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-news.comGoogle has launched Vocito, a new desktop UI for GrandCentral. Read more here.
Andy Abramson isn’t quite ready to dump all other IM programs for Skype. Find out why.
What’s t…

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I caught a bit of Oprah yesterday at my mother-in-laws where we had Turkey Day a day early here in Silicon Valley. One of the segments features their use of Skype.
Today a story appears tied…

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Video conferencing is being added by Telstra as part of their enterprise and government offerings, reports IT News.
This makes me think that Telstra has to also be taking a very close look at…

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-news.comThere is still money to be raised and used in telecom and VoIP, says Andy Abramson. And he points to a recent round of fundraising to illustrate that. Read about it on VoIP Watch.
Interested…

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The folks at Google keep innovating, adding video conferencing to Gmail on both the Mac and the PC.
Just as soon as I can find someone on my chat list who is also using Gmail on the Premier sid…

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Raketu, a company we don’t rattle about that much, has added video calling…

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Waking up this morning, I was happy to see that the emerging world of new companies wanting to play in the combined voice and video space is far from a thing of the past.
If anything, the spac…

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A study by two university professors has raised some doubts about the effectiveness of video conferencing. I politely disagree.
The participation in a video conference, once you get the hang…

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2009 may really be the year for video conferencing. I know, we’ve heard this all before, but due to a few factors that are all converging, video conferencing may be in for a very big year…

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-news.comNow that internet on planes is a reality, videoconferencing is only a half-step behind. Seriously.
And if Cisco’s CEO has anything to say about it, that will come much sooner than…

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-news.comPeer-to-peer video calling and multi-point video conferencing is now available on mobile phones thanks to Global IP Solutions’ VideoEngine Mobile. The new solutions runs on the Windows…

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Luca has a post about a new company in beta, VidTel.
Based on his write up the service sounds a lot like what Packet8 has been peddling for a while. That said, knowing that Scott Wharton is…

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Asus jumped the gun and the blogosphere is chattering about the new Asus VideoPhone based on Skype.

PocketLint and others have the details…

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The proverbial cat is out of the bag on Skype’s new video phone that is coming.
The gadget comes from Asus and will retail for about $299 when it debuts in October, reports Coolest Gadgets…

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Another big company, Virgin Blue says video conferencing is in their futur…

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A Robert Half sponsored survey’s results shows that 16% of CIO’s plan to adopt Video Conferencing in the next five years in the same survey that says 13% plan to adopt Collaborative workspaces…

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It looks like the 640 x 480 video barrier for HD video over a web cam has been shattered as Tandberg just announced a new 720p30 business grade video conferencing platform that works on Intel’s…

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When I read the Network World story about Polycom and look at the prices for their video conferencing solution, which is room based and not really portable, I lose interest.

Given the video…

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Avistar Communications Corporation is going to be offering desktop videoconferencing through a partnership with City Information Services Limited.
“CityIS is a significant player in our strategy…

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It’s more than just downloading of video to replace TV that the Internet will deliver.

In my view video communications will also be highly interactive. Each day another major market news outlet…