The Next Thing in Telepresence and Video Conferencing Independent research firm and consultancy, Human Productivity Lab and Brockmann & Company, the customer insight firm, have published the industry's first comprehensive handbook on inter-company telepresence and video conferencing. "Th...
The acquisition of TANDBERG by Cisco, announced October 1, 2009 is not one of the typical deals that made Cisco what it is today since they plan to acquire a large, existing business complete with its own channels that would complement the Cisco direct sales organization currently responsible fo...
October is usually a big month for Cisco's TelePresence business unit. It was three years ago that the company introduced its new product. I recall that it was a real shocker to the communications industry in that this was a home-grown capability, a new product aiming at new customers, something...
Mobile communications has over the past four decades worked to increase employee reachability. However, this has traditionally been achieved at great economic expense and with a loss of convenience for customers, coworkers and partners who have to record different numbers or worse, make the mistak...
This report reviews the state of experiences of a panel of 229 business users from around the world conducted in mid-2009. Telepresence is a premium class of video communications products and services, as a room-in-a-room implementation where the experience engineering has resulted in highly c...
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The Next Thing in Telepresence and Video Conferencing Independent research firm and consultancy, Human Productivity Lab and Brockmann & Company, the customer insight firm, have published the...
The acquisition of TANDBERG by Cisco, announced October 1, 2009 is not one of the typical deals that made Cisco what it is today since they plan to acquire a large, existing business complete with...
October is usually a big month for Cisco's TelePresence business unit. It was three years ago that the company introduced its new product. I recall that it was a real shocker to the communications...
Mobile communications has over the past four decades worked to increase employee reachability. However, this has traditionally been achieved at great economic expense and with a loss of convenience for...
This report reviews the state of experiences of a panel of 229 business users from around the world conducted in mid-2009. Telepresence is a premium class of video communications products and services,...
What does Customer Insight really mean? It means that our market research projects always explain what it means to customers. Implications to the business. Why customers should care. Providing interpretation...
I had a really interesting briefing the other day with Scott Colesworthy (left), an entrepreneur who has established a subscription services business using Vidyo technology. It was interesting on a...
Further to my earlier post on the opportunity for PC video communications, the folks at Avistar (among others) reached out to share their views on the role of desktop video in business. Avistar Communications,...
Today, on the same day as the Massachusetts special election for the US Senate (Go Scott Brown), Avaya announces its roadmap for the Avaya-Nortel integration. Wes Durow, the Global Marketing VP mentions...
As recorded on the CES video, this next generation TV remote, from Vizio includes a slideout tray for QWERTY keyboard, not unlike many smartphone designs. Also, like smartphones, this remote control uses...
I did correctly predict that Cisco would reach deeper into its pocketbook and pull out more money to pay for TANDBERG, which they most certainly did. It is a huge embarrassment for Cisco to have gotten...
HP announced Nov 11, 2009 that 3Com and HP had signed a definitive agreement for HP to acquire 3Com for $2.7 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close in first half of 2010. Ever since Cisco's foray...
As consolidation gains momentum in the enterprise communications industry, Logitech, the web camera PC peripherals company, and operator of PC video service SightSpeed, announced that they've acquired...
On October 1, 2009 Cisco announced a $3 billion bid to acquire TANDBERG, the leading vendor of telepresence and video conferencing equipment. The offer is only an 11% premium over the publicly traded stock...
Cisco agrees to buy TANDBERG, the Norwegian video communications equipment market leader, paying $3 billion, an 11% premium to yesterday's Oslo market close for the stock. Expected to close in first half...
The whole idea of Cap and Trade was to harness the economic engine of self-interest and profitability to the social problem of carbon dioxide accumulation in the Earth's atmosphere. The simple mechanism...
Scandalous. This is like Hugo Chavez denying the presence or contents of emails captured from the FARC terrorists in Colombia from his own accounts. This is like Bill Gates denying on the stand that he'd...
We have water cooled nuclear reactors, water cooled motorcycles and water cooled cars. Why not water-cooled computers? Of course this makes sense. According to IBM scientists, water is 4 x more efficient...
Faulty accounting has been the bane of many an infamous fraudster - Bernie Madoff, Nortel's Frank Dunn, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers - and it's distortions are also buried deep in ethanol economics. Faulty...
I don't know anybody who likes a hypocrite. I know I don't. They say shame on you and then do exactly the thing they shamed about. No wonder this Congress' popularity is sinking so, so low. Remember...
What is the mood of the Brockmann visitor? How are the shades of grey in our economy represented by their sentiment? Compared to our first quarter ad hoc survey, When do you expect the recovery to begin?...
Desktop video conferencing with somebody is very easy when you have 483 million friends around the world to connect to.
It is interesting that half of the users' mobile phones are more than 18 months old, despite the typical mobile operator contract of 12 months to get a subsidized phone. Despite Apple having shipped 7.4...
Of course you would. We are used to paying extra for a more comfortable car, a larger home, a faster computer, a first class seat on an airplane and so on. This survey result merely reaffirms the obvious...
Visitors to Brockmann.com are quite pessimistic about the global economic recession that some report has been underway since early 2007. A third of visitors completing the one-click survey chose...
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