Ottawa-based Magor Corp. announced last week new updates to its video conferencing service that includes a new Windows desktop client and three new features to its cloud services. So far the TSX-listed firm
Ottawa-based Magor Communications Corp. went public today and is trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “MCC,” the firm announced this morning. The public offering brings in $5.9 million for the
A robot that improves your telepresence experience by giving you the ability to physically move around the office is close to shipping its first units.Double Robotics sold out its first production run of
Korea-based LG-Ericsson hopes to capture a slice of Canada's small business unified communications (UC) market with the launch today of its iPECS-MG Business-Enabled Communication System.The hybrid console-based system delivers all the functionality of
Published on: January 24th, 2012 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
In an attempt to move beyond the desktop, Cisco is updating two of its enterprise-level collaboration tools.At the Cisco Collaboration Summit in Miami on Wednesday, the company announced it's rolling out updates to
Published on: November 17th, 2011 Sharon Gaudin @itbusinessca
Cisco Systems is taking several steps to extend its TelePresencevideoconferencing technology beyond enterprise meeting rooms,introducing two endpoints and a free client application for ad hocparticipants to download. To mark the fifth anniversary of
Published on: October 27th, 2011 Stephen Lawson @itbusinessca
Everyone is talking about those telepresence systems that make a video conference look so real you'd almost think you were in the same room with the people at the other end. Very nice,
Published on: November 9th, 2010 Grant Buckler @grantbuckler
In business computing, some revolutions occur faster than others. After years of promise, video conferencing has finally become useful for small businesses, offering long-distance collabouration without the need to travel.Many people get their
Published on: October 6th, 2010 Curt Franklin @itbusinessca
Sprawling international law firm DLA Piper has upgraded from videoconferencing to telepresence that will save the firm nearly $1 million dollars per year in reduced travel costs and lost productivity.The conferencing gear that
Published on: October 9th, 2009 Tim Greene @itbusinessca
The Women's Health Center at the Ann Myers Medical Center might be a virtual healthcare facility, but the nurses and physicians that volunteer here are real. They work here to reach out beyond
In "The Naked Sun," he envisioned Solaria, a civilization whose telepresence technologies are as good as being face-to-face -- superior, in fact, according to the Solarians, who have developed a collective phobia about
So far “telepresence” – technology that gives participants in a videoconference the feeling of being in the same room – has largely been the domain of Fortune 1,000 companies with big budgets.While that
Published on: April 28th, 2008 Vawn Himmelsbach @itbusinessca
Businesses can reap 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the benefits of telepresence via upgrades to existing video conference gear at a fraction of what they'd spend on brand-new telepresence systems,
Cisco Systems Inc. says its Telepresence line of video conferencing hardware provides an experience similar to an in-person meeting, but a manufacturer from Austin, Tex. claims it provides a similar experience for one-third
Published on: December 13th, 2006 Greg Meckbach @itbusinessca
