Polycom Set to be Acquired for $2B by Plantronics
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Mar 28, 2018
Unified Communications Section
Polycom Acquires Obihai Technology Boosting VoIP Portfolio
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Jan 5, 2018
Obihai builds VoIP phones and adapters that work with Google Voice.
Amazon Announces Alexa for Business, Ushering in the Area of Voice-Enabled UC
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Nov 30, 2017
AWS CTO expects that in the future, all technology interactions will be driven by voice.
Cisco Spark Gets a Voice
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Nov 3, 2017
Cisco integrates technology from its MindMeld acquisition to provide a voice-assistant for collaboration and meetings.
Cisco Acquiring BroadSoft for $1.9B to Bolster Cloud Collaboration and Communications
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Oct 23, 2017
Cisco makes another big software bet with its 201st acquisition.
Linux Foundation Launches OpenMessaging Project
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Oct 9, 2017
Alibaba, Oath, Didi, and Streamlio are the founding project contributors of the new cloud communications effort.
Asterisk 15 Debuts Advancing Open Source Collaboration Technology with Video
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Oct 3, 2017
Asterisk which has long been best known as a voice PBX, now gets improved support for video.
Jive Acquired for $462M
By
Sean Michael Kerner | May 1, 2017
Enterprise collaboration vendor now set to become part of the Aurea family of companies.
