conferencing

Logitech buys SightSpeed

October 29, 2008

SightSpeed is a great video conferencing tool. No software to download. Just plug in your webcam and go. It is based on SIP and offers 30 frame-per-second video with an integrated IM service.

Logitech makes webcams. Apparently to sell more of them, they need people to actually use them. (To use them for more than amateur porn that is). So Logitech bought SightSpeed.Logitech, a Swiss maker of computer peripherals has acquired video conferencing software maker SightSpeed of Berkeley, Calif. for approximately $30 million in cash. The deal is expected to close sometime in November. [NY Times]Congrats to

Posted in conferencing, video

Gaboogie

November 6, 2008

Conferencing is growing and there are so many players in the field. Not much differentiation that I can see. But Gaboogie has at least one differentiator: It calls the participants!

Another differentiator is Dimdim, which states that "When they wanted to share what was on their computer screens they discovered that existing web conferencing products were all either too expensive or too complicated (or both)." Dimdim is free for up to 20 attendees.

I use Freeconference.com and pay for the recording ability. I handed 2 calls off to my podcast folks and it turns out that the call quality was too low.

Posted in Web 2.0, conferencing

Working By Committee

December 22, 2008

I am on quite a few committees that meet mainly by email and the occasional conference call. Neither email nor conference call are highly effective collaboration tools for an ongoing committee. So I have been looking at other ways to work.

One idea that comes up is Yahoo! Groups (and Google Groups). It's basically email but with the message archive.

Posted in apps, communications, conferencing, email, im/chat

TelePresence with WBS Connect

January 19, 2009

At the IT Expo West, WBS Connect had a great booth that was a Tele-presence suite - fully tricked out. I interviewed Scott Charter, managing partner of WBS Connect, at the show, but after reading IP Business magazine's write-up, I thought that mine would look like a rip-off.

The key component of the WBS TelePresence offering is that WBS is working on being vendor agnostic or the translator. Right now, Tangberg talks to Tandberg and Cisco to Cisco, but how does Tangberg talk to Cisco's rooms? Using H.264-SVC and WBS Connect as the translator. It's a great way to put all that transit to work.

Posted in conferencing, tele-presence, video

A Little eXpresso?

May 19, 2009

In VoIP news, M5 Networks, a Genband based hosted PBX company out of NYC, has partnered up with eXpresso, as its collaboration and file-sharing platform. The eXpresso platform is a value-add to the M5 On-Demand conferencing platform.

"The M5 Network phone system has an extensive portfolio of capabilities, but one in particular is especially harmonized with eXpresso: On-Demand Conferencing. That feature enables users to instantly host or attend conference calls on the fly, anytime, from anywhere. In combination with eXpresso, it enables live collaborative meetings where a real work-product is generated.

Posted in conferencing, saas, telecommunications, unified communications, voip

Intelliverse Shifting Focus

November 30, 2009

Intelliverse is shifting its business focus away from Hosted PBX to other voice services. Intelliverse used to be called Voice.com. I think they are going back to basics. Conferencing, network messaging, and IVR.

If they thought they were leaving a red ocean (Hosted PBX) for a less competitive sector, I think they are mistaken. XO, Ifbyphone, Voxeo and others are in the Hosted IVR space. There are other companies that sell communication services as a service. And there are many companies in the conference space, including many free conference services.

I don't yet know what will happen to the agent channel.

Posted in agents, communications, conferencing, telecommunications, voip

Channel Partners Need a Net-Head

March 1, 2010

Arrived in Vegas for the Channel Partners Expo (in conjunction with VoIP Nation). Seems everyone I speak with is looking for sales. We have at least as many channel agents as we have always had, so why the growing need for sales?

I think one reason is that most of the channel partners are TDM. Plug and play.

Posted in Internet, PBX, VAR, agents, bandwidth, cellular, channel, conferencing, fiber, saas, telecommunications, wi-fi, wireless

4 Opportunities for Agents

October 18, 2010

Microcorp is a master agent that I have dealt with since 2003. Their agent conference is this week. The focus is on Get Away from T1. Well, that's not the official theme, but that is the message.

Posted in TEM, agents, apps, broadband, cloud computing, conferencing, saas

Day 1 Observations from Phoenix

October 26, 2010

I'm at the Broadsoft Connections 2010 user conference in Phoenix. The theme is Ignite Passion (for Hosted UC). These are some of my notes:

Broadsoft is pushing not just Hosted PBX but services they are calling CAAS (Communications-as-a-Service).

Posted in VAR, agents, broadsoft, channel, communications, conferences, conferencing, im/chat, saas, sales and selling, telecommunications, unified communications, video, voip, xmpp

Easylink Buys Fax2mail

October 26, 2010

Premiere Global has sold their fax2mail services to Easylink. Everything will remain the same for several months. This is the second time this platform has been sold. Initially, this service was on C&W, before PGi bought it. Easylink specializes in fax2mail services and we know they will be a nice addition to our product set.

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