Archive for August, 2009
A year ago I published a guest about the benefits of Mobile Banking. As online banking is becoming extremely popular, it was argued, mobile banking is staying in the shadows. The problem? Mobile browsing. The solution suggested? Using video. Well, a year has passed, and mobile browsing is still quite a pain. However video and banking are starting to be two familiar terms, at least here in Israel. Just like the contact center becomes – with video – a visual
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 25th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
A few weeks ago I came across a global survey, initiated by Blue Coat Systems Inc., claiming that 73% of enterprises are putting greater emphasis on using high quality video conferencing instead of traveling. I already covered the video conferencing vs. air travel in the past, but this is very encouraging. On the other hand, Blue Coat field personnel are quoted to have “witnessed a number of common mistakes in trying to add high-quality video conferencing to existing networks”, and
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 18th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
In September of last year I wrote about an idea I had – a global, virtual PVR that will record all the content for me, giving me access to it at any time. I was surprised to find that Tom Loosemore was presenting that same idea in OpenTech 2008, calling it the Impossibox. He described the solution as “a network of PVRs acting as a giant, ever-growing Storage Area Network with enough capacity to store – and then seed… –
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 11th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Two weeks ago, an innocent-looking tweet by Roger Farnsworth (@highcq) sent me on an amazing journey. As soon as I clicked on the link to a post on the corporate blog of FlyMiwok, an on-demand air travel company, I was pulled into an amazing time-machine, sending me back to the mid 90s in a flash. Now don’t get me wrong – I remember the mid 90s well. I was already working in the tech industry at that
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 4th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
