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Silent Circle Takes on Skype

11 July 2014 Marco Attard Conferencing & Collaboration

Blackphone makers Silent Circle take on the likes of Skype and Viber with a global encrypted VoIP service providing members with private communications, even with people "outside the Circle" on any mobile device or landline.

Pitched at businesses and privacy-conscious consumers, the service allows encrypted voice calls to non-subscribers in 79 countries at the calling party's standard long-distance rates.

"Silent Circle’s Out-Circle encrypted international calling plans are a major step forward in bringing private encrypted communications capabilities to all corners of the world,” the company says. “Out-Circle Calling provides a low-cost, private alternative to traditional mobile calling plans that everyone from your neighbour to traveling multinational executives can use."

OneScreen SoftServe, Collaboration Hub in the Cloud

30 June 2014 Gary Kayye Conferencing & Collaboration

OneScreen SoftServe, Collaboration Hub in the Cloud

Clary Icon’s new OneScreen SoftServe is a cloud-based collaboration hub for video, audio and web conferencing, whiteboarding, presenting, innovating, selling and more.

Clary says OneScreen SoftServe removes the barriers to workflow and bridges the gaps between disparate technologies so that teams don’t have to be concerned with technology, they can simply choose their tools, focus on their work, and can keep business growing.

Additionally, OneScreen SoftServe deploys with a live, on-demand Screen Skills Guru button, so help is at the touch of a finger.

IDC: Declines for Videoconferencing Hardware Market

30 June 2014 Marco Attard Conferencing & Collaboration

IDC: Declines for Videoconferencing Hardware Market

IDC reports the global enterprise videoconferencing and telepresence market shows further declines during Q1 2014, with equipment revenues dropping by -20% QoQ and -15.9% YoY to reach $473.5 million.

Global unit sales also show declines of -13.3% Q-o-Q and -6.2% Y-o-Y. When it comes to our side of the globe, EMEA sees Q1 2014 declines of -19.8% Y-o-Y.

On a market segment basis multi-codec immersive telepresence revenues are down by -25.2% Q-o-Q and -33.5% Y-o-Y, with unit sales dropping by -34.7% Q-o-Q and -25.9% Y-o-Y. Room-based video system revenues are down -13.9% Q-o-Q and -10.1% Y-o-Y, with units sales down by -13.7% Q-o-Q and just -1% Y-o-Y.

NEC Showcases UC Solutions

30 June 2014 Marco Attard Conferencing & Collaboration

The 2014 NEC Solutions Showcase housed more than digital signage-- NEC also took advantage to show off what it calls "The Smart Enterprise" via its Univerge 3C unified communications solution.

Univerge 3CUniverge 3C combines voice, video and online collaboration within a single software platform. It runs as an integrated UC client across a wide range of IP client devices, including Windows, Mac, and Android devices.

The client handles presence, schedule-based availability and messaging management with a simple point-and-click/drag-and-drop Read more...

Cloud-based Collaboration Software for Events

30 June 2014 Bob Snyder Conferencing & Collaboration

Cloud-based Collaboration Software for Events

A cloud-based software (SaaS) solution, EventCollab will help event professionals seamlessly manage and collaborate with all stakeholders of each and every project.

Created by event industry veterans for audio-visual, event production, and management professionals, EventCollab's Showbook app wants to change the way the industry manages event logistics.