Huge important news for all telepresence and the associated's market for video conference vendors today. Putting it in terms of competition, based on recent innovations and partnerships there has been an interesting standoff between Cisco and HP (Hewlett-Packard). Cisco had previously supplied the HP with their very own video based tele conferencing products.

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According to the press release, Go Daddy was the number one provider of new SSL certificates during the month of May, adding nearly 13,000.

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Polycom video conferencing company is spearheading a global consortium designed to bolster videoconferencing interoperability. The Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) aims to establish a global standards-based, multi-vendor, multi-network visual communication exchange.

OVCC members plan to support the full spectrum of video systems from immersive telepresence and room-based systems, high definition and standard definition, followed by desktop clients and mobile devices.