On 21 November 2003, Polycom acquired privately-held Voyant Technologies, Inc. of Westminster, Colorado. Voyant is the leading provider of voice conferencing and collaboration network solutions. Bill Ernstrom, Voyant’s president and CEO, will continue to lead the Voyant organisation. The Voyant group will become part of Polycom Network Systems, and Mr. Ernstrom will report to Phil Keenan, senio...   (read article)

20 November 2003. We estimate TANDBERG has about 50% in this market in revenue terms.  This is higher than its worldwide market share of about 35%. TANDBERG has over 30 people servicing the UK market only, which is more than all its competitors combined.  We interviewed Tom Somborg, managing director of TANDBERG UK to find out more. 

Says Tom Somborg; “We have a strong t...   (read article)

Clear One announced its enhanced Suite of Conferencing Services on 14 October 2003. The key is a new interactive portal — “Let’s Conference” — which explains the new services and enables customers to set up and conduct web and audio conference calls from their desktop. ClearOne has now shown its faith in web conferencing by offering four different varieties of web conferencing in addition to th...   (read article)

To understand the passion and professional approach that underpins the “Empower Peace” campaign, we interviewed Rick Rendon who started the project, He is co-founder and Senior Partner of The Rendon Group, Inc. which is a full service communications company with over twenty years of experience in developing and implementing campaigns and promotional projects requiring coordinated, complex, mult...   (read article)

Mike Keough joined ClearOne Communications Inc. (OTC: CLRO.PK and formerly Gentner Communications) in November 2002 as chief strategy officer and products business unit leader. On 21 January 2003 Mike Keough and Greg Rand were made interim co-CEOs.

When ClearOne’s board of directors established the new leadership team on 9 April 2003, Mike Keough was appointed chief executive officer o...   (read article)

20 March 2003.  Ken Hayward calls himself a serial entrepreneur first and a distinguished engineer second. After selling two successful startup companies, he worked for 3-4 years in the early 1990s for Pierce Phelps, then the world’s largest videoconferencing systems integrator. (They were bought by VTEL and are now called Forgent.)

Ken worked on the design and implementation ...   (read article)