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Polycom Integrates Whiteboard With Video Collaboration Solution
Polycom is adding another capability to its room-based video conferencing solution, enabling participants to better leverage the whiteboards that are common in conference rooms. Polycom s UC Board, announced Oct. 27, is integrated with the company s RealPresence Room HDX offerings, enabling users to write on a whiteboard in one room and have participants in…
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Cisco Intros Managed Telepresence Service for SMBs
Cisco Systems is pushing its five-year-old telepresence business from the enterprise down into the small and medium business (SMB) market with the launch of new videoconferencing products and services. The biggest announcement is the launch of TelePresence Callway, a subscription-based telepresence service as part of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud. Hosted by Cisco as a managed…
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Email Security Lapses Create Risk for Businesses
In a survey of 1,237 employees across a variety of disciplines, software developer Oasys found that a full 96 percent of employees believe their companies face some level of legal risk associated with poor email management, with one in five saying their company faces "high risk." The survey results of the company’s September 2011 Business…
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BroadSoft, OneAccess Partner on Converged Services Router
OneAccess Networks, a provider of Converged Services CPE solutions for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) and enterprises and BroadSoft, Inc., a provider of software that enables mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to deliver voice and multimedia services over their IP-based networks, announced an end-to-end BroadCloud PacketSmart solution. With BroadCloud PacketSmart, service providers can assess…
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Polycom Acquires Video Collaboration Specialist ViVu
Unified communications firm Polycom announced the acquisition of ViVu, a privately held video collaboration software company. ViVu has developed video collaboration software that can be embedded into enterprise, social and vertical industry applications to enable Web-based high-definition video collaboration. The acquisition gives Polycom a means to more quickly embed HD video into Web-based applications through…
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Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Skype
Microsoft has formally completed its $8.5 billion Skype acquisition, making the communications company a division within its already-sprawling corporate structure. “This represents a huge leap forward in Skype’s mission to be the communication choice for a billion people every day,” Tony Bates, formerly Skype s CEO and now president of Microsoft’s Skype unit, wrote in…