Today's highlights: Conversation with Carl Tyler; Xten Gets IM and Presence; Inter-Tel Acquired Linktivity; IMlogic IM Express;
- Carl Tyler, CTO at Instant Technologies, gave me the heads-up on some of their recent developments (eg, Queue Manager earlier this week) and upcoming product announcements. I can't disclose details, but I'll go on record as being impressed. Keep up the good work! Instant-Tech
- Xten is adding IM and presence capabilities to its eyeBeam video-over-IP softphone, using the IETF proposed standards of SIMPLE and XCAP. Enables users to see when others are available, and chat via IM. Yahoo Business
- Inter-Tel acquired Web conferencing assets from Converging Technologies and Linktivity, for real-time communications and remote control applications. "The acquisition of these selected assets is expected to enable Inter-Tel to continue expansion of its presence management and collaboration solutions portfolio, which is being designed to provide enterprise customers with advanced and easy to use conferencing and collaboration solutions to better address their communication needs." Yahoo Business
- IMlogic released IM Express, a package of software and services for SME organizations, enabling the deployment of a centrally controlled method of secure access to the public IM networks. IM Express is based on the flagship IM Manager. scotsman.com
This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.
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