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Current Mobile Client Lync Table

Published on July 24th, 2011 by in Lync, Microsoft

Here is a list of the existing clients that I know work with Lync.  Interestingly the Damaka client requires only the most Lync Edge to be installed but has the most functionality with Instant Messaging, Presence, Voice and Video.

Blackberry Lync Client Available

Published on July 24th, 2011 by in Lync, Microsoft

I’m not sure how many orgainsations will have Lync (with an Edge Server) and BES 5 SP3 in their environment but if you do you are now be able to access Blackberry’s official Lync client.  Unlike Microsoft’s Lync mobile clients which are coming this year the Blackberry client does not require the ‘Mobile’ server, although

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Lync Mobile and Mac client update

While there is still no definitive date set by Microsoft for the official release of Lync mobile client support the smoke signals currently puffing out of Redmond seem to be pointing towards a Q4 2011 release.  It’s looking likely there will not be direct support for Lync mobile clients from the Edge server and a new

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It’s Been a While

Wow – two months sure flies by. I guess nothing much happened while I’ve been on a post hiatus? Oh wait… Microsoft buy Skype Google release Google+ Microsoft release their Kinect SDK Apple announce icloud and Lion Apple announce details of iOS5 Microsoft release more details of Windows 8, beta could be available this year

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Windows Phone 7.5 Lync Client Update

Published on May 17th, 2011 by in Lync, Microsoft

Microsoft yesterday confirmed that their next major release of Windows Phone (7.5) will add an official Lync client.  The video below provides a quick overview of some of the features available. As mentioned before Microsoft are focusing on IM/Presence and Click to Call in this release and will look to add VoiP and Video in

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Skype Rumours: Facebook, Google and Microsoft…

Published on May 8th, 2011 by in Google, Microsoft, Skype

My first question reading this list was – why no telco?  Skype generate almost all of their income from PSTN with circa 8 million subscribers paying an average of $97 per year for PSTN access.  Wouldn’t it be a natural fit for a telco with global ambitions (easy answer to this – there are no

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Harvard Students Top 5 Medical Apps

Quite an interesting list, here are the top 5 downloaded apps by med school students at Harvard, care of Mobihealthnews: Dynamed – Students and physicians can use this clinical reference tool created by physicians for point-of-care situations Unbound Medicine uCentral – This apps serves as a portal bringing popular medical publications to students’ iPad with

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Unofficial Windows Phone Lync Client Released

Published on April 25th, 2011 by in Lync, Microsoft

In a prelude to a busy 6-9 months for Lync mobile clients the small team developing the unofficial Windows Phone client have released the necessary server to complement the Marketplace application. The REST server can be found here Implementing a dedicated server to push out information such as updates and AD is likely to be a

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Fitting Tablets into IT

Over the past couple of weeks Dell and Micosoft executives have questioned the longevity of the tablet.  Is this wishful thinking on behalf of two large IT organsations that have been obliterated by Apple’s tablet dominance or a valid point? Such a question is a great spur for debate within an IT organization and has

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Ocado and Tesco Technology Competition

Published on March 19th, 2011 by in UC News

Nick Lansley of Tesco’s is a particular favourite blog of mine and reading his latest blog post on Ocado scraping the Tesco website proves a fascinating insight into how technology is fueling the competition within the  supermaket sector. At the Retail Week conference, Ocado CFO Andrew Bracey admitted that they scrape the Tesco grocery site in order to get

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