2009 has been quite an interesting year – to the world in general, to the tech community, to the video conferencing market and to this blog specifically. I thought that celebrating a new year is a great excuse to visit the posts I liked best in 2009, so here’s a recap: January If iPhone wants to be the future, I argued in January, it sure is lagging behind. And I was referring to the lack of a front facing camera
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 29th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
In a recent post on his blog, Tsahi discussed how the iPhone “changed the game” when it comes to product design. The best and most obvious example he gives is touch technology, which has become “the most coveted input technology”. In the recently held World Innovation Summit, Amichai Ben-David, CEO of N-trig, Israeli manufacturer of revolutionary multi-point touch screens, admitted that the unprecedented success of the iPhone drove everyone to understand that touch is the most intuitive form of input
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 9th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
The debate on which endpoint we’ll be using for video conferencing, once it’s mass deployed and becomes a must-use means of communication is as old as the debate on when it will be mass deployed and become a must-use means of communication. As my “elderly” colleague Tsahi wrote, we’re just around the corner for too long. Still, it makes an interesting debate: assuming video conferencing becomes a tool that every employee, be it a Fortune 500 CEO or a secretary
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[Vince Chavy, Product Manager for SCOPIA Desktop, is back, after the very successful launch of SCOPIA Desktop 7.0, to discuss the SCOPIA Desktop in a bit more detail.] The new SCOPIA Desktop is out on the market, and I thought I would share with you my 7.0 reasons as to why the SCOPIA Desktop version 7.0 is such a success: 1. Scalable Video Coding (SVC) There were many posts and articles on this new and exciting technology, so I will
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By guest | June 30th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Some guys have all the fun. And so while I was busy moving offices, Tsahi went to Vegas for CES. And while he was walking the floors, I was getting my ear cleaned. But I have decided that staying in the office while others party at CES won’t stop me from writing my own impressions of the show, even I was a few thousand kilometers away from it. So biting on Tsahi’s take-away left-overs, here’s my CES from-a-far impressions:
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 26th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation
When the iPhone 2.0 came out, most people declared it “enterprise ready“. The iPhone was suddenly not just the coolest mobile phone in the world, but it offered a real working tool for workers on the go – With Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support, VPN connectivity, WiFi and more, the iPhone was finally entering the radar of IT managers. In August Gartner gave it an “official” authorization. I, however, found it to be lacking one big feature which is enterprise related
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 12th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
This blog praises technology and innovation. It’s not just that I am in love with technology: I have grown to understand that technology improves lives, and so it can be a goal, not just a means. The problem, our problem, is to ensure that technology improves the lives of everyone and not just that of those who can access and afford it. As Chris Anderson puts it: “The power of technology can bring nations relief, if only bureaucrats allow
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 15th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Innovation
[This post is written by Amir Fish, RADVISION Product Manager for the interactive video applications product line] Sybase 365 Mobile Services Survey on Mobile Banking (Feb 2008) asked the top 100 banking institutions in the world what they see as the main reasons for customers not undertaking mobile banking (mBanking). Not surprising the most common reason was compatibility, meaning the interoperability with different handsets, and restrictions on the device and/or the network that the client must use in order to
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 7th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
Most of us find ourselves interacting with a contact center (previously known as “call center”) at least once a week. Most of us REALLY doing this. It doesn’t matter if the contact center belongs to your ISP, your TV cable provider, your credit card company, you bank or any retailer you want to contact - the user experience of most of us is problematic in so many ways, that it is a wonder that we are still continuing to use it.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 29th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
