The Gillard government’s treasurer, Wayne Swan, has indicated in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) that there will be a 20 per cent cut in capital expenditure for government agencies with IT projects worth less than $10 million under the knife.
Taxpayers and the Federal Government have both benefited from the rollout of a National Telepresence System (NTS) in 2009 with savings of $12 million in travel costs reported.
Unified communications company, Polycom, opened the doors to its new solutions centre in North Sydney recently. The room includes a number of offerings aimed at the enterprise and government space, such as the HDX telepresence system, EagleEye room tracking camera, and open telepresence equipment for holding meetings via video.
Law firm Minter Ellison will bolster collaboration across its Asia-Pacific operations with a new video-based collaboration and knowledge sharing platform.
With an eye on business collaboration and communication, Cisco has released a range of new video production products aimed at enterprise customers.
Komatsu Forklift Australia has moved to telepresence in a bid to reduce travel costs and increase workplace output.
Mercy Health has deployed videoconferencing capability to improve internal communications and increase employee safety.
The Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) video conferencing market is set to grow strongly over the next four years thanks to an enterprise spending recovery and a decrease in bandwidth costs.
It's not just Google who has taken the leap into consumer appliances. Just the day after the search company launched the Google TV, Cisco has announced trials of a consumer version of its TelePresence videoconferencing system according to a Reuters report. The company has also announced that TV channel ESPN will be using Telepresence to transmit World Cup football from South Africa.
Cisco Systems emerged from the effects of the global economic downturn in its fiscal third quarter ended May 1, posting what Chairman and CEO John Chambers said was probably the company's best quarter ever.
Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers demonstrated on Wednesday how the company's TelePresence videoconferencing technology could be developed into a consumer product, showing off the long-awaited system at a press conference ahead of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.