Microsoft believes it can quickly reach $1 billion in annual sales to corporates (such as Royal Dutch Shell , Nikon, Boeing and France Telecom et al) by pushing a "re-re-re-vamped" UC software that handles web-based calling and videoconferencing. (Microsoft already does $1 billion annually with SharePoint, a family of software products for collaboration, file sharing as well as web publishing.)

The software, called Lync, wants its share of the $50 billion market for products that help companies replace traditional phones with IP systems.

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20% of employees could be using social networks as their business communications' hub instead of email by 2014, Gartner reports. 

While microblogging already takes part in enterprise communications, business communications are still evolving.

Newer employees entering the workforce will communicate via social networks in paralell to their business e-mail use. This will lead to eventual change in workplace culture.

The rigid disctinction between e-mail and social networks will thus erode-- e-mail will take on more social attributes (like contact brokering) Read more...

Dylan was right: The Times They Are A’ Changin'.

The keynote address at this year’s InfoComm (an AV, not IT, show) was delivered by…Cisco.

Representing the IT giant, Marthin De Beer, Senior VP Emerging Technologies Business Group at Cisco, took the InfoComm stage to tell delegates that collaborative technologies like video and telepresence are changing the way people work, learn, and communicate—and even forcing radical changes in network architecture.

He says future collaboration will make it easier for users to create and Read more...

Cisco unveils its new Prosumer Video solution which integrates Cisco FocalPoint, an online video workspace with a business-class Cisco Flip MinoPRO camcorder.

Cisco says the Flip MinoPRO Camcorder combines the easy-to-use features of the consumer Flip Video Camcorders with the increased capacity and functionality that business organizations need.

It runs user-friendly FocalPoint software can help your organization more simply and securely organize, play, and share videos.

Because this is a new video collaboration solution, a video Read more...