Cisco said it plans to introduce software that links smartphone functionality deeper into the enterprise, by the second half of 2010.

During the company's Cisco Live conference, it introduced a set of features designed to enable more efficient enterprise collaboration on smartphones. These features include:

• Presence information that will allow an employee talking on a smartphone to answer incoming instant messages converted into a text message that can be retrieved without stopping the call.
• Speech-to-text engines that can convert voice mail messages into text so that a user participating in a WebEx conference via the smartphone can read it while on the conference.
• Location capabilities via WiFi that will, for instance, allow for employees to map out remote offices to find available meeting rooms.
• The ability to control conferencing from a smartphone.

Cisco wants to make these capabilities available on a number of smartphone platforms. Earlier this year, the company introduced an iPhone client for WebEx.

For more:
- check out this Techworld article [1]

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