You won't need a Google+ profile anymore to use Google's Hangouts video chat, thanks to new updates that aim to make the video conferencing platform more appealing to businesses.…
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Elance adds video chat to its virtual workrooms
Elance recently introduced video chat to its users as a new feature embedded directly into the site. That will allow employers and contractors to have face-to-face communication without having to open a different application or video chat client.…
Read MoreYour desktop of the future is likely to be a whole room
The idea of physically manipulating digital data through gestures, as shown in the movie Minority Report, may seem like sci-fi, but there's much that applies to the desktop of tomorrow. Oblong's John Underkoffler envisioned the future at the GigaOM Net:Work event on Thursday.…
Read MoreFuze Telepresence Connect hopes to solve interoperability woes
One of the major drawbacks with traditional room-based telepresence installs is that systems from different vendors are typically incompatible with each other. Video conferencing and online meeting provider FuzeBox, makers of the Fuze Meeting service, announced Fuze Telepresence Connect, which hopes to overcome these interoperability problems.…
Read MoreComcast bringing Skype video chat into the living room
Comcast has partnered with Skype to bring its video chat service to subscriber living rooms. With an adapter box and HD video camera, Comcast subscribers will soon be able to video chat with any other Skype users from the comfort of their living rooms.…
Read MoreHow Microsoft’s Skype Purchase Can Help Windows Phone
Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype is official, giving the Redmond company an instant voice and video calling user-base of more than 170 million globally connected customers. With only an estimated 2.5 million Windows Phone 7 handsets sold, there's ample opportunity here to boost smartphone sales.…
Read MoreWhen to Use Video for Remote Team Communications
Does video really perform as well as face-to-face interaction? How does it compare to audio-only communication? Does it always outperform text-only channels like email? Let's look at different types of tasks and see how video affects the work and communication quality experienced by remote teams.…
Read MoreAre Workers Really Not Ready for Desktop Videoconferencing?
According to some new research issued by Forrester, desktop videoconferencing is not yet taking the enterprise by storm. It found that nearly three-quarters of business technology users don’t want to use desktop videoconferencing, and just 15 percent have access to the tool on their computers.…
Read MoreHP Reminds Us that It Does Video Conferencing Too
HP today announced it's releasing a new line of high-definition videoconferencing products. These new Visual Collaboration products provide a solution that not only works via hardware installed in conference rooms, but can also be accessed on desktop and laptop computers.…
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Cisco’s videoconferencing division must be relishing the air travel ban caused by Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud, especially now that the company has…
Read MoreInvest in Collaborative Tools, Get More Than Double Return, Study Says
Last week, I reported on the surprisingly low numbers of American information workers using collaborative technology (just one in four uses IM…
Read MoreWhat To Do Before Your Web App Shuts Down
I just received an email message about the demise of Projecho, little more than three months after first hearing about the easy…
Read MoreThe Future of Collaboration: Video Conferencing
Video conferencing is hot, and as such, companies are jockeying for position in the space. The latest to do so is Cisco,…
Read MoreCisco Splurge Shows Video Conferencing is Hot
Cisco (s csco) today offered to buy Tandberg, a Norwegian company that makes video conferencing equipment, for $3 billion in cash, a…
Read MoreTimeBridge Wants to Be Your Total Meeting Solution
Ask people what they think of meetings — especially virtual ones — and they’ll tell you that most meetings they attend are…
Read MoreNo-Fuss Video Conferencing Using Tinychat
Where do you turn if you want to set up a video conference with your team at the drop of a hat?…
Read MoreApple Job Posting Suggests iPod Touch to Gain Camera
There’s been lots of talk recently about what the future might have in store for the new iPhone camera, with one report…
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