...had a demo of Fuze HD for iPad earlier this week, and have to say I’m pretty impressed, not just with the quality of the video — it shoots and di... Read More

The flexible Fuze Meeting web conferencing platform already had a very solid iOS story, with the ability to schedule and start meetings from the iPad (including multiparty HD videoconferencing). Now, with the recently released version 4.0 of the app, the company is building a bridge to corporate high-end conferencing gear. The new app is compatible with Fuze's Hosted Telepresence Connect service, which allows iPad users to join in videoconference sessions with high-end installed systems from Cisco, Polycom, LifeSize and other vendors. These enterprise conferencing room systems don't come cheap, but adding the iPad clients into the mix expands their flexibility and may increase their utilization. (If you have to ask: the Telepresence Connect service starts at US$2,000 a month for connection to three endpoint systems.) In addition to the big-ticket feature, the new app version also includes the ability to start a meeting recording from the iPad, touch annotation of shared Read More

Having an App Store means never having to say "Sorry, there's no app for that" -- or at least not very often. With the massive success of the iOS App Store, however, there's also a discoverability problem: how do you find the apps you need? Searching by name or keyword doesn't always help, and some gems may be hiding just around the next page of results. The search tool Chomp, available currently for both iOS and Android, aimed to change that equation. Via the company's app or web tool, you can search for apps by what they do rather than what they're called. A proprietary algorithm digs into the app descriptions, reviews and capabilities to figure out what makes an app useful, and then exposes that analysis to eager app searchers and would-be purchasers. Such a capability, if it worked as advertised, would be very valuable. Seems like it does work Read More

By Jennifer Allen on February 21st, 2012 Simple to use yet powerful. FaceTime is great for casual video conferencing use but for more professional purposes, a dedicated solution is a better idea. That’s precisely where Fuze Meeting HD enters the equation. Initially free, Fuze Meeting HD offers online meetings and audio conferencing between two participants. In-app purchases priced at $29.99 or $69.99 then unlocks the ability to communicate with more participants at once. With the iPad 2, live video can be sent during a video conference with everything viewable in HD. PowerPoint and Keynote presentations can be added, along with Word documents, PDFs and images all possible to add to the Fuze Meeting content library. Meetings can all be simply arranged via the iPad address book for further useful functionality. When in a call, it’s easy to zoom and pan in, and it’s especially handy to be able to close the Read More

From one-person shops to giant enterprises, if businesses agree on anything right now it's "iPad Yay." The Apple tablet hasn't even reached the terrible twos yet, but it's clearly making its presence felt across countless verticals and different industries. For at least a couple of mobile professional writers (who might have been termed "ink-stained wretches" in times gone by), the iPad's capability as a writing tool has led it to largely replace their laptops for day-to-day work. While consumers may be the drivers behind most iPad sales, chances are that the iPad-toting professional on your gift list is using his or her iPad for a combination of personal enjoyment and work tasks, so why not find a gift that supports and extends the biz savvy of everyone's favorite quasi-computer? Here's our brief list of gift ideas that you could conceivably write off on your taxes. Cloudy Days If your business iPad Read More

The latest Apple iPad ad has appeared, and although slightly sappy in places, is a far better effort than their previous hit and miss efforts.  The advert implies the iPad will integrate itself in our lives to the extent where it’ll replace everything from a pen-and-paper to the TV. While starting any sentence with ‘we’ll always’ just makes me want to finish it with ‘have Paris’, the ad’s title tells watchers that they’ll carry on doing the same things, but with the iPad.  For example, it uses the phrase ‘We’ll always cook dinner and cheer for our favorite team’, and finishes with ‘But how we do all this will never be the same’. It’s a very strong message, and makes the iPad desirable, futuristic and for the first time in ages in an Apple ad, useful too.  It’s also great to see ‘real world’ use rather than boring specification talk!  There Read More

Neben Apples eigenen Programmen iMovie und iBooks bekommen ‘Das Foto-Kochbuch’ (3.99; Universal; App Store-Link), ‘Fuze Meeting HD’ (kostenlos; App Store-Link), ‘Alphabet Fun’ (2.39 €; App Store-Link) und ‘MLB.com’ (7.99 €; App Store-Link) als App-Store-Software einen kurzen Auftritt im vierten iPad-2-Werbespot dieser Art. Read More

jul 24 Nós nunca deixaremos de compartilhar nossas lembranças ou de nos perdermos na leitura de um bom livro. Sempre faremos o jantar e torceremos para o nosso time favorito. Ainda faremos reuniões, filmes caseiros e aprenderemos coisas novas. Mas a forma como faremos tudo isso, nunca mais será a mesma… Essa é a íntegra da mensagem do novo comercial do iPad 2, liberado neste domingo pela Apple. Ele mostra como o iPad está revolucionando a maneira como fazemos tarefas do dia-a-dia. Confira: Alguém reparou na sutil referência ao Mac OS Lion no final? ATUALIZAÇÃO: Como muitos perguntaram, fomos atrás dos nomes de cada aplicativo usado no vídeo, na ordem em que aparecem: - Aplicativo nativo Fotos - iBooks (link) - The Photo Cookbook (link) - MLB.com (link) - Fuze Meeting HD (link) - iMovie (link) - Alphabet Fun (link) Antes de postar, conheça nossos Termos de Uso. Nome (obrigatório) Email Read More

FuzeBox has announced that their Fuze Meeting line of software will be getting updates to support HD video conferencing for up to 10 people across all platforms that support Fuze Meeting, including iOS. One of the problems with digital video has been the wide variety of codecs making device interoperability a challenge. Even minor differences in software can make a video work on one platform and not on the other – and these problems are not just limited to recorded video, even live video sharing has been problematic, as a wide variety of OSes and protocols exist for live video sharing, and unifying all of these platforms can be a challenge. There may be one interesting solution, primarily for business users, that is coming out soon. FuzeBox, creators of the Fuze Meeting application, have announced that they’re releasing an update to Fuze Meeting that will enable support for HD videoconferencing with Read More

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are twelve new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are: The city version of We Farm and We Rule, so expect more of the same as you build you city up with 100 different types of building plus online support for showing off your city.  The game is free, but there are various in-app purchases.  Free. It’s the game of the film, where you play Sylvester Stallone’s character and must shoot everyone you see.  The game has tilt controls, a survival mode and OpeFeint integration.  The price is listed as being for a limited time only.  $0.99/£0.59. An app which offers free international SMS and Facebook chat.  It’s ad-supported, works over 3G and Wi-Fi and regardless of the device you’re sending the message to.  Check to see whether your country and operator are supported.  Read More