Cisco Launches Webex Hologram, An Augmented Reality Meeting Solution
October 26, 2021
Cisco unveiled a preview of its next-generation hybrid work collaboration product called Webex Hologram. It is the industry's only real-time meeting solution that takes advantage of augmented reality headsets to combine feature rich Webex meeting functionality with immersive 3D holograms.
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TrueConf Brings the Courtroom to the Prisoner: Connecting Courts and Prisons in Switzerland with TrueConf Server
April 5, 2018
Department of Justice and Home Affairs has deployed a TrueConf Server video conferencing system in the courtrooms and prisons in the Canton of Zurich state department. This removes the need for mandatory physical appearance at court proceedings and parole hearings, and also reduces transport costs.
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FCC votes to begin testing an overhaul of US phone system
January 30, 2014
The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to launch a series of trials to investigate how best to update the telephone system in the United States. The idea is to replace the system's traditional phone lines with networks that are based on Internet Protocol.
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Logitech launches camera that turns any place into a video collaboration room
January 28, 2014
Patent licensing terms still murky for next-gen video
January 17, 2014
A patent licensing group has revealed many names of the corporate muscle behind H.265/HEVC — but the license itself remains elusive even as the technology arrives in the marketplace.
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Beam+ robot heads for homes, waving $995 price tag
January 15, 2014
With the unveiling of Suitable Technologies'
Beam+,
telepresence robots are becoming more affordable for many of the people who need them most.
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US: Appeals court strikes down FCC's Net neutrality rules
January 14, 2014
Broadband providers aren't "common carriers," court says, and that makes all the difference in a decision certain to shake up the fixed broadband and wireless industries.
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AMS: An Update on the Next Generation Multimedia System from the ITU-T
January 9, 2014
AMS (also known as
H.325) is the next-generation multimedia system coming from the ITU-T, enabling a plurality of devices and applications to work harmoniously together in order to provide a richer communication experience. Get the latest information about this emerging standard.
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VoIP centres raided‚ father-son duo held
November 28, 2013
I read stories like these and wonder... Why?!?!? Money? Greed? Oppression? National security? Just what in the world could lead to continued enforcement of a law like this?
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FCC VoIP Ruling Bound to Disappoint Someone
November 18, 2013
Tom Wheeler is showing willingness to wade right into things as the new
FCC chair, but there's one pot he doesn't have to stir. The telecom industry is already in hot debate over the Federal Communications Commission's plans to consider changing how voice services should be regulated in the
IP era, an action that could have far reaching impact.
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Open-Sourced H.264 Removes Barriers to WebRTC
October 30, 2013
Cisco plans to open-source our
H.264 codec, and to provide it as a binary module that can be downloaded for free from the Internet. Cisco will not pass on its MPEG LA licensing costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this will effectively make H.264 free for use in WebRTC.
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Microsoft to acquire Nokia's device and services division
September 2, 2013
Microsoft will acquire Nokia's devices and services unit and license the company's mapping services in a deal worth US$7.2 billion in a bid to bolster the company's position in the smartphone market.
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REACH Introduces an Recording and Streaming Device for H.323 Video Conferencing
August 30, 2013
REACH manufactures professional solutions for video conferencing recording and streaming. The
H.323 Network Recording and Streaming Server is the latest-generation device developed by REACH. By supporting the standards H.323, H.225.0, H.245 and H.239, the recording server is compatible with various brands of video conferencing systems, such as Polycom, Cisco/Tanberg, Lifesize, RadVision, HUAWEI and ZTE.
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ITU Readies New 1Gbit/s Broadband Standard
July 16, 2013
G.fast, a new ITU broadband standard, that promises up to 1 Gbit/s over existing copper telephone wires, is one step closer following a meeting of ITU-T Study Group 15 this week. G.fast is designed to deliver superfast downloads up to a distance of 250 meters, thereby eliminating the expense of installing fibre between the distribution point and people’s homes.
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Skype says it will kill its Desktop API by end of 2013
July 13, 2013
Skype, the Microsoft-owned internet telephony service, is planning to kill its Desktop API (application programming interface), according to an email sent to developers by Chris Andrews, Head of Skype Developer Program.
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New Firefox earns full WebRTC
June 25, 2013
WebRTC may sound like yet another Internet acronym, but what it brings to browsers could be the death knell for plugins — and it just landed in the latest version of Firefox.
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Stay away from meetings with iRobot Ava 500 telepresence bot
June 10, 2013
Trundling along on the heels — or wheels — of its RP-VITA medical robot, the AVA 500 was introduced Monday by the company as an enterprise-grade
telepresence robot.
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ITU-T H.265 now available for download
June 10, 2013
The highly-anticipated video coding standard, ITU-T H.265 "High Efficiency Video Coding" (HEVC), is now available free of charge on the ITU website
here.
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Sprint Q4 loss widens to $1.32B as Nextel customers flee
February 7, 2013
Sprint's Nextel platform lost more than 1 million subscribers, offsetting progress made by its core business. Sprint posted a loss of $1.32 billion, or 44 cents a share, compared with a year-ago loss of $1.3 billion, or 43 cents a share. Revenue, however, rose to $9 billion.
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Oracle to buy network gear maker Acme Packet for $2.1 billion
February 4, 2013
Oracle Corp will buy network equipment maker Acme Packet Inc for $2.1 billion, putting it in a better position to compete with Cisco Systems Inc in moving data securely over internet networks.
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