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Verizon continues to make news at CES 2011 with the debut of Cisco umi Telepresence. The service takes advantage of Verizon’s blazing fast fiber optic connection to deliver 1080p HD video conferencing capabilities. The two companies are hoping to launch umi later this year. How would you use telepresence technology to connect with others? For more on Verizon at CES – newscenter.verizon.com Connect with Verizon: Facebook – www.facebook.com Twitter – twitter.com Blog — www.verizon.com

A brief demonstration of the architectural collaboration within the Cisco suite using the new Cisco Cius tablet. Original article covering the keynote is @ blog.andrewsharrock.com

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Citrix Online Takes on Cisco, Polycom with HDFaces Video Feature
Citrix Online jumped into the video collaboration space with the introduction of the HDFaces technology for its GoToMeeting and GoToTraining offerings.

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Cisco Umi Targets Home Telepresence
Networking giant ups the ante on its telepresence portfolio, debuting the “umi” device that offers home users a new vehicle for collaboration and communication.

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Cisco launches home videoconferencing system
$599 box, with $25-per-month subscription Cisco has introduced the Cisco Umi, a home telepresence system that uses existing high-definition TVs and also works with Google Video Chat.

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Cisco Umi Brings Telepresence to Small Business
Cisco Umi offers small and medium businesses an affordable teleconferencing solution similar to the Cisco TelePresence or HP Halo solutions used by large companies with bottomless budgets.

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WebEx Connect is a unified communication and collaboration client that combines connected spaces, rich presence, enterprise instant messaging, voice and video conferencing, and much more all into one place. www.webex.com

MarketWatch First Take: Cisco gives investors what they want
When a technology company starts to pay a dividend, there is always a concern among some investors that the move is an acknowledgement that the firm has now become like a reliable utility company that provides widows and retirees with a quarterly dividend check, writes Therese Poletti.

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www.cisco.com Healthcare video conferencing from Cisco Telepresence provides a secure and global way to connect with your patients. Healthcare. Transformed by Cisco. As the field of medicine rapidly expands, areas of specialty increase, and more doctors will need to see more patients in more places. To answer this critical problem, Cisco is testing a real-time, HD video solution that could revolutionize the industry and give doctors the ability to see a patient anywhere in the world. We have to work smarter. We are working in an environment now where resources are becoming increasingly scarce. And if we dont change the process by which we deliver care, we are just not going to be able to treat patients. The Scottish Center for TeleHealth, we are set-up as a Center of expertise to promote the development of TeleHealth. We have used Desktop Video Conferencing from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to the fifteen Community Hospitals for the past seven years. Nurses call up for a second opinion and it saved an enormous number of patients, uh, roundtrip to Aberdeen. We have been thinking about this for quite some while. We discovered that our Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group were already working on a variant of their, a TelePresence called HealthPresence. Its the first trial of the HealthPresence Pod in the world. We are seeing patients who are coming to the ME Department to get care for their condition on that day. They are seen by a doctor initially using HealthPresence and …