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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: Cisco Systems Inc., Video-conferencing, Greenhouse Gas, 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
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- Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?
- A few weeks after Cisco's Tandberg acquisition, peripheral manufacturer Logitech has announced that it was acquiring LifeSize for $405 million in cash. LifeSize provides high definition HD video communication solutions. The video acquistion positions Logitech with a comnplete range of video conferencing equipment. Last year, the company acquired...
- Tags: Video Conferencing, Logitech, Video, Polycom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Podcast: News to know midday: Firefox retention; iMacs for business; Telepresence
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- Tags: Podcasts, Apple iMac, podcast, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- LifeSize PassPort: The First Skype-Compatible Telepresence System
- Cisco's $3 billion offer to buy Tandberg yesterday may bring Cisco a more economical telepresence solution than its own not saying much, but that's only part of the challenge of bringing the technology to the small business and our homes. On Monday, LifeSize will take a big step towards solving...
- Tags: Video Call, Skype Technologies S.A., Video, Cisco Systems Inc., HD, Passport, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Polycom: A potential takeover target following Cisco-Tandberg deal
- Yep, Polycom to HPI think HP buys Polycom next: http://www.sramanamitra.com/2009/10/01/cisco-buys-tandberg-hp-to-buy-polycom/Basically, in the video conferencing market (all the way from desktop video to telepresence and other immersive solutions, and everything in between like plasma screens, etc.), the 2 leaders are Polycom (~40%) and Tandberg (~40%). Cisco, HP, Avaya, Nortel are all...
- Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), VOIP, Polycom Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., SIP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Polycom: A potential takeover target following Cisco-Tandberg deal
- With Cisco gobbling up Tandberg for $3 billion and bolstering its video conferencing lineup all eyes turn to Polycom, another market leader that looks ripe to be acquired. If not, Polycom is expected to be able to hold its own against Cisco. Cisco's acquisition of Tandberg gives...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Polycom Inc., Tandberg, Marchetti, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Cisco Buys Tandberg on its way to be your B2B video conferencing partner
- I spent a day with Tandberg management last week and came away very impressed with some things I can't share and also some things that I can share. Tandberg has: Great HD videoconferencing solutions in room-sized all the way down to Webcam. Yep, a Webcam image looks...
- Tags: Video Conferencing, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Tandberg, Business Person, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Cisco doubles down on video conferencing; Acquires Tandberg for $3 billion
- Cisco is beefing up its video conferencing arsenal, picking up Tandberg, a Norwegian video conferencing outfit, for $3 billion. In a statement, Cisco said it is acquiring Tandberg to expand its collaboration platform. With the deal, Cisco will bring in Tandberg's network infrastructure and video conferencing equipment...
- Tags: Video Conferencing, Cisco Systems Inc., Tandberg, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- 3D football, anyone? Intel offers peek at 21st Century television
- TV isn't TV anymore. It's out of the box. It's off the wall and it's not going back anytime soon. That was the opening line of the final keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, delivered by Intel exec Justin Rattner, who took to the stage to talk...
- Tags: 3D, Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Cisco's Brave New World
- Randy Pond blog on Councils and BoardsInteresting piece, Oliver. Thought I would also highlight a recent perspective from our EVP of Operations, Processes and Systems, Randy Pond, who has played a large role in set-up and management of this structure. He states, in part: "We?ve been evolving the...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Brave New World
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Cisco's Brave New World
- An intriguing and very well written article in this week's Economist documents Cisco CEO John Chamber's ambitious plans to conquer 30 new areas of business: ...From “virtual health care†to “cloud computing†and “safety and security†to “routers in spaceâ€, the company is tackling more than 30...
- Tags: Information Technology, Brave New World, Cisco Systems Inc., Chambers, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-08-30
- Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts
- Hasso's Plattner's vision is Driven to PerformHello Oliver,An excellent post, as usual. You mention in that:"Plattner envisages a future world where executives sit in a business ?cockpit? combining the human-to-human communication strengths of Cisco?s Telepresence with sophisticated contextual data dialed up on the fly in a much more agile...
- Tags: Strategy, Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts, Plattner, vision
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts
- The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and automating the planning and tracking of financial transactions from end to end...
- Tags: SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Corporate Governance, Storage, Mainframes, Internet, Databases, Servers, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
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