Media Network Services (MNS), after beta testing with 100+ testers from around the world, launches MCU1.com in Europe (plus Americas and APAC). MCU1.com is a software based MCU delivered as Software-as-a-Service through any video conferencing service provider or reseller.

Designed to put users in control of their collaboration environments, MCU1.com hopes to help business increase their collaboration efforts internally as well as with external stakeholders regardless of their location.

“For too long high complexity has been a major barrier to mass-adoption of video conferencing, both within organizations as well as B2B”, says Hans Fredrik Johansen, CEO of MNS. “With MCU1.com, we lower that barrier and provide the video conferencing industry with arguably the easiest-to-use MCU ever created combined with the best possible global reach available”. Read more...

A 2013 SXSW Accelerator finalist, Charlie is an app is a meeting facilitator: it pulls in information about people in your meeting as well as details about what you and that person might have in common.

Charlie connects to your calendar and prepping you on the people and companies that you are meeting with. Charlie filters through different online sources, alerting you if you have anything in common (you both like the same football team) and what’s going on in the news with your commonalities.

It will also tell you more about where they Read more...

The European SharePoint User Survey by Qumu, shows employee training to be a key aspect of SharePoint use and an increase in video capability within the platform to be a top priority for business users.

The survey, aimed at revealing the expectations and current trends amongst Microsoft SharePoint users, found improving training resources and providing live video meetings and training sessions, in addition to offering easy video upload and sharing, were key goals for 2013.

601 panelists in France, Germany and the UK were interviewed and 54% of the respondents were male, 46% female. The majority of the users were aged 25-44 (68%).

SharePoint is used extensively for employee training, with only 10% of survey respondents saying it was not used for this purpose. 88% of users saw improving business training resources and delivering training via live video within SharePoint as a strategic development opportunity. Read more...

LifeSize is working with Microsoft to deliver a video and collaboration solution that brings the popular Microsoft Lync unified communication experience to the meeting room.

LifeSize is one of four video collaboration vendors participating in the Microsoft Lync Room Systems program, aimed at developing a new product category designed around Lync 2013.

LifeSize LRS1000 for Microsoft Lync is a meeting room collaboration solution that natively runs Microsoft Lync 2013 software optimized for meeting rooms. By including all of the components needed for Read more...