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• New iPad app creates secure video conferencing, collaboration

  A new iOS app lets enterprise iPad users set up secure video conferences with others both inside and outside their organization. The app also can leverage features such as instant messaging, presence, multi-party calling, and voicemail via a range of third-party unified communications servers.

• IT stressed over cloud and video bandwidth demands

  IT executives understand the value of cloud services and videoconferencing tools, but one of the chief concerns remains the strain those services put on network bandwidth, according to a study released today.

• Unified communications: Now mobile and in the cloud

  Effective communications, many would argue, is the key to business. But finding the appropriate technologies to support effective communications can be challenging for IT professionals. Unified communications is a concept that encompasses a variety of technologies, all capable of working together, and, yes, while communication is a human process, technology can enhance and improve it.

• AARNet launches five-year plan

  The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has announced a wide range of initiatives around network upgrades, collaboration, and mobility as part of a new five-year plan.

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  3D conferencing hits the enterprise

  Immersive virtual environments - such as Second Life and some enterprise-friendly alternatives - have traditionally required users to download special software and learn a difficult user interface.

• Video conferencing set to soar: Ovum

  The adoption of video conferencing is on the rise and according to analyst firm Ovum, large enterprises are driving this trend.

• Will Skype be another Microsoft license gotcha?

  After Microsoft acquired Skype earlier this month for $8.5 billion, most of the questions revolved around how Skype's IM, voice and video calling features will fit into Microsoft enterprise products such as Outlook and Lync.

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  Microsoft buys Skype for $US8.5 billion

  Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

• Oncall slashes travel costs with video conferencing

  Interpreters and translators agency, Oncall, has slashed its travel costs and enabled greater flexibility in its workforce by deploying video conferencing across its Australian business.

• Cisco releases video collaboration tools

  With an eye on business collaboration and communication, Cisco has released a range of new video production products aimed at enterprise customers.

• Victoria extends rural telehealth trial

  Telehealth video conferencing and live telemetrics equipment for trauma and critical will be extended to all 16 regional Victorian hospitals administered under the Loddon Mallee Rural Health Alliance following a successful, 20-month trial across four of the units.

• Banana Shire Council combats geography with HD video conferencing

  Banana Shire Council has implemented high definition video conferencing technology with the aim to quash both high costs and significant travel time while increasing productivity.

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  NBN to drive Australian business technology

  About 70 per cent of Australian organisations think the NBN will better enable their business, particularly in the areas of video conferencing, virtual desktops and IT as a service, according to IDC research.

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  Deakin University turns to video conferencing for student learning

  In a sign of the growing importance of video conferencing to the education sector, Deakin University has announced that it will use the technology to deliver education services to mental health students in clinical placements at sites across Victoria.

• FaceTime video chat may be added to next-gen iPod Touch

  Evidence is mounting that there's more FaceTime video chat coming in handheld devices, with reports surfacing today that the next iPod Touch, due this year, will include a front-facing camera.