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Inquire It is simple etiquette to inquire if the person on the other side has time to chat. To do this you can send a simple message like Hi, can we chat? If the person on the other side replies in the negative, it is important to respect their decision and try another time. Keep your messages brief Instant messages should be short and sweet! If you find that you would like convey more in a message then it would be better to either pick up the phone or switch to email. Be careful what you write Instant messaging is similar to placing words in a place for all to see, it is thus better to write messages that portrays you in a good light. Remember that instant messages can be saved and forwarded! Keep the message informal Using IM to break up with a boyfriend, reprimand an employee or criticize a colleague is a strict no-no. If you need to do any of the following, be brave and tell the person what you feel about them face-to-face. Do not BUZZ It's a big NO NO. You shou...

Here is a Step By Step Approach on Switching your Mobile Operator while retaining the same Phone Number. Subscriber sends SMS to Donor (existing operator) on '1900' You should send an SMS – PORT <10 Digit Mobile Number> to 1900. For example – PORT 9884098840 if your mobile number is 9884098840 Subscribe receives a 8-digit Unique Porting Code (UPC) from '1901'. Subscriber to visit the operator's (Recipient) store and fill up a 1-page application form mentioning the UPC and may be required to show the SIM card for authenticity. May have to pay migration fees (maximum of INR19) depending on Recipient's policy. Will be issued a new SIM card by the Recipient. Subscriber will have to apply for all value-added services including Ring tones, Voice mail activation etc. For all purposes the Recipient to treat it as a new application. So none of the existing services will be automatically transferred. Recipient informs the Donor about the customer's de...

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Wonder where all those annoying spam messages come from? Who sends them? Well, you have got some answers here. Panda Security, a player in antivirus and preventive technologies segment, has stated in its report that India is the world's number two spammer. Surprised? Even we were. Panda Security has released a report stating that Brazil, India, Korea, Vietnam and U.S. head the list of countries from which most spam was sent during the first two months of the year 2010. With respect to the cities from which spam was being sent, Seoul was first in the list, followed by Hanoi, New Delhi, Bogota, Sao Paulo and Mumbai. The five million emails analyzed by PandaLabs came from a total of almost one million different IP addresses. This shows that the spam is mostly sent from zombie computers belonging to a botnet. This way, the computers of the infected users themselves are those which send the spam. The cybercrooks have thousands of computers at their disposal, which do the dirty work for ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the transport technology for person-to-person real time traffic over the Web. Its defining specifications come from the SIP working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. SIP provides access to the public switched telephone network for voice data at 3 kHz bandwidth and common number dialing using Voice over IP (VoIP). It can also be expanded to handle IP telephony combined with video and instant messaging. Future improvements will allow SIP applications such as video conference calls, application sharing, home monitoring, and interactive gaming. SIP is in most cases thought of as a method to implement the functionality of common telephony over an IP network. It is replacing the older, less versatile protocols used in the old days such as H.323 and MGCP. These older protocols functioned at a very low level to connect IP phones to the public telephone network. SIP, on the other hand, provides a sophisticated and straightforward way to network t...

SIP... or Session Internet Protocol... isn't necessarily a new communications concept. It has been around awhile although it seems to be garnering a resurgence in Telephony applications today. But... how do you explain what SIP is when asked? Good luck with this one, trying to explain SIP to technical people is tough enough. Here's some very simple short statements that may help... - SIP enables telephony over the internet network - SIP allows us to packetize and prioritize voice traffic over digital circuits. - SIP is a way voice is packed into a digital signal that is then enabled for transfer through the internet. - SIP digs a channel in an IP network so voice/video can flow between two (or more) places. When you finish talking, SIP shuts the channel up. - It's an internet protocol like HTTP for web browsing, only this one is used to make a phone-like connection between computers, pda, voip-phones or other devices that can talk over the internet. - SIP is a protocol that...

Microsoft and VMware have been engaged in a snippy back-and-forth over virtualization  for the past couple of years, and a new Microsoft-Citrix joint promotion is further inflaming partisan passions on the issue. Last week, Microsoft and Citrix unveiled their "Rescue for VMware VDI" promotion, which lets customers trade in their VMware View software licenses for the same number of Microsoft VDI Standard Suite subscription and Citrix XenDesktop VDI Edition annual licenses, free of charge. The promotion, which runs through the end of the year, is open to Microsoft customers with Core Cal or E-Cal with Software Assurance. VMware has been using View, its desktop virtualization software, to sell its server virtualization technology, but some customers haven't been able to deploy it successfully, according to Sumit Dhawan, vice president for Citrix XenDesktop at Citrix. The "rescue campaign" gives customers a way out and underscores the maturity of the Microsoft-Cit...

HP said it will incorporate Polycom's video and voice collaboration products into its UC portfolio as it continues its competition with Cisco. HP also apparently is dropping its partnership with Tandberg. In addition, HP also announced support of Microsoft's upcoming enhanced UC platform. Hewlett-Packard is expanding its partnership with Polycom, one of several new steps in building up its unified communications offerings and the latest moves in HP's growing competition against Cisco Systems. HP and Polycom announced March 22 at the VoiceCon 2010 show in Orlando, Fla., that HP will start selling Polycom's portfolio of voice and video technologies as part of its UC&C (Unified Communications and Collaboration) Services offerings, and that Polycom's line of telepresence and video conferencing products will interoperate with HP's Halo telepresence solution. Read More: Click Here

Microsoft, trying to gain a larger footprint in desktop virtualization, has applied a protocol acceleration technique to its lagging remote user protocol, RDP, and is widening its partnership with Citrix Systems. The desktop acceleration technology was acquired from Calista in 2008 and is now called RemoteFX into Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, its former terminal services. Remote Desktop Services includes the RDP protocol, which feeds the desktop display to either a terminal, or more frequently today, a virtualized desktop device, such as a laptop or thin client. RemoteFX will act as an accelerator for RDP but it will do so only for the clients of a server running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 server. Read More : Click Here

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It may seem like a déjà vu situation to Microsoft's legal team. The software giant lost an important patent infringement lawsuit on Tuesday, but the winning parties aren't satisfied yet. So on Wednesday, the plaintiff -- a small holding company called VirnetX from Scotts Valley, Calif. -- sued Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) again, for the same infringement. However, this time VirnetX is going after Microsoft for using the infringed patents in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, according to the plaintiff's filing in the new case. Read More : Click Here

Computerworld - Tandberg, in the process of being acquired by Cisco Systems, today launched the EX90, a high-definition videoconferencing desktop system focused on executive users. Providing full 1080p30 resolution on a 24-inch HD desktop screen will allow executives to interact with customers, employees and others "as if they were sitting across the desk," Tandberg CEO Fredrik Halvorsen said in a statement. The EX90 monitor can double as a PC monitor or it can be coupled with a second monitor in a package where one shows all videoconference communications and the other provides for joint viewing of documents and other materials. Read More : Click here