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Opera Software on Wednesday released the Opera Widgets SDK in beta, which will let developers deploy Web applications on any device. The Opera Widgets SDK features an emulator, libraries, documentation and Opera Dragonfly for debugging. It’s based on open standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), whose mission it is to create an Internet that can be treated ...

Tango Networks has added the ability to tie in mobile network presence and location information from any handset to its Abrazo platform for enabling unified communications. Abrazo now enables UC systems to selectively share status information with contacts, enable intelligent routing decisions for mobile phones, desk phones and soft clients, and contribute to automatic presence status determination. Building on the ...

Social networking is addictive. It’s not just viral, which implies an almost predatory inevitability of “infection.” No, I think addiction is more like it. I know from experience. Facebook didn’t bite me, I bit into—and liked—Facebook. Oh yes. Liked it entirely too much. And I don’t know if you have any friends who Twitter, but they seem to go from ...

April has been a big month for top-level management change at the tier 1 service providers. Qwest Communications International Inc. last week announced the resignation of executive vice president and CFO John Richardson. Then, this week, BT Group CEO Ben Verwaayen and Level 3 Communications’ Brady Rafuse, who heads the carrier’s European business and content distribution effort, both resigned, while ...

In a struggling economy, businesses might tighten their IT spending ... unless there’s a clear ROI that can help them get through the downturn. That’s the scenario offered by VoIP and unified communications."A recession is going to be a very good thing for VoIP," says Bandwidth.com CEO Henry Kaestner. "One level, and this is something that might be very obvious, ...