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Polycom (www.polycom.com) and Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) have declared their love, er a “global strategic agreement” for developing and marketing “integrated,” standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions. The agreement makes Polycom a member of Microsoft’s “key strategic global alliance” for UC; both sides will invest in product development, sales, and marketing. Polycom will develop a broad base of solutions [...] My major face-to-face project these days is the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 in Las Vegas. More specifically– HD Voice Summit at the 2010 CES: Communicating the Future Leap with us into the future of high-definition voice communications! Carriers around the world are starting to offer phone calls with FM-quality sound [...] Live coverage of the HD Comm ’09 event in New York City today will be coming from Twitter on HDConnectNow. You may have noticed that this blog is getting less-than-usual updates. I’m spending a good chunk of my time these days prepping for the IT Expo conference annnnnd on HDConnect, specifically on www.hdconnectnow.org. There’s a lot going on in the HD world, so WAKE UP AND LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE…. During the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) call last Friday, I put down my markers for the advance of HD Voice in North America, using the statements and actions of various service providers to provide context for my predictions. The benchmarks I used were– Cablevision’s rollout of hosted HD Voice service this summer – The leading/bleeding edge There’s a 20 percent (yes, 20%) discount code available for the HD Comm ’09 event on September 15 in New York City. Register online with the “HDConnectNow” code and you’ll get 20 (yes, 20) percent off registration. I’ve been invited to be on the noon ET VoIP Users Conference call tomorrow, August 14. Expect a wide-ranging discussion on IP Communications, HD Communications (The next HD Comms event is coming up on September 15. and I’m running the HDConnectnow.org site, after all), and whatever else comes to mind. This week, Jeff Pulver is in Denver for the CableLabs Summer Conference and will be speaking on a HD Voice panel for the invitation-only event on Tuesday. Since CableLabs is the non-profit R&D consortium for cable operators, it will be interesting to see what CableLabs and the bigger operators have to say about HD voice. CableLabs [...] Jeff Pulver goes into his back yard to discuss the promise and potential of HD Communications in a 3 minute, 48 second YouTube video. The video arrives as Pulver and partner Dan Berninger have finalized plans for the September 15, 2009 HD Communications event in New York City. The schedule and registration for the second HD Communicatons Summit – currently known as HDComm ’09 — is now up. HDComm ’09 is being held on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, at New World Stages. Speakers include Alla Reznick, Director of Product Management at Verizon. I’ve spoken to Alla back in June where she outlined Verizon Business’s [...] |
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