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Blue Jeans announces bi-directional HD desktop sharing for Microsoft Lync users
Update August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. Enjoy! 🙂 I love cloud-based multipoint videoconferencing, but, you already know that. Here is a SCOOP from Blue Jeans Network that I just got permission to post. I was told that Blue Jeans has been interoperating Skype and Lync since 2011 (even though the press…
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WebRTC Video Conferencing Test via Vidtel
– – Got an email from Vidtel a few weeks ago announcing the ability to connect to Vidtel video conferencing using WebRTC on my Chrome browser. I did a really quick test since I think this technology is awesome and will move video conferencing one step closer to ubiquity. What I Did Since my first…
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Coworking for Telecommuters
Telecommuting has been around for a very long time. I know, I co-wrote the first (and as far I I know the only) telecommuting plan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1990 (or so, I forget). From that effort, I gained a lifelong love of the potential of remote work. I am shocked that it…
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Google Chat on Motorola Atrix Smartphone
In the process of evaluating the ZTE ZXV10 T700 (I will post the entire product review by weeks end…I hope), I went ahead and made a three way video conferencing call using our friends at cloud-based video conferencing service provider Vidtel. The picture above shows a Google Chat connection via my Toshiba Laptop computer (middle), the…
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Telepresence vs VideoConferencing
I suspect it is about time I chimed in on this definition thing on this blog. I had an unfortunate “job” interview yesterday in 2012 (now this is 2020 and we are home riding out the coronavirus) and it got me to re-evaluating a lot of things. The “job” was to install “telepresence”. After a…
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Bryan Hellard Reviews: Fuzebox
According to the salesman, FuzeBox licenses from Vidyo its SVC (which he called Scalable Video Codec not coding) but uses something different for audio. That was immediately apparent because there were no audio issues during the call and I used my webcam’s microphone and desktop speakers. Ease of use Unfortunately, I was not given Host…
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Polycom Announces Cloud Based Videoconferencing Option
Polycom…are you serious? THIS was the GAME CHANGING announcement you promised??? This was in my email last week: “REMINDER We’re About to Make History You don’t want to miss this game-changing announcement.” Really?? I wonder if the others who have been there for years are shaking in their boots?? To be fair….maybe I am missing…
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Blue Jeans Network Grows By 50% in One Quarter
OK, listen up. I have said this before (like starting in 1999, for those who don’t know that ESnet Collaboration developed one of, if not the, first IP-based cloud video conferencing services in the world)…..BUT…. Cloud based video conferencing is going to kick the worlds ass in a BIG way….this press release is proof, and this is…
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IOCOM Releases Visimeet Statistics
Update July 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. Enjoy! I love stats! When I was at ESnet (https://es.net) I built Perl programs to sift thru the Gatekeeper stats to give me almost any bit of interesting usage information I could calculate. Until today, my stats were the only video conferencing industry stats I…
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Bryan Hellard Reviews: Zoom.us
Zoom.us It’s not often that I am really, really impressed with a product. This is one of those times. Ease of Use Zoom.us required a small download from their website to get started. The only slightly unfortunate thing is that the product requires a login using credentials from either Facebook or Google, for reasons…
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