Norwalk, CT (March 16, 2009) —Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a global integrated media company, has announced the Second Annual Unified Communications (News - Alert) TMC Labs Innovation Award.
This TMC Labs Innovation Award will honor ground-breaking products in the unified communications world. Innovation frequently involves taking an existing idea and improving it, as challenging established standards and introducing different approaches often yields distinctive results.
For Tom Keating, chief technical officer and executive technology editor for TMC (News - Alert) Labs, unified communications has seen “incredible” growth in 2008.
“Due to the outstanding advances in UC technologies and the ever-increasing new entries in this market, TMC Labs resolves to recognize those who are making strides in advancing UC solutions with this Innovation Award,” Keating said.
The TMC Labs Innovation Award is weighed on the basis that a product or service demonstrates raw innovation and uniqueness and represents a significant contribution to the industry. Company revenue or the number of products sold is not a factor in determining winners.
According to Rich Tehrani (News - Alert), TMC’s president and group editor-in-chief, TMC Labs is seeking trendsetters in unified communications solutions.
“The companies whose products break the mold with a new product launch or devised a brilliant spin to an existing application should apply,” Tehrani said. “TMC Labs engineers have extensive knowledge of the UC market and are anxious to begin their search for companies to honor with this 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 tests for the communications and technology market. TMC Labs profiles each of the winning vendors with individual, in-depth reviews in Unified Communications magazine’s, May/June 2009 issue.
Early bird applications are due April 2, 2009. Final deadline is April 23, 2009. Learn more about the Unified Communications TMC Labs Innovation Award and apply.
Launched 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 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 about Unified Communications magazine, visit www.uc-mag.com.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. Ranked 2,724 by Quantcast (News - Alert), TMCnet is in the top .03 percentmost visited Web sites in the US. In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE Conference, Digium|Asterisk World and Communications Developer Conference.
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