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Cisco Announcements: Updated and New Telepresence and Collaboration Solutions

March 12, 2014 | David S. Maldow, Esq.

With Enterprise Connect just around the

corner, Cisco has announced a number of

new, and updated, visual collaboration

products and solutions. Let's take a quick

look at these technologies.

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Innovations in Visual Collaboration: Your Preview Guide to Enterprise Connect 2014

March 11, 2014 | Christina Gray

About the Conference: Enterprise Connect, taking place March 17-20,

2014 at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center

in Orlando, Florida, is one of the leading

conferences focusing on the telepresence,

video conferencing, and enterprise

communications industry. Historically, the

audience has been made up primarily of

technology developers, business leaders, and

IT professionals.

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Sneak Peak at the New Phoenix Spider IP Speakerphone to be Debuted at Enterprise Connect

March 9, 2014 | David S. Maldow, Esq.

Today, Phoenix Audio announced the release of their

latest audio solution, the Spider. Our TPO News audience

is probably well aware of Phoenix Audio and their

powerful business class audio peripherals. This newest

model appears to be a complete revamp from the ground

up, in terms of appearance, design and usability. It also

includes all of the functionality and power under the hood

that we have come to expect from Phoenix.

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PetChatz Lets You Videoconference with Your Pets from Work

March 3, 2014 | Christina Gray

Owners know how hard it can be to leave

your pet at home alone. Many pets

struggle with increased anxiety, loneliness,

and sadness when their owner leaves. For

owners, there may be fear that a pet will

have an accident or destroy their property.

Unfortunately, between work, school, and

errands, many people are forced to leave

their pets at home due to daily obligations.

Many pet owners wish they could check in on their pets to make sure they are not damaging the house or

exhibiting anxious behavior. Oftentimes, for many pets, just hearing the owner's voice or seeing them is

enough to combat anxiety or loneliness.

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Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ

Story and images by Spencer Ackerman and James

Ball / The Guardian

Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from

the US National Security Agency, intercepted and

stored the webcam images of millions of internet

users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret

documents reveal.

GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010

explicitly state that a surveillance program

codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of

Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to

agency databases, regardless of whether individual

users were an intelligence target or not.

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TPO Catalog Adds 6 New Visual Collaboration Listings

Company Profile: EOS

Company Profile: Teliris

Solution Snapshot: VBrick

Solution Snapshot: Qumu

Solution Snapshot: ACT Conference Forum

Almost 1M families used video consultations with physicians last year

Story and images by Aditi Pai / Mobi Health News

The number of households using video consultations

with physicians will grow, from 900,000 in 2013 to

22.6 million in 2018, according to a report from Parks

Associates.

Parks Associates previously released other data from

this report last month, which added that video

consultation revenues will grow from under $100

million in 2013 to $13.7 billion in 2018.

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Indian court system contemplates replacing hardware-based videoconferencing with Skype

Story and images by Mustafa Plumber / DNA

Skype - a freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging,

which is used by people across the world to connect with their love

ones would soon be used by the Maharashtra prison department. This

would be done to produce undertrials before the court in the wake of

low police escort personnel availability leading to delay in criminal

trials.

A trial run was conducted at the Arthur Road jail and Taloja prison,

linking both the central prisons via Skype. The internet-based

programme is mainly pegged against the present method of

producing undertrials through video-conference to reduce the

telephone bills.

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Edward Snowden Bounces Videoconferencing Call to SXSW through Seven Proxy Servers to Mask Location

Story and images by Ellen Nakashima / The Washington Post

America's spy agencies are so focused on "mass surveillance" that they

have missed clues about terrorist incidents, such as last year's Boston

Marathon bombing and an attempted attack on a jetliner on Christmas in

2009, former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Monday.

In an hour-long video discussion hosted by the South by Southwest

music, film and technology conference in Austin, Texas, Snowden, who

is living in asylum in an undisclosed location in Russia, asserted that the

National Security Agency's efforts to collect information in bulk have

backfired.

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Iowa Poll: 66 percent of Iowans against telemed abortions

Story and images by Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.

Two-thirds of Iowans think the state should not allow

doctors to use a telemedicine system to prescribe and

distribute abortion pills, a new Iowa Poll shows.

Just 27 percent of Iowans support allowing such a system.

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The past and possible futures of VR

Story and images by Simon Parkin / MIT Technology

Review

It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron

Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the

high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined humanity's

concept of where technology might soon take our species.

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Polycom Channel Chief Nudging Partners Toward New Cloud, Software Wins

1Click ups the ante on enterprise video conferencing

FuzeBox Offers Solution to Increase Productivity in the Workplace

ClearOne gobbles up Sabine in $9M deal

Time Warner Wants To Bring Telemedicine Home

Explore the Seinfeld apartment in Oculus Rift

Google Hangouts updated with iPad and iOS 7 optimization, new video options

World's first avatar interviewing software launched in the UK

Inside WebRTC Use Cases

Arkadin Intros Video Managed Services

Google Chromebox Unboxing

1:1 Krish Ramakrishnan, CEO, Blue Jeans Network

Microsoft Lync Conference 2014 - A Review by Wainhouse Research

VCIG Live! Presents: VCIG Year of Interop: Calling Outside My Organization

And more

Out of the Corner Office, Into Every Office: Cisco Sets the New Bar

for Enterprise Collaboration With Products Capable of Completely

Changing How Teams Connect

Market leader in business collaboration delivers

enhancements that enable mobile and distributed teams to

connect through a "better than being there" experience

SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 12, 2013 - Cisco today made a

series of announcements aimed to put highquality

video at the fingertips of everyone in the organization--in

organizations of all sizes.

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Orbis Robotics Inc. to Incorporate IOCOM's Award-Winning Software in Telepresence Robot Line

CHICAGO, IL --(Marketwired - March 11, 2014) - IOCOM, a leading provider of

universal video conferencing solutions, today announced that Orbis Robotics will be

incorporating Visimeet software into their telepresence robots. In addition to

incorporating Visimeet into their line of robots, Orbis Robotics will supply Visimeet

to current and future customers.

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Masergy Wins Stevie Award for Customer Service Excellence

DALLAS - March 11, 2014 - Masergy Communications Inc., a

global leader in managed networking and cloud services, today

announced the company has been awarded a 2014 Stevie Award for

Sales & Customer Service in the Customer Service Department of

the Year - Telecommunications category. The company was

recognized for industry-leading customer service as a result of a

culture and department of employees that emphasize customer

service as a #1 priority. Masergy continues to be recognized for its

exceptional and consistent customer service.

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50 New Products Launching from Enterprise Connect Next Week

MARCH 10, 2014 -- SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2014

/PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Connect today previews

enterprise communications products and services exhibitors

will unveil at the Orlando event next week, March 17-20, at

the Gaylord Palms Convention Center in Orlando, FL.

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Phoenix Audio Technologies to Unveil The Spider - a New, Innovative IP Conference Phone

Phoenix Audio Technologies, a world leader in real-time audio

solutions, announced today that its new, innovative IP conference

phone, the Spider, will be unveiled during the Enterprise Connect

convention, in Orlando on March 17th.

The Spider is an advanced SIP based IP conference phone. In addition,

it can also communicate through USB interface with any computer

under any operating system. This allows it to serve as both your IP conference phone and your soft video

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Glowpoint Announces 2013 Results

Financial Highlights:

Revenue increased 15 percent to $33.5 million for 2013 from $29.1 million for 2012. This increase is attributable to revenue contribution for the full year 2013 from the acquisition of Affinity VideoNet in October 2012.

Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP financial measure defined below and reconciled to GAAP in the attached schedule) increased 43 percent to $4.4 million for 2013 from $3.1 million for 2012.

Net cash provided by operating activities increased to $2.3 million for 2013 as compared to $0.8 million for 2012

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SecureVideo.com Announces Release of API Documentation

Qumu Adds Speech Search to the Qumu Video App for SharePoint 2013

Clary Icon Releases Next Generation OneScreen, Creating New Product Category

Compass Business Solutions' Jules Trono Speaks About Interoperability at a VCI Live

Session on March 4

Magor Extends Flexibility of Aerus Service Delivery Platform (SDP) with Desktop

Visual Collaboration Client for Windows, New Suite of OnDemand Services

VCI-Group Announces Interoperability Certification Course

Connected Business Expo to act as platform for innovation

Allied Fiber's CEO, Hunter Newby, to Discuss Emerging Technologies and Net

Neutrality at Upcoming Events

VCI-Group Announces Interoperability Certification Course

Mark Cray Promoted to CEO of AGT

SimpleSignal to Showcase Technology Partners at Channel Partners Conference and

Expo

Worldwide Enterprise Videoconferencing and Telepresence Market Sees Mixed Fourth

Quarter Equipment Revenue Results, According to IDC

Compass Business Solutions Exclusively Launches Cisco VTVS2 Training Globally

Highlighting Current Software Labs

TrueConf Announces Support for 4K Video Conferencing at Integrated Systems Europe

2014

And more…

VP Of Technology Position: San Diego, CA

Title: VP Of Technology

Field: Information Technology

Location: San Diego, CA

Status: Full-Time

Clearance: N/A

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Chief Operations Officer: Louisville, KY

Title: Chief Operations Officer

Field: Hosted/Managed Services and Telephony/VOIP

Location: Louisville, KY

Status: Full-Time

Clearance: N/A

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