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I recently tried out Cisco's telepresence system for the first time during an interview about the company's sports-stadium technology, and I have to say, it's pretty awesome. But getting telepresence up and running is a costly investment in time and money. Marty Hollander, SVP, marketing of Vidyo, chatted with Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMCnet, at Interop about a more personal option: Live video conferencing.

On the occasion of 47th annual National Small Business Week celebration, Cathy Martine who is the AT&T Executive Vice President of Small Business Solutions told over 25 million small business units in the nation that they can be engines of innovation that create new lines of business, new jobs, and new ways to drive economic recovery.

Virtual PBX's hosted VoIP-based business communication solution, long noted for its flexibility, has become even more versatile for small businesses especially with the introduction of the Virtual PBX Open VoIP Peering service. It allows the users of any SIP-compliant softphones or desktop phones to employ the firm's services. The added versatility gives even fewer reasons to buy premise-based IP-PBXes and to keep clunky and cludgy PSTN boxes and Centrex solutions.

This summer, Symantec is providing SMB customers with greater choice and flexibility for protecting the information that drives their businesses. The new Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition, will help SMBs with complete protection including endpoint and messaging security as well as desktop, laptop and server backup and recovery to ensure business continuity. Symantec is giving SMB customers more choices for protecting their growing businesses with hosted options for email and web security and new lower pricing for Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition.

As a whole, the Internet is now second only to television as a source of entertainment, and social networks are delivering higher value than other forms of entertainment, say researchers at Edelman, after surveying 1,000 participants from the U.S. and the U.K. markets.

T-Mobile USA reported on Wednesday that Robert Dotson will be leaving the mobile powerhouse, and saying goodbye to his legacy, and handing the reigns over to Philipp Humm, a veteran of the mobile space and former CEO of T-Mobile Deutschland.

O'Rourke noted that the company has installed 40 analog phones connected via a true, secure VoIP linkin each location, along with computers, printers and monitors. Now, not only are both call centers are securely linked, they can transfer calls and use an intercom as if they're in the same building. Also, a supervisor can oversee both offices in terms of security and personnel management.

AT&T announced it has extended its popular A-List feature to its enterprise mobility customers, spanning small, medium and large-size businesses.