Proprietary Application Provides Managed Service Customers with Scheduled and On-Demand Remote Diagnostics for All Major Video Conferencing and Telepresence Technologies
 
HILLSIDE, N.J. Aug. 25, 2010 - Glowpoint, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOW), a global provider of managed services for telepresence and video conferencing, today announced the upgrade of its hosted, cloud-based, automated diagnostic application, called Video Room Sweep (VRS), to include support for managed service customers utilizing LifeSize and Tandberg technologies. The initial version of VRS, which supported Polycom and Cisco technologies exclusively, launched in December of 2009 to provide comprehensive diagnostic capabilities for Glowpoint managed service customers across the globe.
Glowpoint's VRS automatically performs comprehensive "sweeps" and emulations of video sessions for all components of telepresence and video conferencing environments. Offering a more proactive, automated, and scalable level of managed service, VRS ensures higher in-use rates of video technology by providing predictable performance and a greater return on investment.

BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, the world's authoritative source of audio and multimedia technologies, is presenting technologies for telepresence@home and HD video conferencing systems, featuring low-delay, high-quality audio and video for the first time at IFA 2010 in Berlin. Fraunhofer's technology allows users to experience completely natural conversation just as if the participants were sitting in the same room.

The telepresence@home system demo is part of the European Union's "Together Anywhere Together Anytime" (TA2) project, which aims to enable new media experiences to nurture relationships between families and friends. Through its work as a research partner within TA2, Fraunhofer contributed its Audio Communication Engine to provide the highest quality audio, and now delivers a matching low-delay video solution. This new video technology reduces delay to a level that allows for natural communication experiences. In contrast to conventional video conferencing systems, the Audio Communication Engine and low-delay video technology deliver a complete telepresence@home system that provides the highest audio and video quality along with imperceptible latency.

DuPont and Citrix choose the media-rich Suite for improved collaboration among teams
 

New Delhi, August 25, 2010 - Business Octane (www.businessoctane.com), an enterprise-class productivity enhancing solution provider today announced the launch of its Immersive Telepresence Collaboration Suite CollaboratorTURBOMAX. With never before collaborative capabilities, the Suite fosters a truly immersive dynamic telepresence meeting experience between remote participants with their true to life images, natural eye contact, and stereo spatial audio and in real-time content sharing. The highly advanced Suite also offers investment protection with its easy up gradation to Immersive Group Telepresence experience at anytime.
 
With CollaboratorTURBOMAX enterprises will discover a new way to meet colleagues, clients, partners and suppliers worldwide, without the need to travel. The Suites seamlessly interoperate with Business Octane's entire collaboration and learner solutions portfolio and other standards compliant teleconferencing systems. Users can, in a single call, also establish a multiple location simultaneous collaboration with up to 120 Business Octane's Suites.
 

Executives to Lead MASERGY's Growth and Innovation in the IT Services Industry

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MASERGY, a privately held global network services provider, today announced the promotion of Chris MacFarland to chief executive officer and Rob Bodnar to executive vice president and chief financial officer.

 MASERGY provides cutting-edge communications services to the Global 5000 in a unique and highly cost-effective manner. Its purpose-built MPLS network platform hosts a variety of customers requiring real-time, mission critical network communications on a global basis. With an innovative product set that virtualizes disparate communications access technologies into a simple Ethernet connection, MASERGY has been doing for the WAN, what cloud computing providers are trying to do in the data center.

Chris MacFarland joined MASERGY as chief operating officer in 2008. Under his guidance, the company has grown its revenue and profitability during one of the most economically challenging times while increasing its lead in customer satisfaction with technological leadership.

"Chris has demonstrated outstanding leadership in guiding MASERGY over the past two years, and the Board wanted to secure his talent for the company's next phase of growth," said Royce Holland, executive chairman of MASERGY. "We believe Chris has the vision, energy and experience to lead MASERGY as it prepares to deliver the next generation of corporate networking solutions."

With more than 19 years experience in the telecommunications, software and computer hardware industries, MacFarland has held a variety of executive leadership roles for MASERGY, PAETEC Holdings, McLeodUSA, BroadSoft, Allegiance Telecom, Verio and CompuNet. He also serves on the board of directors for Access Media 3 as an independent director.

Damaka Unveils Industry's First Cross Platform Video Conferencing Solution
for iPhone 4

Unprecedented Solution Utilizes Front Facing Camera, Supports Multi-Party
Video Calling, Sweeping, and Application and Desktop Sharing

RICHARDSON, Texas - Aug. 18, 2010 - Damaka®, a technology pioneer in mobile
unified communications and collaboration (UCC), today announced the launch
of its industry first multi-party video conferencing solution for the new
Apple iPhone 4.

Damaka's Amadeo™ platform offers a secure and reliable multi-party video
solution that utilizes the front-facing camera of the iPhone to enable users
to both send and receive video simultaneously over WiFi, 3G, and 4G
networks. Video conference sessions can be conducted cross platform, with
any other device using Amadeo, including Android, iPad, Symbian and
Windows Mobile devices.

Finance Offering Provides New Options for LifeSize Customers via TAMCO

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 17, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LifeSize(R) Communications, a division of Logitech /quotes/comstock/15*!logi/quotes/nls/logi  (LOGI  15.48, +0.09, +0.58%)  (SIX:LOGN), now offers a private label finance offering for its customers in the U.S. and Canada through a partnership with TAMCO, a leading independent financial solutions provider. LifeSize Flexible Leasing(TM), powered by TAMCO, provides two financing options for customers of its high definition (HD) video conferencing solutions: Smart Lease(TM) and a traditional capital lease.

With the Smart Lease program, customers pay a monthly fee for use with the flexibility to move to a new LifeSize video conferencing solution without financial penalty anytime during their contract term. The more traditional capital lease (termed a $1 Buyout Lease in the U.S. and a $10 Buyout in Canada), allows customers to purchase their equipment at the end of the lease term for one dollar (or $10 in Canada).

Minneapolis, Minn. - August 12, 2010 - The Visual Communications Industry Group (VCI-Group) 2010 Annual Conference is fast approaching. Leaders and influencers from across the industry will be in attendance to show how past and current trends can be a blueprint for future innovations and successful business practices in an industry that demands perfection.

This year's conference will be held from October 3-6, 2010 at the beautiful Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It will offer attendees the chance to engage in valuable one-on-one time with experts, providing them with the information they need to excel in today's ever-changing climate.

HILLSIDE, N.J., Aug. 11, 2010 - Glowpoint, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOW), a global provider of managed services for telepresence and video conferencing, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.
 
Combined core revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2010 was $13.60 million, an increase of 7.9 percent from the comparable six-month period of 2009. The Company also had a 7.5 percent increase in quarterly core revenue from the comparable quarter of 2009. Core revenue is made up of recurring subscription and related revenues and non-subscription, usage-based conferencing services.
 
Given the current level of business activity, the Company sees its 2010 core revenue continuing to grow on a sequential quarterly basis, with the higher margin, managed services revenue accounting for the largest component of this growth. The Company's investments in sales, marketing, service development, and operations, despite having a short-term impact on profitability, are expected to be the basis for accelerating growth and improved operating leverage during the second half of 2010 and the following year.

SAN JOSE, CA -- 08/09/10 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Highlights/Key Facts:

    * Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today outlined the key announcements in the 2010 Fiscal Year that marked the company's focus on building, buying and partnering to drive ongoing innovation.
    * Cisco has scheduled a conference call on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) to announce its 4th quarter fiscal year 2010 financial results for the quarter ending July 31, 2010.
    * Financial results will be released over Marketwire, as well as the European Business and Technical Wire, after the close of the market on Wednesday, August 11, 2010.
    * To Listen via the Internet:
      We are pleased to offer a live and replay audio broadcast of the conference call with corresponding slides at www.cisco.com/go/investors.

Polycom expands relationship to include unique, natively integrated Polycom solutions and coordinated go-to-market initiatives for Microsoft unified communications

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Aug 09, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) has signed a multi-year, strategic global agreement with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to deliver integrated end-to-end unified communications (UC) and to improve customers' business productivity. Under the agreement, Polycom plans to develop and market standards-based UC solutions that span the enterprise, small-to-medium business, and government markets, that will encompass software, hardware, networking and services, and will enable customers to improve business productivity and reduce travel, telecom and IT operating costs.



Polycom and Microsoft share a vision for business productivity solutions built on standards-based platforms that work with the tools and applications people know and use today. The companies' strategic agreement is a major step towards streamlining communications across messaging, video and voice with connected applications and devices.

            
                                                                           


TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --- GAAP Net Loss is $0.04 per Diluted Share; Non-GAAP Net Income is $0.02 per Diluted Share -

RADVISION(R) /quotes/comstock/15*!rvsn/quotes/nls/rvsn (RVSN 6.97, +0.02, +0.29%) reported today that revenues for the second quarter of 2010 were $23.3 million, an increase of 19% from $19.6 million in the second quarter of 2009 and 6% above the Company's forecast.

The operating loss for the second quarter of 2010 was $0.6 million and the net loss was $0.7 million, or $0.04 per diluted share. On a non-GAAP basis, the Company recorded operating income of $0.6 million and net income of $0.5 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2010. This excludes $0.6 million of expense for amortization of purchased intangibles related to the acquisition of certain assets of the Aethra group of companies announced in February 2010, $0.6 million for the effects of stock-based compensation expense in accordance with ASC 718 (previously SFAS 123R) and a loss of $0.03 million due to the write-down of certain Auction Rate Securities. The total amount excluded for non-GAAP purposes was $1.2 million, equivalent to $0.06 per diluted share.

For the second quarter of 2009, operating income was $0.4 million and net income was $0.4 million, or $0.02 per share. On a non-GAAP basis, operating income was $1.5 million and net income was $1.6 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2009. The non-GAAP amounts for the second quarter of 2009 exclude stock-based compensation expense of $1.1 million, equivalent to $0.06 per diluted share.

HILLSIDE, N.J., Aug. 3, 2010 - Glowpoint, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOW), a global provider of managed services for telepresence and video conferencing, will report its second quarter 2010 results on Wednesday, August 11, at 4:15 p.m. EDT, and will host a conference call and an audio webcast with a slide presentation at 4:30 p.m. EDT. Joe Laezza, president and chief executive officer, and Ed Heinen, chief financial officer, will discuss results and field questions from investors.

To participate from the U.S., call (877) 407-1869. To participate from outside the U.S., call (201) 689-8044. No passcodes are required.

The call is being webcast live by TalkPoint and can be accessed at Glowpoint's website at http://www.glowpoint.com or by linking directly to http://video.webcasts.com/events/glow001/35598. Institutional investors can also access the call via Thomson Reuters' password-protected event management site, StreetEvents: http://www.streetevents.com.

Delivers customers immersive, high-quality, virtual meetings with Teliris

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced it is launching an immersive telepresence solution and cutting edge collaboration tools for high-quality virtual meetings with Teliris (www.teliris.com), an innovative leader in immersive telepresence meetings.

Global Crossing Telepresence with Teliris allows customers around the world to experience one of the most life-like virtual meeting environments available today.  Telepresence is an expansion of Global Crossing's fully managed high-quality video collaboration service that brings geographically dispersed people and their ideas together more efficiently.  Through these innovative collaboration tools, customers will experience enhanced decision-making, reduced travel costs, lower carbon footprints and increased productivity.

"Our telepresence offer represents a milestone in our collaboration portfolio," said Dave Carey, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer.  "Customers around the world continue to demand a wide range of collaboration tools to conduct meetings without boundaries.  This new capability transforms the video conference into a true-to-life interactive experience, leading to better global communications."

Telepresence solutions are comprised of a set of highly integrated technologies and engineered environments that resemble a life-like experience never before realized through standard videoconferencing equipment.  Broadcast quality picture and sound, and imperceptible latency, ensure the interaction is focused on the participants and not the technology, regardless of the number of sites.

 (RTTNews) - Computer interface devices manufacturer Logitech International S.A. (LOGI) reported Wednesday a profit for the first quarter compared to a loss last year, boosted by 47% sales growth and margin expansion amid improved sell-through across all retail regions.

Both earnings per share and quarterly revenues for the quarter topped analysts' expectations. The company also raised its sales forecast for the full-year 2011, citing strong first quarter performance and improving consumer demand for its products.

In a statement, president and chief executive officer, Gerald Quindlen said, "Logitech's Fiscal Year 2011 is off to a strong start. We exceeded our sales and profitability targets and achieved our best-ever Q1 gross margin. And we had robust growth in most of our retail product categories, led by Harmony remotes and pointing devices."

The Apples, Switzerland-based company reported net income of $19.52 million or $0.11 per share for the first quarter, compared to net loss of $37.37 million or $0.21 per share in the prior-year quarter.

Polycom bolsters UC Intelligent Core infrastructure to power communications with up to 50 percent lower bandwidth requirements than the competition

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jul 28, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced enhancements to its visual communications infrastructure solution, the Polycom UC Intelligent Core, enabling customers to connect the most people in the highest quality at the lowest cost, both inside and outside their organization.

Anchored by industry-leading bridging, virtualization, management, scheduling and gatekeeping systems, the Polycom UC Intelligent Core enables broad delivery of secure, high-definition (HD) video services across organizations, including immersive telepresence, conference room and desktop video collaboration, live streaming, on-demand video content and digital signage. The open-standards based Polycom UC Intelligent Core is unique in delivering the broadest, native integration with leading unified communications (UC) platforms, the lowest total cost of ownership versus competing solutions, the greatest network flexibility, scalability and redundancy, and superior investment protection.

PLEASANTON, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marking yet another category-defining innovation for telepresence, Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM) and McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced a framework for a global strategic alliance to jointly develop and deliver Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC). With security threats on the rise, Polycom and McAfee are taking a proactive approach to further enhance the security features of Polycom's video, telepresence and infrastructure solutions. Polycom plans to design solutions that feature McAfee threat protection, shielding Polycom telepresence users, from the desktop to the fully immersive suite, from potential and increasingly sophisticated security threats while making it easier to comply with privacy and confidentiality mandates.

The alliance will address a growing need for enhanced security as organizations of all sizes increasingly turn to video conferencing and telepresence to reduce costs, improve productivity, and maintain operations in the face of business disruptions. The enhanced protections can also help IT managers in regulated industries - from health care to financial services - lessen the burden of meeting compliance and reporting requirements.

A Customized Collaboration Solution to help save time in every meeting with highly impactful and hassle free presentations
 
New Delhi, July 27, 2010 - Business Octane, an enterprise-class productivity enhancing solution provider today announced the launch of its advanced local collaboration solution called the AltraEZPRESENTER™. AltraEZPRESENTER™ is a customizable solution for meeting rooms designed to help enterprises save valuable time during meetings and make highly impactful and hassle-free presentations at the touch of a button. Through this launch, Business Octane which is a pioneer in Enterprise Collaboration Maximizer Solutions and Enterprise Learning Maximizer Solutions aspires to make local collaboration meeting rooms more user friendly.
 
Business Octane's AltraEZPRESENTER™ will enable enterprises to conduct instant meetings without enduring the amount of time spent in setting up presentations. Generally it takes around 15-20 minutes to set up a presentation, making every participant wait which leads to loss of precious man-hours. With AltraEZPRESENTER™ employees can start presenting immediately in 8 seconds or even less, hence enhancing productivity. Meeting rooms will be ready 24/7 to host meetings offering easy and instant access to the requisite collaboration tools that enable presentations instantaneously, at the touch of a button. Switching between different presenters too, is easy and instantaneous at a touch of a button.

Agreement of exclusive distribution of professional videoconferencing systems

Ancona - Oslo , Luglio 19 2010 - Aethra net, italian leader for value added distance collaboration services and Videoworks AS a company with headquarter in Oslo, Norway, holding an OEM agreement with Sony Japan with validity on the entire Europe, have signed an agreement of exclusive distribution for the territory of Italy.
 The agreement signed is of great strategic value for all the customers and channels who have for long term invested in the superior Japanese technology of Sony, distinguished for performances and breadth of the audiovisual solutions portfolio.
Thanks to this new partnership products will be immediately available to channels and customers along with privileged access to a professional and extremely qualified support organization.

"We are extremely proud of this agreement which will further strengthen the position of Aethra.net and its partners in the Italian market - said Luigi Astoirii MD of aethra.net- The distribution of Videoworks videoconferencing products based on Sony technology, recognized for their unparalleled quality, blended with a wide range of added value services, creates an absolutely different value proposition in the market. Along with the products Aethra.net will be able to render a number of converged services including multi video conferencing in hosted and managed modes and webcasting, audio conferencing, room design and installation, and the unique gift of 20 years of experience in this Industry coming as a legacy of the Aethra tradition.

 Enhancements to Video Conferencing Solutions Enable More Seamless Integration in Customer Networks for Improved Collaboration and Productivity

AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2010 - LifeSize Communications, a division of Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) (SIX: LOGN), today announced new high definition video conferencing offerings and product enhancements to help enterprises - including teleworkers, mobile employees and executives - collaborate more efficiently, with more robust deployment and management capabilities for IT administrators.

HD data sharing now available for remote desktops and small conference rooms

    * The newest version of the LifeSize system software, Version 4.7, lets organizations share information such as presentations and spreadsheets over the network using the LifeSize Passport system and the recently announced integrated video conferencing system called LGExecutive, powered by LifeSize. A new software application, LifeSize Virtual Link, enables this data sharing with the use of a PC or Mac.
    * The Version 4.7 software also enables LifeSize Passport and LGExecutive, powered by LifeSize, to stream live HD Video and record, via the LifeSize Video Center.
    * In addition, the LifeSize Desktop updated Version 2.0 software now supports data sharing and 720p HD transmit capability for more productive discussions and meetings.