Verizon Business is offering enterprise customers the benefits of virtualization -- added flexibility, improved efficiencies and controlled IT costs -- while reducing the complexity of this next-generation technology. Virtualization allows business to consolidate multiple IT resources, such as operating systems and software applications, on a single server. With Verizon Business' new managed virtualization service, businesses can seamlessly provide applications to users with the same reliability as the traditional one-application-to-a-server model.

Consolidated Communications Holdings will release its fourth quarter and year-end 2007 financial results before the market opens on March 6, 2008. The company will host a conference call and simultaneous webcast at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 10:00 a.m. Central Time on the same day. Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. is an established rural local exchange company providing voice, data and video services to residential and business customers in Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania

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Sterling Commerce  unveiled a new business-to-consumer (B2C) strategy that will change the way retailers, manufacturers and telecommunications companies interact with their customers, enabling them to drive profitable growth while optimizing the consumer experience. This B2C strategy leverages the company’s advanced cross-channel selling and fulfillment applications to deliver the industry’s only truly integrated B2C offering. As part of the new strategy, Sterling Multi-Channel Selling is being enhanced with new marketing and merchandising capabilities that leverage its integrated applications and the power of the Web to deliver a more personalized, customer-centric shopping experience across all channels – in-store, online, catalog/call center, kiosk, etc.

Fonality, a maker VoIP phone systems for small and midsize businesses, has selected JMI Telecom to distribute its PBXtra VoIP-capable phone system. In addition, Dell announced that it will begin bundling Fonality's open-source software with its enterprise servers. Fonality's PBXtra system is designed to support branch offices, as well as mobile and home-based workers.

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