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ShoreTel Wins Best of VoiceCon Orlando 2008 Award Second Year in a Row
March 20 2008
Attendees at Leading Enterprise Communications Event Pick ShoreTel ORLANDO, FL, March 19, 2008 - VoiceCon Orlando 2008 (www.voicecon.com/orlando), produced by TechWeb (formerly CMP), today announced that attendees at the event voted ShoreTel with the 2008 Best in VoiceCon Award, which recognizes new and exceptional enterprise IP unified communications solutions. ShoreTel received award for its ShoreTel 7.5 unified communications system. VoiceCon Orlando 2008 is taking place at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando, FL. "Our attendees have spoken and we congratulate ShoreTel on winning Best in VoiceCon for the second consecutive year," said Fred Knight, VoiceCon general manager. "VoiceCon Orlando 2008 has been a tremendous success so far, with more exhibiting companies than ever before, creating fierce competition for the coveted Best in VoiceCon Award. ShoreTel's solution had a hard fight amongst the industry's leaders and should be very proud." "We're honored to receive this distinction for the second year in a row. We thank our amazing customers, partners, and industry colleagues for recognizing ShoreTel's unique offering," said John W. Combs, president and CEO of ShoreTel. "We will continue to innovate our unified communications offerings so our customers can increase their productivity and collaborate more effectively using a highly reliable system." To be eligible for the Best in VoiceCon Award, entrants must be a VoiceCon Orlando 2008 exhibitor, and the product or service must be new and officially announced with a published ship/launch date during the week of VoiceCon Orlando 2008. Core technology releases, enhancements and upgrades are valid entries.
Mitel Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s 10th Annual Product of the Year Award
April 04 2008
Mitel Intelligent Applications Suite Recognized for Outstanding Innovation OTTAWA, Ontario – April 1, 2008 – Mitel® announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named the Mitel Intelligent Phone Applications Suite as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award. This is the third year in a row that Mitel has received this award. “Mitel has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to Mitel’s Intelligent Phone Applications Suite,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and editor-in-chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. “We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Mitel in the future.” Mitel Intelligent Phone Applications Suite provides a rich feature set aimed at increasing worker productivity by providing tighter integration between desktop devices and tools used by enterprise and small business knowledge workers.
ShoreTel Ranked Among Silicon Valley's Top 150 Public Companies
April 17 2008
Annual San Jose Mercury News Report Reviews and Ranks Silicon Valley's Largest Public Companies SUNNYVALE, CA, April 17, 2008 - ShoreTel, Inc., (NASDAQ: SHOR), a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications solutions, announced today that the San Jose Mercury News has included ShoreTel in the 2007 Silicon Valley 150, ranking the company number 148 with $117.5 million in reported revenue for CY 2007. ShoreTel earned even higher marks for other report metrics, including 126th in market capitalization at $219.8 million, 95th in profit at $8.3 million and 70th in profit margin at 7 percent. The Silicon Valley 150 was published in the April 13, 2008 edition of the San Jose Mercury News. The San Jose Mercury News, recognized as the newspaper of record for the Northern California technology business region, conducts the annual Silicon Valley 150, ranking public companies headquartered in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, southern San Mateo and southern Alameda Counties. Companies are evaluated on the basis of worldwide revenues for the most recent available four quarters. Market capitalization -- the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the price of a single share -- is as of March 31, the last trading day of the first quarter of 2008. Throughout 2007, ShoreTel maintained a steady stream of partner, product and customer announcements, including strategic distribution partnerships with AT&T and Black Box.
Capital Commercial Investments Acquires Perry-Brooks Building in Downtown Austin
April 22 2008
Capital Commercial Investments, Inc. A Value Oriented Real Estate Investment Company, has recently purchased the Perry-Brooks Building located at 720 Brazos Street, just west of the Omni Hotel in the Central Business District of Austin TX. The handsome red brick structure was built in 1952 and partially renovated in 2000. The 12-story office building has 134,000 square feet of net rental space and over 500 parking spaces in its two garages. A unique feature preserved during the 2000 renovation is that the suites have single pane operable windows to enjoy fresh air on our beautiful spring and fall days. Capital Commercial Investments will be occupying one of the floors, and will be actively seeking tenants to occupy the available space with a goal to achieve full occupancy by the end of 2008. A&A Telecom Group will be moving and re-installing their state-of-the-art ShoreTel Voice over IP phone system in conjunction with the move. If any of our customers that read this news article are in the market for some prime Class B office space located in the heart of the Central Business District, please contact Doug Argawal, president of Capital Commercial. Doug can be reached at 512-472-6990.
ShoreTel Wins TMC Labs Innovation Award from Unified Communications Magazine
May 12 2008
ShoreTel Wins TMC Labs Innovation Award from Unified Communications Magazine First TMC Labs/Unified Communications Innovation Award Honors "Trendsetters in Unified Communications" SUNNYVALE, CA, May 9, 2008 - ShoreTel, Inc., (NASDAQ: SHOR), a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications solutions, announced today that the company was named a TMC Labs/Unified Communications Magazine Innovation Award winner. The 2008 Unified Communications TMC Labs Innovation Awards recognize "ground-breaking products in the communications and technology world," as well as technology that "challenges established standards and introduces different approaches to achieve distinctive results that signify innovation within the industry." Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), an integrated global media company helping companies build communities in print, in person and online, has honored ShoreTel 7.5, along with products from 15 other companies. ShoreTel 7.5, announced in November 2007, offers customers new options for extending corporate communications to mobile workers, increased support for international locations and reliable switches that provide twice the capacity in half the space. The release includes ShoreTel's ShoreWare® Mobile Call Manager, which extends to mobile phones the same visual communications environment customers rely on at their desktop, native BRI connectivity, support for 11 languages and 20 countries' dial plans, ShoreTel's ShoreGear® voice switches (consume 20% less power, 60% more efficient than the previous generation), the ShorePhone IP 265 and the ShorePhone IP 115. "As mobility becomes an integral component of companies' overall communications strategies, ShoreTel delivers Unified Communications solutions that allow a business professional to take his office anywhere," Steve Timmerman, vice president of marketing, ShoreTel. "ShoreTel's newest mobile offering provides business professionals with visual voicemail, access to the corporate directory with convenient speed dialing, and the ability to assign their corporate extension to any phone in the world." "TMC Labs sought trendsetters in unified communications solutions to honor with this newest Innovation Award. Like all TMC Labs Awards, only the highest standards of accomplishment were recognized. The companies whose products broke the mold with a new product launch or devised a brilliant spin to an existing application were singled out," said Rich Tehrani, President and Group Editor-in-Chief. "The TMC Labs engineers have extensive knowledge of the UC market and selected only those companies that proved their out-of-box thinking to transform the industry. My congratulations to all winners."
Texas Automobile Dealers Association Moves to New Headquarters in June
May 15 2008
Austin, TX, May 15, 2008—In late June, the Texas Automobile Dealers Association (TADA) will move into their beautiful new headquarters building located at the southwest corner of 12th and Lavaca, one block west of the State Capitol. TADA will occupy the 8th and 9th floors. The 8th floor is unique in that it will consist of a half-floor of office and meeting space, along with a landscaped rooftop terrace for events. The terrace will have a perfect overlook of the State Capitol grounds and Capitol Building. The nine-story building consists of 70,000 square feet of office space. The building will also include a multi-story parking facility and street-level retail space. The Building is a partnership between TADA, the Texas Hospital Association (THA) and Development 2000. The building will also become the new headquarters facility for the Texas Hospital Association. Since 1916, the Texas Automobile Dealers Association has been the voice of Texas' franchised automobile and truck dealers. TADA represents the dealer body before the Texas Legislature and regulatory agencies. It provides members with legal support, an annual conference, training and education programs, business services, a variety of informative publications, public relations on behalf of the industry, and even a consumer mediation service.
Shoretel Recognizes A&A Telecom Group
August 01 2008
Shoretel names A&A Telecom Group as one of their Top Ten Partners in Customer Satisfaction.
Panasonic Introduces the NCP 500 and NCP 1000
November 09 2008
Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company today announced the debut of Panasonic Enhanced Communications Solutions (ECS) optimized for small- and medium-sized business applications. The KX-NCP500 and KX-NCP1000 provide a rich, fully capable, all-in-one solution for communication, collaboration and monitoring in a form factor designed to fit in an industry-standard 19-inch rack. They provide reliable, practical, flexible communication solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses and high-end residential applications.