Fixed Mobile Convergence

[November 16, 2009] FORA.tv Named to The Sunday Telegraph's Best Education Websites San Francisco, CA, Nov 16, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- FORA.tv, the leading destination and distributor of smart video programs, has been honored by Britain's Sunday Telegraph as one of the Web's Best Education Sites (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6550903/Best-websites-Education.html). "FORA.tv amasses video from public events and colloquia," write the Sunday Telegraph editors, "from Alicia Silverstone talking about veganism at a bookshop to Noam Chomsky on language at the Commonwealth Club." "We're tremendously honored that the educational value of our smart video programming is being recognized," says Blaise Zerega, president and CEO of FORA.tv. "It speaks to the strong partnerships we have with top universities, conferences, and think tanks, and the benefits that viewers get from our site." The Sunday Telegraph award recognizes those Web sites "that assist and promote outside the classroom." The newspaper's list of best education websites includes the National Geographic, BBC Language, and iTunes. The November 15, 2009 edition of the Sunday Telegraph will feature an extensive article about the Best Education Websites (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6550903/Best-websites-Education.html) in its Seven magazine. FORA.tv partners with more than 160 organizations from the Aspen Institute to Georgetown University to the EG Conference to the Chautauqua Institution to provide the Web's largest library of smart, issues-oriented video. The company is helping reshape the way audiences discover and engage with media. FORA.tv programs are available on top sites like Hulu, TV.com, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post, as well as the iPhone and other mobile devices. About FORA.tv FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. We gather the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want. FORA.tv was founded in 2005 and is funded by a select group of investors including William R. Hearst III and Adobe Ventures. About The Sunday Telegraph The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph are Britain's best-selling quality newspapers, and the Telegraph.co.uk is the United Kingdom's most visited quality newspaper website. Launched in February 1961, The Sunday Telegraph has built a reputation for being the best written, most entertaining and constantly surprising Sunday broadsheet. Through eight wide-ranging sections, including two magazines, it now enjoys a huge loyalty from a remarkably mixed audience of two million readers every week. For more information, visit FORA.tv (http://fora.tv). For press inquiries, contact: Anni Hechtner, 415-599-4618 # # # Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3205574.htm. PRWeb.com [ Back to the Fixed Mobile Convergence Community's Homepage ]

encompasses a wide range of mobile services that converge elements of fixed communications infrastructure to complement the core mobile service. In most cases fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services allow the user or the network to take advantage of higher speed, cheaper local unlicensed access networks in local environments for lower value, high volume transactions.

BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) converges office desk phones and BlackBerry® smartphones, allowing users to access standard enterprise voice features whether at their desks or on the go*. BlackBerry MVS encompasses BlackBerry® MVS Client software for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry MVS Services of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite.

With BlackBerry MVS, BlackBerry smartphone users can access enterprise desk phone options directly from the menu interface of the BlackBerry phone application, while at the same time securely authenticating to the organization’s enterprise telephony system (PBX). BlackBerry MVS also gives IT administrators the control to set voice policies on the BlackBerry smartphone, so that inbound and outbound calls use the enterprise line. This allows for all mobile calls to be logged or recorded for compliance with regulatory or corporate standards.
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