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Based on the success of the June promotion, BrightCom is extending their offer of a free ClearView HD Mobile Video Conferencing Cart solution to businesses in July.
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The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is another reminder of the need for businesses to leverage telepresence and videoconferencing to minimize high carbon emission activities including not only travel costs, but a reduction in paper waste from business materials. (more…)

By Amy Tierney, Web Editor, TMCnet News

There’s a lot of talk these days about the importance of high definition technology. Many telepresence and videoconferencing vendors promote their video systems as having HD capability. It’s an essential tool businesses use for clear and effective communication.

Beyond video, audio and data broadcasts can also benefit from HD technology. But the way telepresence and videoconferencing vendors offer that service should change, officials with BrightCom, a provider of integrated telepresence and videoconferencing services, told TMCnet in a recent podcast.

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By Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor, TMCnet News

With cost savings on the minds of many business executives these days, organizations are on the hunt for cost-effective communications tools. And two popular technologies that are growing in adoption are telepresence and videoconferencing.

TMCnet spoke with Bob McCandless, CEO of Brightcom, a provider of integrated telepresence and videoconferencing solutions and Mark Szotkowski a communications broker and master agent with Portfolio Communications Solutions, about the best practices for telepresence and videoconferencing implementations.

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By Amy Tierney, Senior Web Editor, TMCnet News

In an effort to better explain the technical, operational and cultural aspects involved in the world of telepresence and videoconferencing, independent research firm and consultancy, Human Productivity Lab and Brockmann & Company, a customer insight firm, has published the first industry handbook on inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing.
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Thanks to greater enhancements in video capabilities, videoconferencing is quickly becoming a key component of collaborative business environments. For example, H.264 Scalable Video Coding and other technologies allow the delivery of high-quality video to a number of applications, such as real-time videoconferencing, broadcasting and streaming.

As more and more companies better understand the benefits of video communications, organizations are increasingly using the latest collaboration applications, such as videoconferencing and telepresence, to trim their travel budgets and boost efficiency.

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by Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor

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As the year comes to a close, most companies in the communications technology sector are looking ahead to 2010 to rebound after a difficult year, thanks to the global economic downturn.

But some are counting their blessing. Companies like BrightCom, a Huntington Beach, Calif.-based provider of integrated telepresence and video conferencing services, realized a boost in revenue, thanks to its ability to offer cost saving services when many organizations looked to cut expenditures, especially in travel budgets.

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BrightCom is sponsoring the first comprehensive handbook on inter-company telepresence and video conferencing implementations published by Human Productivity Lab and Brockmann and Company.

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By Amy Tierny, TMCnet Web Editor

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With technological advancements such as telepresence and video conferencing readily available to most businesses today, it’s a wonder why people still endure long traffic delays and cope with rising gas prices to meet for in-person meetings.

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