About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Teletraining, Webcam, Teleconference, Videophone, Windows Live Messenger, Videoconferencing, H.323, Unified communications, Features of Skype, Tandberg, WebTrain, Polycom, Fring, List of video telecommunication services and product brands, PGi, Vyke, S4PG, Vidyo, Web conferencing, LifeSize, BigBlueButton, QuickCam, IBM Lotus Sametime, ISight, CU-SeeMe, IvanAnywhere, Ekiga, TokBox, Cisco TelePresence, Brosix, Microsoft NetMeeting, Adobe Connect, VenueGen, Video banking, Ontario Telemedicine Network, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, 6rounds, D-Link, LG-Ericsson, Earnings call, PowWowNow, SFLphone, Virtual field trip, Mirial s.u.r.l., VZOchat, Yahoo! Voice, Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, Aastra Technologies, Tandberg Movi, Radvision, VideoLan VideoConference, CoroWare, Virtual hands on training, Media phone, TalkPoint, Tandberg C90, Millennium Mathematics Project, OpenCU, FocusVision, Teleseminars, Tandberg E20, ClearMeeting, Polycom VSX 7000, Megaconference, OctroTalk, InterActor, Glowpoint, Synchronous conferencing, Collaboration Properties, H.331, Virtual press conference, Floor control, H.460. Excerpt: A videophone is a telephone with a video screen, and is capable of full duplex (bi-directional) video and audio transmissions for communication between people in real-time. It was the first form of videotelephony, later to be followed by videoconferencing, webcams, and finally telepresence. At the dawn of the technology, videotelephony also included image phones which would exchange still images between units every few seconds over conventional POTS-type telephone lines, essentially the same as slow scan TV systems. Currently videophones are particularly useful to the deaf and speech-impaired who can use them with sign language, and also with video relay services to communicate with hearing persons. Vid...
