December 18th, 2009: Avaya, a global leader in business communications systems, announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions (NES). This acquisition includes web.alive and the entire web.alive team. Additional information about the acquisition is available at http://www.avaya.com/nortel.
“The completion of this acquisition represents another major step in Avaya’s evolution and growth in the communications industry,” said Kevin J. Kennedy, president and CEO, Avaya.
The web.alive team is excited to be working as part of Avaya — …
As of November 27th web.alive beta 2 has been released. This release incorporates hundreds of new features since our beta 1 from January this year.
Some of the head-line features include :
* drag and drop documents and images into web.alive to make presentations, collaboration, and training easy
* voice just works (even better!) – noise suppression & echo cancellation allows for a great experience with your built-in laptop speakers and microphone
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During the Windows 7 launch week at the end of October, Microsoft and Lenovo used web.alive to help launch the newest Microsoft OS. Representatives from Microsoft and Lenovo held a series of events in Lenovo’s web.alive powered virtual showroom to help consumers understand what Windows 7 is all about and how Lenovo is building PCs that enhance the experience.
I attended one session where Microsoft’s Kris Moore ran us through the new features of the OS. People from all over …
Usability testing and evaluation provide insight into how users will likely interact with a particular system. Frequently usability testing and evaluation are used as part of a process whose goal is to modify a system to become more efficient and satisfying to use. In the case of virtual reality systems and virtual worlds in particular, there seems to have been relatively little published on the use of usability testing and the learning’s from that testing. In …
Too often it seems that our organisations, institutions and nations view learning as an individual process with beginnings and ends, best separated from the rest of our activities and a consequence of teaching - a binary zero or one process where we’re expected to be either learning or not.
I don’t agree with these assumptions but see effective future learning routed in a new social theory of learning that has Community at its centre and is made a reality through the …
It has been a particularly busy and exciting time for the web.alive team. Just a week into the new year we were heading down to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to unveil our first customer installation of web.alive with our customer Lenovo. After doing some pre-launch interviews and demonstrations with analysts and press we were hoping that our the two announcements we were going to make would help officially launch web.alive to the world.
Thursday came and although there …
The Immersive Internet opens the door to things simply not possible using alternative methods and at the same time Immersive and Engaged go hand-in-hand. It’s hard not to like it (or agree) when Driver concludes “While the adoption of the Immersive Internet in the enterprise is still in the seeding stage as of late 2008, it will become mainstream within five years. By this mean that it will have a significant installed base within Global 1000 companies and large public …
Brent November 20, 2008 in: News
As a Gen-Xer (admittedly close to the baby boomer edge) my first introduction to web.alive technology was in January of 2008. Initial impression; “this is cool stuff, but can you actually sell it”. As an opportunity presented itself to join the team shortly thereafter I was faced with a career defining moment especially with the industry’s and Nortel’s economic climate. The decision - to embarq on a risky new venture inside Nortel in a non-traditional business or stay with what …
The interest level in web.alive is heating up as we watch a world in an extreme economic crunch while teams are more diversified and globally extended. Recently Chief Architect Arn Hyndman sat down with the Ottawa Citizen to discuss the vision behind web.alive a little more thoroughly. You can read the story here.
Some highlights of the story
* The application is ’software-agnostic’, so it will run in most corporate computing environments, and it doesn’t require any particular …
