I have been talking and writing a lot about Video Conferencing since I started working for RADVISION. I have to admit, in the past I wasn’t sure what form would the personal video conferencing endpoint have, but lately the answer is literally right in front of you: Desktop Video Conferencing. If you haven’t heard, Desktop Video Conferencing is happening, and although there is always room for more innovation, the recent release of Scopia Desktop, RADVISION’s desktop video client, is promising
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 6th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
Unified Communication (UC) is one of the hottest buzz words in the IT market, potentially in the whole tech market. Ask a few people what UC is, and you’ll be sure to get various answers. Still, most will agree, it involves uniting existing communication systems and tools (phone system, internet) with more advanced productivity and communication tools (such as instant messaging, video conferencing, and web collaboration) to deliver a complete solution. Bottom line - UC is aimed at creating adaptive
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 28th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Tsahi from the blog next door wrote an interesting post on the 8 features he would like to see added to the TV set of the future. As I am not a big TV fan, but am a technophile and writing a blog mainly on Video Conferencing, I pondered about what killer features would I want in my (future) video conferencing solution (which I will henceforth call FVCS). Let me first tell you that I honestly believe that my future
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 21st, 2008 | 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
[I have been writing about the many ways video conferencing can save time and energy, while serving as a worthy alternative to in-person meetings. Usually it means that video conferencing can make travel unnecessary and save money. But in some cases travel involves much more than air fare and air pollution. Take prisoners in jail or crime suspects, for instance. That's why I have long been following the slow and reluctant adoption of video conferencing technologies by the judicial
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By guest | October 13th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
In the last two years, two great forces have arisen in the Video Conferencing market, gaining fame and a considerable amount of fortune, and pushing video conferencing into the hugging hands of the enterprise masses. These are the VC Titans: High Definition Video Conferencing (HDVC) and Telepresence (TP); so similar in many ways, so different in other. Many have pondered the question which is the best solution. In the last two posts I tried to put in my two
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 10th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
In the last two years two great forces have risen in the Video Conferencing market, gaining fame and a rather considerable amount of fortune, and pushing video conferencing into the hugging hands of the enterprise masses. These are the VC Titans - High Definition Video Conferencing (HDVC) and Telepresence (TP) - so similar in many ways, so different in other. Many have pondered who is better, which is the best solution. Finally the time has come to reach a conclusion.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 8th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
In the last two years two great forces have risen in the Video Conferencing market, gaining fame and a rather considerable amount of fortune, and pushing video conferencing into the hugging hands of the enterprise masses. These are the VC Titans - High Definition Video Conferencing (HDVC) and Telepresence (TP) - so similar in many ways, so different in other. Many have pondered who is better, which is the best solution. Finally the time has come to reach a conclusion.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 6th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
In a recent episode of House, the successful FOX TV show, Dr. House and his medical staff used video conferencing to aid a fellow doctor located at the South Pole to diagnose her symptoms after she falls gravely ill. Dr. House uses his laptop from home and an endpoint in the hospital to help Dr. Milton diagnose and treat herself, and eventually save her own life. Spoiler from FOX for the House episode “Frozen”. Video conferencing to the aid
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 25th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
Gartner has released its latest Hype Cycle Research Report: Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2008. Of the 27 technologies they list as “emerging” over the next few years, Green IT, Video TelePresence and Cloud Computing are at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and should be adopted, according to Gartner, in 2-5 years. Hype Cycle for 2008. If you compare the Hype Cycle for 2008 with that of 2007, you can see that TelePresence is making its way through the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 15th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
