Yugma Announces New Product and Service Offerings

In addition to offering the A Series through Yugma's international operations, the Yugma A Series products will now be available through Yugma South Africa. Yugma is the first conferencing service to provide services exactly targeted for the Southern African regional market. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service available in the Yugma A Series products are seen as invaluable to the business communications problems faced by Southern African businesses.

The announcement of the Yugma A Series offerings and the new presence of Yugma in South Africa represent a turning point for Yugma and its International Operations. Yugma underwent a strategic restructuring last July, and over the past few months has worked diligently to refocus business operations on providing high-quality, low-cost web collaboration to retail and channel-based communities worldwide. "Yugma is now poised to offer unique services globally. While the at once six months, investors, partners and clients will see an amazing array of new products to collaborate across all platforms in small, medium businesses and the enterprise anywhere in the world", said Yugma's CEO ahead of this release.

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ECS Plans to Launch Green Product Lines at Computex 2011

ECS presents series of motherboards which not only pass the environmental directives, WEEE, RoHS and EuP however also fulfill every need of users to ensure your using experience with satisfaction and environment friendly. ECS will introduce the latest 9 series AMD platform motherboard with innovative QoolTech IV innovation. Just in case, ECS will as well display complete series of motherboards for all solutions required including cloud computing, home server, work station to cut a long story short on. ECS will demonstrate live demos for heavy gaming use, entertainment need and cloud computing in 2011 Computex ECS booth.

For system and All-In-One solutions, ECS supplies wireless solution for cloud computing need and the most popular touch screen in AIO for more convenience and entertainment. ECS launches the latest and popular All-In-One PC—G11 with touch screen solution to enrich every moment of research life. ECS as well presents three system choices—DS110, MS300 and MS150 based on various chipsets and CPUs for consumers to have full options for every different needs.

As the new member of NVIDIA performance level, ECS GeForce GTX 560 presents high cost / performance ratio for gaming users. As an advanced version of GTX460, ECS GTX 560 amazingly reveals up to nearly 40% more gaming power performance combining CoolFast cooling innovation supports the latest graphics language DirectX 11 achieving satisfied performance. ECS GeForce GTX 560 proves itself to be the top choice of high-end graphics cards.

ElitePad S10 is an intelligent and slim design with a large 10.1-inch 1366x768 high resolution screen and HDMI supported, making perfect for watching movies, music videos and more. ElitePad S10 is designed in intel Atom Lincroft Z670 processor and Whitney SM35 Express Chipset with high performance, which supports Windows 7 Home Premium, Android Gingerbread, and Intel MeeGo 1.2 together chose by clients. Convenience, high speed, and mobile wireless communication capability are all based on IEEE 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0. Furthermore, it provides 3G or GPS function to fulfill various demands from clients. In the meantime, the high specification same as ElitePad S10 built into the thinner and lighter 7-inch tablet PC, will be launched in August, 2011.

ECS will showcase its 60-inch & 8-inch eBook Readers with finger touch mono & color displays in a thin and light design, supporting various eBook formats and Android operation system. ECS eBook Readers are built-in wireless connectivity through WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G for a great joy of content access anytime, anywhere.

For past 24 years, ECS has developed with green company culture. Not only providing innovative technology nevertheless also taking care of global environment, ECS promises to improve the quality of life for everyone as a part of global family. ECS sincerely invites everyone to visit ECS booth in 2011 Computex Taipei for new green age of tech life.

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Aptela Awarded Unified Communications Magazine's Product of the Year

Aptela, a leading provider of business-class VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone service to small businesses and mobile workers nationwide, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named its Aptela v5 Business-Class VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Phone Service as a recipient of the 2010 Unified Communications® Magazine Product of the Year Award.

"Aptela is proud to be recognized as an innovative leader in cloud communications," said Ann Santorios, Vice President of Product and Business Development. "Receiving the Unified Communications award reaffirms Aptela's mission to offer a powerful cloud-based platform, designed to address the core communications needs of the pursuant to this agreement-served small business customer."

Aptela offers flexible pricing, including Business VoIP Unlimited Calling Plans for as low as $24.99 per user/month. Aptela's services can be used with a VoIP-ready desk phone, a mobile phone and/or a softphone, which makes it the perfect solution for businesses with mobile and/or distributed workers. To learn more about Aptela's award-winning VoIP phone service, please visit www.aptela.com/aptela5.

"Aptela has proven they are committed to quality and excellence during addressing real needs in the marketplace. Unified Communications is pleased to grant a 2010 Product of the Year Award for Aptela v5," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Aptela henceforth."

Product of the Year Award winners are published in the April 2011 issue of Unified Communications magazine. For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

Aptela is an award-winning provider of business-class VoIP phone service. Aptela answers the communication and collaboration needs of small businesses and mobile workers nationwide who seek a robust and easy-to-use solution. Aptela's v5 calling platform is extensible by the way and easily integrated into the workflow of today's entrepreneurs and increasingly mobile workforce. Unlike traditional telephone systems that are tied to a physical location, Aptela's VoIP service is delivered from the cloud and its features can be accessed - anywhere, anytime - through the Internet, traditional wire-line or mobile networks. Aptela has been recognized for numerous awards, including TMC's Internet Telephony Product of the Year, recognition as a 2010 Deloitte Innovation Fast 500 company and recognition as a 2011 SIIA CODiE Finalist for "Best Cloud Infrastructure Platform." For more information, visit www.aptela.com or call us at 800.994.4496. Follow us at www.twitter.com/aptela.

Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an 'industry' section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000. For more information, please visit www.uc-mag.com.

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Nextiva Wins "Product of the Year" for the Third Year in a Row

Business communication service provider Nextiva, Inc. has been awarded INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine’s 2010 “Product of the Year” award. Nextiva as well received this honor in 2008 and 2009.

Nextiva, Inc. is the proud recipient of its third “Product of the Year” award in a row from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Nextiva offers communication solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, including VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), online fax, SIP trunking, and other services. They received “Product of the Year” for their Nextiva Office business VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone service.

Nextiva Office is a full-feature business phone system which includes unlimited calling and online faxing capabilities. The service is competitively priced with a flat monthly fee. There are no contracts and no set-up costs for the client. Nextiva experienced 367% growth in new business customers in 2010, largely thanks to referrals for their popular Office service package.

“I am pleased to announce Nextiva as a ‘Product of the Year’ award winner. The editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY have verified that their Office VoIP business phone system displays quality and research plus provides real needs in the marketplace,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO of Research Marketing Corporation. “I would like to congratulate Nextiva for its commitment to advancing IP communication technologies.”

Since 2005, Nextiva has been a market leader in streamlining communications through the use of VoIP. They have expanded their products and services to give their customers the same communications edge as large corporations.

“Our Nextiva Office business VoIP phone service has revolutionized the way small businesses communicate,” Gorny said. “We are honored to have received ‘Product of the Year’ for three years in a row.”

Winners of the 2010 “Product of the Year” awards will be published in the February 2011 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. The publication has been considered the authority in IP communication since 1998.

The “Product of the Year” award is intended to recognize outstanding technology in the business communications industry.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazineINTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers.

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