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Category: VideoConferencing

  • StarLeaf Voice and Video Conferencing Solutions

    Just wanted to post this video as an introduction to a new company, StarLeaf, started by some old friends (from Codian). I’ll be learning more in the coming weeks (I may be meeting with them in July) and will keep you posted.  By the way, when the Codian came out, I was one of the…

  • Information Technology

    The world is changing. Rapidly. Bits are flying over the Internet at an unprecedented pace. As my loyal reader…..you know my feelings about Cisco and video conferencing, but, it looks to me as though they are getting back to focusing on handling bits….a very good thing.  For everyone! This commercial by Cisco is interesting.  I…

  • ooVoo Update

    My loyal reader probably remembers when I first saw ooVoo (this is a reclaimed blog entry since the original was lost with all the movement).  I thought at the time that ooVoo was the greatest video conferencing application I had seen in awhile.  Over time, I loved it even more that it included multi-person (3 and…

  • Skype Video Conferencing Group Calling Update

    My daughter mentioned to me last night that she and some friends tried to make a multipoint video call using Skype, but, had to sign up, and pay for, Skype Premium to do so. They used ooVoo instead.  (NOTE:  ooVoo when I last looked at it rocks!) I looked this morning…..and here is the scoop:  Skype…

  • VGo Robotic Video Conferencing

      Here is another robotic video conferencing device.  VGo. In the video they call it: “Robotic Telepresence”…how errrr, interesting.  Gotta love those Marketing folks…gettin’ the buzz words down.  🙂 I will try to get the VGo at AltamontCowork to test (the others (Giraffe, and AnyBots, have failed to remain in touch or get me a…

  • Cisco UMI Price Cut

    Well I could have told you this would happen….hmmmm, maybe I did. The high and mighty are finding out (I spotted this article by Marguerite Reardon, CNET) that HD video conferencing is not all it is cracked up to be for the average person sitting at home. Sure you can over-charge those companies with unlimited…

  • Future of Video Conferencing from Corning

    Got this Youtube link in an email this morning….although it is a Corning glass “infomercial” it shows us (at least partly) how video conferencing might evolve in the near future…using glass. VERY COOL. We already have videoconferencing on mobile smartphones, and on large walls in conference rooms, so the vision put forth by Corning, although…

  • Vidyo Integrates with Microsoft Lync

    June 2023: Another videoconferencing HISTORY lesson. Enjoy! Facebook friend Ckristian Zoli (he works for Vidyo) posted this announcement on Facebook this morning. Not being in the corporate world anymore, I had never heard of Microsoft Lync…how funny.  (Gee, I feel so left out…..NOT!  🙂 I grabbed this from Microsoft: Microsoft Lync 2010 is truly a unified…

  • iPad 2 and Video Conferencing

    UPDATE January 2023: A HISTORY Lesson from 2011……enjoy! Steve Jobs (YES!) announced today that the iPad 2 will be released March 11th. I went to the spec page, grabbed the screen shots,  and tried to learn a bit more about the cameras (yes there are now two) and video conferencing capabilities. The iPad 2 will come…

  • Facebook Video Chat

    Facebook Video Chat

    UPDATE Dec 2022: A History Lesson 🙂 I tried video chat (video conference) via Facebook about a year ago…it sucked. Now…the good folks at PCMag.com tell me that the co-founder of RealNetworks, Rob Glaser, has developed a new Facebook video chat (video call) application called “SocialEyes”. Very clever name. But it remains to be seen…