Pools expertise in networking and unified communications

Newbury, UK, 9 March 2009 – Applinet plc and Unified Group Ltd today announced a merger between the two businesses, with the newly established ICT Company trading under the name Proximity Communications plc, www.proximitycomms.com. Headquartered in Newbury, Proximity Communications has a combined turnover in excess of £10m and offers a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end solutions and services in voice and data networking and unified communications, with support services available nationwide.

Read more: Applinet And Unified Group Merge To Launch Proximity Communications plc

5 March, 2009 – United Kingdom – Pink fans were caught off guard today when they spotted the singer checking out her own promotion at a local Carphone Warehouse store. Pink is fronting the Samsung Pink Rocks! campaign which delivers exclusive content and free downloads to fans via the Samsung Tocco and Pixon handset.

The artist is preparing for her UK tour, which sees her visiting Glasgow, Birmingham, Belfast, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and London throughout April and May 2009.  What fans actually saw was Pink tribute artist Nina Clarke, who was in town promoting the campaign in her rockin’ pink Cadillac.

Fans can visit a Carphone Warehouse throughout the month of March to get their hands on P!nk’s number one album ‘Funhouse’, an exclusive remix of ‘Get the party started’, an MP3 ringtone of the track ‘Sober’ and mobile wallpaper of the ‘Funhouse’ album cover when they buy a Samsung Tocco and Pixon.
 

Read more: Pink Rocks with Samsung and Carphone Warehouse to Deliver Exclusive Mobile Content to Fans

IP Recording and Quality Monitoring Solutions at booth #312

Hoesbach/Germany, March 5, 2009 – ASC (www.asctelecom.com), a leading global provider of innovative solutions to record, analyze and evaluate communications, today announced it will demonstrate its latest IP recording and quality monitoring solutions at the Unified Communications Expo, March 11-12, 2009, National Hall, Olympia, London.
 
The event offers visitors a large exhibition zone, a free program of education seminars covering a wealth of business and technical issues. Since its launch in 2005, Unified Communications Expo, incorporating VoIP for Business has become the UK's leading business enterprise communications event.
Read more: ASC to Emphasize Workforce Optimization at Unified Communications Expo

LONDON, UK March 3, 2009 – ShoreTel® (NASDAQ; SHOR), a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC) solutions, will be demonstrating its comprehensive portfolio of Unified Communications and Contact Centre Solutions at this year’s UC ’09, 11-12 March, Olympia, London (stand 606).

Contact Centre 5.0 will be on show and available for demonstration for the first time at UC ’09.  It introduces key innovative functionality that makes this application one of the easiest to use and administer in the industry, and ideal for organisations looking to deploy a highly available, scalable, sophisticated contact center solution.

Read more: ShoreTel to Showcase latest Unified Communications and Contact Centre Solutions at UC ‘09

German inbound SMS numbers now available for corporates

Mobile messaging operator TynTec (www.tyntec.com) today announces the availability of German (e.g. +49) long numbers for inbound SMS services.  These numbers can be used as an alternative to shortcodes by organisations dealing with high volumes of incoming SMS traffic.

Using these numbers organisations offering services in Germany can now set up a single regional 12 digit phone number to receive SMS traffic for applications such as voting, marketing or customer support.

Read more: TynTec Launches German Long Numbers