video conferencing in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Video-conferencing and high-speed downloads are not even worth contemplating for those who work at home. Readers are up in arms over Ofcom claims that the 'digital divide' actually favours rural dwellers - with many disputing the so-called... [29 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment Most businesses still operate with a single HQ and branch offices but today the quality of communications between different buildings, however widely distributed, is expected to be good for video and web conferencing, centralised content... [24 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment The rest - the vast majority - have about a decade to take on board the significance of this opportunity for video conferencing and advanced gaming, not to mention for all the education, healthcare and business applications. [17 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Changing tech values
Comment And remember to consider this question again when you get video conferencing that really works. Written at London Heathrow airport and dispatched to silicon.com from a hotel in Nice, France, via a free wi-fi service offering serious bandwidth [22 Nov 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Granted, BT now has 104,000 staff compared with 130,000 in 1996 so its office estate is considerably smaller, and the telecoms provider is a major proponent of collaboration and conferencing tools instead of mile munching. [21 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment For decades my engineering target for audio and video conferencing has been that they should be capable of a level of human engagement between a man and a woman that would lead them to fall in love. In my view bandwidth and good quality speech and... [26 Mar 2007]
VoIP takes hold with small businesses
Comment For companies with a substantial amount of international calling or audio conferencing, it can provide massive savings on their telephone bill. Read the full analysis of research into converged communications conducted by The Bathwick Group and... [17 Dec 2006]
How to secure today's enterprise
Comment King points out that if you use an instant messaging, voice conferencing or video conferencing application provided by a third party, your conversations are leaving the company even if you are communicating with a colleague in the same room. [08 Mar 2005]
Will IP unify communications?
Comment Falk Bleyl, senior product manager for VoIP and converged networks at communications provider Thus, recently asked a conference audience how many of them had used Microsoft NetMeeting - an old and simple application routinely bundled with the... [18 Feb 2005]
Q&A: What will be at the centre of the digital home?
Comment Our DSM 320 digital media player and i2eye video conferencing devices are based on this concept. Companies like Dell, HP, and software behemoth Microsoft envision the PC to be the cornerstone of digital home entertainment, capable of everything... [17 Dec 2004]
SIP paves the way for seamless collaboration
Comment Although not designed for document collaboration and video conferencing, a fair number of business users, particularly distributed small companies, have been using Skype as a way of cutting down on phone bills. [07 Jul 2004]
Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight
Comment Here, Live Communications Server 2003 acts as the foundation for web, video and IM conferencing (supported by SIP), which helps users discover where contacts are located and if they're available. But of late, it's been trying to make inroads into... [21 Jun 2004]
Leader: The misguided desire to grow, grow, grow
Leader announced yesterday it is trashing plans to offer enterprise instant messaging, putting the end to an effort started in 2000 to sell web portals and video conferencing for corporations' internal use. Yahoo! [18 Jun 2004]
Building the business case for collaboration
Comment It includes shared work spaces, web and video conferencing, whiteboarding or instant messaging as well as more specialist tools such as the engineering-focused product lifecycle management (PLM). It is much easier to calculate metrics in the real... [08 Jun 2004]
Leader: Broadband debate will shift
Leader To summarise very bluntly, this means people sharing information using a variety of applications but definitely including video conferencing, IM and a mix of mobile and wireless. As one silicon.com reader pointed out: "The upstream figure is the... [06 Feb 2004]
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