Tagged: Video Conferencing & News
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European company develops telepresence robots News
13.01.2011 Gostai, a European company specialising in robotics and artificial intelligence, has revealed its Gostai Jazz line of autonomous service robots for telepresence in business and... -
Sonru funding reaches €1m, ready to go global News
20.12.2010 The maker of an award-winning automated video-interviewing tool, Sonru, has raised an additional €662,000 in a new funding round to internationalise its technology. This brings... -
The digital business week News
20.12.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week. -
Most workers use video conferencing at home, not at work - research News
15.12.2010 Some 88pc of office workers use video conferencing at home to talk to friends and family, but 86pc of remote and office workers don’t use video communications for work, a survey... -
Petroceltic explores five-year IT managed services deal News
29.11.2010 Unity Technology Solutions, the IT company formerly known as Calyx, has signed a five-year managed services IT deal with the Irish oil and gas exploration company Petroceltic... -
Major breakthrough in holograms – send 3D images anywhere News
04.11.2010 Researchers at the University of Arizona have achieved a major technological breakthrough and have created a near real-time system that can make a 3D holographic display appear... -
Georgia Tech beams HD science lessons to Irish schools News
03.11.2010 Researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in Atlanta have pioneered a new teaching programme where high-definition cameras are placed in labs to enable researchers... -
Cisco brings TelePresence to the living room News
07.10.2010 Video conferencing is coming home – literally! Cisco has launched a new video-conferencing system that allows home users to convert the HD televisions in their living rooms into... -
Apple planning second-gen iPad for January launch? News
20.09.2010 Flushed with the initial success of its first generation of iPad tablet computers, Apple is understood to be planning to launch a second-generation iPad in January. -
Skype reveals 10-way video conferencing News
09.09.2010 Voice over IP player Skype has released a new version of Skype 5.0 that bumps up its five-way beta video calling function to allow for 10 video callers at the same time. -
Sign language tool tested for mobile phones News
17.08.2010 Engineers at the University of Washington are testing a tool that uses motion detection to identify sign language. -
Will next-gen iPad have camera? News
03.08.2010 A reference to disabling the use of a camera in iPad documents on management profile policies for corporate users of the tablet device may be evidence of a camera in the...Categories: Hardware, Consumer Tech -
The Irish may take up e-voting yet News
07.07.2010 The debacle that was the abandonment of e-voting amid uncertainties over security and privacy several years ago may one day reach its inevitable conclusion – it turns out the... -
Cisco tablet PC makes mobile video conferencing a reality News
30.06.2010 Video conferencing and collaboration on the move are the promise of the new Android-based tablet PC from Cisco – the first tablet to be released since Apple’s iPad – which the...Categories: Unified Communications, Operating Systems, Open Source, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Computers -
Irish firms are investing in IT to boost their productivity News
24.06.2010 The merger of IT Focus with TeamDBA has resulted in 15 new technology jobs and a new ICT services player called Trilogy. Edel Creely is the company’s managing director.Categories: CIO, Cloud, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mobile, Mobility, Unified Communications, Virtualisation, New Media, Media, Marketing -
Virtualisation case study: ESB News
23.06.2010 The Electricity Supply Board is the principal electricity utility in the State, employing 7,500 staff throughout Ireland across a number of vertically integrated business units....Categories: Virtualisation, Servers, IT Management, Data Centre, CIO, Business, Cloud, Mobile, Unified Communications -
Intel unveils new Atom to power smartphones, tablet revolution News
05.05.2010 Intel has revealed its latest Atom processor platform, formerly code-named ‘Moorestown’ that it will target at the rapidly growing smartphone, tablet PC and other net-connected... -
Regus reports increased demand for video conferencing News
21.04.2010 Office facilities provider Regus has reported a 108pc uplift in demand for its video-conferencing facilities across Europe last Friday because so many flights were grounded.Tags: Video Conferencing, -
Cisco closes Tandberg deal as video conferencing boosted News
19.04.2010 Even volcanic clouds have silver linings: news that Cisco’s acquisition of Tandberg has now been formally approved comes in a week when the need for this technology has never...Tags: Cisco, Video Conferencing, -
What we know about the iPhone 4G News
15.04.2010 With the US iPad launch done and dusted, the next iteration of the iPhone is undoubtedly next on the list but the question is what and when will this materialise?Tags: Apple, Video Conferencing,