As videoconferencing becomes more affordable and more accessible, the technology pushes in all directions simultaneously...let’s call it the industry equivalent of the Big Bang that physics geniuses think created our expanding universe.

In one direction, videoconferencing climbs the last rung of the corporate ladder to become a preferred method for corporate board meetings. Not yet ubiquitous, but as an example, at American Express, 10 of the 13 directors attended their March 28 board meeting via telepresence. Wall Street Journal ran a full Read more...

Radvision announces Scopia Mobile V3, an enterprise application for Apple iOS and Google Android devices that allows mobile users to connect with full video, audio and H.239 data collaboration to video conferencing and telepresence systems.

Scopia Mobile V3 is based on Radvision's BEEHD client framework for developing HD video-enabled applications across many platforms.

Scopia Mobile users now can participate in enterprise video and telepresence conferences leveraging the latest mobile devices such as Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 4 along with the Read more...

The umi-- Cisco's oddly named take on home videoconferencing (pronounced YOU-me)-- will be seeking a better life in enterprise pastures as the company reorganises its consumer product business.

Cisco will be integrating it within its Business Telepresence line-- selling it through enterprise and MSP channels. Away from the living room and into the boardroom, then?

The umi was supposed to introduce Cisco's TelePresence to the consumer market, as a console and camera connecting to HDTVs. However consumers clearly did not to bother-- not when there' Read more...

LifeSize Team 220 is now qualified within the Microsoft Office Communications Server platform so customers can now video call across the enterprise by connecting LifeSize video systems in conference rooms and meeting spaces to the PC, and vice versa, delivering a unified communications experience.

LifeSize is also pursuing Microsoft qualifications for video systems (including their Passport, Room 220 and Express 220) in calendar year 2011.

Today, customers are able to make calls between Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 desktops Read more...