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NewNet plc nominated as Comms Business Awards Finalist |
15/04/08 |
Internet Service Provider NewNet plc, is delighted to announce that they have been nominated as a finalist for the category of ‘Most Innovative Channel Product’ in the Co... Read More |
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Siemens OpenOffice ME a Hit with Nimans Resellers |
15/04/08 |
| Distributor Nimans is toasting record monthly Siemens sales as demand for the new HiPath OpenOffice ME system begins to take off.
Dealers have given an enthusiastic we... Read More |
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Westcon Group is Cisco's Global Distributor of the Year |
15/04/08 |
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Distributor Westcon Group has been presented with two awards at this year’s Cisco Partner Summit, held last week in Hawaii. Westcon was named “Global Distributor of the... Read More |
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Unicom Throws Redundant Pipex Staff a Lifeline. |
15/04/08 |
| Manchester-based telecoms independent Unicom, which specialises in services for small business, is recruiting staff made redundant by neighbour Pipex.
Unicom has provi... Read More |
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Nortel Shapes the Future for Channels with Management Changes and Partner Updates |
15/04/08 |
| Spring is in the air at Nortel. With PartnerFocus events taking place across the country, the introduction of a SIP-centric, open source UC solution for SMBs and now new... Read More |
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Murphx Announce Deal with Lumison |
14/04/08 |
| murphx the wholesale connectivity carrier has today announced a deal with Lumison, the leading provider of business communications that will see Lumison expanding their L... Read More |
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Rocom Rolls Out Avaya SMB Events |
14/04/08 |
| Following their recent appointment as distributor for Avaya’s SMB portfolio Rocom has announced a series of regional channel roadshows that start on 13th May at Stirling ... Read More |
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Kedington set to Develop Business |
14/04/08 |
| Northern Ireland based Network Cabling and IT Services company Kedington, part of the NG Bailey group of companies, has appointed Marcel McAlinden as their Business Solu... Read More |
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Geo Connects into Two Equinix London Data Centres |
14/04/08 |
| Geo, the provider of dedicated fibre networks, and Equinix, the global provider of network-neutral data centres and Internet exchange services, today announced that Geo h... Read More |
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Nimans Gets Ahead with New GN Jabra Sales Guide |
14/04/08 |
| Distributor Nimans is urging dealers to ‘use their heads to boost margins’ after producing a comprehensive guide for Jabra GN headsets
“Today there is greater demand t... Read More |
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Johnston Press Home Network Advantage |
14/04/08 |
| THUS plc today announced the renewal and expansion of its contract with the UK’s leading local publishing group, Johnston Press plc. In addition to THUS continuing to de... Read More |
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Let the Good Times Roll |
14/04/08 |
| Scott Nursten, Managing Director of s2s argues that the predicted economic downturn could be good news for those IT businesses that can think creatively and demonstrate a... Read More |
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BT Start Reaping Rewards on 21CN Investment with Vodafone Deal |
11/04/08 |
| Vodafone UK and BT have announced a new managed network solutions agreement that will see BT Wholesale provide and manage high speed connectivity between Vodafone’s UK ba... Read More |
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Datapulse Launches Unified Communications Solution |
11/04/08 |
| Datapulse, the developer of unified communications applications for Nortel, has announced the launch of Click-2-Dial. This new product improves telephone efficiency and c... Read More |
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Swyx Combines IP Telephony with Web Services to give SMEs Competitive Edge |
11/04/08 |
| IP PBX vendor Swyx has announced Web Extensions as a new feature for its software based solution SwyxWare. The new functionality enables Swyx-It! softphone users to draw ... Read More |
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Nortel Introduces UC for the SMB |
11/04/08 |
| Nortel is introducing a SIP-centric unified communications solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) based on open source technology and complete with presence/inst... Read More |
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New MD Appointed at BT Retail |
11/04/08 |
| John Petter has been appointed as Managing Director, Consumer at BT Retail with effect from May 1, 2008. Petter, currently Consumer Chief Operating Officer at BT Retail, ... Read More |
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Cisco Study Reveals Partner Collaboration Generates Revenue |
11/04/08 |
| Based on a global study indicating that collaboration between channel partners is a large and growing trend, Cisco today announced the launch of Cisco Partner Exchange, a... Read More |
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CTI Group Gears up for Growth with New Appointments |
10/04/08 |
| Call Management and Call Recording solutions company CTI Group has appointed three new Channel Account Managers as part of the company’s commitment to growing its channel... Read More |
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Daisy Gets Devilish with its New Offer |
10/04/08 |
| daisy has launched a red hot campaign which it claims the devil himself would find difficult to resist.
The 666 offer, launched at the beginning of April, is aimed at ... Read More |
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Westcon in iHub Launch |
10/04/08 |
| In what they describe as being ‘Instant Communication Solutions for UK SMBs’ iHub, a UK-based telecom provider, has launched a channel hosted telephony service using the ... Read More |
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Telephonetics Appoints New Director |
10/04/08 |
| Speech recognition specialist Telephonetics has announced the appointment of Mark Brooks, 43, as Director.
Brooks founded Voice Integrated Products Limited (VIP) in 19... Read More |
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BT Conferencing to Acquire Wire One Holdings |
10/04/08 |
| BT has agreed to acquire Wire One Holdings, one of the leading providers of videoconferencing solutions in the United States. It is intended that Wire One will form the c... Read More |
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Bailey Teswaine Appoints New Director of Operations and Services |
09/04/08 |
| Bailey Teswaine, part of the NG Bailey Group, has appointed Dave Anderson as director of operations and services. Replacing Tony Henderson - promoted to managing director... Read More |
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FatPipe Networks Partners with Horizon Solutions |
09/04/08 |
| Horizon Solutions, the Unified Communications Division of Horizon UK, has announced that it has been appointed as a premier distributor of FatPipe Networks’ router-cluste... Read More |
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Konftel Integrates Call Recording to 300 Model |
09/04/08 |
| Audio conferencing vendor Konftel has added the ability for calls to be recorded directly onto an SD memory card in its new Konftel 300.
"We are the first company in t... Read More |
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8el Launches ‘on demand’ Call Recording on its business VoIP Platform |
09/04/08 |
| Reading based VoIP provider 8el says that call recording is now offered as a standard feature of CallPort, its business VoIP service launched in 2007. This new feature e... Read More |
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AT Communications Group Reports Strong Operating Performance |
09/04/08 |
| AT Communications Group has announced preliminary results for the year to 31 December 2007 showing Group revenue up 63% to £88.4 m (2006: £54.1 m) with 11% underlying org... Read More |
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Unicomvault Tackles Potential Data Disaster |
09/04/08 |
| Unicom, which specialises in telecoms for the small business sector, has launched a new data back-up product following research that showed nearly 55% of small businesses... Read More |
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Customers Take a View on Thus Network |
09/04/08 |
| THUS has enhanced its Managed Network Services portfolio with the launch of Network View, an alarm based Customer Network Management tool. Offering instant access to alar... Read More |
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GN to Grow Reseller Base by up to 20% in 2008 |
09/04/08 |
| Headset solutions vendor GN has announced plans to grow its reseller base in the UK by up to 20 per cent in 2008. GN will focus on recruiting voice and IT resellers who ... Read More |
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Swyx Starts Technology Partner Programme |
09/04/08 |
| IP telephony vendor Swyx has announced Oak Telecom, the developer of call management software solutions has become the first company to take advantage of Swyx’s new Techn... Read More |
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Swyx Starts Technology Partner Programme |
09/04/08 |
| IP telephony vendor Swyx has announced Oak Telecom, the developer of call management software solutions has become the first company to take advantage of Swyx’s new Techn... Read More |
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Consultancy Approach will Unify Sales, say Nimans |
09/04/08 |
| Successful resellers are adopting a consultancy approach and thinking laterally when selling unified communications in the SME arena. That’s the view of Phil Adams, Sales... Read More |
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Timico Acquires Twang.net |
08/04/08 |
| Timico Group has announced a move that will strengthen its position as a provider of IP and next generation converged communications services to the UK business community... Read More |
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THUS Delivers Open Fibre Network to Support Learning In Central London |
08/04/08 |
| THUS has announced that it has signed a contract with Queen Mary, University of London for the provision of an open fibre network that will carry the institution’s data a... Read More |
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Titan Telecom Launched as a Low-Cost Telco For Small Businesses |
08/04/08 |
| Newly-launched Titan Telecom Limited say they will provide small businesses with a cut-price telecom service at around a 48% (£238) overall saving on a typical customer s... Read More |
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Frontier Launches ‘Reseller in a Box’ |
08/04/08 |
| Frontier, the telephony and data network services provider, is launching a ‘Reseller in a Box’ service for voice or data VARs that want to add network services to their c... Read More |
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Return to Market for David George |
08/04/08 |
| David George, the former Chairman of Crane Telecommunications has returned to the industry after a break of almost a year following the sale of Crane to Westcon.
Georg... Read More |
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Nimans Secures Avaya Diamond Distributor Status |
08/04/08 |
| Distributor Nimans has reinforced its position as one of the country’s leading Avaya suppliers by securing Diamond Distributor Status - the highest possible recognition b... Read More |
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Livingston to Succeed Ben Verwaayen as BT CEO |
08/04/08 |
| Ian Livingston, who is currently chief executive of BT Retail, is to succeed Ben Verwaayen as chief executive of BT Group on June 1st 2008. Verwaayen will step down as CE... Read More |
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MTV Telecom Acquired by ScanSource in Major EU Telecoms Drive |
07/04/08 |
| Egham based distributor MTV Telecom has been acquired by US based distributor ScanSource. The deal, concluded late last Thursday for an undisclosed sum, will see one of t... Read More |
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Business Failures Leap as Credit Crunch Hits Companies |
07/04/08 |
| The credit crunch finally appears to be having an impact on UK businesses, with corporate failures in the UK increasing for the first time in over 12 months. According to... Read More |
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Nimans Gets Connected With Swyx |
07/04/08 |
| Nimans has strengthened its extensive product portfolio by joining forces with IP telephony vendor Swyx to become an official distribution partner.
“Swyx is renowned a... Read More |
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DMSL Renews Agreement with BT |
07/04/08 |
| DMSL, one of the UK’s leading distributors for BT Total Broadband and related ICT-based services, has signed a new agreement with BT, extending its six-year partnership w... Read More |
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Activa Recording Solutions Achieve Compliance With New FSA Regulations |
07/04/08 |
| Activa Solutions, the UK arm of CyberTech International, has announced that its latest voice and data recording solutions are fully compliant with the new FSA regulations... Read More |
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Gradwell Announces Demo of SIP Integration with OCS2008 |
07/04/08 |
| Peter Gradwell, MD of Gradwell.com says the roll-out by Microsoft of its Office Communication Server 2008 product has presented the IT reseller community with an enormous... Read More |
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Maximum Solutions Expand Sales Team |
04/04/08 |
| Maximum Solutions has recruited two field-based sales Account Managers - Nicky Warburton and Samantha Cole, who have given the company more visibility to both new and exi... Read More |
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Call Recording Sales Rise in Financial Services Market |
04/04/08 |
| Sales of call recording products into the UK financial services market increased in the last quarter, says CTI vendor Liquid Voice.
“We have seen recent sales growth i... Read More |
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No Slowdown in Call Logging Sales say Tri-Line |
04/04/08 |
| The current economic climate is having little impact on sales of call logging products to UK businesses, according to CTI company Tri-Line.
“43% of Tri-Line sales are ... Read More |
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MZA Reports Y-on-Y 2007 Q4 UK PBX/IP PBX Sales up 16% |
03/04/08 |
| UK analyst MZA has reported that volumes of extensions sold have declined in Q4 2007 compared to Q3 2007, which is in line with expectations as the winter break impacts o... Read More |
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Siemens Sets New Finance Industry Benchmark |
03/04/08 |
| Siemens Financial Services has cut its average customer credit approval times by 72% to 1 hour and 40 minutes, and has increased its auto-acceptance rate to 40%. This is... Read More |
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Nortel Steps Up Collaboration on Unified Communications for SMBs |
03/04/08 |
| Nortel is accelerating the development of unified communications solutions for small to medium businesses (SMB) by adding its IP telephony application to IBM's new genera... Read More |
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Spiritel Makes Fifth Acquisition with Leading Mobile Reseller |
03/04/08 |
| London based Spiritel plc has announced the acquisition of WN1 Limited for a total consideration of up to £2.02 million. This brings the total spending on acquisitions b... Read More |
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White Stuff Goes for NGN from THUS |
03/04/08 |
| THUS and Vodat International, leading retail communications solutions provider, have announced that they are to provide a next-generation network (NGN) solution for White... Read More |
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TeleWare Enhances Auto Attendant Application for SMBs |
03/04/08 |
| TeleWare, the provider of intelligent hosted and customer premises communication solutions, has announced the release of a new version of the intelligent Auto Attendant p... Read More |
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Thus Cheers Thresher Group |
02/04/08 |
| THUS has extended its contract with the Thresher Group, one of the UK’s leading independent specialist drinks retailer, to provide communication services to its core reta... Read More |
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Toshiba Launches New Range of Digital Featurephones |
02/04/08 |
| Toshiba Business Communications Division (BCD) today announced the launch of a new range of digital handsets, the Strata DP5000 series. The new handsets build on the reli... Read More |
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SpinVox Selected for Membership in Avaya DevConnect Program |
02/04/08 |
| SpinVox, the supplier of Voice-to-Screen messaging, has been selected by Avaya for membership in the Avaya DevConnect program. SpinVox is the developer of a voicemail-to... Read More |
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Nimans’ Ice Competition Warms-Up Conferencing Sales |
02/04/08 |
| Resellers have the chance to win a long weekend to a ‘world made of ice’ thanks to an exclusive sales competition from distributor Nimans and audio conferencing manufactu... Read More |
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AirMagnet Teams with ProCurve |
02/04/08 |
| AirMagnet, the security, performance and compliance solutions vendor for wireless LANs, has become a solution provider in the ProCurve Alliance Program. This alliance wil... Read More |
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Entagroup Unveils £500,000 Facility |
02/04/08 |
| A brand new 10,000 sq ft commercial and operational facility has been built by the IT distribution and services group, Entagroup, to accommodate expansion, improve commun... Read More |
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YO!Sushi Predicts 2-Year pay back for MPLS Network |
02/04/08 |
| High street restaurant chain YO!Sushi is predicting a two year payback for its next generation MPLS network from NetworkFlow which it is confident will support the compan... Read More |
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What’s in the Price of a Call? |
02/04/08 |
| Dan Cole, head of product management at THUS plc says that the launch of a new advertising-funded VoIP service adds to the ever growing list of providers offering free ca... Read More |
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Women in IT keen to Develop Political ‘Savvy’ |
01/04/08 |
| 77% of women working in IT do not feel they have sufficient skills to manage in a political context within the workplace. This figure comes from a recent “Political Savvy... Read More |
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Gematech Keeps the Calls Coming for Inmarsat |
01/04/08 |
| Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communication services has deployed the flagship Business Continuity Manager solution, BCMLITE, from specialist ... Read More |
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Plantronics Awarded Green Certification as Part of Global Sustainability Push |
01/04/08 |
| Plantronics has announced that its’ Swindon head office has been awarded ISO 14000 certification, recognising the company’s efforts to effectively reduce its’ impact on t... Read More |
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Fused Networks Makes the Office Mobile |
01/04/08 |
| Fused Networks, part of the Fused Group, has launched a Mobile Office solution as part of their on-going strategy to bring fully converged solutions to the UK SME Channel... Read More |
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Small Businesses Succeed With Avaya |
01/04/08 |
| A new independent report from global analyst firm Canalys shows that Avaya is the number one provider of communications solutions for small businesses – companies with 10... Read More |
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Honorary Knighthood For BT’s Verwaayen |
01/04/08 |
| Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday presented an honorary knighthood to Ben Verwaayen, the Dutch born Chief Executive of BT Group, for his services to the UK’s telec... Read More |
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