If your organization is considering implementing a unified communications solution, you may feel a bit overwhelmed as you examine the options from different vendors. Here's a list of some of the terms you'll likely encounter as you navigate the UC landscape.

Amid all the excitement surrounding the unification of our communications technologies, the issue of security sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe some are assuming that the threats are the "same old, same old" that plague those same communications methods in their more stand-alone forms. But it's that and more.

Google’s senior vice president and chief legal officer, David Drummond, said in the company’s blog on Feb. 3 that given Microsoft’s anti-competitive conduct in the past, coupled with its continued dominance in the technology industry, would threaten “innovation and openness” on the Internet.

Two undersea communication cables were severed on Tuesday, January 29. As a result, Internet access to much of Egypt, as well as parts of India and Saudi Arabia, was disrupted.

Internet access terminals at the Heathrow airport were found to be vulnerable to hack attacks.

Although "presence" may seem like just another industry buzzword, it has the potential to change the way we communicate in significant ways. Here's a look at how it works and how it can help users take advantage of new technology more effectively.

Retirement should be the time when you step away from the work world and relax. Retired police chief, Jim Murray intended to do just that. And then he bought a personal computer.

On Saturday the Washington Post reported on the CIA’s divulgence of information relating to cyber attacks on utility companies (electricity, oil, gas and water) outside of the US.  The CIA’s comments were obviously meant to alert service providers to an increasingly serious threat that in at least one case has led to a power outage ...

At a Munich conference, European Union telecommunications director, Viviane Reding, said that a proposal by France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy to implement a tax on Internet and cell phone networks was not the best way to expand access to new media.

Folks in the United Kingdom can now access mobile broadband Internet using a USB modem available from Vodafone.

The Internet, founded on the ideal that information should be free and readily available, has been in the process of becoming more and more proprietary over the last few years as Net giants do everything they can to lock users (and their data) into their interfaces.

SanDisk introduced a new flash drive that will automatically backup your data onto the Internet. The backup is done via a Web server offered by a start-up called BeInSync. SanDisk says that this is the first of its kind.

The Australian government is all set to pull the plug on inappropriate content with its Internet censorship program.

Early next year, Adobe systems will release the source of its data and messaging framework to further the adoption of rich Internet applications. Christened as BlazeDS, the product will be available under the lesserGeneral Public License (GPL).

There's been a lot of focus on Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and all of its features, but there's been a lot less talk about the all-important client end of the equation. Here's a quick look at the client software and hardware by which users connect to OCS and take advantage of its features.