BT Engage Meeting Mobile For Android, Video Conferencing Controller For BT Conferencing.

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BT Engage Meeting Mobile For Android, which is also available for iPhone and iPad allows mobile hosts to, initiate a video conference call, add users, control the meeting like ending or extending using an Android device. This app can also remotely monitor equipment to check on system performance and check and attend to trouble tickets.
According to vision2mobile, the app is compatible with Video Conferencing devices from Cisco, LifeSize, Polycom and TANDBERG. It also works together with BT Conferencing's BT Engage Meeting Manager, a Web-based tool that features an intuitive conference wizard, meeting templates, custom directories, B2B scheduling, iCal integration and a suite of online reporting tools.
The BT Engage Meeting Mobile For Android could be downloaded from Android Market and corresponding Apps for iDevices could be found on iTunes.
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U.S. House Representatives May Use Skype And Other Video Conferencing To Communicate With Constituents.

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Chief Administrative Officer and the House Committee on Administration could soon relax rules that prohibit lawmakers from using Skype and other video conferencing tools to communicate with their constituents. It might make it easier to catch your representative and talk "face to face" :)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) has asked the chamber's Chief Administrative Officer and the House Committee on Administration to "further explore whether Skype can be utilized in a manner that will not compromise House information security infrastructure and policies that were implemented in 2006," .

Thehill via Asteriskvoipnews

Grandstream GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone Gets WiFi

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Grandstream just announced that it is providingways for GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone to go wireless with a WiFi USB adapter. Even though it appears to be an after thought, the WiFi USB adapter fully complies with the latest 802.11n standard as well as legacy 802.11b/g standard. The device supports low power management, and various security standards such as WEP 64/128, WPA (PSK), WPA2 (PSK), TKIP, and AES, allowing to be comfortable in most situations.
The GXV3140 has a USB port that can accomodate the WIFi adapter and depending on the connection you can have a very high bandwidth allowing the IPvideoTalk without any problems. And if you decide to take the phone with you, the same capabilities will be available where ever there is a wireless connection.
This allows GXV3140 users greater freddom whether one is at home or at a hotel room. Allowing video conferencing from office as well from a nice place in ones garden.
The phone, GXV3140 itself is a very capable IP Multimedia phone which supports video telephony and supports a number of web and social networing applications. It sports a 4.3” 480x272 digital color LCD and an advanced 1.3M pixel tilt capable CMOS camera (with privacy shutter) for video presentation. The phone has dual Ethernet ports, SD USB, a stereo headset jack, TV-out, stereo audio-out, and a full duplex speakerphone.
The phone supports anything thing a internet connected device provides, web, internet radio and IM services like Yahoo, MSN, and Google.
The phone is capable of supporting localization in 9 languages and Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, horoscopes, and 3-way video conferencing are promised in near future.
The USB WiFi Adapter will be available in November.
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meeting24.tv New Online Conferencing Service WIT A Twist

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A new Video conferencing service, meeting24.tv has arrived in the scene and it is a venture by "UG Communications". Tokyo, Japan. The conferencing system allows 24 simultaneous users at the same time. The twist is the simplicity and the ease of use. The WIT is the research lab behind the companies.

Only the person hosting the meeting or conference needs to have an user account. The Host logs in and recives a web URL that could be mailed to maximum of 24 users or conference members. Other conference members join the meeting by following the URL and the site will be up for 24 hours from the time it was activated. If you need more than 24 hours for your conference, create another conference. The UI aute senses your browser language and change the menues and other texts accordingly. So international conferences should not be a problem to setup, and if you know the languages.

The users will also see ads during the conference and if you do not want those interupting you, you can get a conference room, a pro account for $100 a month. I think it is too expensive for family talks but might fit SMB or corporate settings.

They use the same streaming technology used by Utagoe.

Utagoe Live100 public beta demo video from utagoe on Vimeo.

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GIPS To Bring Real Time Video Demos To VoiceCon Orlando Florida

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GIPS, Global IP Solutions and the maker of voice engine that we have spoken about before (GIPS) will be demonstrating desktop video conferencing, and showing end users how HD (high definition) desktop video conferencing can make a difference to end users’ overall Unified communications and video conferencing experience.
The technology is based on GIPS voice and video engines handles all aspects of audio mixing and processing in a conferencing or collaboration environment. Audio and video processing issues typical on IP networks, such as delay, jitter, packet loss, lip synchronization, background noise, echo, CPU and bandwidth constraints are easily managed by the technology.
VoiceCON will be held March 30-April 2 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
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Tags: VoiceCON, GIPS, Voice Engine, Video Engine, Global IP Solutions, Unified communications, video conferencing, collaboration

Skype 4.0, Impressive.

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Even though I do not use Skype much, I have heavy users of skype around me. So I usually get to experience Skype on their computers before I try on my own computer. It was the same case with Skype 4.0, but afterwards, I updated my own because I liked it a lot, much more than the Skype 4.0 Beta. You do not need to uninstall Skype in order to upgrade.
As most users, I am very impressed with the video quality and the experience. I had a video chat with a my friend in Japan and let me say that I was able to notice much more of her face today than I did before. She was also able to clearly show me the details of her new apartment using a wireless webcam. The other features, IM, Voice were pleasant experiences with the new UI. Good Job Skype!
You will be able to read the official release announcement here.

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IP Based Video Conferencing

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Andy at Voip Watch is talking about IP Based Video Conferencing and shows us some real work example to go with it. His thoughts and ideas always seem to be very timely.

Video Conferencing Takes Off

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