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    Five tech tools of the trade  Nov 21, 2009
    It may seem a complex piece of technology but video conferencing is not just for the big corporations any more, thanks to products such as Skype and Cisco WebEx. This is one way businesses can save on sending employees on time-consuming and expensive trips. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Does a work-from-home system contribute ot increased employee productivity?  Nov 20, 2009
    Employees working from home are given web cameras, WebEx (or any other collaborative communication tool to set up meetings), laptops and VPN access or tunneling software to log into office, internet connection and datacards. They are also empowered with an internet protocol-based communicator, which will rest as a deskphone icon on the employees laptop screen. (India Times)

    Here's the virtual buzz around the virtual water cooler  Nov 17, 2009
    It may seem like a complex piece of technology, but video conferencing is no longer just for the big corporations thanks to products like Skype and Cisco WebEx. These can help businesses save on sending employees on long, expensive and time-consuming trips just to visit customers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)

    61 new Cisco products  Nov 10, 2009
    (11-08) 21:15 PST -- Cisco Systems Inc. massively expanded its portfolio of collaboration technologies today, announcing 61 products, including a corporate-grade hosted e-mail system called Cisco WebEx Mail as well as a social networking application and a video system to help groups securely share video content and search capabilities ... Of the 61 products, Cisco's new WebEx Mail product will have the biggest impact, Kerravala said, because of the industrywide move into cloud computing ...... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Point Park brings MBA program to workplaces  Nov 10, 2009
    On a recent Tuesday, a half-dozen students gathered in GAI s training room for the first day of the global environment of business class, while others dialed in via WebEx video conferencing technology from three locations in Florida as well as from Cincinnati, Charleston, W.Va. and Philadelphia. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)

    Cisco undervalues Tandberg, investment firms say  Nov 7, 2009
    Cisco has high-definition, immersive videoconferencing systems in its Telepresence line as well as desktop collaboration offerings in its WebEx line. Chairman and CEO John Chambers has said video is the key application that will shape communications and drive network infrastructure growth in the coming years. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Cloud computing: Simply SaaS renamed?  Oct 30, 2009
    A truly SaaS program, such as Salesforce or WebEx, is "designed to provide business applications within the cloud," said Ryan. Facebook is a social networking application in the cloud, he added. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Red Hat, Google named top software vendors  Oct 21, 2009
    At an overall average of 85 percent, Google and Red Hat finished 6 percentage points ahead of the third place company in the software-vendor category, WebEx from (Nasdaq: CSCO). The other vendors ranked read like a who s who of the software industry: No. 4 Citirix, No. 5 Adobe, No. 6 (Nasdaq: MSFT), No. 7 (NYSE: CRM), No. 8 (Nasdaq: NOVL), No. 9 (Nasdaq: ORCL), No. 10 (NYSE: SAP) and No. 11. (Triangle Business Journal)

    Cisco to Buy Wireless Maker Starent for $2.9 Billion  Oct 15, 2009
    UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos said the price is almost 40 times Starent's 2010 earnings estimates, a multiple that Cisco has not paid since it bought WebEx in 2007. Related Articles. (Datamation)

    Cisco to Buy Wireless Gear Maker Starent for $2.9 Billion  Oct 14, 2009
    UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos said the price is almost 40 times Starent's 2010 earnings estimates, a multiple that Cisco has not paid since it bought WebEx in 2007. Starent makes network equipment that connects mobile phone service providers' core networks to 3G and 4G radio access networks, the newer wireless technology that supports mobile TV and multimedia messaging. (ABC News -- Wire)

    8 ways the American information worker remains a Luddite  Oct 13, 2009
    Seventy-six percent never use Web conferencing tools such as Cisco System's WebEx. Others that are mostly ignored include business-reporting tools (78%), team document-sharing sites such as Microsoft SharePoint (80%), social networking sites (89%) and videoconferencing (91%). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    LogMeIn rides remote-computing wave to rapid growth  Oct 10, 2009
    Competing against behemoths in the space such as Citrix Inc. and Cisco System Inc. s WebEx, LogMeIn s revenue grew 92 percent last year to $51. 7 million and subscriptions by 91 percent to 187,000. (Boston Business Journal, MA)

    Video Conferencing: Why Isn't It More Successful?  Oct 10, 2009
    And products like WebEx and Live Meeting make collaboration over distances productive ... If all you need is to see foils or pictures, WebEx or Live meeting are more than acceptable to most. (Datamation)

    Will Googles Wave replace e-mail, Facebook?  Oct 7, 2009
    Done right, Google Wave has the potential to grab traffic and user time away from Facebook; AOL's AIM; e-mail services from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo; and even Skype and Cisco System's WebEx. An add-on from startup 6rounds turns Wave collaboration into a video conference, similar to Skype's. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    > The Pitch: Cloud-based document managers  Oct 7, 2009
    ADVISERS: Chairman of the board is Shlomo Kramer, founder of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and of Imperva Inc. Another adviser is David Berman, former president of sales for WebEx Communications Inc.. MONEY BEING SOUGHT: The company is considering the timing and scope of a B round of funding after raising $5. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)

    Cisco's $3 Billion Tandberg Buy is Big Video Bet  Oct 2, 2009
    The acquisition will fill the wide gap between Cisco's high-end TelePresence video meeting service for executives and its WebEx tool used by millions of office workers for online meetings, and could bring videoconferencing to a mass market ... The acquisition, if approved by shareholders and regulators, will be Cisco's biggest deal since the world's top maker of internet routers and switches bought WebEx for $3. (Datamation)

    Cisco to buy Norwegian co for $3 bn  Oct 2, 2009
    and its previous acquisition of online meeting company WebEx, expanding the number of customers it can reach. "Tandberg has a large number of video endpoints," he told Reuters on Thursday. (India Times)

    Cisco Keeps Its Video Focus With $3 Billion Acquisition  Oct 2, 2009
    2 billion for WebEx, a Web conferencing firm. In May, Cisco completed its $590 million purchase of Pure Digital, maker of the Flip Video mini camcorder. (Investors Business Daily)

    Small cos are investing in smart technologies to stay ahead  Oct 2, 2009
    Cisco is expanding its presence in Tirupur through its WebEx collaborative software that allows companies in this textiles cluster to showcase their products, talk to clients and importantly, communicate between themselves in real time over video-conferencing ... Kiran Datar, managing director, Cisco WebEx, expects a growth of around 40% as SMEs prepare for the downturn to end. (India Times)

    PureMatter Bolsters Leadership Team  Aug 26, 2009
    Charles also served as Senior Director of Marketing for WebEx Communications prior to and beyond the IPO, where he drove the company's marketing communications organization, and played a significant part in the branding, demand-generation, and awareness-building programs that led to the successful IPO in 2000. Charles is a member of American Mensa (San Francisco Region) and is very active on the Social Web--recently achieving a spot as one of the "Top 25 Twitter Elite" for the Bay Area. (PR Newswire)

    YouTube Monetizes Viral Videos | Popular One-Offs Can Now Earn Money On YouTube  Aug 26, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on August 25, 2009. Making money on YouTube isn t an easy venture, even for Google itself. (Multichannel News)

    Global IP Solutions Powers the New Yahoo! Messenger Video Calling  Aug 25, 2009
    Its customer list includes CommuniGate, Nimbuzz, Nortel, Oracle, PCCW, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo. AOL and other key players in the voice and video over IP markets. (PR Newswire)

    Palo Alto's Dyyno launches media sharing platform  Aug 18, 2009
    PALO ALTO It s being called Twitter for video, a more robust WebEx video conferencing service, and a real-time ultrapersonalized YouTube for business and enterprises ... With one click to broadcast and one click to view, the Dyyno platform enables anyone to instantly share anything on their computer from a live, online video game such as World of Warcraft to a multimedia presentation during a Cisco WebEx conference. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)

    YouTube Screens Ghostbusters Movie In Full | Territorial Rights Licensing Strikes Again  Aug 15, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on August 14, 2009. The good news is that YouTube is streaming the original Ghostbusters movie in full for free for a whole week as a celebration of its 25th anniversary. (Multichannel News)

    How to Excel at Your Job and Be Home for Dinner  Jul 28, 2009
    Try WebEx instead of travel. A McKinsey partner who runs a big business has a working wife and small kids. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Should Google Charge For YouTube Uploads? | Profit-Making Alternative To Video Advertising  Jul 18, 2009
    Should Google Charge For YouTube Uploads. Profit-Making Alternative To Video Advertising. (Multichannel News)

    SAP Boosts SaaS Offerings With Google  Jul 17, 2009
    In SAP's case, Business ByDesign customers can integrate additional services, such as WebEx, though an interface that's designed to be easy to use, and is inspired by such services as. The system enables regular business users to use a drag-and-drop interface to build the new service. (SmallBusinessComputing)

    Watch HBO & Cinemax On Demand Online With Comcast & Time Warner TV Everywhere  Jul 14, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on July 13, 2009. HBO and Cinemax have joined the likes of TBS, TNT, and Starz in providing content for Comcast and Time Warner s new joint venture, TV Everywhere. (Multichannel News)

    Online Video Becoming Mainstream | YouTube Started It, Hulu Built On It - What Comes Next?  Jul 13, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , by Dave Parrack on July 12, 2009. There is now no doubting the fact that online video is mainstream. (Multichannel News)

    Cloud Bedfellows: Red Hat and Cisco?  Jul 9, 2009
    Beyond just ensuring user choice, Red Hat is also a key part of Cisco's WebEx delivery infrastructure. "We have a lot of relationships with Red Hat on the WebEx side," said Doug Dennerline, senior vice president of Cisco's software collaboration group ... Dennerline also described Red hat as "core" to Cisco's upcoming e-mail product, officially called WebEx Mail and set for release later this year. (Datamation)

    Analyst Picks and Pans: American Express, Citrix, FormFactor  Jul 7, 2009
    In addition, he said it is unlikely that Citrix will be bought by another company in the near future, saying probable acquirers like Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are still occupied with their past purchases of Webex and EDS, respectively. FormFactor Inc. (). (BusinessWeek)

    Collaboration  Jul 5, 2009
    WebEx CEO Subrah Iyar said the acquisition of Intranets ... WebEx, one of the biggest names in real-time online communication for the enterprise, widened its reach and its services by buying Intranets. (IntranetJournal)

    Get free price quotes for web conferencing services.  Jul 5, 2009
    We currently use webex with telephony rather than VOIP. Our typical session is 100 minutes and has anywhere between 10-80 participants. We may on occation want to utilize Powerpoint with embedded video or stand alone video in our training. (Multichannel News)

    Investors Log Into LogMeIn, As Tech IPO Soars 25% In First Day  Jul 3, 2009
    The two biggest rival services are Citrix Systems' () GoToMyPC and Cisco Systems' () WebEx. Both these companies have the war chests to cut into LogMeIn's low-end market, if they choose to. (Investors Business Daily)

    VantisLife to Offer Life Insurance Products Through Astoria Federal Savings  Jul 3, 2009
    These products are offered by licensed bankers via an award-winning online process and supported by best-in-class wholesaling and access to Vantis University, the company's exclusive online, Webex, and in-person training and development resource. About VantisLife. (PR Newswire)

    Cisco's Cloud Strategy: Eyeing Google  Jul 2, 2009
    "WebEx is a cloud service but we provide the application, not compute as a service, so it's different from the Amazon model. We want to enable service providers to be the infrastructure-as-a-service provider." ... Considering that Cisco already has significant datacenter assets used to deliver its existing WebEx services, one might think that it could be an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud provider as well ... Currently, that cloud is used for WebEx collaboration, but it will be expanding this... (Datamation)

    New Web-Based Software Player: Cisco?  Jul 2, 2009
    Cisco Senior Vice President Doug Dennerline said on Tuesday his company may develop a service that would allow business users to create documents they could draft and share through its WebEx meeting and collaboration service ... Cisco, over the past decade, has expanded its focus from routers and switches to a wider range of products including software and video products, such as a high-end video conferencing systems called TelePresence and the WebEx service that facilitates online meetings. (Datamation)

    Funeral webcast service begins  Jun 30, 2009
    One of the most innovative new offerings in the funeral industry, funeral webcasting provides a secure and dignified means for remote participation by family and friends unable to attend a loved one s memorial service. "It is common in our society for family and friends to find it difficult or impossible to attend memorial services due to many reasons, Keith Petty, president of Memorials Streams, said. We are honored to offer participation to mourners living long distances from the service, the... (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    Facebook Unveils Live Stream Box Feature | Ustream First Partners With Facebook Connect  Jun 25, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on June 25, 2009. The social side of online video is becoming an increasingly important tool in demonstrating the divergence between traditional broadcasts and Web-only broadcasts. (Multichannel News)

    Social Cloud Battle: Google vs. IBM  Jun 25, 2009
    "Some of the capabilities of Cisco WebEx require heavyweight plugins for browsers, so in the first few minutes, everyone's asking each other, 'can you see the meeting,'" he added. IBM's LotusLive Connections will be available on June 30, 2009, and will be priced below $10 per user per month, Picciano said. (Datamation)

    YouTube Aiding Iranian Revolution | How Important Online Video Is To Future Of Iran  Jun 23, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on June 22, 2009. You surely cannot have missed what is currently happening in Iran. (Multichannel News)

    YouTube Boasts 20 Hours Of Video Uploaded Every Minute | But It Still Wants More UGC  May 26, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on May 25, 2009. To hear that YouTube is the most popular, most visited, and most content-filled online video site on the Web is hardly surprising. (Multichannel News)

    InformationWeek Analytics and Interop Announces 2009 'Best of Interop' Award Winners  May 20, 2009
    Collaboration and Unified Communications: Cisco - WebEx Node on Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers. Data Center and Storage: Cisco - Unified Computing System. (PR Newswire)

    Facebook Video Chat Coming Soon? | Already A UGC Haven, Facebook Eyes Skype and Gmail  May 17, 2009
    Facebook Video Chat Coming Soon. Already A UGC Haven, Facebook Eyes Skype and Gmail. (Multichannel News)

    The Hulu Hullabaloo | Would The Real Online Video Metrics Please Stand Up To Be Counted?  May 16, 2009
    Posted in: , , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on May 15, 2009. Each month, several companies release viewing figures for online video. (Multichannel News)

    From stage to many screens  May 12, 2009
    " The other main player in the market is Cisco's WebEx, which also allows users to host webinars. While webinars offer audio and video, web-based solutions such as Instant Teleseminar allow users to host audio-only seminars through the internet for up to 200 people. Participants don't have to call a phone number but can listen to the seminar via a webpage and type their questions online. Performance measurement specialist Stacey Barr uses Instant Teleseminar to promote her business and runs... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Cisco Debuts Cloud Computing Security Apps  Apr 29, 2009
    Cisco also said on Tuesday that it was upgrading its WebEx online meeting software by introducing more advanced routing systems that help handle the increase in online traffic. Cisco bought WebEx, a company specializing in web-conferencing software that incorporates features like instant messaging and document sharing, in 2007. (Datamation)

    cfactor Welcomes Karen M. Greenberg to Executive Team  Apr 16, 2009
    Highlights from Karen's successful career include roles at leading organizations such as Webex, Xerox and Vcommerce. cfactor's CEO, Cary Schuler, is excited to welcome Karen to the team, stating "We are very happy to have Karen on board with us. She brings to the table a great deal of professional experience in the software industry, with particular focus on the SaaS market. She will be a tremendous asset in leading our business development initiatives and helping to us to achieve steady market... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Cisco CEO: Transition Will Foster Opportunity  Apr 15, 2009
    In this current economic environment, we are focusing on those things we can control and influence: controlling our discretionary spending while also positioning ourselves for the upturn, and investing in areas where we believe there will be growth in the future, such as video, virtualization/data center and collaboration technologies, like TelePresence, WebEx (video conferencing) and more. You'll see we're being aggressive with our investment into our key priority areas. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    BluePhone Personal Tech Experts Offer 5 Tips to Green up Digital Gear  Apr 8, 2009
    Using remote-desktop technology by Cisco WebEx to diagnose, repair, and optimize your computer, BluePhone resolves hundreds of computer problems every day. The company's success is measured by the quality of service and satisfaction provided to each member, earning BluePhone a best-in-industry 98% customer satisfaction rating. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    To branch out while others retrench  Apr 6, 2009
    It grabbed online conference provider WebEx for $3-billion in 2007. Cisco is seeking more ways to capture revenue from the data zipping across networks. (Globe and Mail -- Business)

    Local impact unclear after SGI goes bankrupt  Apr 3, 2009
    Customers include , Electronic Arts, Microsoft, nVidia, Oracle, Tellme Networks, University of Florida, UCSC Human Genome Project, Webex and Yahoo. Rackable posted a series of quarterly losses recently and also cancelled a 40 million stock repurchase plan. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)

    Cisco acquires maker of Flip Video camcorders  Mar 21, 2009
    It has built up that story on the enterprise side with its TelePresence line of high-definition video conferencing gear and its WebEx online conferencing business, which it purchased in 2007. By adding Flip and potentially taking TelePresence to the consumer market, Cisco hopes to usher in the concept of visual networking. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Cisco Maps Out New Plan for Managing Networks  Mar 14, 2009
    "The next step is to embed collaboration deeper into the process. With all the technology we have at Cisco -- WebEx, unified communications, all those things -- it's pretty exciting for Cisco.". LATEST NEWS. (SmallBusinessComputing)

    Cisco Makes Email Security Push  Mar 13, 2009
    But he added that PostPath has "been working closely with Cisco hosted Web conferencing unit WebEx on a hosted e-mail offering.". "I don't want to talk too much about that, but I can say we're working very closely and the security solutions will be a part of that when it comes out," he said. (eSecurityPlanet)

    Dr. Wiley Larson co-authors paper on the role of systems engineers in the aerospace industry  Mar 13, 2009
    Participants must RSVP to to participate online via Webex. To learn more about the Space Systems Engineering Program at SSE, go to. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    BluePhone Personal Tech Experts Offer 5 Ways to Avoid Adware and Malware  Mar 10, 2009
    Using remote-desktop technology by Cisco WebEx to diagnose, repair, and optimize your computer, we resolve hundreds of computer problems every day. Our success is measured by the quality of service and satisfaction we provide each of our members, and we are proud of earning a best-in-industry 98% customer satisfaction rating. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    2 Virtual Tech Support is on the Rise  Mar 7, 2009
    These newer solutions, provided by vendors ranging from WebEx to Citrix Online and Bomgar Corp., among others, can serve an enterprise with multiple machines, versus earlier remote control software that required each PC to carry the solution individually ... Cisco owns WebEx, which provides two on-demand solutions to serve internal staff or provide external tech support capabilities Cisco WebEx Support and Cisco WebEx System Management. (CIO Information Network)

    > Business Profile: Altus Learning makes knowledge searchable  Mar 5, 2009
    BIGGEST COMPETITOR: Web conference services such as Cisco s WebEx. SOMETHING THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE ABOUT BUSINESS: The company doesn t own any video cameras. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)

    Microsoft Broadens Cloud Appeal at CeBIT  Mar 4, 2009
    The world's largest software company also will be taking on Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), which Cain said would later this year begin offering a hosted combination of its WebEx online meeting and Web conferencing product, its Postpath e-mail server and the Jabber open source enterprise instant messaging product. Such efforts aim to take advantage of businesses growing consideration of SaaS and cloud computing-based solutions as ways to cut costs -- a factor that industry observers say will make SaaS one... (SmallBusinessComputing)

    Online CPD - an overview by Nigel Harris  Feb 18, 2009
    Courses are presented live via WebEx with printed course notes posted to delegates in advance. Delegates listen to the speaker online using a VOIP audio feed and view Powerpoint slides on screen, with a facility to submit written questions using the WebEx text chat box ... Other groups using them from time to time include the 2020 Group who run member briefings from time to time using GoToMeeting, while Mindshop are big WebEx users. (Accounting Web, UK)

    Acer event at Casa Batllo  Feb 17, 2009
    Smartphone users will soon be able to join WebEx Web conferences from their smartphones. Cisco said it has added the capability for BlackBerrys. (CNET News)

    Cisco Leads Mobile Experience Transformation as Service Providers ...  Feb 17, 2009
    Cisco recently announced the new Cisco WebEx Meeting Center iPhone application, an innovative client that won "Best of Show" at MacWorld. With this new application, Cisco is extending its SaaS and premises-based collaboration applications to the Apple iPhone 3G to deliver an unparalleled mobile collaboration experience. (CNNMoney.com)

    TECH TIPS:  Ask Kim  Feb 9, 2009
    A: Teleconferencing services like GoToMeeting, WebEx and Microsoft Office Live Meeting are great cost-saving tools. Find links at. (USA Today -- Tech)

    Sorting Out Your Storage Options  Feb 8, 2009
    "Don't settle for a WebEx demo," said Schulz. "Get your hands on a system if you can. Ask questions. Ask for references... but ask to hear about a story that didn't quite go well, though the customer still ended up buying.". (EnterpriseStorageForum)

    MEPAG Meeting #20  Feb 8, 2009
    In addition, we will attempt to broadcast the meeting via WebEx for those who cannot attend in person, although this may be dependent on infrastructure at the hotel. I look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible. (NASA Watch)


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