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Best summer reads for IT pros

By The Editors / July 4, 2019

Summer is finally here, so we’ve put together a list of reading recommendations — both from Allstream staff and the editors — to enjoy on your much-deserved downtime.

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5 ways a new phone system can impact your business

By The Editors / May 2, 2019

Tags: collaboration, phone systems, UC

Maybe you aren’t using rotary phones or fax machines in your office, but when was the last time you thought about upgrading your phone system? Most businesses wait at least 10 years between system upgrades — and a lot has changed in the past decade.

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Should your phone system be in the cloud?

By The Editors / February 7, 2019

It’s time to replace your legacy phone system — but, unlike a decade ago, this isn’t a simple hardware upgrade. Now you have choices: Do you stick with an on-premises system, or do you move into the cloud? Or try to find a combination of both?

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6 reasons to upgrade your business phone system

By The Editors / January 24, 2019

Finding a new phone system isn’t just about meeting your hardware needs, but also boosting employee productivity, improving the customer experience and building a foundation for new technologies such as AI — and our new eBook will guide you through the process.

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Events: Top tech conferences to attend this winter

By The Editors / January 3, 2019

Tags: conference, event, summit

Some New Year resolutions are harder to keep than others. That new diet or exercise plan may fall by the wayside in a few months (or days), but one resolution that’s easier to keep is a commitment to developing your skills and increasing your knowledge base.

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Our favourite expertIP blogs of 2018

By The Editors / December 20, 2018

It’s that time of year, when we reflect upon the past 12 months — and frantically finish our holiday shopping, prepare to see in-laws and let our gym routine fall into disarray. Amid the chaos, we’ve taken a breather to reflect on the top tech trends that shaped our world in 2018.

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Events: Top tech conferences to attend this fall

By The Editors / August 30, 2018

Tags: conferences, Events

Take a cue from students heading back to school and take your IT skills to the next level at the many conferences, summits and expos on offer over the coming months — while networking with the best in the business. Here are some of our top picks:

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Are your remote workers a security hazard?

By The Editors / August 2, 2018

It’s summertime, and that means many of us are working remotely from home, the cottage or maybe even a vacation rental abroad. But malicious actors aren’t taking a summer break — so we can never fully let our guard down when it comes to digital security.

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Summer school: An IT pro’s reading list

By The Editors / July 5, 2018

Tags: books, IT resources

It’s summer — time to unwind, and reach for that mystery or science fiction novel you’ve been meaning to read. But just as students are encouraged to keep up their learning during the summer months, we too, as adults, can use this time to build our knowledge base.

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10 podcasts for IT pros

By The Editors / May 10, 2018

Tags: podcasts

You’re busy, but you want to keep up with the latest tech news and trends — or laugh at jokes only techies would find funny. Here’s our curated list of podcasts that are worth a listen on the treadmill, with your morning coffee or on your daily commute.

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Books to read in 2018: A reading list for IT pros

By The Editors / January 18, 2018

Tags: business books

With the start of a new year comes new resolutions. Whether you’re looking to fast-track your career or simply escape into a good book, here are our picks for your winter reading list.

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Q&A: Growing Allstream’s customer lifetime value

By The Editors / December 14, 2017

Tags: CLM, customer experience

Allstream’s Product & Customer Lifecycle Management Group has a mandate to create, grow and sustain customer lifetime value across all platforms and channels, in addition to traditional product management.

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Q&A: What’s next for Allstream SIP Trunking

By The Editors / October 26, 2017

Tags: SIP, SIP Trunking

JC De Jesus leads Allstream’s NGN SIP Trunking Product Group, responsible for product design and delivery in North America. He talks to expertIP about Allstream’s SIP Trunking pedigree, next-generation capabilities and expansion plans for the year ahead.

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Q&A: Allstream’s UC lead talks strategy, innovation

By The Editors / September 5, 2017

Tags: UC

expertIP sits down with Robert Hamer, who leads Allstream’s Unified Communications Strategic Product Group (SPG), to talk about trends in UC, how Allstream is innovating in this space and what customers can expect in the months to come.

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Event listings: Back to school for IT pros

By The Editors / August 17, 2017

Tags: conferences, Events

expertIP looks at some of the top events and conferences in North America (and beyond) taking place this fall to brush up on your IT skills and advance your career.

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Leading the ‘new’ Allstream

By The Editors / May 25, 2017

Tags: Allstream, Electric Lightwave, Zayo

We talk to Allstream COO Raymond Lahoud about being a ‘brand refocused,’ new cross-border capabilities, and what customers can expect now and in the year ahead.

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Trump woos tech leaders

By The Editors / December 16, 2016

Tags: amazon, Popcorn Time, Uber

President-elect delivers a friendly message to America’s tech leaders, California delivers an unfriendly one to Uber, Amazon delivers popcorn by drone, and Popcorn Time delivers treachery via the Internet. This week’s tech roundup delivers the goods.

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Amazon Go kills off superstore checkouts

By The Editors / December 9, 2016

Tags: Amazon Go, Pebble, TalkTalk

Everyone wants to reinvent everything this week. Amazon’s doing it with supermarkets, Microsoft wants to do it with search, and Apple is probably doing it with cars. It’s all in our weekly tech roundup of the Web’s most interesting stories.

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Hacker holds San Francisco transit to ransom

By The Editors / December 2, 2016

Tags: AI, bitcoin, ransomware

Ransomware attack ruins a transport manager’s week, the IRS wants bitcoin users to complete their taxes, AI researchers have gone completely bonkers, and a European police officer proves that everything is completely broken. Here’s your weekly tech roundup.

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Canadians could try harder on digital privacy

By The Editors / November 25, 2016

Tags: AI, privacy

Canadians aren’t that privacy-savvy, but they are happy with their digital services. Headphones are learning to spy on you, computers are learning to lip read and Facebook is learning that censorship might just pay. It’s all in this week’s tech roundup.

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What your phone’s surface says about you

By The Editors / November 18, 2016

Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, privacy

Another hacked swinger site, a whole other kind of dirt on your phone, Russia kills off Facebook, and Facebook kills off its users. Oh, and what the heck is happening in Trumpville? Read on for this week’s tech roundup.

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Tech titans tense over Trump

By The Editors / November 11, 2016

Tags: CSIS, Facebook

Silicon Valley prepares for change, Facebook promises to improve misinformation on its newsfeed and CSIS tries to defend its handling of citizen data. It’s been quite a week — read all about it in our latest tech roundup.

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Election battle moves to cyberspace

By The Editors / November 4, 2016

Tags: online piracy, U.S. presidential election 2016

An increasingly bizarre election plays out on the Internet with spy stories, fake ads and misinformation. An insurance firm wants to read your Facebook posts, one girl really shouldn’t be allowed near a phone, and a beleaguered granny fights back against copyright meanies.

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Internet of Pings brings Web to its knees

By The Editors / October 28, 2016

Tags: Dyn, IoT malware

Hackers said last week’s DDoS apocalypse was a precursor to something larger and scarier. Don’t worry, though, because Apple’s new Macbook Pros have a nifty new touch bar, and Microsoft just launched a spinny fondlewheel. So it’s all going to be OK.

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Ecuador cuts off WikiLeaks founder

By The Editors / October 21, 2016

Tags: AI, bots, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks battles for connectivity, Facebook acts like a Victorian preacher, Jeff Bezos wants to conquer space, and more tech bigwig idiocy. Oh, and a robotic Joey Tribbiani. Enjoy.

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