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Facebook to Add Voice Chat

September 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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If the average Facebook user spends too much time on the site, just wait for the release of a free voice chat service available to members.  Vivox, a software developer of voice chat for online communities (gaming and virtual worlds), is developing a voice chat product for Facebook users.  The product will be like RollCall’s WebPresenter, WebEx and GoToMeeting, except much more basic.  It will be a plug-in for your browser which will allow users to hold live voice chats and share podcasts with however many people are in the group.  People will also be allowed to dial in to the conference call despite not being a Facebook user.  Vivox might charge for the non-user phone service, but it is still unclear.  It will be very interesting to see how this new voice product does amongst the large population of the Facebook nation.

Where do you think FaceBook is going with this? 

Read this article to learn more about the new Facebook voice chat service.

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Press Release 9/14

September 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

RollCall Business Conferencing is pleased to announce that it has issued a Letter of Intent (LOI) to purchase a webcasting technology firm and their assets.  RollCall will be able to expand it’s market segment to include video conferencing related services and products.

“We are excited to broaden RollCall’s product offering with the addition of webcasting technology, video simulcast capabilities and rich streaming media services. We see digital media as a service with strong growth opportunities, and these webcasting services seamlessly integrate with RollCall’s existing business model.”

–Fred Lloyd, Sr. V.P. ILD and Head of RollCall Business Conferencing

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Business Continuity: Keeping Communications Running

September 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Have you ever been on a call and the power went out?  It is hard to plan for the unexpected and that’s where business conferencing services can help your company.     RollCall Business Conferencing offers Disaster Recovery, a way for businesses to have a business continuity plan.  Businesses are distributed Pin Numbers so that they can hold a conference on any phone at anytime by simply dialing their toll-free number.  If your office were to lose its phone service, you would still be able to connect via cell phone and via RollCall’s disaster recovery service. 

Read this article relating to Business Continuity from Business Computing World.  Click here to learn more about how RollCall Business Conferencing can help your business stay connected.

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Conferencing Up While Most Are Down

September 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The audio conferencing market has been very strong despite a rough economy.  Many companies are turning towards audio conferencing to save money on travel budgets. So instead ofthat face to face sales meeting, companies are conducting web conferences.  

Demand for conferencing however, in certain areas have gone down because many providers offer bundled services where users can choose which products they need.  Standalone audio conferencing products will see lower minute totals while conferencing minutes as a whole will continue to grow. Entry levels to this market are low due to free online conferencing products and services.  It will be interesting to see how the growth in the Conferencing market will change the way people communicate with innovations in web and video conferencing.

To learn more about the Conferencing Market read this article from Business Wire. If you want to learn more about RollCall Business Conferencing visit our site.

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Digital Trial: Courts using Video Conferencing

September 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In Canada, the Erie County Common Pleas Court is experimenting with Video Conferencing as way to conduct court hearings.  The court system claims that they will save on average $3,000 to $5,000 per case because they will not have to transport the accused. At RollCall, we’ve seen US courts conducting similar court hearings; typically via audio conference, enabling the judges, court staff, attorneys, plaintiffs and defendants to save the time and cost it takes to conduct face to face hearings.   This is an interesting story to follow because in these tough economic times more and more court systems in America might be forced to use this technology to save money.

To read the full article from the Sandusky Register click here.

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