Cisco and Nokia today announced growing customer and partner acceptance of their combined mobile unified communications solution. The Mobile Business Solution from Cisco and Nokia extends the rich Cisco® Unified Internet Protocol (IP) Phone capabilities to Nokia Eseries smartphones over Cisco Unified Wireless Networks to offer users a seamless mobile experience in the enterprise environment and public cellular networks.

Cisco announced that HSBC Mexico has deployed a Cisco Unified Communications solution that will help the financial institution lower costs by converging voice, data and video onto one network. This will also enable the bank provide better services to its customers and employees.

PosTrack Selects Siemens OpenScape Unified Communications Server to Deliver a More Cost-effective Path to Hosted Unified Communications and Fixed-Mobile Convergence

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today made big advances into the rapidly growing unified communications market by unveiling a range of large client adoptions and major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) embedded software and reseller agreements expanding IBM Lotus Sametime to millions of new users.

Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, today announced that Harvest Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Harvest), one of China's leading fund management companies, has selected its unified communications and call center solutions to establish an advanced IP-based office communications system and a multimedia call center.

Cisco® customers will be able to take advantage of new unified communications technologies for a price roughly equivalent to a daily cup of coffee per user as part of a zero-percent finance offer.. The EasyLease:Voice financing package is being offered through Cisco Capital and works out to less than a euro a day for a typical configuration and a minimum of four users.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it will offer technology solutions and expert consulting in support of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 to provide customers with a security-enhanced, scalable, and highly available integrated communications infrastructure.

Dell’s rallying cry is “simplify IT” and today it announced a new solution with products, partnerships and services to help customers reduce complexity and improve their productivity with myriad communications options – e-mail, fax, phone, video or PC – known as Unified Communications (UC).

NEC Corporation today announced several products and services that will enable customers to easily integrate unified communications into their business to enhance productivity, increase customer satisfaction and drive revenue.

Today, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., and Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft’s unified communications software, taking the first step toward streamlining workplace communications and helping reduce the cost of the average corporate voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) system by half.

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) and NEC Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement to expand their collaboration to include enterprise unified communications solutions for customers.

Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] and Polycom, Inc. [NASDAQ: PLCM] are adding high definition (HD) video conferencing and telepresence to unified communications for enterprises, greatly expanding the possibilities for growth, enhanced productivity, lower cost and reduced carbon footprint by incorporating real-time video collaboration from the desktop to the board room.