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Vidtel Brings Video Closer to the Mass Market with WebRTC Support

Today, Vidtel, an innovative cloud video telephony and video conferencing provider, announced interoperability of its MeetMe and Gateway services with WebRTC video endpoints. This announcement is significant both for the entrepreneurial provider and the industry as a whole. Vidtel can now serve a new customer segment that is bound to grow exponenti...

The Advent of the Phablet

If CES is a bit of precursor of what’s to come at MWC, then we should expect even more phablet launches later in February. First, a quick definition by what the term “phablet”: it is a crossover between a smartphone and a tablet. The original definition was simple: any smartphone having a display between 4.6 “ and 5.5”. However, since screen sizes ...

HEVC (H.265) Adoption Is At Least Five Years Away For Consumer Content Services

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also referred to as H.265, is a video standard that is being developed through an ISO/IEC collaboration. HEVC planning was begun way back in 2004, shortly after H.264 was finalized and the topic has been getting a lot of exposure in the industry over the past few months. Many questions remain about HEVC includi...

Hot Company To Watch: Elemental Technologies Grows Revenue To $21M In 2012

Last month, Elemental Technologies put out a press release highlighting the fact that their revenue growth exceeded 200% year-over-year. Many vendors put out these kinds of releases at the end of the year and since most of them are private, the percentages quoted don’t really mean much since we don’t know what base numbers they are working off of....

Living in a Flatter World: Benefits and Pitfalls

In a previous blog post, I talked about the role of social media in creating new beliefs and behavioral patterns. Here I’d like to talk about how social media is making our world flatter and what that means for individuals and society. The “flattening of the world” refers to the gradual disappearing of geographic limitations and the leveling of th...

Living in a Flatter World: Benefits and Pitfalls

In a previous blog post, I talked about the role of social media in creating new beliefs and behavioral patterns. Here I’d like to talk about how social media is making our world flatter and what that means for individuals and society. The “flattening of the world” refers to the gradual disappearing of geographic limitations and the leveling of th...

Turning Microsoft Office 365 into a True Small Business Offering: How the Wireless Carriers Each Approach This Challenge

It’s always interesting to see how the wireless carriers go about appealing to the small business market. In our annual surveys, smaller businesses consistently choose the wireless carrier as their preferred mobility/communications partner. Have the carriers really earned that designation – or are they just the default choice? We’ll dedicate a fut...

Finding Gold at the End of the Digital Cable Rainbow in India

India is a vast market today for Pay TV, with over 100 million Pay TV households and an estimated 140 million TV households. It is also arguably among the least developed market for Pay TV, despite these numbers. For example, the number of TV households pales in comparison to the country’s population of over 1.2 billion. Also, India still does not ...

Emerging Trends in Web and Video Conferencing - What's in Store for 2013 and Beyond

2012 saw another solid year of growth for web and video conferencing among businesses. User demand is growing at a strong pace indicating that web and video meetings are going mainstream. In a recent Frost & Sullivan survey of C-level executives in North America, web and video conferencing ranked high among key enterprise communication application...

New eBook Targets Shift in Collaboration

One of the biggest shifts in business today is a steady move toward a virtual workplace, in which employees routinely work in locations that are different from those of their colleagues, managers, and direct reports—not to mention customers, partners and suppliers. Whether they are working from a remote office, home office, client site or the road,...

Atos - Analyst Meet, Mumbai

Atos held its first ever Outsourcing Advisory Day in India to share its strategic vision and India market approach. The meet comprised of a well balanced mix of speakers from the Atos leadership team and business heads to provide a comprehensive view on Atos’s India strategy. The presentations were followed by extensive discussions with the analyst...

IP Media Phones Defined

      Over the past five years, IP media phones have emerged as a new category of enterprise communications endpoints offered by various IP phone vendors. While there is still some confusion about what standard characteristics define these devices and whether they have a future in the business arena, Frost & Sullivan wishes to address some of ...

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