MS, Polycom team up

Under a multi-year strategic deal, unified communications (UC) vendor Polycom will deliver solutions based on Microsoft's Communications Server 14, reports Enterprise Networking Planet.

The integration aims to help bring Microsoft's UC product together with Polycom's conferencing tools; which the companies claim over time will make the two systems easier for IT and telecommunications staff to manage.

The systems will be integrated with SharePoint; Microsoft's collaboration and content management server, which has generated over $1 billion a year in revenue for the software giant.

An India-based start-up, Hycus, has released an open source, content management and publishing system, offered for free use by Web developers, states One India.

Hycus-cms version 1.0.0 will help the users for ease publishing and updating of content, blogs and photos in Websites.

Users can also publish content in eight Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Gujarati and Bengali. It the system has been tested with Firefox 3, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera 10 and Microsoft IE 7.

GlobeCast has signed a three-year deal with Vintage TV to provide an end-to-end content management and transport solution for the new channel, says Tech Whack.

Vintage TV, which goes live in the UK on Sky and Freesat on 1 September, is the first music and popular culture TV channel created especially for the over 50s.

GlobeCast is also offering Vintage TV a solution, which will allow it to archive content to a library hosted in GlobeCast's central London facility. From here, the broadcaster can remotely search and view the content for play-out.