Polycom and Microsoft strengthen relationships
Polycom continues to strengthen its co-operation with Microsoft, the Unified Communication supplier inked an agreement with Microsoft for suppling Unified Communication products.
Microsoft offer products in the software side – Office and Microsoft Communication Server, Exchange Server and Active Directory services.

Tandberg Movi 4.0 platform released
Now with Mac support, Movi 4.0 is the latest in the company personal video conferencing products.  Movi supports connectivity to the higher end Telepresence systems by Tandberg, bitrate adaptation and h264 recovery techniques.

Avaya CEO talks about the Flare and video conferencing
In a PCWORLD interview, Avaya CEO talks about the Flare Platform and Video conferencing in general.
Telepresence Options wrote a great article about the Avaya “Mojo”, the new video tablet device which is a part of the Flare Platform.

A step towards Unified Communications?
Polycom merges its Video, Telepresence and Voice development units into a single R&D unit for the corporate market.

Middle-Man Interoperability?
VoIP Watch blogger, Andy Abramson talks about a different approach to interoperability – having a middle-man.  Glowpoint do just that, on the cloud, with their ability to connect video-conferencing equipment from different makers into hosted meetings. As a managed service in a not-yet interoperable world – it does sound interesting.

Gmail Video Chat getting sharper
Google boosted their video quality in their latest Gmail Labs addition. The modification brings up the quality to WVGA standards.

LTE on the cheap, MetroPCS new 4G plan in Las Vegas
4G without smartphones? For MetroPCS this seems like an ideal solution with a Samsung Craft phone (with its own intergraded operation system, which is not Android/Symbian based) and LTE support. MetroPCS offers a cheap mobile device with a cheap data plan – this seems to fit their current user base.