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Video Conferencing and What it has to Offer
Video conferencing is a new and better way to gather people for a meeting or talk while making sure all that is discussed would be readily understood. Better than other forms of communication, video conferencing offers audio-visual connection with the other attendees.

The History of Video Conferencing – Moving Ahead at the Speed of Video
No new technology develops smoothly, and video conferencing had more than its share of bumps along the way before becoming the widely used communications staple it is today. The history of video conferencing in its earliest form goes back to the 1960's, when AT&T introduced the Picturephone at the World's Fair in New York.

Palbee.com Launches Brave New World of Video Conferencing
Palbee.com has released a new, personalized version of its free online meeting and collaboration service. Users can create personalized meeting pages with their own schedules, recordings, and upcoming meetings.

Save Time And Money With Business Video Conferencing
Does your business have employees who must meet face to face, who work at job sites all around the country or the globe? Is paying traveling expenses for your employees really starting to add up? Video conferencing allows your employees to gather together for meetings without the expenses associated with travel and time away from the job site.

First Come, First Serve Basis Free Video Conferencing for the Rest of Us
New free video conferencing service site PalBee.com launched. Its Flash-based user interface offers unlimited free video conferencing sessions of one hour each for five video attendees. Although current beta version of the service allows 10 simultaneous video conference sessions, PalBee will be upgraded to host more simultaneous sessions in near future.

ClearOne Announces Max IP Interoperability with Cisco and Nortel SIP Platforms: Latest Firmware Upgrade Enables Full Interoperability with Cisco
ClearOne (OTC: CLRO.OB), the global provider of audio conferencing products, today announced that its MAX(R) IP and MAXAttach(TM) IP series of SIP-based VoIP conference phones are now interoperable with Cisco's SIP-based CallManager 5 IP telephony platform, as well as Nortel's MCS 5100 multimedia communication server. ClearOne recently released a major firmware upgrade for its MAX IP products, which enabled these SIP interoperability milestones.

Train Signal Releases Third New Cisco CCNP Course: Cisco ONT "Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks"
New Cisco ONT video training covers advanced Remote Access Security and VPN Client Configuration plus 642-845 exam changes.

Glowpoint and HaiVision deliver Telepresence and Interactive Broadcast High Definition Video
HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video codecs, announces collaboration with Glowpoint (OTC: GLOW), a premiere broadcast-quality, IP-based managed video service provider, to deliver telepresence and interactive broadcast network video services. Telepresence integrators and broadcasters can now source HD network video solution packages validated specifically for the performance and operational characteristics necessary within these segments such as video quality, video latency, system manageability, reliability, and on-line customer service.

Demand for Telepresence Solutions is Exploding Reports Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight Online Newsletter
Cisco Systems saw orders for 500 systems from December 2006 to April 2008 and a further 500 in the last five months. Other Telepresence vendors report a very high level of demand. Reflecting this enormous interest in Telepresence, readers of the Newsletter have more than doubled in this period.

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