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The key to being a successful worker in today’s tech-savvy society is embracing mobility. Accessing contacts, documents and networks on-demand from anywhere is becoming the norm among today’s workforce. 8x8 (News - Alert), a provider of cloud-based communications and computing solutions, understands this, and offers a number of business communications solutions to today’s companies.

8x8 recently received the 2013 Unified Communications TMC (News - Alert) Labs Innovation Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine for its Virtual Office Desktop application, which enables users to readily access 8x8’s hosted PBX (News - Alert) and unified communications services.

Virtual Office Desktop is perfect for users who regularly use the same work computer and need to be reachable by phone or IM whenever they’re online. It offers the same functionality of the Virtual Office Online browser application in a more robust native Windows and Mac application. It integrates a business softphone with one-on-one video calling, Web and video conferencing along with visual voicemail. The Virtual Office Desktop also includes enterprise grade instant messaging and presence along with fax, and social media feeds, all found in one easy-to-use application.

"We're proud that TMC Labs has recognized 8x8 Virtual Office Desktop as one of this year's groundbreaking new unified communications products," said 8x8 Senior Product Manager Phillip Liu, in a statement. "We developed Virtual Office Desktop in response to requests from power users of our older Web-based unified communications portal. Since 8x8 develops and hosts our own client and PBX server software, we were able to quickly respond to customer needs and build a new product that offers more functionality yet is easier to use."

TMC Labs recognized companies that upheld the highest standards in advancing unified communications solutions and either launched a new product or made an outstanding improvement to an existing application. 8x8’s Virtual Office is a complete business phone system that delivers an affordable, advanced business phone service over an Internet connection.

"8x8 has displayed its commitment to quality and innovation in the development of the unified communications industry," said Tom Keating (News - Alert), CTO and TMC Labs executive editorial director at TMC. "I look forward to more innovation from 8x8 and continued effort toward improving the future of the UC industry."