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HD Video Conferencing Heats Up as Logitech Buys LifeSize
Hours after video conferencing vendor Tandberg’s (OSL:TAA) shareholders failed to approve a proposed deal to be acquired by networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), Logitech International (NASDAQ:LOGI) announced plans to acquire privately held video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. LifeSize offers high-definition video conferencing solutions for the budget-minded, with solutions priced at less than $10,000 and offered through…
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Tandberg Shareholders Snub Cisco Offer
By Joergen Frich and Richard Solem OSLO (Reuters) – Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) said investors holding 9.37 percent of Tandberg’s (TAA.OL) shares had accepted the tender offer by the largest U.S. network equipment maker for the Norwegian videoconferencing company. Cisco said on November 9 it would extend its 17.2 billion Norwegian crown ($3.1 billion) offer to…
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Solution Providers Call VMware View 4 Disruptive, Game-Changing
Solution providers are viewing the release of VMware View 4 as a game-changing disruptive technology that could revolutionize how IT infrastructure is deployed today. That’s because the technology, announced this week by VMware, delivers a virtualized PC over IP to the client side, simplifying IT management and disaster recovery in addition to significantly reducing costs.…
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Microsoft Lifts Covers on Exchange 2010
At its TechEd Europe event in Berlin today, Microsoft officially released Exchange Server 2010, touting it as the first server in the Redmond portfolio developed from the ground up for both traditional on-premise and cloud-computing use cases. In his keynote, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop, who oversees Exchange as well as information worker technologies…
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Cisco Intros Next-Gen Video Conferencing, Collaboration Platform
Looking to create a complete video-enabled collaboration solution for the new millennium, Cisco today introduced a handful of new products and outlined how they would work together, enabling businesses to increase productivity and reduce travel. The announcements include nods to next-generation collaboration standards as well as providing an answer to those who have said that…
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IBM Woos Developers With Cloud Offerings
IBM on Friday unveiled two new cloud-based services aimed at software developers looking to build applications in the cloud. IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing consists of application lifecycle management tools made available as cloud services so that developers, partners and customers can access them on an as-needed basis to build and test…