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TMC Labs Announces a New 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award from Unified Communications Magazine
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Norwalk, CT (March 2, 2008) —Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC ( News - Alert)) has announced a new award from TMC Labs and Unified Communications magazine, the First Annual Unified Communications TMC Labs Innovation Award.
This TMC Labs Innovation Award will honor groundbreaking products in the unified communications world. While innovation is frequently a question of firsts, often it is taking an existing idea and improving upon it, or challenging established standards and introducing different approaches to achieve distinctive results signify innovation within this industry.
“Unified Communications ( News - Alert) saw tremendous growth in 2007. Because of the major advances in UC technologies and the number of new entries in this market, I believe it is time for TMC Labs honor to those who are making strides in advancing UC solutions with this newest Innovation Award,” said Tom Keating ( News - Alert), CTO and Executive Technology Editor for TMC Labs.
Company revenue or number of products sold is not a factor in determining winners. The TMC Labs Innovation Award is based on the concept that the product or service demonstrates raw innovation and uniqueness, and represents a significant contribution to the industry.
“TMC Labs is looking for the trendsetter in UC solutions, the company whose products have broken the mold when it comes to launching a new product or putting a brilliant spin to an existing application,” said Rich Tehrani ( News - Alert), President and Group Editor-in-Chief. “The TMC Labs engineers have extensive knowledge of the UC market and are anxious to begin their search for companies to honor in this first ever award. Only a handful of companies that show their out-of-box thinking to transform the industry will be honored.”
TMC Labs is the industry’s only in-house testing lab providing objective test for the communications and technology market.
TMC Labs will profile each of the winning vendors with individual in-depth reviews in the May 2008 issue of Unified Communications magazine.
Early bird deadline for application is March 13, 2008; final deadline is due by March 27, 2008.
About Unified Communications magazine
New in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) 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 subscriber base of 41,509. For more information about Unified Communications magazine, visit www.uc-mag.com.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, online and in-person. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 7,500 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference.
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