Mitel has announced the  Mitel Series X, building on the Mitel Communications Director software. This new fixed-mobile convergence capability in their IP Communications Platform allows users to set up simultaneous ringing to multiple phone lines and enables PBX functionality from remote phones.
“Mitel’s Series X software provides location independence for employees, enabling a true ability to ‘work where you are.’ This allows [...]

So, after IBM Declines to buy Sun, Oracle has stepped in to the fray (via CNet News). Oracle President Safra Catz said in a statement:
 
 We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will [...]

So, having failed to sell it’s UK broadband business, Tiscali now appears to be in big trouble. Ernst & Young raises questions about future of Tiscali and refused to sign off the companies annual results (See Tiscali piece in the FT) and they still haven’t found a buyer after talks with British Sky Broadcasting fell through. The [...]

After Phorm’s town hall meeting last week, things seemed to be going well for the BT supplier of behavioural marketing, however the light might not be green after all:
 
The European Commission has started legal action against Britain over the online advertising technology Phorm. It follows complaints to the EC over how the behavioural advertising service was [...]

OK, I apologise for the head-line, but it was just there to be typed. You know you industry is in a mess when it is permanently in the WSJ. Yesterday is was Sun and IBM, today it’s Nortel and Nokia Siemens Networks.
Nokia Siemens Networks, seeking a bigger foothold in the U.S. market, has offered to buy large pieces of Nortel [...]