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Article: Cisco combines conferencing, social networking.
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- Computer News Middle East
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Cisco Systems has announced an IP desk phone with video capability, is offering a Web mail service and has updated its Web and video conferencing offerings. The vendor has also announced the 9900 and 8900 series IP phones with video camera and monitor, plus universal serial bus (USB) ports and Bluetooth. It also announced WebEx Mail, a hosted mail service available to customers in North America.
WebEx Mail, which has 25 GB of capacity per user account, uses technology Cisco inherited when it acquired PostPath Inc. in September, 2008.
"This biggest benefit I see is you can keep the front end the same," said Zeus Kerravala, senior VP of Yankee Group ...