Threat of security got you down? Enter Polycom/McAfee Alliance
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Big news for collaboration and unified communications yesterday. Polycom and McAfee have joined forces to develop and deliver secure unified communications and collaboration systems.
With rising securing threats to unified communications this alliance, unlike any other, will help secure the tools business use to communicate and collaborate.
“Faster networks and a growing desire among enterprises to transform their work environments via telepresence have placed video collaboration at a tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, Polycom president and CEO. “This makes the need to provide Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions an urgent one, and that’s why we’re partnering with McAfee.
Check out the full story here.
Are you paying attention?
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In case you haven’t heard it or seen it already, we have a BIG promo coming up next week! This is your official “heads up” to stay tuned!
This will be the place where you can get all the details starting next Monday, so listen up!
Did we mention this is BIG? Take it as you wish, but it could possibly mean chances to win BIG!
Educating the world with YouTube
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Ok, so this story isn’t exactly about videoconferencing. But one thing we love at AVTEQ is technology in education that allows people to learn from a distance. Often referred to as “distance learning.”
Salman Kahn gave up his lucrative career in Silicon Valley to share his love of learning and math with the world. Through YouTube.
Now more than 80,000 people get their math tutoring from Khan Academy every month.
Talk about distance learning!
AVTEQ Two-Bay Credenza
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Check out our new space conscious Two-Bay credenza! Can hold up to two-52″ displays or a single 65″ display!
Stay tuned and visit AVTEQ.net for a special promo beginning Aug. 2!
Dissecting the brain via video conference
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Biology students in Cochrane, Alberta learn about the human brain, using the actual specimen, without leaving their classroom via video conference with medical students at the University of Calgary.
Is Boardroom Videoconferencing Dead?
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The birth of mobile videoconferencing on mobile devices like the iPhone 4 and HTC’s EVO has created a lot of buzz in the industry. Where is the industry headed? How will such easy access to videoconferencing impact business? Is there a need for videoconferencing in the boardroom?
LifeSize, Cisco and Polycom lead the way in advancing the videoconferencing industry. We know they certainly wouldn’t be investing in products like Telepresence if boardroom videoconferencing was all headed out the door with the advent of mobile videoconferencing.
New capabilities on mobile devices is just the next step in moving the use of video into every day life.
We see the advance of videoconferencing to mobile devices as not only exciting for the individual user but for big business as well. Mobile videoconferencing on cell phones and tablet devices takes videoconferencing out of the boardroom and into the field. This has been a dream of videoconferencing companies for ages.
Now, not only can businesses connect from one boardroom to the next, but the boardroom can now connect to the field. Imagine a Telepresence suite on wheels, on the streets and in the field. Hard to imagine? With videoconference capabilities on mobile devices, we are just a step closer to truly connecting the world through video, anywhere, anytime, on any device!
Ft. Worth’s Liq-O-Rama deploys digital signage and sees HUGE jump in sales
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A new digital signage kiosk in Liq-O-Rama, dubbed the “Launch Pad” from Sales Rocket Systems has not only caught the attentions of the patrons, but increased sales of the featured product by 1200%!
Sales Rocket Systems is an AVTEQ client via our new digital signage division, AVTEQ/Digital
LifeSize announces new products advancing HD video communications
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Today, LifeSize announced several new products to enhance business information sharing, video communications and to streamline connectivity.
The new version of the LifeSize software, Version 4.7 allows businesses and organizations to easily share information such as presentations and spreadsheets over the network using LifeSize Passport and the new video conferencing system, LGExecutive with a new software application, LifeSize Virtual Link, enabling data sharing with a PC or Mac.
The 4.7 software update also enables both LifeSize Passport and LGExecutive, powered by LifeSize, to stream live HD video and record, using the LifeSize Video Center. In addition, the LifeSize Desktop updated Version 2.0 software now supports data sharing and 720p HD transmit capability for more productive discussions and meetings. (more…)
Consider the possibilities!
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California Legislature is considering a bill to allow the state to begin researching a new way and unique to increase state revenue, and decrease the $19 billion deficit. We’re not talking a government-run lemonade stand or bake sale. We’re talking advertising. On license plates.
(Read about it in the Contra Costa Times.)
The California legislature is looking at the possibility of allowing businesses to buy advertising space on new digital license plates.
This usage of digital signage would resemble a standard license plate when the vehicle is in motion and display digital ads or other messages (such as Amber Alerts) when it is stopped for more than four seconds. The license plate number would always remain visible in some part of the screen. (more…)
Videoconferencing meets the Fashion Industry
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Step into Tommy Hilfiger’s Virtual Fitting Room, courtesy of Cisco’s Tandberg Telepresence solution.
