There are four primary types of media: text, audio, video, and photos, however Facebook has yet to introduce a product which enables users to share audio content. One of our readers has noticed that the insights area includes an “Audio” section under media consumption. It has been there for a while and is even referenced in Facebook’s help section however it doesn’t make sense because there’s no product currently linked to this and no data is showing up.

Does this mean that Facebook will soon launch a stand alone audio product? I sure hope so! There are currently a number…

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Instant messaging (IM) is the second most popular and widely used collaboration and communication tool in business enterprises across Asia Pacific after email, said Springboard Research Monday. According to a recent Springboard, enterprise instant messaging applications have started gaining attention from businesses, even though a majority of businesses in Asia Pacific use consumer instant messaging tools. Findings of this report are based on Springboard’s interviews with 469 CIOs, IT managers and business managers in over 400 large and SMB enterprises in Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore. “IM is now recognized as an important communication tool and…

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Why in the world should it be hard to reach a customer or apotential client ?It should NOT be !But with today’s fast paced internet technology and theintroduction of new applications it is getting tougher to reachthe potential customer or the regular clients.IEMAIL : Email has been a popular means of reaching yourusers, clients, co workers or just about anybody in the world.The problem over here are Spammers !Most of the emails received today by a person consists of spam emails which means you get more spam messages in your inboxcompared to the genuine email which is actually meant…

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With the fresh competition of Bing, we are reminded that search engines haven’t changed much since Google came along. Bing has made some nice advancements, like video previews, but still has a way to go to be truly different than Google. [Long]put together this prototype of a real time search system based off of Bings API. He was inspired by Google Wave which we hope to see soon. Wave is primarily for communication, redefining how email and messaging would work. We can’t help but think that Google probably has some cool stuff in the secret vaults for searching too.…

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Using this to integrate with CUCM?
(tags: ldap authentication administration)

IP blue Software Solutions
softphone products run on Windows PCs and PDAs.
(tags: Cisco voip Networking)

Session Initiation Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). Other feasible application examples include video conferencing, streaming multimedia distribution, instant messaging, presence information and online games. The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party (unicast) or…

As Facebook becomes a center for our personal communication there is an etiquette that has become standard. Over the past few months I’ve been talking with people about their experience with Facebook and the more people I speak to, the more that I learn there are a number of best practices when using the site. After talking to a lot of people, I’ve noticed that I break the rules daily so hopefully you don’t make the same mistakes I have.

1. Update Your Status About Mundane Activities
It’s seriously great to know that you just pigged out on a half…

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According to the latest news reports from Urumqi, a far-flung city in western China, “calm” had returned to the streets as the death toll from Sunday’s protests hit 156, with 800 injured, and 1,434 protestors detained.  Officials say most of the dead were Han Chinese, while Uyghur groups report that 90% of those killed were Uyghurs.  Though reports about the ethnic background of those killed and accounts of the protest may vary, one thing is clear.  The Chinese government has cracked down, enforced curfews, and rounded up protestors in an effort to stop future unrest.  Meanwhile,  wall posts from Uyghurs,…

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Facebook’s most recent feature announcement about the new granular publisher controls received a lot of attention for being a move against Twitter. We’ve been covering the drawn out battle between Facebook and Twitter for months now but what’s more important is the immense amount of control that Facebook is attempting to give the user. While Facebook has been criticized on numerous instances for aggressive new features that push the limits of access to our friends’ information (news feed, beacon, etc), the company is trying to hand control over to the user rather than giving them the twitter-like option of private…

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