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Cisco Buys Tandberg, but does Video Interoperability Suffer?

Cisco bought Tandberg, a video conferencing company for $3 billion. But is this good for the video conferencing industry or bad? Let's have a recap of Cisco's "openness" and adoption of standards. First, Cisco was very late to adopt the... Full Story

Posted on October 1, 2009 9:40 AM

Mitel Series X Collaboration, Unified Communications Solution Unveiled

Today, Mitel unveiled the next phase of its comprehensive software strategy with Mitel Series X Collaboration, showcasing Mitel's complete suite of collaboration solutions including Mitel Unified Communicator Advanced (UC Advanced) and the Mitel TeleCollaboration Solution. Mitel Series X aims... Full Story

Posted on September 23, 2009 12:11 PM

TANDBERG's PrecisionHD USB camera is now shipping

TANDBERG announced that their PrecisionHD™ USB camera is now shipping. The PrecisionHD™ USB camera is the first webcam to offer 720p high definition with 30 frames per second and is interoperable with Microsoft OCS.The camera does not require additional drivers... Full Story

Posted on September 1, 2009 6:58 PM

Skype Video Calls on Google Android

What if you could do Skype VoIP & video conferencing on the Google Android? Sounds pretty damn cool, doesn't it? Especially given all the media hype surrounding the new iPhone 3GS. I already tweeted my displeasure that the new Apple... Full Story

Posted on June 19, 2009 5:02 PM

Microsoft Roundtable is now Polycom CX5000 Unified Conference Station

Polycom and Microsoft today announced that "as part of Microsoft's vision to broaden the availability of Microsoft RoundTable, Polycom has licensed the right to distribute RoundTable, effective April 13, 2009." The product, renamed the Polycom CX5000 Unified Conference Station, will... Full Story

Posted on March 30, 2009 12:04 PM

Polycom VVX 1500 Media Phone Game Changer?

Today, Polycom has launched the Polycom VVX 1500 touch-screen business media phone, a new VoIP phone that combines IP telephony with business-class video and the ability to integrate with business applications. Recently, Verizon make a big splash with their consumer-class... Full Story

Posted on March 9, 2009 8:30 AM

Cisco TelePresence Video Conferencing Enables Fans to Interact with NBA Players

This weekend, the NBA and ESPN will utilize Cisco TelePresence technology to create an interactive "in-person" forum to allow athletes and fans to interact using Cisco's videoconferencing / telepresence technology. According to Cisco, Cisco TelePresence has been deployed on the... Full Story

Posted on February 13, 2009 3:17 PM

TANDBERG PrecisionHD USB Camera Sports 720p HD Video

TANDBERG's new PrecisionHD USB Camera is the first webcam to offer HD video at 720p with 30 frames per second. It is optimized for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 providing business-quality HD video communication. It also includes a... Full Story

Posted on February 6, 2009 11:52 AM

Microsoft Unified Communications Tips and Tricks

Now that OCS 2007 R2 has RTM (released to manufacturing), I thought I'd share Microsoft's brand new Unified Communications Tips and Tricks Flashcards for End-Users which includes some cool tips for their Office Communications Server 2007 platform. The image above... Full Story

Posted on January 6, 2009 5:12 PM

Grandstream GXV3005 Video Phone

Grandstream just announced the GXV3005 IP video phone is coming this month. The GXV3005 features an additional FXO port and is part of the GXV3000 IP video product line series.The GXV3005 features the same design and all of the functionality... Full Story

Posted on December 11, 2008 5:32 PM

SkyStone Video Enables Video Skype Gateway

Stonevoice has created SkyStone Video, a unique Skype-gateway product that allows video communications between enterprise video solutions from vendors such as Cisco, Sony, and Polycom and the popular Skype software. There are several voice over ip-to-Skype gateways, but this marks... Full Story

Posted on November 3, 2008 10:30 AM

What's New in Administration and Management with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

With Microsoft OCS R2's pending release, I thought you'd be interested in seeing a video interview of Microsoft's Ananad Lakshminarayanan about some of the new features in Office Communications Server R2, which is Microsoft's popular unified communications platform. In the... Full Story

Posted on October 31, 2008 10:21 AM

SightSpeed Business Upgrade Adds 9-way Video

Today, SightSpeed will announce a significant upgrade to SightSpeed Business, which was launched last fall. The new version offers simultaneous 9-way video and text chat. I'm a huge fan of SightSpeed, which doesn't get nearly the amount of attention that Skype... Full Story

Posted on June 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Flash-to-SIP Video Calls

Innovative Systems of Communication (ISC, Inc.), a Russian-based company, launched Flashphone.ru, a proof-of-concept Flash-based phone app which I discovered & reviewed back in November. More recently they launched a media server to go along with their Flash softphone application. Well,... Full Story

Posted on May 27, 2008 9:58 AM

SightSpeed Light Flash Video on MySpace

SightSpeed just launched a new “SightSpeed Light” widget for MySpace, which adds two-way voice and video to the popular social networking site. If you recall, I wrote the following about SightSpeed Light: The obvious question that came to my mind... Full Story

Posted on April 22, 2008 10:41 AM

Ojo Phone Lives!

After Worldgate's problems that resulted in customer's being without their cool Ojo videophones, it appears Worldgate is back! Just last night Ojo phones started working again. Worldgate proudly displays this splash screen on their home page: They also try to... Full Story

Posted on March 12, 2008 10:43 AM

SightSpeed Light Flash Video Conferencing & Chat

There has been a lot of hype behind Flash VoIP, including Adobe's formerly top-secret Flash VoIP project, which Om Malik (get well soon) and I broke the story back in 2006. Other players have come along in that time, including... Full Story

Posted on January 7, 2008 11:00 AM

SightSpeed offers High Quality Video Conferencing for the SMB

Ironic that I just blogged about Logitech and Skype offering high quality video conferencing and I was skeptical it would work - except in the SMB - and now I just got a release saying SightSpeed can save SMBs thousands... Full Story

Posted on October 30, 2007 11:22 AM

Skype and Logitech offer High Quality Video Conferencing

Skype and Logitech have teamed up to offer high quality videoconferencing. Skype 3.6 will be required and will increase the resolution from 320 x 240 to 640 x 480 (VGA). High Quality Video will also require Logitech QuickCam software, version... Full Story

Posted on October 30, 2007 10:51 AM

Verizon FIOS will have set-top delivery of ALL Internet videos

Russell Shaw has an interesting post about Verizon planning to offer all video content to their customer's set-top boxes in just 12-18 months using the fiber network. If you recall, I analyzed Verizon's race to build out their fiber network,... Full Story

Posted on September 28, 2006 1:25 PM

WengoPhone new open-source soft phone

Wengo announced WengoPhone, an open source alternative  to Skype.and Google Talk. And no, this is NOT the open-source softphone I predicted last week and asked blog readers to guess the company planning to launch an open-source softphone. From their website:Wengo... Full Story

Posted on September 7, 2005 10:35 PM