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Converged voice and network services, increasing scalability and expanding application and information access are key components in creating infrastructures for innovation, according to a CIO2CIO report sponsored by Qwest Business.

The report looks at research conducted by IDG on network and infrastructure investments and the ROI of infrastructure spending.

Gartner predicts that by 2013, 33% of business intelligence functionality will be consumed on mobile devices. And it seems that these sort of forecasts are usually over-aggressive, our commenters seem to agree that Gartner's forecast is a bit too modest. BI going mobile quickly, and tablets are leading that movement.

Here are 10 BI apps that support the iPad right now. Some are existing BI products with iPad native apps, some are Web-based BI applications with iPad support and some are clients that can connect to your existing BI solutions.

This paper from Qwest Business encourages decision makers to consider communications an investment instead of an expense, citing ways that businesses can actually save money through telecommunication-driven initiatives such as teleworking. The paper outlines seven tactics for using telecommunications to drive efficiency.

Yesterday Good released its first ever quarterly report on enterprise mobile device activations. In August, we reported that the iPhone 4, released on June 24, was Good's top most activated device in by the end of July. Good's first quarterly report confirms what we reported in August - iOS remains the most activated device among Good customers. Good doesn't support BlackBerry, which according to Forrester is still the most popular enterprise smart phone OS. Here's Good's top ten:

Not long ago, video conferencing was science fiction - now it's a key part of many enterprises' communication strategy. According to a survey conducted by LifeSize, 51% of mid-sized enterprises polled use video conferencing and the majority of those that don't are planning to. And it's getting cheaper, easier and more ubiquitous. Several pieces of news in the past couple weeks are illuminating some key trends in enterprise video conferencing. Here's what we're seeing.