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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 5)
SM: I heard you say a few things that I’d like probe into. Transcription, automatic transcription, is that a requirement that your customers are asking for? DG: No, it’s not a requirement. Henry Ford said that what he would have given his customers if they’d asked for it would have been a faster horse. SM:
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 4)
SM: I’ll defer to you on this. This whole game is going to come under tremendous margin pressure. Everybody innovates. Everybody will continue to innovate. There will be new players that will apply more pricing pressure, but anytime it becomes a major telecom game, including cloud storage, these are all pricing games, and they’re going
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 2)
SM: Point taken. But the products in the market also have very large user bases. DG: Sure. So, did other wireless phones that you know about before the iPhone came out, before the Droid came out with their OSes that changed the way you interact with phones. But there were other phones like Samsung and
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 1)
Remote workforces continue to grow and telecommuting becomes more commonplace every day as modern technologies like Web conferencing and video chats make it easier for people from all over the world to collaborate on projects or simply work from home. These types of conveniences save money for everyone, and companies like PGi strive to make
ViVu Offer For DimDim Customers
Readers, as you know, DimDim, our longtime partner for the 1M/1M strategy roundtables, has recently been acquired by Salesforce.com. Following the acquisition, Salesforce turned off all of the free accounts that DimDim had so generously supported. We have since moved to the ViVu video conferencing platform, and gone from an audio/Web conferencing experience to an
Video Conferencing Consolidation in Full Swing
Ever since I first covered Polycom (NASDAQ:PLCM) two years ago, I have speculated about consolidation in the sector. Videoconferencing has gained importance due to globalization, offshoring, the financial crisis and the attendant recession, and the need to save more in travel dollars. Now there is a flurry of acquisition activity and consolidation in video conferencing which
Cisco Buys Tandberg, HP To Buy Polycom?
There’s tremendous momentum in video conferencing right now, and I was sure Cisco was going to acquire either Polycom or Tandberg. Well, this morning, the news is that Cisco is acquiring Tandberg for $3 billion. This of course, puts Polycom in play in a big way, and the likelihood of HP acquiring them just went
Deal Radar 2008: PrimeSense
Founded in 2005 by Aviad Maizels, Alexander Shpunt, Ophir Sharon, Tamir Berliner, and Dima Rais, PrimeSense specializes in 3D machine vision. The company has its headquarters and R&D in Israel and offices in California and Japan.
