Polycom now offers a full portfolio of HD desktop phones... with the introduction of two new products - the Polycom SoundPoint IP 335 desktop phone and the Polycom CX300 desktop phone.

The SoundPoint IP 335 completes Polycom's portfolio of open SIP, standards-based desktop phones featuring Polycom HD Voice. The addition of the SoundPoint IP 335 makes HD Voice more widely available and more affordable than ever before. Businesses of any size can take advantage of Polycom's HD Voice technology without paying for a high-end desktop phone.

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Swedish Konftel offers its first wireless conference phone.

Konftel 300W incorporates OmniSound 2.0 audio, a battery that provides 48 hours talk-time and wireless connectivity.

Konftel has been making GAP compatible telephones for different DECT systems for more than four years.

DECT is a well-proven standard for safe, high-quality audio transfer. Konftel 300W will work seamlessly with already installed DECT/GAP systems, so there is an immediate and huge addressable market. A total of 159m DECT hand-sets and 105m base stations were Read more...

For $405 million, LifeSize will become part of Logitech (yes, the mouse company, Logitech).

Why? Well, over the past three years, the giant computer peripherals maker Logitech has quietly become one of the largest HomeAV remote control providers in the world. And, they also have a media server, too. So, they've been in Home AV. Now, they make a foray in ProAV – or, what is more likely their vision: a convergence of HomeAV and ProAV via videoconferencing.

In November 2008, Logitech acquired SightSpeed for $30 million in cash, providing Logitech with video calling technology and a SW development team that hoped to create an enthusiastic video calling experience in the home.

Logitech's current product range encompasses a wide variety of personal peripherals (both cordless and corded), with special emphasis on products for PC navigation, gaming, Internet communications, digital music and home-entertainment control.

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Officially awarded European Platinum Partner status during Tandberg's annual Partner Summit in Lisbon, Talk & Vision now has the highest partner level in all four of the countries in which Talk & Vision has offices.

Talk & Vision can offer all of its solutions to Tandberg's customers around the world.

Talk & Vision was already an accredited service partner, but one requirement to become a Platinum Partner is a Center of Excellence where customers can see Tandberg's full offering. Talk & Vision now has two of these centers; one in Linschoten, Read more...