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Conferencing & Collaboration

Polycom Jumps on Mobile Bandwagon

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Polycom Jumps on Mobile Bandwagon

Polycom will extend its videoconferencing service to the iPhone 4S and devices that run on Google's Android 4.0. This service expansion comes after the last October launch of its RealPresence Mobile that extended its video collaboration services to mobile devices such as iPads, Galaxy tablets and Xoom tablets.

Polycom hopes the move will help it compete better against Cisco who already launched an application to bring its WebEx two-way videoconferencing service to iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch and iPad 2.

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Cisco Appealing Against Microsoft Skype Purchase

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Cisco Appealing Against Microsoft Skype Purchase

Just when Microsoft thought it had cleared the red tape surrounding the $8.5 billion Skype purchase, Cisco plans to appeal to the European Commission (EC) against approving the acquisition. 

The announcement comes through an official blog post from Martin De Beer, senior VP of the Cisco Video and Collaboration group. 

Microsoft purchased Skype on October 2011-- and recently suggested plans for integrating Skype collaboration services more tightly with Lync. 

De Beer says Cisco doesn't want to kill the Microsoft-Skype merger, but instead demands regulators Read more...

Vidyo Demos Multipoint Video Conference at ISE

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Vidyo Demos Multipoint Video Conference at ISE

Vidyo shunned the video conferencing hall at ISE for the attraction of showing their multipoint video conferencing software on the Hall 2 stand of a traditional AV distributor, Comm-Tec.

As Comm-Tec played host, the company that hopes to disrupt the incumbents of conferencing—the Cisco/Tandberg, the Polycom—gave demos on Amazon's new Kindle Fire.

The company showcased the latest platform support for its VidyoMobile™ HD video conferencing software client: Android 4.0 Read more...

LifeSize Launches UVC Platform

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LifeSize Launches UVC Platform

LifeSize announces the UVC (Universal Video Collaboration) platform, describing it as the "first integrated and virtualised software solution for HD video conferencing infrastructure."

The platform integrates multiple single-purpose products, making them available from 1 interface using 1 login account. It is scalable and customisable, and includes (optional) features such as HD streaming and recording, firewall/NAT traversal and Gatekeepers (routing and control). 

Like other "virtualised" IT functions, the system makes use of idle equipment available Read more...

Sudden Death for Cisco’s Umi

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Sudden Death for Cisco’s Umi

No press conference this time, no big announcement. Cisco just shuts off sales of its consumer videoconferencing system, Umi. Call it tiptoeing away from an ill-fated business debacle. Call it slinking away from another disaster for the once-infallible Cisco who thought it could cross-over into consumer marketing.

Introduced in Oct. 2010, Umi offered full HD videoconferencing in 1080p (720 for recording) for $599 per endpoint.

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