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- Telepresence
- Meaning "long distance presence," it refers to a videoconference session that feels like a live meeting. Notable features are multiple screens positioned at the other side of the conference...
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- Mr. airline CEO, meet telepresence (or else)
- Mr. airline CEO, meet telepresence or elseLarry...let me give you a little advice.Having spent 25+ years in the airline business...stick to writing about the Tech industry.Larry - Good Job! Airlines need to wake up.Larry - Thanks for writing the article. You are right - Aitlines need to wake up...
- Tags: wake up
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- The Green Enterprise: Cisco
- Networking giant Cisco Systems has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 25 percent in the next four years--with the help of technologies it's created. Cisco also wants to help customers do the same. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at green innovations at Cisco, including: an...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Cisco Systems Inc., Video-conferencing, Green, Cisco, Telepresence, Wi-Fi enabled bus, energy efficient datacenters, Sumi Das, John Chambers, The Green Enterprise
- Videos 2008-08-14
- Cisco Telepresence: Coming to a home near you (someday)
- Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers can barely keep quiet about the company's Telepresence video effort, a high-end video conferencing system, but on the company's fourth quarter conference call he was especially chatty. The big takeaways: Telepresence will be a $1 billion business within five years and it will be coming...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco TelePresence, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Telepresence, Corporate Communications, Collaboration, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Cisco tweaks telepresence for the whiteboard
- Cisco is taking its telepresence video codec and moving it to a virtual whiteboard. At the Gartner Emerging Technologies Conference Tuesday, Cisco's Guido Jouret outlined a virtual whiteboard technology that the networking giant has in its labs. The term telepresence refers to videoconferencing applications that feel like...
- Tags: Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Telepresence, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Telepresence gains traction; Is your network ready?
- Can your network really handle unified communications and video intensive video applications like telepresence?That question is one you should be asking yourself after Cisco's fourth quarter earnings conference call. Cisco reported net income of $1.9 billion, or 31 cents a share, on revenue of $9.4 billion for its fiscal fourth...
- Tags: John Chambers, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., CEO, Video Application, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Scrounging around Enterprise 2.0 on Boston's waterfront
- ZDNet multimedia wingman Matt Conner and I are at CMP's Enterprise 2.0 conference today and tomorrow looking for interesting video opportunities. So far, the lineup is shaping up pretty nicely. Today, I interviewed Cisco's senior veep of emerging technologies Marthin De Beer about the company's claims to have revolutionized the...
- Tags: Web technology, Telephony, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Cisco's 1080p 'TelePresence' solution at Interop
- Cisco's 1080p 'TelePresence' solution at InteropCisco 1080pA standard Video conferencing system with 768 Kbps ( V. 264++) offers a reasonable business quality conferrencing to be a driver to save on travel. so in my opinion this high tech Gizmo may not be a very attractive piece to look at in...
- Tags: 1080p, LifeSize, Telepresence, Cisco Systems Inc., Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
Additional Resources
- Cisco Live! - CEO Chambers on Collaboration Business Value
- The above video clips from my handheld Flip are from John Chambers Cisco Live! keynote address today and are specifically two edits about Cisco's strategic perspective on collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. In the second edit Chambers talks about Cisco's business architectural re-engineering...
- Tags: Web, Collaboration, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Cisco CEO: 'Video is the killer app'
- At Cisco Live in San Francisco, CEO John Chambers talks about the key technologies he envisions growing the Internet of the future. Chambers discusses video as an important part of the company's strategy, enabling better collaboration technologies such as Cisco's TelePresence. [video=316923] Also see:...
- Tags: John Chambers, Killer Application, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Cisco CEO: 'Video is the killer app'
- At Cisco Live in San Francisco, CEO John Chambers talks about the key technologies he envisions growing the Internet of the future. Chambers discusses video as an important part of the company's strategy, enabling better collaboration technologies such as Cisco's TelePresence.
- Tags: John Chambers, Killer Application, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Collaboration, Marketing, Cisco
- Videos 2009-06-30
- Chambers plays up power of network at Cisco Live
- Cisco CEO John Chambers kicked off Cisco Live, the annual training event for IT professionals, at San Francisco's Moscone Center this morning with a quick peek back in time, the early days of the company and the Internet. It's been 10 years since Cisco Live - called Networkers back then...
- Tags: John Chambers, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Enterprise ripe for green disruption, Samsung VP says
- When it comes to adopting green technology, the enterprise is ready for a "disruptive" approach to innovation, said Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing at Samsung Semiconductor. In a presentation yesterday at the Time Warner Center in New York City, Elliott explained that the industry is...
- Tags: Green Technology, Lenovo Group Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Best practices resources for paper cuts of the environmental sort
- Chances are someone has traipsed through your cubicle recently, spouting off about become a paperless office. Trust me, in the scheme of pitches, paperless office initiatives are reaching the same hype-cycle in my inbox that telepresence and videoconferencing technologies as a green tool did maybe six months ago. You can...
- Tags: Best Practice, Paperless Office, Chances, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- LifeSize launches HD desktop conferencing software
- LifeSize Communications on Monday rolled out high-definition video conferencing software designed to extend corporate telepresence systems. LifeSize Desktop is designed to work with all webcams and a worker's PC. LifeSize Desktop delivers HD video at 720p in full 16:9 format with multiple applications running. The company claims...
- Tags: Software, Video Conferencing, Skype Technologies S.A., Corporate Communications, Desktops, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Why Cisco can't call a bottom: Customers are still reeling
- Cisco's third quarter earnings were solid courtesy of savvy expense management, but CEO John Chambers refrained from calling a bottom. A deep dive into Cisco's customer trends reveal why: Most of the company's growth markets---India, emerging markets and advanced technologies--are still reeling. Cisco's third quarter earnings of...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Cisco's third quarter: Better than expected; Sales down; Economic recovery 'eventual'
- Cisco Systems said today that it earned a a third quarter profit of $1.3 billion, or 23 cents per share, down 21 percent from a year ago, on sales of $8.2 billion, which fell 16.6 percent from $9.8 billion in the year-ago quarter. Excluding items, the company reported net income...
- Tags: John Chambers, Recovery, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Sales, Finance, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Cisco's third quarter: Looking for stabilization
- Cisco's third quarter came down to the wire and Wednesday after market close Wall Street will get to see whether the networking giant made the cut. Analysts are mixed on whether Cisco can top expectations, but most expect to see signs that demand has stabilized. Cisco is...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Wilson, Wadhwani, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Mr. airline CEO, meet telepresence (or else)
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is a software as a service and cloud computing expert. Here he ponders the impact of telepresence on the airlines. I don't think too many airline CEO's read my blog. I do know a few tech CEO's that do read it. Let's pretend...
- Tags: Airline, CEO, Internet, Cloud Computing, Document Management, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Cisco's Chambers says security can no longer be an after-thought
- Security can no longer be an after-thought or a stand-alone mission. There are too many forces at work - and that's just not bad guys lurking for valuable data on the Web. Instead, what Cisco CEO John Chambers was talking about during his keynote speech at the...
- Tags: John Chambers, RSA Security Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Chances, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Kaiser testing tech to enhance medical treatment, privacy
- Kaiser Permanente is re-inventing the house call. Cisco Systems, as part of the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, bussed a group of folks across the San Francisco Bay this week to tour Kaiser's Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center - a former check processing warehouse...
- Tags: Patient, Privacy, Kaiser Permanente, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
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