Over the long term, Zynga also plans to build its own unified messaging service for its games network, these people said.
Though e-mail been a success for Japan's NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode service, some observers are skeptical about the breadth of unified messaging's appeal.
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The "At Your Service" Award goes to Grand Central , for making great progress against the longstanding holy grail of unified messaging.
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Together, the two companies have the basic components for unified messaging.
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For Urban Media, if one-quarter of the businesses that use the free broadband also buy add-ons, such as phone service, calling cards and unified messaging, each building would be cash-flow positive in 18 months.
For Urban Media, if a quarter of the businesses that use the free broadband also buy add-ons, such as phone service, calling cards and unified messaging, each building would be cash-flow positive in 18 months.
Actiance, which has been in the business of real-time communication for 10 years, worked with regulators such as the SEC and FINRA in the U.S., the FSA in the UK and IIROC in Canada to help them understand what was technically possible as communications evolved from email to instant messaging to unified communications and then to social media.
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Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
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