BrightCom teams up with Skype

Brightcom, a provider of integrated telepresence and video conferencing solutions, is planning to link Skype's clients to its SIP telepresence and video conferencing infrastructure, 'Visual Collaboration System' in 2010, according to TMCnet.

The collaboration between Skype clients and BrightCom telepresence conferencing is designed to help people without high-end conferencing endpoints communicate with those in personal offices, conference rooms, telepresence suites and custom telepresence workstations around the world.

BrightCom's Visual Collaboration System is a single network appliance that offers meeting scheduling, Web conferencing capabilities and NAT/firewall traversal for BrightCom's Lumina Telepresence, ClearView Video Conferencing and desktop conferencing endpoints.

MSI, a graphics cards and mainboard manufacturer, has joined forces with the graphics chip manufacturer AMD and released the next-generation MSI R5800 series graphics cards, states Manila Bulletin.

The 40-nanometre (nm) graphics processing unit (GPU) supports DirectX 11 and a variety of AMD-exclusive audio-visual and performance enhancing technologies, creating an entirely new performance-oriented series.

The MSI R5870/R5850 series uses more advanced 40nm GPU to implement decisively more transistors within the same amount of space.

Panasonic Philippines, through its audio-visual department, has introduced the widest range of environmentally friendly flat panel television products under the 'Viera' (Visual Era) series, reports Philstar.

Developed and powered by Panasonic's LCD and plasma television digital audio-video technology, the Viera series offers exceptional picture quality, smart networking (Viera Image Viewer and Viera Link), and stylish design, according to the company.

The Viera S, A, X and C series melds different design and visual experiences with their personally designed features.