Unified-Comms
Gaming At University
Gaming At University
How Will Gamification Play a Key Role in the Future of Online Learning?
Education has always been willing to test new ways to maintain student engagement. Now research from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, who claim that there’s been a decrease in the rate of students dropping out, down to 5.3% of students who began their first degree in 2019–2020.
This is the lowest rate on record, but there is a lot of other factors to consider.
Although we highlight this could be working from home (WFH), this was not identified by the universities.
We also recognise that the fees charged are still the same, so its quite likely that the students are enjoying Gaming “Whilst attending University” (Sic).
Keeping up engagement and having students actively enjoying their study can help to lower these percentages further.
The gamification of education, where you make learning more enjoyable and engaging for students by using game design features, could be the answer.
Plantronics Announces Device-As-A-Service
A New offering from Plantronics is a subscription programme offering a complete, budget-friendly headset service solution for Cloud Service Providers
This new Device-as-a-Service Flex, (D-a-s-SF, we suppose ) is offering a 12, 24, or 36-month programme that allows Cloud Service Providers to act as a one-stop shop for a complete, communications solution for audio devices on a simple, flexible monthly payment model. It is available for all including SMB and mid-market businesses, by adding a new recurring revenue stream for resellers and dealers with bundled world-class Plantronics customer support.
For customers, the Plantronics Device-as-a-Service Flex programme will make it easy to acquire a complete communications solution in a packaged, budget-friendly manner from a single Cloud Service Provider. It means the programme is flexible and gives customers the ability to scale usage to align with changes in their business and match the right communications devices to their users’ work styles.
Philip Vanhoutte, Plantronics said “At Plantronics, we are keen to give our customers what they want. Our new Plantronics Device-as-a-Service Flex programme does just that, allowing them to see clear benefits with our audio solutions and have peace of mind with a unique, flexible service model ,We will continue to offer innovative and effective ways for companies to work smarter, not harder.”
Virtual Desktop company to sign new UK distributor
Praim, an Italien company with headquarters in Trento, Italy, manufacturers Thin & Zero Client Virtual Desktop solutions, have announced an increase in sales of 15% over the previous year and with this the planned introduction of new products and a stronger commitment to UK reseller partners.
A vendor of Thin Clients and centralised management systems, thanks to the partnerships with Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, VMware and with the most important systems integrators, has become one of the main players on the IT market.
Read more: Virtual Desktop company to sign new UK distributor
The Internet of everything
Around the world, city, councils, states and governments, as well as manufacturers and other public-sector organisations, are leading the way in bringing the Internet of Everything to life (whether you want it or not ).
A Typical Family Home Could Contain More Than 500 Smart Devices by 2022 with smart homes to offer numerous innovative digital business opportunities.
House hold machines talking to each other
Top 50 Global Banks Will have Launched a Banking App Store for Customers
25 Per Cent of the Top 50 Global Banks Will have Launched a Banking App Store for Customers before 2016
In a report by Gartner, the explosive growth of apps is causing significant challenges for the banking industry
According to the report. Banking CIOs and CMOs face two key challenges. The first is that the visibility of customer banking apps in public stores is decreasing due to the total number of apps available; the second is that visibility of apps on bank websites is decreasing as the number of apps a bank deploys increases. This second issue is exacerbated by the fact that most bank web sites do not make it easy for customers to find their apps. This seems strange. One should ask why? It seems that the Apps are often listed by LOB (vertical markets), making it difficult for a customer to see all the apps offered by the bank, and even if they are listed in one place, the descriptions are often high-level and vague.
Read more: Top 50 Global Banks Will have Launched a Banking App Store for Customers
Snom profile
Snom develops and produces VoIP telephones for business communication which are based on the open standard SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
Oaisys profile
Oaisys, founded in 1996, is a leading developer of call recording and contact centre management solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses and multi-site large enterprises.
The value in Virtualisation?
Whilst European business continues to sit-tight on a growing mound of money in the bank, significant investment in IT still seems a long way off.
Azlan profile
At Azlan we appreciate that for most enterprises Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC & C) remains a daunting and confusing topic, making it difficult to know where and how to start.
Switchvox offers VoIP and traditional calling, mobility, instant messaging and conferencing
EMEA Unified Communications Market Will Double in Size from $8 Billion in 2010 to over $16 billion by 2014
2011 — According to a new study from International Data Corporation (IDC), the unified communications (UC) market in EMEA will be worth just over $8 billion in 2010 and will grow to $16.6 billion by 2014.The way we work is transforming a look at Unified Communications
Unified Communications is a term that’s been bandied about for several years, but instead of moving towards a more unified workplace as might have been expected by now, the situation is becoming increasingly dispersed.
Read more: The way we work is transforming a look at Unified Communications
Intelligent Communicationt Software
Intelligent Communication Software designs and implements unified communication and collaboration solutions
Haivision Announces HIPAA-Compliant IP Video Solutions for Medical Markets
Haivision Network Video announced today that HIPAA security features are now available within their end-to-end video-over-IP distribution solutions.
Read more: Haivision Announces HIPAA-Compliant IP Video Solutions for Medical Markets
Select the Right Web Content Filter for a Large Enterprise
Select the Right Web Content Filter for a Large Enterprise Lock down web browsing, protect the business.
Your Challenge
* Traditional web content filters have fallen by the wayside to make room for products that actively scan website code, and prevent malware from getting to the corporate network.
Read more: Select the Right Web Content Filter for a Large Enterprise
Internet Filtering
Internet Filtering
The Bloxx TVT-Range of web filtering appliances performs live analysis of web content with contextual understanding to not only stop nasty web material from hitting your users' desktops but to also give you complete control over access to other types of websites that impact on user productivity, such as shopping.
The problem with existing web filters
Google's index now contains billions of web pages. Leading web filtering vendors claim to have databases containing around 20 million URLs. How can a database of this size provide you with comprehensive filtering?
We don't believe it can.
bing-advertising-campaign
The software giant is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing, the search engine it hopes will help it grab a bigger slice of the online ad market.
Microsoft launch
Microsoft has unveiled a new search engine in a bid to lure Web surfers away from Google and other search sites. It is hoped that new site, 'Bing', will be more successful than the company's two most recent incarnations: Live Search and MSN Search. BING
SIP solutions Channel Expo
At Channel Expo Spitfire the business telecommunications operator and Internet Service Provider, will be demonstrating the range of SIP solutions it can provide for dealer partners to offer their customers.
This includes live demonstrations of Spitfire’s SIP Communicator™ hosted telephony service, with phone system functionality provided remotely by Spitfire. SIP Communicator™ only requires SIP compatible handsets, making the service an extremely cost-effective solution for business start-ups and small businesses that are growing and anticipate moving premises or are spread over multiple sites. As a special promotion at the show, new SIP Communicator™ dealers will receive free technical training.
Skype calls completely free of charge with Uk mobile company
Skype and UK mobile operator 3 jointly announced that from 1 May, there will be no data charges or top-up fees for either contract or pay-as-you-go customers who use Skype on 3’s network.Read more: Skype calls completely free of charge with Uk mobile company
Focus on costs misses true value of IP telephony
An alternative view
There are two problems with the IP telephony hype. First, IP telephony probably won’t save you as much as you’ll end up spending on extra hardware to maintain call quality. The promise of cost savings is a red herring.
