You are where your presence information says you are

When I was a child, if I wanted to meet with a friend in the afternoon for some unplanned quality time, there were basically two options: the direct one, where you would call his home phone and hope he’s there (or at least that his mother knows where he is…), and the indirect one, where you just wander around the neighborhood and hopefully run into him. Oh, life was much simpler then.Two break-through concepts emerged since then, and totally changed (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  June 10th, 2008  |  Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
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Video Conferencing - not that old, not yet truly faithful

Video conferencing is reaching out to everyone, including the desktop. Still I am often confronted with the fact that video conferencing has been “the NEXT big thing” for more than a decade, and has yet to become a truly popular means of communication (like, for instance, the mobile phone). Researchers have found that there are a few problems - primarily psychological - that may explain the slow penetration of video conferencing into our lives, and also the reluctance of many (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  May 27th, 2008  |  Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
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