The state of web conferencing is constant flux, and today we’re going to look a bit of news we missed back in January: InterCall’s acquisition of Stream57. InterCall has positioned itself as not just a web conferencing facilitator, but a collaboration services provider as well, so it makes sense that they would aspire to be […]

A recent study, titled “Collaboration Nation,” indicated that the majority of IT managers at medium to large enterprises are planning to increase spending on collaboration tools in 2010. The report itself was conducted by a company with a lot to gain from that conclusion: Cisco. Anyone looking for or familiar with business productivity software knows […]

Big news for telepresence and that market’s associated vendors today. Let’s put this in terms of competition: at the heart of recent innovations and partnerships is a standoff between Cisco and Hewlett-Packard. The former had previously supplied the latter with its video-based conferencing products, and their reseller agreement was severed some months ago, when it […]

Of late, a number of video conferencing startups have emerged offering easy, browser-based meeting solutions, and several of them have surfaced as future market leaders. Dimdim is one of those bellwethers. Dimdim was founded in 2006, and has come a long way since—their latest product enhancement, instant screen sharing, was announced at the end of […]

Late last month we discussed Vidyo’s steps toward commercializing web conferencing by bringing their technology to university campuses, and recently PGi announced a partnership with AVI-SPL that will meet a similar goal. AVI-SPL is proud of its status as a global integrator of audio visual systems and services, and through this new partnership their customers […]

We recently learned that Citrix would be investing training- and education-related products, and that the corporate-education market will be burgeoning by 2014 at $1.6 billion. Well another videoconferencing facilitator, Vidyo, is banking on the profitability of another kind of education, and is taking their product to college campuses. Last week, the New Jersey based company […]

The beginning of 2010 has been eventful—or at the very least, promising—for Citrix Systems. At the end of January, their Q4 earnings report showed profit was up, and this week, their Citrix Online division announced the release of an online training solution called GoToTraining. First, the money news. Citrix’s fourth quarter profits rose 47%, and […]

Within the next few years, the majority of mobile phone users will own smartphones. As of now, we tend to think of the iPhone as the “hip” smartphone, the BlackBerry as the original enterprise phone of waning prestige, and the Androids and Google’s Nexus One phones as potential iPhone usurpers. In America at least, the […]

When we noted back in November that videoconferencing was becoming more and more of a consumer product, we mentioned Hackensack, NJ-based Vidyo as one of the smaller fish that would be giving companies like Cisco and Logitech a run for their money. Yesterday, Vidyo announced their new telepresence system, called VidyoRoom HD-220: a high-definition, room-based […]

IBM’s Lotusphere conference is taking place in Orlando, and news from it proves Big Blue is putting some serious force behind LotusLive, their cloud collaboration platform. Last week, Panasonic announced LotusLive would replace Microsoft Exchange at their offices, and the platform will soon be courting Google users it seems, as they’ve announced plans for a […]