You are here: silicon.com > Tags

44 stories on

halo

Sort by: Date | Relevance


'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment These claims are most commonly made for expensive, high end videoconferencing systems - such as Cisco's TelePresence or HP's Halo - where the tech does everything it can to make you feel as if you are just across the table from your colleagues...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth

Photo The moon appears through a halo, called the limb, which covers the Earth, as seen here in 2001. To celebrate Earth Day this week, Nasa released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

Why next-gen videoconferencing can mean more travel

Case Study The market has broadened since then - with the likes of Cisco's TelePresence and HP's Halo systems. While high-end videoconferencing can play a role in reducing the costs of corporate travel - financial and environmental - the most notable benefits...

Tags: travel, teliris, videoconferencing

[24 Apr 2008]

Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod

News Apples sold 2.3 million Macs in the quarter, topping the two million to 2.2 million units forecast by five analysts, who saw sales being spurred by new designs, the halo effect from iPods and iPhones, and consumer complaints about Microsoft's...

Tags: ipod, iphone, mac, apple

[24 Apr 2008]

Collaboration Practices Within Large Enterprise

whitepaper Hewlett-Packard's Halo Virtual Collaboration Team engaged GfK Custom Research North America (GfK) to conduct exploratory qualitative research in order to develop richer insight into the collaboration and communication practices of key target...

Tags: collaboration tools

[19 Mar 2008]

Halo Collaboration White Paper

whitepaper The Hewlett Packard Company has introduced a business collaboration and social connection experience called Halo. Months before its formal release, Halo was being cited as "The next best thing to being there.

Tags: software engineering, face, halo, packard

[06 Nov 2007]

HP Halo: PepsiCo

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast explains how HP Halo is used to increase efficiency, communication, quality of life and personal connection.

Tags: multimedia, connection, life, webcast explains

[02 Nov 2007]

HP Halo: Share More Than a Smile

whitepaper The Halo studio - designed by DreamWorks Animation in partnership with HP - provides life-size, real-time, secure, eye-to-eye conferencing with outstanding audio and no delay.

Tags: video conferencing, delay, audio, studio

[02 Nov 2007]

HP Halo: DreamWorks Animation

whitepaper The presenters of this webcast discuss the advantages of using HP Halo to meet, collaborate and create.

Tags: graphics applications, hp halo, halo

[02 Nov 2007]

Microsoft's coffers swell on Vista, Halo 3

News Microsoft reported a strong jump in first quarter revenue and profits, as the company benefited from Windows Vista and the launch of Halo 3. Buoyed by the launch of Halo 3, Microsoft saw a 90 per cent increase in revenue for its Entertainment and...

Tags: windows, halo 3, microsoft, vista

[26 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07

Round-Up And if that isn't enough, why not have a gander at this week's Halo 3-themed Caption Competition. Not content with shafting Microsoft in a landmark ruling last week over the company's anti-competitive behaviour, the EC is now rubbing salt in the...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[28 Sep 2007]

Caption Competition: Queueing for my Halo

Photo This competition is now closed. The winning entry, from reader Malcolm George was: "Some Northern Rock investors are more determined that others to get their investment back. Photo credit: Microsoft

Tags: caption competition

[28 Sep 2007]

Stories of the month - July 2007

News How shiny is the iPhone's halo? The reasons why mobile operators are keen to get their hands on the not-yet-launched-in-the-UK Apple iPhone were explored in this news analysis - How shiny is the iPhone's halo?

Tags: mac, vista

[30 Jul 2007]

Photos: The future of videoconferencing

Photo HP's Halo videoconferencing (pictured above) is a similar proposition, while other companies such as Polycom are also entering the market. Halo is also for those with deep pockets, weighing in at £287,000 per room and a £10,000 per month service fee.

Tags: hp, cisco, videoconferencing

[26 Jul 2007]

Videoconferencing cuts $150m off Cisco's travel bill

News It is a similar set up to the rival Halo technology from HP. Networking giant Cisco has slashed $150m off its corporate travel costs by using its own high-end videoconferencing technology. Speaking at the company's annual Networkers conference in...

Tags: john chambers, videoconferencing, telepresence, cisco

[25 Jul 2007]

How shiny is the iPhone's halo?

News Paul Skeldon, senior analyst at Juniper Research, said the winning operator wouldn't gain much other than the "the kudos of it", and added: "What they will gain is the halo effect of having the iPhone.

Tags: o2, analyst, europe, vodafone

[05 Jul 2007]

Innovative Online Gameplay Community Serves Up 4 Million Pages Per Day

whitepaper The Bungie.net site is the online companion to the wildly successful Halo 2 video game for Xbox, released in November 2004 by Microsoft. The site also acts as the community hub for all things related to Bungie games.

Tags: web development and design, game, pages, .net

[01 Apr 2007]

Cisco gifts conferencing tech to Middle East

News Cisco's TelePresence systems are some of the most expensive in the world, competing mainly with HP, which sells a similar product called Halo. Cisco is to give away five sets of its top-of-the-range conferencing systems.

Tags: telepresence, videoconferencing, cisco, web conferencing

[29 Jan 2007]

Halo Enables a Swift, Successful Move of HP Manufacturing Operations From Corvallis, Oregon to Singapore

whitepaper Chartered with transferring a production line from its R&D beginnings in Corvallis, Oregon to a permanent home in Singapore, the HP manufacturing team looked for new ways to make the transition as effort-less as possible and turned to the HP Halo...

Tags: manufacturing, output, transition, packard

[19 Dec 2006]

Apple: Cool enough for your granny

News The Mac maker is also reportedly investigating the true nature of the so-called iPod halo effect, where owning an iPod causes users to switch from PC to Mac. The halo effect is given credence by MetaFacts' research, which reports that more than...

Tags: mac, ipod, apple

[30 Nov 2006]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: