One CTS’s Perspective: InfoComm 2013 Christopher Neto, CTS traveled the show floor on his first visit to see this years exhibitors. He saw quite the cross-section of products, snapped some photos and sent them to us. Whether it is an 84-inch touch screen from Planar or a Crestron room system that uses Microsoft Lync's unified communications capabilities, he pinpointed the vendors to keep an eye on. Vendors include Vaddio, Stewart Filmscreen, Planar, Listen Technologies, Mersive Solstice, Panasonic, Delta, Crestron, ClearOne and Barco.
One CTS’s Perspective: InfoComm 2013, Day One Christopher Neto, CTS traveled the show floor on his first visit to see this years exhibitors. He saw quite the cross-section of products, snapped some photos and sent them to us. Whether it is an 84-inch touch screen from Planar or a Crestron room system that uses Microsoft Lync's unified communications capabilities, he pinpointed the vendors to keep an eye on. Vendors include Vaddio, Stewart Filmscreen, Planar, Listen Technologies, Mersive Solstice, Panasonic, Delta, Crestron, ClearOne and Barco.
A Surprising Buzz at InfoComm 2013 At InfoComm 2013, collaboration products from companies such as Vaddio, Cisco and Polycom were present, but there were many non-traditional companies such as display and screen manufactures that were showing products with collaboration as feature benefit.
12 Hiddens Gems of InfoComm 2013 At InfoComm 2013, be sure see these new products from: NTX, Mimeo Monitors, Salamander Designs, Bitwise, Exothermic, Ricoh, Attero Tech, Platinum Tools, Coolux, Aavara Innovation Corp., BrightSign and Matrox Graphics.
Blue Jeans 2.0 Video Conferencing Adds New UI, Advanced Controls The Blue Jeans 2.0 video conferencing platform features easier meeting access, enhanced content sharing, and advanced in-meeting controls.
Vaddio Makes the Union of BYOD Users and Videoconferencing Really Easy InfoComm 2013, Vaddio Introduces Complete Unified Communications Meeting Room Solutions for Laptop and Tablet Computers: the GroupSTATION and HuddleSTATION, making it easy for BYOD users to participate in a videoconferencing meeting.
TV One Introduces CORIOmaster Mini All-in-one videowall processor to be on display at InfoComm 2013
AVI-SPL Demos Integration of AV Monitoring into VNOC Symphony Platform at InfoComm The company broadens its A/V Monitoring service by Adding New Video Management.
6 Robust Videoconferencing Apps for Android and iOS Mobile videoconferencing apps do more than just connect people face to face. File sharing, real-time annotation and remote desktop connectivity mark these mobile apps as capable and robust utilities that are becoming a necessity for tech-savvy professionals with busy schedules. Check out apps from developers like Microsoft Corporation, Radvision, Adobe Systems, Polycom Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc. and FuzeBox for Android and iOS devices.
Child Telepsychiatry — Bring the Science of the Mind to the Patient Child telepsychiatry is solving one of the critical problems in medicine, the shortage of child psychiatrists. Children and their parents often have to travel for hours for a short visit that is critical to their health and happiness. Telemedicine is bringing the specialist to the child.
Mercy Health Network Electronic ICU Supports Existing ICU Care Mercy Hospital Network now has electronic ICUs (eICU) that allow for 24/7 monitoring of ICU patients remotely. Using technology from VISICU and Vidyo, workstations are created that have videoconferencing and access to electronic medical records (EMRs). Now busy hospitals always have staff personally monitoring ICU patients.
AVer’s Video Conferencing Bridge Supports Up to 10 Endpoints The new EMC1000 allows for video collaboration anywhere and anytime for under $7,500.
WebRTC enables quick and easy Web browser-to-Web browser Videoconferencing WebRTC is a videoconferencing standard for use with supporting Web browsers. Freely available, the standard will make waves In the industry; however, many vendors see this technology as an enhancement to their own products. Google and Mozilla are supporting this standard as a way to gain market share, while Microsoft is developing its own version of this technology.
10 Tips for Succeeding in Unified Communications Deployment Dan Newman discusses the top ten tips for adding unified communications to your technology arsenal. By combining voice, video, instant messaging and more to one network-based platform, resources are freed up for both the user and IT.
ReadyTalk Adds Video Conferencing Option The company also offers audio conferencing, Web conferencing, webinars and Web events.