May 23, 2011 – Infosec Island
The Top Eleven IT Skills for 2011
During the economic downturn, many American companies saw months of staff reductions through layoffs and delays in hiring replacement workers for those who have retired or left the company. Many companies held off performing upgrades to their current systems or delayed implementing new systems altogether. The good news is that the IT economic doldrums seems to be changing. Read the full article.

May 16, 2011 – Business Wire
Seven Percent of U.S. Physicians Use Video Chat to Communicate with Patients
Manhattan Research's Taking the Pulse® U.S. v11.0 Study Includes a Focus on the Role of Digital in the Physician-Patient Relationship. Read the full article.

May 13, 2011 – Reuters
Skype deal raises risks for videoconferencing firms
Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype is likely to boost videoconferencing from workers' desktops, posing further risks to video technology providers like Polycom and Logitech. Read the full article.

May 10, 2011 – ZDNet
Microsoft meets Skype: It's about the video conferencing plumbing
Now that Microsoft owns Skype, can the industry finally settle on a video conferencing standard? Read the full article.

May 10, 2011 – Wall Street Journal
Microsoft to Acquire Skype
Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for $8.5 billion in cash—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment. Read the full article.

May 6, 2011 – eWeek
Video Conferencing Bucks Trend
There seems to be no such thing as a middle ground for video conferencing. Essentially, the choices for most businesses boil down to being either cheap or pretty. Read the full article.

May 5, 2011 – TMCNet.com
Telepresence - Why is Video Conferencing So Slow to Replace Business Travel?
It seems like a no-brainer -- using video conferencing to reduce business travel costs-- doesn't it? After all, what other business technology gets its own George Clooney movie? You'd think so. But... Read the full article.

April 25, 2011 – Wall Street Journal
Video Comes to Board Meetings
As videoconferencing technology becomes more sophisticated, it is slowly moving up the corporate ladder to the boardroom—helping to save some directors the hassle of air travel and making it easier for boards to recruit international members. Read the full article.

April 25, 2011 – Fierce VoIP
75% of companies will adopt video conferencing by 2012
Nearly half of the company's contacted in an industry survey currently used some form of video conferencing, and the likelihood is that the number could swell to 75 percent, with many using more immersive collaborative telepresence solutions, within the next two years. Of the current companies conferencing, nearly one third of them use free software. Read the full article.

March 28, 2011 – Information Week
Videoconferencing, Telepresence Spending To Double By 2015
Cisco-Tandberg, Avaya, Lifesize, and Polycom are focusing on conference room systems, projected as the area of greatest growth, according to Infonetics. Enterprises will spend $5 billion on videoconferencing and telepresence solutions in 2015, Infonetics predicted in a study released Monday. Read the full article.

November 30, 2010 – Aberdeen Group
Telepresence and the Video Frontier
This report shows how companies gain business value from telepresence based on their goals of reducing travel, achieving a quantitative return on investment, optimizing cost centers, or improving profit centers. This research is based on interviews and survey responses of 102 respondents in October and November of 2010. Read more.

August 26, 2010 – Forbes
Polycom: How We Will Beat Cisco
The enemy of your enemy is your friend. Until that friend is acquired by the enemy. When Cisco cannon-balled into the videoconferencing market with its $3.4 billion acquisition of Tandberg last April, Pleasanton, Calif.-based Polycom instantly became the biggest pure-play video firm remaining. It also combined the resources of two competitors that Andy Miller, Polycom's chief executive, knows well. Read the full article.

August 19, 2010 – Information Week SMB
5 Reasons SMBs Should Adopt Videoconferencing
In the past, videoconferencing technology has largely been out of reach of most small and midsize business. It was too expensive, too complex, and too inconsistent for them to deploy. Recently, vendors have overcome many of those hurdles, so SMBs are now embracing the technology. Read the full article.

January 6, 2010 – Network World
Cisco shows home telepresence at CES
Cisco demonstrated the home telepresence concept at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 6, 2010. The technology utilizes a person's HDTV and broadband connection for two-way video communication. Watch the video.

December 4, 2009 – Financial Times
Cisco closes in on $3.4bn Tandberg deal
Cisco Systems, the world’s largest maker of networking equipment, on Friday said it controlled more than 90 per cent of shares in Tandberg, effectively securing its $3.38bn bid for the Norwegian company. The deal will make Cisco a leader in the fast-growing video conferencing market. Read the full article.

October 20, 2009 – The Wall Street Journal
Doctor, Can You See Me Now?
More Hospitals Are Using Video to Connect Patients With Specialists Far Away, Speeding Treatment. Read the full article.

October 15, 2009 – The Non Profit Times
Groups are Getting Together on the Web
Reducing costs, carbon footprint spur events going online. Read the full article.

August 31, 2009 – Puget Sound Business Journal
Many small and medium-sized companies planning hardware purchases
The recession and increased caution on spending are leading small and medium-sized businesses to hang on to their servers and laptops longer these days, but many are planning to make some big hardware and software purchases in the next six months, a new survey finds. Read the full article.

August 20, 2009 – Chicago Tribune
Video conferencing helping companies save, but at a cost to travel industry
Just a few years ago, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. executive Linda Starr racked up a million air miles a year in business travel. Now she logs a mere 100,000 miles per year, thanks to sophisticated video conferencing technology. Read the full article.

August 10, 2009 – Computerworld
How to deploy unified communications -- without tears
It's easy to make mistakes deploying unified communications systems. Here are the lessons learned by four IT managers. Read the full article.