The News Review:
- Vertical Releases Feature-Rich Software Update for Wave
- A brave new world of snoopy software
- Foxit Software Releases Foxit Reader 3.0
Vertical Releases Feature-Rich Software Update for Wave
MarketWatch
, Nov 21, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Vertical Communications, a leading provider of next-generation IP-based
phone systems and voice applications, today announced the release of the
Wave 1. 5 software upgrade to it’s award winning Wave IP 2500(TM)
Business Communications Solution, the industry’s first comprehensive IP
PBX with the unique Applications Inside(TM) architecture. Cost-sensitive small- to medium-sized businesses and larger distributed
organizations seeking to reduce overhead associated with managing
business communications can easily transform their legacy telephony
infrastructure into an application-rich, next-generation IP platform by
implementing Wave. Scalable from 10 to 350 users on one system, Wave provides customers
with the flexibility to support all users whether they’re working aEUR- at
headquarters, in a branch office, at home, or on the road and regardless
of what devices they’re using aEUR- IP, Digital or analog phones and devices
as well as soft phones and more. “This is a major release for Vertical and our Wave IP customers,
including significant enhancements in terms of new system features,
application features, endpoint support and the introduction of Wave IP
into international markets,” said Peter Bailey, Senior Vice President
Product Management and Business Development for Vertical Communications.
A brave new world of snoopy software
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
With gee-whiz enthusiasm, the BusinessWeek columnist tells a number of fascinating stories about ever-cheaper, ever-more-powerful computer chips and the tools and techniques they make possible, tools and techniques that will increasingly and dramatically affect nearly every area of our lives. The bulk of the book is devoted to examples. A particularly nice one concerns the chips and new software that will monitor our buying habits in supermarkets via the use of store cards and smart carts. These will note what we buy and infer from our purchases whether we’re on a budget (relatively constant expenditures), following a diet (low-fat foods) or have fallen off one (high-fat ice creams). The cart will also remind us if it finds we’ve forgotten something, and determine how brand-loyal and price-sensitive we are. It will discover our buying personalities and likely demographic characteristics, track our path through the store, and suggest changes in layout to stimulate sales of high-profit items. Through interviews with scientists at various software companies ranging from giants like Yahoo and Google to a number of smaller boutique firms, Baker attempts to humanize the story of those he terms the "numerati.
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Foxit Software Releases Foxit Reader 3.0
PR.com (press release), NY
0 Foxit Software Company today announced the instant release of Foxit Reader 3. 0, Foxit’s latest PDF Reader software. 0 enables end-users to have access to PDF software that delivers a broad set of functionality on.