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		<title>UK Government scrap National IT Healthcare Scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK government today brought an end to the national IT healthcare scheme stating that IT decisions should be made at a local level.  The £12billion programme has received significant criticism since inception for increasing costs, limited functionality and poor delivery.  I have never worked directly in the programme so can not comment on these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/uk-government-scrap-national-it-healthcare-scheme/</link>
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		<title>Does OCS have a new name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rumours are swirling tonight that Microsoft are about to change the name of their OCS software when they release Wave14.  The blogoshpere is divided.  Tom Keating says no, Mary Jo Foley says yes, &#8211; the entire product will receive a new name.  Who is right&#8230;.we shall see.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/does-ocs-have-a-new-name/</link>
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		<title>Gartner Analyst &#8211; Is UC the biggest scam since Ponzi?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I couldn&#8217;t help myself.  Nick Jones of Gartner has just released a small polemic entitled &#8220;Is UC the biggest scam since Ponzi?&#8221;  I had to repsond, while the UC industry is by no means perfect  I see organisations who successfully implement UC on a daily basis and they gain significant business value on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/gartner-analyst-uc-scam/</link>
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		<title>Why Google should buy Skype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is clear that Google would like to compete with Skype with their Google Voice product.  I&#8217;m just not sure trying to grow Google Voice organically will work.  The closest analogy I can think of is very quick and clear cut competition between Google Video and Youtube, which eventually led to the acquisition of Youtube by Google. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/why-google-should-buy-skype/</link>
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		<title>Cisco implement Telemedicine in Russia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cisco have always been at the forefront of implementing UC solutions for Telemedicine. Yesterday Cisco released another use case based on their Tandberg platform which allowed a remote monastery to receive vital medical assistance from experts over 130 miles away based in St Petersburg. The Tandberg solution, now provided by the Cisco TelePresence Technology Group, connects the remote monastery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/cisco-implement-telemedicine-in-russia/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft &#8220;Communications Server 2010&#8243; Docs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found via Tommy Clarke Microsoft have released several Technet documents related to &#8220;Communications Server 2010&#8243;.  Not sure if this is an error or an early release but for those not on any of the NDA protected TAP programmes the link contains some interesting information about MS&#8217;s upcoming version of OCS, especially new features and resiliency. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/microsoft-communications-server-2010-docs/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;CS14&#8243; Lobby Function &#8211; save 5 minute on every call?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post about conference calls Dave Grady caught perfectly the frustrating experience that occurs everyday in every office in the modern world.  The curse of the first five minutes of a conference call. Microsoft&#8217;s new Lobby feature in their upcoming &#8220;Communication Server 14&#8243; release could be a solution to this curse. The &#8220;CS14&#8243; team over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/microsofts-cs14-lobby-function-save-5-minute-on-every-call/</link>
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		<title>So long Stethoscope, hello iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So when Steve Jobs and his Apple team were coming up with iphone I bet no-one put &#8220;iPhone will replace stethoscope and a developer will make money developing an app&#8221;.  This just goes to show the futility of modern IT business cases but more importantly it highlights how a communication tool (iPhone) that is relatively open (i [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/so-long-stethoscope-hello-iphone/</link>
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		<title>BT Global Service extend SIP Trunking/OCS Support and commit to savings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BT announced today they are extending their existing SIP trunking capability in the UK to the US, Holland, Belgium and Germany with Spain to follow.   They also extended their Onevoice product to support Microsoft&#8217;s OCS R2.  Press release here BT today announced two further voice initiatives on its converged communications platform, BT Onevoice. To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/bt-global-service-extend-sip-trunkingocs-support-and-guarantee-savings/</link>
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		<title>More Google Voice and Gmail features</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok Google so just stop teasing us poor Europeans with all the blogs on the additional features that can be found in Google Voice/Mail Michael Bolognino just released a blog post on Google Voice Blog explaining some of the really nice features that Voice/Gmail has built in, in case any of you lucky North Americans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simonleyland.com/2010/09/more-google-voice-and-gmail-features/</link>
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