It seems as though I can argue here until the end of the world on how much benefit people can get from video. As much as I do there will always be some guy who will say that he’s very pleased with his current means of communication, that audio is enough and that he can get all the communication he wants and needs from a plain old telephone (or IP phone in the best case). And while people debate endlessly about the pros and cons of video conferencing, with its psychological advantages and barriers, ROIs and deployment challenges, it seems ...

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With the risk of severe multi-tasking, I spend last Tuesday following not only the world cup (that’s soccer, if you’re Americans) and Google’s Marissa Mayer visit to Israel, but also CiscoLive, Cisco’s grand event in Las Vegas, where they are showcasing the latest in their product portfolio. The most interesting thing on John Chambers keynote, in my view, was the debut of the Cisco Cius: A 7″ touch-screen tablet?  You are probably thinking “iPad killer”, or at least a killer wannabe. But IMHO Cisco is not targeting Apple at all with this move. Cisco is not really a consumer ...

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I had this post in the oven for a while now. And when I say “oven” I mean the area where posts are written, in the deep dark areas of my mind. I’ve been waiting for a chance to bring it to light, an excuse to come forward and say it out loud: IT AIN’T ABOUT THE RESOLUTION! But then came this innocent-looking-yet-evil-as-usual comic strip from my favorite artist, Randall Munroe aka xkcd, and I thought: There we go. Here’s the chance I was waiting for. With All Due Respect To Resolution… I’m not interested in HDTV. Not ...

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Some two years ago I wrote about the 21st learning experience, or at least how I think it should be. Now I haven’t been a student for a long time, but still all around me students attend physical classes, limited to the teachers that are available physically in campus, limited to the availability of classes, and limited to teaching technologies which exist for a long time. Too long maybe. But there’s another side to the academic sector where visual communications really fits. In most countries there are various research institutes – universities, research centers, government agencies – that have to ...

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Last week I tried to share with you my disappointment with FaceTime, the video calling service Apple has just announced. You have to admit – If there’s one thing Apple does brilliantly is marketing. And so, Steve Jobs chose to tackle, hands-on, the one main obstacle that he has to know (because he’s such a great professional) can jeopardize the whole FaceTime dream – interoperability. What did Steve do? First of all, he dazzled us with a BIG, fat “OPEN” written all over his slide: Then he listed a bunch of open standards, some of which you would probably ...

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Yes, this is an(other) iPhone4 post. Yes, like everyone else I was following Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC. Yes, the iPhone4 seems to be a very interesting evolution for smartphones. Yes, Apple make the greatest marketing campaigns in the world. iPhone4 Commercial, directed by Sam Mendes But with all due respect to Steve Almighty, and the long-awaited iPhone4, I have to admit I was far from impressed with the “one more thing…” presented last week – video calling. Sure, I was the one saying Apple is lagging behind. Yes, I was the one hoping Apple will do for video ...

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When we announced, a year ago, the VC240, our jointly developed desktop video conferencing solution, it was a revolution. It was a first-of-its-kind “executive desktop” system for the average employee. Not that it isn’t good enough for the executives, but as I keep saying here – if we want to make video conferencing happen, we have to deploy video conferencing endpoints on every desk. And the VC240 can make this a reality. And indeed the VC240 is a success. Everywhere we go, enterprises realize that this is a solution that can help proliferate a visual communication culture inside an organization, ...

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InfoComm is the largest and most comprehensive pro-AV event in the world. And it seems like the InfoComm2010 that begins today in Las Vegas would be the biggest of them all, with more than 32,000 professionals and more than 900 exhibitors. As with every year, RADVISION will be exhibiting the latest in its product lines at InfoComm, and this year it is packed with great innovative offerings and exciting new technologies, most of which I tried to cover in my recent posts here. Large Enterprises / Service Providers In the Large Enterprises / Service Providers section, we will showcase the ...

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