For an undisclosed amount of cash, Polycom buys ViVu, a developer of software that can be embedded into web applications (e.g., enterprise, social, and vertical industry applications) to enable web-based HD video collaboration.

ViVu gives Polycom a fast-track to embed HD video into web-based applications through an OEM model, accelerating time-to-market and adoption of Polycom HD video collaboration solutions. That will drive awareness of the Polycom brand powering video collaboration inside a wide range of applications.

ViVu raised $3 million Read more...

Revolabs FLX wireless conference phone is now available to European markets.

Combining wireless, high-quality wideband audio, 128-bit encryption, integrated Bluetooth, support for analog and IP, and a sub-$1000 price point, Revolabs FLX shows the evolution of the conference phone into several distinct components, adding freedom to the choice of placement of the speaker, microphones, and dial pad.

Available with compatible Revolabs microphones, the FLX supports a lapel microphone, worn by one person; an omni-directional tabletop microphone that Read more...

What do you get when you add video conferencing to a social network?

An opportunity for managed services.

EFactor, the world's largest network for entrepreneurs, will be the first entrepreneurial online platform with videoconferencing technology. It chose ViVu to provide global entrepreneurs with a virtual environment that enables business meetings, webinars and eLearning .

What’s important about this news (besides introducing another one of these cloud videoconferencing companies that’s disrupting the conferencing market) is that this is a co Read more...

The Invoxia NVX 610 phone gets an update in the shape of Skype compatibility, in addition to Vivo Acoustic technology in handsfree mode.

The NVX 610 carries an ARM Cortex A8 processor and uses iOS devices (via free app) as a touch-based control interface. 

It features x8 wide-bandwidth speakers and x8 digital microphones-- with the capacity to perform virtual remote speaker placement in conference mode and automatic local speaker localisation. Meanwhile Vivo Acoustic technology cancels echoes and background noise. 

It also unifies professional and Read more...