The new, highly improved is-phone softphone for IBM Unified Communications is now available for downloading!

Highlights

- Enhanced audio/video call/conferencing, device handling/control, road warrior features
- GNU/Linux support (Mac available November 2009)
- Hook support for GN Netcom/Jabra and Plantronics
- Toolkit with APIs (available end of October 2009)
- Multilingual (Dutch, English, French, German)
- Support of multiple SIP accounts

Free trial downloads

- is-phone V8.5 softphone plug-in (www.iscoord.com/?id=595) for IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 and Sametime 8.5 (Windows XP/Vista and GNU/Linux)
- is-phone V8.5 softphone stand-alone (www.iscoord.com/?id=597) for IBM Lotus Notes 6.x/7.x/8.x (Windows XP/Vista)
- Downloads overview (http://www.iscoord.com/?id=607)

Press release

- English (http://www.iscoord.com/?id=600)
- German (http://www.iscoord.com/?id=601)

Recent Blog Posts

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The Sametime Blog is Moving... Thu, Oct 29th 2009 12:46p John Del Pizzo Come visit us at our new home, the Sametime Blog on Lotus Connections. In the spirit of "eating our own cooking", IBM has been using our very successful social software platform -- Lotus Connections -- for our own blogging activities. So we're moving the Sametime Blog to that new platform. We'd like to thank our longtime partners, the PSC Group, for hosting this blog. John Head and crew have been wonderful to work with and PSC is a first class organization. This site will remain active f [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus sametime blogging social software

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The Sametime Blog is Moving.... Wed, Oct 28th 2009 11:05p John Del Pizzo Come visit us at our new home, the Sametime Blog on Lotus Connections. We'd like to thank our longtime partners, the PSC Group, for hosting this blog. John Head and crew have been wonderful to work with and PSC is a first class organization. Unfortunately, we received word from corporate that any "official" product management blog had to be on IBM owned systems. Try as we might, there was no avoiding it. This site will remain active for a few months and then theSametimeblog.com will redi [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus sametime

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VBrick enables Sametime with Streaming Video to Desktop Thu, Oct 15th 2009 1:25p John Del Pizzo Noticed this on "The Enterprise IP Video Blog" via the Lotus Software User Group on LinkedIn. Excellent use of Sametime's open SDK & plugin architecture to deliver a compelling experience to the user. We are very excited today to announce the VBrick Enterprise Media System (VEMS) Plug-In for Sametime... The VEMS Plug-in for Sametime allows users, without leaving their Sametime environment, to browse, search, and play live and stored video – and even webcasts and live television channel [read] Keywords: ibm lotus sametime applications desktop enterprise integration linkedin networking unified communications

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Sametime Quick Tip: Scrub your contact list Mon, Oct 12th 2009 8:45p John Del Pizzo Is your contact list an unwieldy collection of names from projects and roles long completed? Are you constantly bumping into your company's limit on the number of contacts you can have in your list? Does the thought of getting organized scare you? If so, then this tip is for you. Sametime has a little known feature in the Tools Menu called, "Clean Contact List....". It presents you with a list of your contacts and the date you last interacted with them. You can sort the list by contact nam [read] Keywords: sametime

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INTEGRASYS hosting UC2 event on Oct 22nd Tue, Oct 6th 2009 8:46p John Del Pizzo This just in from our friends at INTEGRASYS:IBM Unified Communications & Collaboration Event A Showcase of IBM and ISCOORD solutions October 22nd, 2009 INTEGRASYS is excited to sponsor and announce its upcoming "IBM Unified Communications & Collaboration" event on October 22nd, 2009 at the Houston Downtown Aquarium. We are delighted to invite you and your colleagues to this event to showcase the best of breed solutions to accelerate your UC adoption. Lotus knows you're tr [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm lotus unified communications

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iscoord launches new is-phone integrated softphone Fri, Oct 2nd 2009 10:46a John Del Pizzo Our friends at iscoord forwarded me this announcement:The new, highly improved is-phone softphone for IBM Unified Communications is now available for downloading! Highlights - Enhanced audio/video call/conferencing, device handling/control, road warrior features - GNU/Linux support (Mac available November 2009) - Hook support for GN Netcom/Jabra and Plantronics - Toolkit with APIs (available end of October 2009) - Multilingual (Dutch, English, French, German) - Support of multiple SIP [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes sametime linux mac unified communications vista

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Cisco migrates to their own product Wed, Sep 30th 2009 8:06p John Del Pizzo IBM'ers are a sensitive lot and a number have taken notice of the tweets coming from Cisco (and others) that Cisco is turning off Sametime tomorrow. To which I reply with a resounding... "So what?”. They acquired Jabber over a year ago to replace/augment their own presence & IM capabilities and compete with Sametime. Webex Connect/Jabber could be the worst thing since Microsoft Vista... but I'd still expect them to use it. It is theirs. [read] Keywords: ibm sametime microsoft vista

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No Jitter: IBM’s Growing Set of Telephony Solutions Wed, Sep 30th 2009 8:06p John Del Pizzo From Brian Riggs on NoJitter.com: Microsoft tends to get most of the limelight when it comes to traditional software vendors seeking to make a name for themselves in the business communications solution market.... Of course IBM’s strategy has been quite different, with the company not developing call control software of its own. However, this has not stopped IBM from delivering a growing number of unified communications solutions with call control software built in. Below I look at a number [read] Keywords: collaboration foundations ibm lotus sametime applications enterprise integration microsoft server system i unified communications

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Sametime Quick Tip: Installing Plug-ins Wed, Sep 23rd 2009 9:26a John Del Pizzo One of the great things about Sametime is that you can use the Eclipse-based plug-in model to integrate new functionality. When done right, this puts the information and people you need at your fingertips when you need them. For example, Genesys's UC Connect allows employees outside the call center to update customer records, add interaction notes and more, right from Sametime. They don't have to learn how to use (yet) another tool. Meanwhile, customers get better service because the call center [read] Keywords: admin agent forms ibm notes sametime archive eclipse server

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New Webcast on UC from Bruce Morse Tue, Sep 22nd 2009 5:09p John Del Pizzo New Webcast: Get Smart with Hot Technologies, Cool Solutions: Unified Communications and Collaboration Speaker: Bruce Morse, Vice President, Unified Communications Software, Lotus Software Companies are finding that unifying telephone communications with real-time collaboration tools, and integrating these new communications capabilities into business processes can shorten cycle times and time to market. From instant messaging to e-mail, and from data access to enterprise applications, this webi [read] Keywords: collaboration forms ibm lotus applications enterprise instant messaging security unified communications