Archive for January, 2010
“There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards or crystal balls. Collectively these methods are known as “nutty”. Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as “a complete waste of time” - Scott Adams As 2010 begins, it’s predictions time again, when everyone who’s writing anywhere must give their predictions for the up-coming year. I will not disclose here my methods for predicting
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 26th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[I've been asked often, during the past two years, what's next on the video coding front. Some people are asking about H.265, the natural heir of the current king H.264; others are just wondering where we're going. To be honest, even for a video coding guy keeping up with the latest trends and turns in the video coding world is a complicated task. But the "next generation" of video coding is a very interesting topic, not to mention very relevant
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By guest | January 19th, 2010 | Filed under Innovation
A few weeks ago we held our annual conference in Tel-Aviv. This year the headline was – surprise, surprise! – Unified Communications. During the day my division, the Networking Business Unit (NBU), focused on exposing the local crowd, executives and IT managers from leading enterprises and organizations, to the latest trends in IP communication and collaboration. Other than some very interesting presentations given by my colleagues and myself about unified communications, desktop collaboration, video conferencing and video technologies, there were
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 12th, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
[This post is based on a post written by Romi Mikulinsky and me, published - in Hebrew - in the popular HolesInTheNet blog] We live in crazy times, I tell you. Everywhere you go, someone tells you that you have to be more “social” – use social media, connect via social networks, have a social strategy, yada social yada. And it seems that the more “social” we get, the less social we actually are, as we spend most of our
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 5th, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration
