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Indosoft Boosts Q-Suite ACD's Ability to Retain Calls in the Event of Server Faults - 05/23/2013
Confirmit Integrates Sytel Predictive Dialer into Platform - 05/23/2013
GIS Company GeoComm Announces Successors to Retiring Founder - 05/23/2013
Additive Manufacturing on the Rise, US Losing Its Dominance - 05/23/2013
Are You Using Key Performance Indicators of the Past in a Next-Gen Contact Center? - 05/23/2013
'Bliss' Wearable Device Helps Wearers Control Stress - 05/22/2013
Call Center Agent Retraining Can Fill in Quality Gaps Technology Cannot - 05/22/2013
Insurance Industry Embracing 21st Century Tech to Reduce Risk, Boost Customer Support - 05/22/2013
Contact Centers, Don't Forget Hearing Impaired Customers - 05/22/2013
Why 'Rachel from Card Services' Still Calls You Even Though You're on the Do-Not-Call List - 05/22/2013
Smarter Speech Solutions Present Great Opportunities for Customer Support Organizations - 05/21/2013
ACSI Report Says Customer Service is Slowly Getting Better - 05/21/2013
Genesys Gains Mobile Payment and Customer Engagement Technologies with Acquisition of SoundBite - 05/21/2013
Choosing Cloud-based CRM Requires Companies to Understand Their Needs - 05/20/2013
Customer E-mail Shouldn't Disappear into the Black Hole of a General Inbox - 05/20/2013
Oregon AG Charges Arizona-based Companies with Selling Fraudulent Home Telemarketing Opportunities - 05/20/2013
Wearable Technology Can Determine if You're Getting Enough Exercise - 05/20/2013
Harvard Researchers Demonstrate 3D-printed Crawling, Self-Folding Robot - 05/20/2013
Voice Automation is a 21st Century Tool for Successful Sales Organizations - 05/20/2013
Leveraging Speech in the Call Center to Create Customer Delight - 05/20/2013
Uncovering the Roadblocks to First-Call Resolution - 05/20/2013
High School Student Wins Science Fair with Energy Storage Device that Charges in Seconds - 05/20/2013
Bad Customer Service Costs UK Businesses Billions Each Year - 05/20/2013
Mobile Engagement Creates New Conversations with Customers - 05/20/2013
Cloud Call Center Week in Review - 05/18/2013
TMCnet Microsoft Lync Solutions Week in Review - 05/18/2013
TMCnet Outbound Call Center Week in Review - 05/18/2013
Is the Jetson's Robotic Maid Rosie in Our Near Future? - 05/17/2013
House Democrats and Republicans Spar Over Repurposed Spectrum Allocation - 05/17/2013
'Thank You for Your Call. All Operators Are Busy. Probably Until Next Winter' - 05/16/2013
Global Austerity Causing Worldwide IT Equipment Sales Growth to Slow, Says IDC - 05/16/2013
Aging Contact Center Legacy Equipment Costs Companies in Lost Customers and Lost Sales - 05/16/2013
Groupon Says No New CEO This Year - 05/16/2013
Voice Biometrics Technology Can Alleviate More than One Customer Pet Peeve - 05/16/2013
U.S. Contact Centers Growing and Expanding - 05/15/2013
New Toll Free Calling Technology for the 21st Century - 05/15/2013
NewToll Free Calling Technology for the 21st Century - 05/15/2013
Contact Centers Need to Watch Their Step When it Comes to State Call Recording Laws - 05/15/2013
Genesys and IBM Partnership Achieves the Goal of True Customer Engagement - 05/15/2013
Cloud-based Software Solutions Allow Sales Organizations to See if Telemarketing Works for Them - 05/15/2013
FTC Stings CallFire with Fines and Punishment for Illegal Robocalling - 05/14/2013
Facebook Works with Behavioral Scientists to Develop More Complex Emoticons - 05/14/2013
European Scientists Develop Thermal Invisibility Cloak - 05/14/2013
In the Adaptive Contact Center, the Call Center Bends to the Customer - 05/14/2013
New York Attorney General to Device Makers: 'What Are You Doing to Prevent Thefts?' - 05/13/2013
Insurance Giant Gains 360-degree Customer View with NoSQL Implementation - 05/13/2013
Many Cloud-based Contact Center Vendors Not Yet Ready for WebRTC - 05/13/2013
TMCnet Microsoft Lync Solutions Week in Review - 05/11/2013
Cloud Call Center Week in Review - 05/11/2013
TMCnet Microsoft Lync Solutions Week in Review - 05/11/2013
Are You Providing Zombie Customer Service? - 05/10/2013
Salesforce to Purchase Social Media Start-up Clipboard - 05/10/2013
Limping Through with an Aging Call Center Solution Costs You Customers and Sales - 05/10/2013
Huawei Founder Grants Rare Interview, Denies Involvement in Chinese Cyber-spying - 05/09/2013
WebRTC Will Play Role in Telemedicine for Rural Areas - 05/09/2013
Even the Smallest Business Can Benefit From Call Recording Technology - 05/09/2013
Building the Best Possible Contact Center Operation with the Help of Analytics - 05/09/2013
An 'Omnichannel' Approach is Critical for Success in the Online Travel Industry - 05/08/2013
Taming the 'Frankenstein' Contact Center - 05/08/2013
Cray to Produce More Affordable Supercomputers to Address 'Big Data' Needs - 05/08/2013
Business Rules Engines Help Contact Centers Navigate Increasingly Complex Operations - 05/08/2013
Hosted IVR Solutions Boost Customer Self-Service Rates and Remove Technical Barriers - 05/08/2013
How Benchmarking Can Improve Contact Center Operations - 05/08/2013
Home Depot Raises Estimates for New Hires at Call Center - 05/08/2013
General Dynamics Call Center Subsidiary Wins Federal Health Insurance Exchange Contract - 05/07/2013
Cloud-based Contact Center Solutions Make the Temporary Call Center Possible - 05/07/2013
Contact Centers with Microsoft Lync Give Agents the Right Tools to Serve Every Customer - 05/07/2013
Successful Cloud Call Center Deployments Require New Ways of Thinking about Customer Service - 05/07/2013
Debt Collections Company Named 'Friend of the Consumer' - 05/07/2013
Bill Gates Says iPad Users Frustrated By Lack of Real Keyboard - 05/06/2013
The Virtual Doctor: Using Video Conferencing for Healthcare Visits? - 05/06/2013
Call Center Growth and Happenings Across the U.S. - 05/06/2013
Free Remote Home Monitoring Courtesy of Your Old iPhone - 05/06/2013
Outbound Telemarketing Isn't for Making Customers Offers They Can't Refuse - 05/06/2013
Electronic Health Records Will Enable Big Data Analysis of Healthcare Information - 05/06/2013
Kinsa's 'Smart Thermometer' Can Allow Public Health Officials to Track Illness Outbreaks - 05/06/2013
Cloud Call Center Week in Review - 05/04/2013
Outbound Call Center Week in Review - 05/04/2013
UK Agency Publishes Guidance on Insurance Telematics Data Privacy - 05/03/2013
Sales Organizations Needing a Lift May Find it With Cloud-based Dialers - 05/03/2013
IRS Says Employee Wellness Programs Cannot Be Included in Minimum Coverage for New Healthcare Law - 05/02/2013
The Affordable Care Act May Broaden the Marketplace for Workforce Management Solutions - 05/02/2013
Genesys' Angel Cloud-based Contact Center Supports Pharmaceutical Leaders - 05/02/2013
Running a 2013 Contact Center on 1983 Service Level Goals - 05/02/2013
TOA to Discuss Optimizing Use of Field Service Management Solutions - 05/02/2013
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Text Input for Tiny Touchscreens - 05/02/2013
Banks Have an Opportunity to Differentiate with High Quality Mobile Apps - 05/01/2013
Cloud-based Delivery Brings High Workforce Management Functionality to Smaller Companies - 05/01/2013
UK Telematics Program Earns Young Drivers Safe Driving Discounts - 05/01/2013
PowerObjects Adds Mapping Capabilities to Microsoft Dynamics CRM - 05/01/2013
Managing Multichannel Media in the Contact Center - 05/01/2013
Building a Mobile Strategy for the Contact Center - 05/01/2013
Companies Ready Themselves to Face the Implications of WebRTC - 05/01/2013
Where Mobile Payment and Wearable Technologies Meet - 04/30/2013
When Passwords Aren't Enough to Maintain Account Security - 04/30/2013
Call Centers that Forgo Customer Surveying Skip Opportunities to Improve Operations - 04/30/2013
Are Traditional Business Telephone Systems becoming Obsolete for the Call Center? - 04/29/2013
The Mobile Travel App Industry Takes Flight - 04/29/2013
Haptic Feedback Technology Market Set to Grow Briskly Thanks to Smartphones - 04/29/2013
What WebRTC Can Do for the Contact Center - 04/29/2013
The Compelling Value Proposition of the Cloud Touches Every Corner of ERP - 04/29/2013
What the Cloud Brings to Marketing - 04/29/2013
3-D Printing Needs to Become Cheaper and Simpler for the Consumer and Hobbyist Markets - 04/29/2013
Communications as a Service Week in Review - 04/27/2013
TMCnet Cloud Call Center Week in Review - 04/27/2013
Call Center Employee Perks Can Go a Long Way toward Improving Retention and Satisfaction - 04/26/2013
This Week Brings Flurry of New Call Center Announcements - 04/26/2013
Google's Schmidt Says Google Glasses Users Will Need to Follow Common-Sense Etiquette - 04/26/2013
CISPA Cyber Security Bill Likely Dead on Arrival in Senate due to Privacy Concerns - 04/26/2013
NMSU Call Center Builds Bond between Student Representatives and Alumni Donors - 04/26/2013
The Millennial Generation Makes Ideal Call Center Workers (Under the Right Circumstances) - 04/25/2013
AT&T to Allow Customers to Book In-Store Service Appointments - 04/25/2013
Gartner Predicts Mobile CRM Apps Will Grow 1,200 from 2012 to 2014 - 04/25/2013
Key Tech Trends in the Call Center Industry: An Interactive Intelligence Infographic - 04/25/2013
Interactive Intelligence and Founder Dr. Don Brown Honored with Awards for Indiana Tech Innovation - 04/24/2013
Utility Industry Would Benefit From Building Strong Mobile Customer Service Platforms - 04/24/2013
US Department of Transportation Issues Guidelines on Reducing Distracted Driving - 04/24/2013
3-D Printing Marketplace Shapeways Attracts $30 Million in VC Funding - 04/24/2013
Chipmaker ARM Sees Strong Sales Jump Thanks to Growth in Connected Devices - 04/23/2013
Workforce Management is About More Than Call Center Scheduling - 04/23/2013
IVRs are For More than Just Call Routing - 04/23/2013
Ovum Says Gamification Is about More than Just a Video Game 'Feel' - 04/23/2013
Data Privacy Concerns Conflict with Rising Willingness to Share - 04/23/2013
'Going Paperless' Requires an Examination of Digital Document Authentication Options - 04/23/2013
Here Comes WebRTC; Are You Ready? - 04/23/2013
Nevahold Campaign Puts Pressure on Barclay's Bank to Resolve Customer Service Complaint - 04/22/2013
A PDF File on a Web Site Does Not Equal Quality Customer Self-Service - 04/22/2013
Spike in Problems with da Vinci Robotic Surgical Device Attracts FDA Investigation - 04/22/2013
Why Call Centers Turn Over So Often - 04/22/2013
TMCnet's Call Center Services Week in Review - 04/20/2013
TMCnet Cloud Call Center Week in Review - 04/20/2013
Seventy Percent of Australian Businesses Say They Are Ready to Serve Customers via Social Media - 04/19/2013
Companies Finding Cost Savings and Better Employees in the Work-at-Home Model - 04/19/2013
Sales Personnel Apathy May Be Driving Away Retailers' Customers - 04/19/2013
Social Media Turns the Customer Relationship into a Two-Way Street Once Again - 04/18/2013
UK Communications Authority Fines TalkTalk for High Abandoned Call Rates - 04/18/2013
Sherpa, Spanish-Speaking Personal Assistant, Ready for its US Close-Up - 04/18/2013
Healthcare IT Venture Capital in Boon Mode in First Quarter of 2013 - 04/18/2013
UK Startup GoCardless Allows Small Companies to Accept Direct Debit Payments Online - 04/18/2013
U.S. Tech Industry Cautiously Optimistic about Senate Expansion of H1-B Worker Program - 04/17/2013
Two Sides Squaring up over Fight to Allow VoIP Providers Direct Access to Phone Numbers - 04/17/2013
VoIP-Based Auto Attendants Benefit Even the Smallest of Companies - 04/17/2013
Canadian PM to Introduce Legislation to Curtail Political Robocalling Fraud - 04/17/2013
Mobile Workforce Management Helps Companies Get More from Field Service Personnel - 04/17/2013
Is Google Search Finding Inspiration in the USS Enterprise's Computer? - 04/16/2013
Improperly Stored Call Recordings are a Huge Security Risk for Contact Centers - 04/16/2013
Massachusetts General Hospital Researchers 'Grow' New Kidneys for Lab Rats - 04/16/2013
Mobile Workforce Management is Too Critical to Operations to Leave to Spreadsheets - 04/16/2013
Univ. of Washington Researchers Create 'Artificial Bridge' Between Brain and Spinal Cord of Paralyzed Monkey - 04/16/2013
A Frequent Pain Point for Cloud-Based CRM Solutions: Too Easy to Use? - 04/16/2013
Boosting the Customer Experience with a Social and Mobile Community - 04/15/2013
Take the Pressure off Customer Support Personnel with Better Technologies - 04/15/2013
White House Proposes Expanded Budget for National Cyber Security - 04/15/2013
A Profile of Machine-to-Machine Technology Today and Tomorrow - 04/15/2013
VanillaSoft Assists Financial Services Company in Revamping Inbound and Outbound Call Campaigns - 04/15/2013
Google Ventures Partners with Two Technology VC Firms for Google Glass Ecosystem - 04/15/2013
Study Estimates UK Businesses Lose Big Due to Poor Online Service - 04/15/2013
Oregon to Open Affordable Care Act Health Exchange Call Center outside Portland - 04/15/2013
State of California to Open Affordable Care Act Health Exchange Contact Center in Fresno - 04/15/2013
USDA Announces Funding for Rural Electric Utilities and Smart Grid Projects - 04/15/2013
TMCnet Cloud Call Center Week in Review - 04/13/2013
TMCnet Call Center Software Week in Review - 04/13/2013
Customer Acquisition Company Finds Flexibility to Grow with inContact Cloud-based Call Center - 04/12/2013
inContact Helps Prepaid Landline Service New Talk Increase Efficiencies and Lower Headcount - 04/12/2013
Alorica Opens New Customer Support Center in the Dominican Republic - 04/12/2013
Options for Third-Party Call Center Skills Training - 04/12/2013
The Compelling Value Proposition of the Cloud Touches Every Corner of ERP - 04/12/2013
Saving Time and Money through the Virtual Interview - 04/12/2013
Social Media in Customer Contact: Changing Not Just the Channel, but the Speed - 04/11/2013
What the Cloud Brings to Marketing - 04/11/2013
Emergency Travel Services Call Center CCRA Improves Uptime and Service - 04/11/2013
Forget Green Data Centers: Where is the 'Green Cloud'? - 04/11/2013
Fraudster Attacks on Call Centers Could Be Thwarted by Voice Biometric Technology - 04/10/2013
Telemarketing Software Can Help Non-Profits Raise More Money While Spending Less - 04/10/2013
Startup FuzeBox Selling High-Definition Video Conferencing Solution for the Hearing Impaired - 04/10/2013
UK Sees a Place for Itself in Wearable Fitness Monitoring Technology Industry - 04/10/2013
Medical Insight's EasyViz Viewer Enables Telemedicine Network for Stroke Diagnosis in France - 04/10/2013
Virgin America Takes Top Spot in Airline Customer Service Ranking, United Hits Bottom - 04/10/2013
Salesforce.com Releases Mobile App Development Tools in its Cloud - 04/09/2013
The End of Robo-Calls as We Know Them? - 04/09/2013
Making Healthcare Apps Usable, Useful - 04/08/2013
While the Nation Frets about National Debt, Personal Debt is Still Sky-High - 04/08/2013
While Technology Companies Certify SIP Equipment, The SIP School Certifies SIP Workers - 04/08/2013
Reducing Contact Center Turnover Starts at Home - 04/08/2013
Global Software Growth to Rise Modestly Through 2014 Thanks to CRM and SaaS, Says Gartner - 04/08/2013
TSYS and Nationwide Building Society Score High on Bright Index Contact Center Benchmark - 04/08/2013
DARPA's Two-Handed Robot Changes Tires, May Defuse Bombs - 04/08/2013
TMCnet Call Center Services Week in Review - 04/06/2013
TMCnet Call Center Software Week in Review - 04/06/2013
What's Ahead for White Space? - 04/05/2013
Unified Office Brings Managed Services Solutions to SMB Market - 04/05/2013
Orange Business Services Chosen as Asian Contact Center Leader by Research Group - 04/05/2013
IP Communications Company TeleSpeak to Acquire Contact Centers of America - 04/05/2013
Web-Based C2C Solution Aims to Reduce Errors in Accounts Receivable Process - 04/04/2013
Adult Movie Studio Demands Verizon's Cooperation in 'Six Strikes' Copyright Civil Case - 04/04/2013
Convergys Acquires Datacom's Asian Contact Center Operations - 04/04/2013
USDA to Soften its Debt Collection Practices on Rural Borrowers in Foreclosure - 04/04/2013
Georgia Collectors Association Offers Guidance for Debtors Dealing with Collections Firms - 04/04/2013
Choosing the Right Dialer for Debt Collection - 04/04/2013
Customer Feedback from Social Media can Transform the Way Contact Centers do Business - 04/04/2013

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