* The companies' latest product comes from their ongoing joint initiative to bring solutions that address the education market
Vidyo and Adobe announced they have worked together, bringing collaboration with multiple parties to “personal telepresence.” The companies’ latest product comes from their ongoing joint initiative to bring solutions that address the education market. The companies will demonstrate the integrated solution during the annual 2010 Educause Conference being held in Anaheim, Calif., this week.
Vidyo and Adobe announced they have worked together, bringing collaboration with multiple parties to “personal telepresence.” The companies’ latest product comes from their ongoing joint initiative to bring solutions that address the education market. The companies will demonstrate the integrated solution during the annual 2010 Educause Conference being held in Anaheim, Calif., this week.
Underpinning the joint technology, a plug-in allows multiple users to collaborate over a telepresence-quality Vidyo conference within an Adobe Connect session. APIs are currently available from both Adobe and Vidy, which are also making the APIs available to value-added integration partners, demonstrating a commitment to “ensure future interoperability.”
According to a prepared statement, “Vidyo is a preferred videoconferencing solution for a growing number of learning centers, universities and K-12 educators.” Adobe Connect, which brings a suite of Web-conferencing software enabling users to securely share presentations and multimedia, is the cornerstone of Adobe’s eLearning and collaboration solutions,” according to the company.
In other video related news, announced Qualcomm last week that it will no longer sell its FLO TV service, which offers TV broadcasts to a mobile device. Qualcomm also offered the service through Verizon and AT&T. The company will, however, continue to offer service to existing customers through mid-2011.
Our observations: we believe that demand for mobile video will continue to grow. While the FLO model may have opened the door for others like Netflix or other service providers to stream video to a mobile device, some financial analysts have suggested that Qualcomm may be better served by selling the spectrum it used for FLO to another service provider.
Providing commercial video content to a mobile device is an increasingly competitive market, and with the 4G mobile network in plans or early deployment now, we think a multimedia approach that bundles shared user generated video, commercial entertainment, and mobile video conferencing is the more likely model moving forward.
