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  • Avaya IPO could be imminent

    Avaya could file for an initial public offering of $1 billion, which could result in the company being valued at $5 billion, according to a published report.

  • Polycom to acquire HP telepresence business

    Polycom and HP have announced a broad strategic alliance: Polycom will acquire HP's visual collaboration business and the two companies will partner for telepresence and video unified communications solutions.

  • 5 top social media security threats

    Social media platforms such as <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a>, Facebook and LinkedIn increasingly are being used by enterprises to engage with customers, build their brands and communicate information to the rest of the world.

  • Baseball fans turn to social media to torch botched Bernie Brewer scavenger hunt

    A marketing promotion by the <a href="http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/mil/fan_forum/wheresbernie.jsp">Milwaukee Brewers</a> to have baseball fans hunt for 1,400 little Bernie Brewer statues across Wisconsin to win tickets and autographs has created a social media storm this week because of people who didn't play fair.

  • Avaya shifts high-end features to midsize-business communications platform

    Avaya is updating its IP Office communications platform for small businesses to add collaboration features from its enterprise-grade communication <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">server</a>, including <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/091510-avaya-tablet.html">Avaya Flare</a> Experience desktop videoconferencing.

  • Skype buy, Windows Phone 'Mango' update highlight Microsoft mobile strategy

    The success of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a>'s <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> and Google's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> operating system has sent a clear signal to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>: Mobility is the future.

  • HP counters Cisco with new switches, architecture

    LAS VEGAS -- At <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/041811-interop-planner.html">Interop</a> this week, HP unveiled products supporting a new architecture that attempts to unify enterprise <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a>, campus and branch networks under a common and consistent operating environment.

  • Q&A: RIM's take on social networking

    Although Research in Motion made its name by delivering secure corporate email, it has had to move quickly to adapt to the ever-shifting world of social networking.

  • Internet creaks under tidal wave of bin Laden death news

    President Obama's late-night announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs triggered a massive amount of real-time comments, searches, social networking and video streaming. The traffic explosion bogged down news pages and for a while even crashed CNN's mobile news site.

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