2011 Unified Communications TMC Labs Innovation Award Call for Entries

TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, has announced the Fourth Annual Unified Communications TMC (News - Alert) Labs Innovation Award.

The TMC Labs Innovation Award honors the industry’s most ground-breaking products in the unified communications world. Innovation comes not only in creating new technologies but frequently involves taking an existing idea and improving upon it. Challenging established standards and introducing different approaches often yields distinctive results.

For Tom Keating, chief technology pfficer and executive technology Eeditor for TMC Labs, unified communications continues to see astounding growth in the last year.

“Once again I look forward to seeing all the new UC solutions that are making an impact on the industry. The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are the industry’s most highly regarded awards and only the most advanced solutions that meet the stringent criteria of the Innovation Awards are selected,” Keating said. “It’s not a matter of the biggest company or highest selling product but rather the most technologically innovative that makes the elite list of winners.”

According to TMC CEO Rich Tehrani, TMC Labs is seeking trendsetters in unified communications solutions.

“The companies whose products break the mold with a new product launch or devised a brilliant spin to an existing application should apply,” Tehrani said. “TMC Labs engineers have extensive knowledge of the UC market and are anxious to begin their search for companies to honor with this award. Only those companies that show their out-of-box thinking to transform the industry will be honored.”

TMC Labs profiles each of the winning vendors with individual, in-depth reviews in Unified Communications magazine’s June/July 2011 issue.

TMC Labs is the industry’s only in-house testing lab providing objective analysis for the communications and technology market.

Early bird applications are due March 22, 2011. Final Deadline is April 12, 2011. Learn more about the Unified Communications (News - Alert) TMC Labs Innovation Award and apply.

About Unified Communications magazine

Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an ‘industry’ section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000.

For more information about Unified Communications magazine, visit www.uc-mag.com.

About TMC:

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, NGN and InfoTECH Spotlight magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries.  In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4GWE; Smart Grid Summit; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Summit; Social CRM Expo; SIP Tutorial; VIPeering; Business Video Expo; CVx; Digium (News - Alert)|Asterisk World; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more!  Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.