PacificNet Inc., a provider of customer relationship management, e-commerce telemarketing services, value-added service and Chinese gaming technology (hey, that’s what’s written on the press material), has announced the appointment of Joseph Levinson to the position of chief financial officer. PacificNet chairman / CEO Tony Tong cited Levinson’s extensive experience working in China and his “US-China […]
Digital marketing group Global Beach has poached one from the big boys. Leaving Mercedes-Benz for Global Beach is Jackie Lawton. Lawton was formerly national retail CRM manager at Mercedes-Benz. In what is being called a “major coup for the agency,” Global Beach has appointed automotive CRM specialist Lawton to implement a “Best in Class” global […]
Now here’s a serious troika: Palm plus Windows plus Sprint. Palm, Inc. representatives today announced an addition to the firm’s Treo 700 line with the release of the Palm Treo 700wx smartphone. The Treo 700wx runs Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition, thereby adding another Palm EvDO product to Sprint’s product offerings. The Treo […]
A bit of a scary side to the VoIP buzz has hit the media this week. At forefront is the Comverse “options backdating scandal,” an Enron-type scam, replete with offshore bank accounts and executives on the lam. Comverse is / was (we’ll see about the firm’s current existence anon, to be sure) a firm that […]
Quite a scoop was reported by the UK tabloid “Inquirer” over the weekend. It seems that the British firm Rok Entertainment, a data compression software and mobile TV services provider, will be releasing software that will allowed VoIP- / internet-based phone calls on cellular phones. The newspaper makes itself the first to call Rok the […]
Zhone Technologies, Inc., a voice, data, video and entertainment services solutions provider, announced an agreement with Telecom Egypt, which will deploy Zhone’s MALC Broadband Loop Carrier Technology to provide VoIP and data services. Under terms of the agreement, the project will combines= Zhone MALC, Nortel CS2K Softswitch and ATM network technology for purposes of service […]
Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Zetadocs PDF. Equisys representatives were pleased to announce that their firm’s document production and delivery software package was named Hall of Fame Product of the Year 2006 by the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Graduate Association. The award was presented Equisys’ co-founder / CEO, Chris Oswald, at the association’s annual […]
Big news for all those in the Canadian VoIP industry hit the headlines on Friday, and the biggest players lined up to take sides immediately. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, an independent public authority that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in Canada, has upheld a ruling allowing the body to set prices for […]
A few items concerning the SMB Nation’s 2006 Annual Conference scheduled for September 8 to 10 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Richmond, Wa., were released today from Results Software. President / founder of CRM provider Results Software, Naseem Saab, was announced as a featured speaker and panelist. Saab presentation will be titled “Beyond CRM […]
And from the Great White North, Tilbury, Ontario-based manufacturers Global Vehicle Systems told media today that they had chosen Encompix ERP software to replace QuickBooks and other non-integrated systems. Encompix press material reported pridefully that one reason for winning the account was successful like ventures with Canadian firms Reko International and Systematix. Global Vehicle Systems […]