of the big trends that will drive industry success or failure for some time to come, quoting Theron Dodson of Ascendent Systems on the trend: “Some of that desire stems from productivity benefits that BlackBerry devotees would tout. |
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February 21, 2007 |
| BlackBerry Convergence |
| Article proclaims RIM as one of the stars of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, whose technology updates could prove to be crucial in the long-term. |
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February 5, 2007 |
| Analysis: Voice Over Wireless LAN |
| States that fixed/mobile convergence may be the springboard that will propel Vo-Fi into the mainstream for businesses large and small—with many established vendors taking part, “including Avaya; Cisco, through its purchase of Orative Systems; and Research in Motion, through its purchase of Ascendent Systems, can play a part in tying an enterprise PBX to users' mobile handsets.” |
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January 24, 2007 |
| BlackBerry Voice Converges with Lotus IM |
| Coverage of the BlackBerry voice and instant messaging convergence with IBM Lotus Sametime and Domino, made possible in part by RIM’s acquisition of Ascendent Systems in March of 2006. |
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January 23, 2007 |
| RIM and IBM unveil enterprise-wide wireless voice and IM |
| Announces the integration between RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Solution and IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Domino—the "first seamless, enterprise-grade implementation of wireless voice and instant messaging convergence,” and one part of a series of planned initiatives focused on extending the voice, presence and location-based services of Lotus Sametime to BlackBerry users. |
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