Telepresence takes off for Cisco — could there be a bigger trend in video?

Telepresence takes off for Cisco — could there be a bigger trend in video?

High oil prices have resonated through the economy at every level, and business travel is no exception. Realizing as much, I recently checked in with Cisco to see how well their telepresence product is selling.

Telepresence, for those who haven’t encountered it, is “a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present … at a location other than their true location,” at least according to Wikipedia. For Cisco, which took… Continue Reading

Got email? Talk about it, with GoldMail

Got email? Talk about it, with GoldMail

One of the big challenges for communication startups on the Internet is beating text. Despite the obvious potential of video and voice communication for creating a richer messaging experience, there’s just nothing quite as convenient as typing.

GoldMail offers a way to inject your voice into email, combined with text or pictures to help personalize and illustrate the message. And, most importantly, it’s easy to use.

To make a GoldMail message around a presentation, you need only… Continue Reading