9 Tablet and Smartphone Video Chat Apps There are video chat services for most mobile devices from smartphones to tablets, iPhone, iPads, Android to TMobile, Motorola, Droid, Galaxy, Nexus and many more. Many are even capable of group video chats. Here are some noteworthy and highly rated competitors to the two most popular videoconferencing mobile applications Skype and Apple's FaceTime.
5 Must Have Mobile Apps to Control Your Projector Take care of everything from projector control to content management with this collection of projector control apps. Check out apps from developers such as IIX Inc., Seiko Epson Corporation, Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. and Panasonic Corporation.
Frost & Sullivan Report: Videoconferencing Market Is Shifting Towards Software Research firm Frost & Sullivan's data points to the same conclusion. According to the 2012 Analysis of the Global Videoconferencing Infrastructure Market report, "software-based infrastructure components and cloud-based services are expanding the addressable market." Frost & Sullivan expects sales of these lower-cost options to sustain market revenue growth in the mid to long term.
Intelligent Building Management is Fast Becoming the Way to Save Money Intelligent use of lighting control, occupancy and vacancy sensors are making energy management a feasible and even necessary aspect of your building. Hardware and software from companies such as Lutron, AMX, Crestron, Johnson Controls and others make this possible.
The 11 Most Popular Apps for Collaboration and Productivity Eleven apps for increasing productivity and collaboration in the work place. This collection of apps features products from Meeting Burner, Polycom, SharePlus, SharePoint, Yammer, Evernote, and Any.Do. For example, Polycom RealPresence Mobile, GoToMeeting, SharePlus, SharePoint, Evernote, Any.Do.List, Evernote Hello, Evernote Business, Simplenote, and Share App.
Mitsubishi’s “Cloud” Projector Puts an End to the Most Common AV/IT Help Desk Call Announced at FETC 2013. For corporate conference rooms, K-12 classrooms, campuses and universities, Mitsubishi's WD390U-EST Extreme Short Throw, DLP Projector promises to end the age-old, "The projector isn't connecting to my computer," AV/IT help desk call. This projector has a thin client built-in that connects to servers or computers via a LAN or the Internet for presenters to access their content in the cloud. This is being call a Cloud Projector.
Videoconferencing Interoperability Without Standards? Only in the Cloud Cloud-based videoconferencing is an excellent option for achieving interoperability between disparate systems that otherwise might have difficulty working together. Users dial into the cloud service and use it as the backbone for the conference. With this technology, any system, including Skype and Google Hangouts, can take part in video collaboration.
Apple Announces 40 Billion App Downloads: Mobile Milestones and App Spotlights from TechDecisions Apps are flying off the virtual shelves at the Apple and Android marketplaces. Around the TechDecisions office, we are thinking about how apps make up our daily lives. Check out apps like Google+, Evernote, iBooks, John NES, RT News and More, BBC News, Wi-Fi File Transfer Pro, Cardstar, Roku Wi-Fi Remote and Nest Mobile.
CCTV Security Moves into Cloud The surveillance market can be afflicted with “highway hypnosis” thanks to its nature of staring at multiple screens for hours. DCRM solved this with CheckVideo’s cloud-based monitoring.
CES 2013: 8 Mobile Products that are Turning Heads CES 2013 is the talk of the Internet. Check out products from Mozilla Firefox, The Eye Tribe, Sony, Tethercell, Plastic Logic, Intel, HAPIlabs, Parrot and Expect Labs, that will take the mobile device to a new level.
App Trends for 2013: 4 Apps That Suggest the Future of Mobile Apps 2013 is going to brings us all a lot closer to each other regardless of distance with mobile apps. Prep your iOS or Android device for the future by checking out these apps from developers like Southlabs Inc., Backspaces, GymPact and Indiana University Health.
Windows 8: 20 Apps That Your Windows Phone Needs Make your Windows phone as efficient as possible with this collection of apps. This slideshow features apps from developers like Rudy Huyn, Google Inc., Flixster, Microsoft Corporation, Netflix, Inc., Social Ebola, Krueger Systems, Inc., Topperware, AnKo Software, and more. Windows 8 might be new, but they are not behind the curve on mobile applications for their mobile phones.
The 14 Most Popular Control Apps of 2012 Fourteen apps for mobile control of your printers and mixing equipment. A collection of mobile apps from developers like Seiko Epson Corporation, Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P., Lexmark International, Inc, Thinxtream Technologies Pte. Ltd, Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P., Samsung Electronics, Brother Industries, Ltd, Mobile Dynamix, PreSonus Audio Electronics, Yamaha Corporation of America, MUSIC Group Research UK Limited, and Mackie.
2013 Predictions for AV Technology Managers from a CTS Check out what pro AV and CTS Christopher Neto predicts AV technology managers will need to be on the look out for in 2013. 2013 will see new product, but also new attitudes. Voice and gesture controls will make a strong foray into A/V as bolstered by consumer use, but we’ll also see new efforts in emergency preparedness and new aesthetically pleasing designs come into play.
7 Best eBook and Audiobook Reader Apps for Android and iOS Devices eBook and Audiobook reader apps make it easy for you to get and keep your eBooks with you at all times with your Apple iOS or Android device. Find apps that let you annotate content, import previously downloaded content even keep track of your reading across devices. These apps are great for widening your breadth of digital media on all you mobile devices and keep you busy when you have too much tim on your hands.