The Federal Communications Commission’s proposed new rules for net neutrality touched off a firestorm across broad sections of the Internet this week, as critics charge that the FCC has effectively gutted the entire concept.

Companies that have implemented unified communications have seen direct and tangible savings of up to 75% in their phone and equipment costs, but the longer-term and greater impact is increased productivity. What was originally seen as a soft benefit is now turning into hard ROI. Unified communications is becoming a strategic element in daily workflows and is making organizations more operationally efficient than ever before.

With a tsunami of videoconferencing and collaboration announcements in the last week, we’ll start today in reverse alphabetical order beginning with news from Zoom and Vidyo, and continue to cover the video-related news in our next several editions.

Exploit kits comprised of malicious programs that identify and then attack cyber-vulnerabilities and spread malware represent the dark but massively profitable side of cybersecurity attacks.

Cisco doesn’t want to kill Microsoft’s marriage to Skype — it just wants a dowry.