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2008

• Bright Hub
  October 27, 2008
  
  SightSpeed Video Conferencing Review
  "Green Computing"
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• CBS News
  October 16, 2008
  
  Hi-Tech Ways To Stay Close To Home On Road
  “Sightspeed is better for video conferencing with more than two people.”
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• ZDNet - J.A. Watson
  September 15, 2008
  
  "The bottom line is, whether the end of summer means getting back to business, back to school, or back to your normal routine, You can benefit from SightSpeed in a lot of ways"
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• ZDNet - J.A. Watson
  September 15, 2008
  
  "Here's a good example of how the availability of SightSpeed on the Dell notebooks with Linux might pay off for both of them. I can hardly wait to get my hands on SightSpeed for Linux…"
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• GigaOm
  September 14, 2008
  
  " SightSpeed VideoChat Comes to Linux, Netbooks.The Linux app is going to help target the fast-growing netbooks (others call them mini-notebooks) category. As we have noted, Linux is the preferred operating system for NetBooks. This video chat client can work with SightSpeed software on other OS platforms"
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• Laptop Magazine
  September 04, 2008
  
  "Above the display is a 1.3-megapixel webcam (a $25 option, but the Inspiron Mini 9 is also available with a 0.3-MP cam for $15) that provided clear images when videoconferencing with a friend over Dell Video Chat, a client based on SightSpeed's technology (which lets users have four-way video calls with Mac, PC, and Linux users). The camera provided clear images."
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• PC Magazine
  September 04, 2008
  
  "Dell even throws in its latest video chat client, powered by SightSpeed. Videoconferencing through this utility and the integrated webcam was as seamless as running Skype."
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• MarketWatch
  September 03, 2008
  
  "SightSpeed Inc. can help SMBs be both more profitable and productive with affordable Internet-based face-to-face video communications that increase collaboration and cut travel expenses, stress, wasted time and carbon emissions"
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• The Earth Times
  August 27, 2008
  
  "Bernstein says that SightSpeed is now built into his contingency-planning recommendation for every client, as a way to "come to the office when you can't come to the office, to have virtual conferences with your crisis team, and to send critical messages to key influencers." In some cases, a SightSpeed-driven press conference can be the first immediate response to an evolving crisis situation, until the spokesperson can physically travel to affected sites. "
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• Breitbart.com
  August 27, 2008
  
  "Jonathan Bernstein uses SightSpeed video conferencing and mail service to reassure clients that business is up and running and not swamped by Fay"
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• The Wall Street Journal
  August 26, 2008
  
  "Dell also decided to use its own video chat software in the Studio notebook line after finding that eBay Inc’s Skype Internet calling software – which it installed on previous computers – was not as user-friendly. Dell’s Video Chat software has features such as video emails, which Skype doesn’t have."
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• Business Wire
  August 18, 2008
  
  Back-to-School with SightSpeed Video Chat: The Perfect Tool for Dorm Room and Classroom
  "As students in the MySpace generation prepare to start a new school year in a scant few weeks, SightSpeed Inc., the leading provider of Internet video communications, is ready to help them make the transition from home to dorm without losing touch—or sight—of all the special people in their lives."
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• Mercury News - Scott Duke Harris
  August 12, 2008
  
  "Consumer video chat is now really front and center, entering the mass market," said Peter Csathy, chief executive of SightSpeed, a 7-year-old Berkeley company considered a pioneer in the "lightweight" videoconferencing business ... And video chat naturally complements the rise of online social-networking sites. The SightSpeed Light service is available to users of MySpace and hi5 ...."
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• PC Magazine
  July 30, 2008
  
  "With 30 frame-per-second video, SightSpeed offers the sharpest Internet video calling around. The new Web interface option and social-network integrations make SightSpeed even more useful."
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• Video Conferencing Review - Karen D. Schwartz
  July 24, 2008
  
  Videoconferencing on a budget
  “The value of videoconferencing is much more than cost savings, but for small and mid-sized companies, that’s usually what they look at first,” said Rebecca Swensen, a research analyst at IDC of Framingham, Mass. “Especially today, with the cost of travel skyrocketing.”
  
  SightSpeed’s professional edition offers a host of features including unlimited video calling, multi-party videoconferencing, video mail, unlimited video mail storage, no long-distance fees and detailed call history.
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• Rocky Mountain Telegram
  July 17, 2008
  
  "Dell worked with another company, Berkeley, Calif.-based SightSpeed Inc., to develop a software console for video chat sessions, instant messaging, phone calls and other communications. The Dell Video Chat program can be up and running with a couple clicks of the mouse, Wampler said, and it will facilitate video chat sessions with up to four people at once. The program only works with other Dell Video Chat or SightSpeed users, but PC owners can download a free, basic version of the program at sightspeed.com"
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• MuniWireless.com
  July 17, 2008
  
  PC Magazine's guide to Wi-Fi: a must-have for the traveler who wants to stay connected
  "Of the services he mentions, I have been using Sightspeed for video conferencing.."
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• VoIP Weblog - Dameon Welch-Abemathy
  July 16, 2008
  
  Why Dell Partnered With SightSpeed
  "Really, it boils down to one key fact: SightSpeed delivered with Dell. Because SightSpeed has worked with partners in Dell's league before, and more importantly, they listened to what Dell wanted, they were able to deliver."
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• Unified Communications Blog – Ken Camp
  July 14, 2008
  
  Technical Excellence and Thought Leadership in Unified Communications
  "Peter and SightSpeed represent the best and brightest combination of everything it takes to thrive in the industry. Not survive - thrive. I don't always understand some of their directions, but the business acumen, thought leadership, passion and technical excellence they exude always leaves me cheering them on."
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• Yahoo Finance
  July 10, 2008
  
  SightSpeed Combats Ever Climbing Cost of Oil with Video Conferencing for Everyone
  "Berkeley-based SightSpeed Inc., the leading provider of Internet video communications, transforms a PC or a Mac into an affordable, easy-to-use video conferencing service to enable face-to-face communication with business colleagues, clients and partners around the world without the need to commute or travel."
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• East Bay Business Times
  July 7, 2008
  
  Berkeley's SightSpeed video chat gets a boost from Dell Inc.
  "The partnership has the potential to add not just Dell buyers to SightSpeed's user base, but also everyone they invite to chat with them using SightSpeed's network, giving the company an opportunity to sell paid offerings, such as low-cost long-distance calling, multiparty video chat and extended video-mail recording and storage."
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• Dell - Your Blogs
  June 30, 2008
  
  So Easy Your Mom Can Do It
  "So one of the 'cool' applications we launched with the new Studio laptops is Dell Video Chat (DVC). This is a super easy, one-click-and-you’re-ready-to-go program that makes setting up a video chat mindless."
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• ZDNet
  June 27, 2008
  
  "Dell Video Chat by SightSpeed - Excellent Technically and Commercially
  The new Dell and SightSpeed clients are still as compact, visually appealing and efficient as the previous versions were, only better. Place the mouse cursor on the line for a contact, and you see buttons for video call, audio call, text chat, or video messaging - but only the buttons which are applicable to that contact. It doesn't get much easier than that, anyone can recognize the icons on the buttons, and it doesn't stick a graphic the size of a silver dollar (or a pound coin) in your eye for each one of them.."
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• GearDiary
  June 26, 2008
  
  "Dell Video Chat: Is this streaming video that even my Mom can set up?
  My Mom had installed Dell Video Chat, found my user name, sent a video email and initiated a video chat. ALL WITHOUT A TECH SUPPORT CALL .. to me! Phase one of the “mom test” passed with flying colors. The quality was excellent. Setup was a breeze. This will make an excellent everyday video web chat. It’s so easy that if you’re not interested in regular online chats that you could use the service for special family get togethers to join distant members of your family by video. "
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• DEMO.com
  June 26, 2008
  
  Dell chooses SightSpeed to launch video email and conferencing to the mass market
  
  "While Dell declined to comment on future products, it seems that with gasoline prices jacking up the cost of traveling by car and airplane and video hailed as king of the Internet, a perfect storm is created for companies like Dell and SightSpeed to push video email and video conferencing to a mass consumer and business audiences."
  
  "This deal represents the mainstreaming of video chat because it's native on the hardware," said Eric Quanstrom, vice president of marketing for SightSpeed of Berkeley, CA. "Before today, only Apple has done it with iChat. Dell is taking a leadership position on the Windows side."
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• Engadget
  June 26, 2008
  
  "Dell is also doing up Dell Video Chat, in partnership with SightSpeed, which integrates some rather easy-to-use video chat (powered by those integrated webcams on the Studio Laptops) with VoIP and IM for a pretty compelling alternative to Apple's iChat."
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• ZDNet
  June 26, 2008
  
  Dell Video Chat - A Coup for SightSpeed
  
  "Dell made several announcements today. The one which caught my eye was "Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed". The newly announced Studio line of laptop and desktop computers will have Dell Video Chat preloaded… this certainly looks like a good way to increase the SightSpeed installed base, and one of the few good ways to combat the average users tendency to install Skype without considering any of the alternatives."
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• CIO
  June 26, 2008
  
  "Dell has added new software to the system, including Dell Dock, a simplified menu system that groups files based on type, like video, productivity and audio files. That categorizing of files helps maintain a more orderly desktop, New said. Dell is also including new video chat software."
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• TWICE
  June 26, 2008
  
  "Dell is also today announcing its new video conferencing service called Dell Video Chat powered by Sightspeed. The free application will come standard with all Studio computers. The included version allows the user to simultaneously chat with up to four people; however a pared-down version will also be freely available for download by interested users with any Webcam enabled PC."
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• TMCnet
  June 26, 2008
  
  "Score one for SightSpeed! I also like that SightSpeed is not proprietary and leverages industry standards such as SIP & H.263. Like Skype, SightSpeed also supports wideband audio."
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• Austin American Statesman
  June 26, 2008
  
  Dell's new line changes more than just the cover
  
  "Dell worked with another company, Berkeley, Calif.-based SightSpeed Inc., to develop a software console for video chat sessions, instant messaging, phone calls and other communications. The Dell Video Chat program can be running with a couple clicks of the mouse, Wampler said, and it will facilitate video chat sessions with up to four people at once. The program only works with other Dell Video Chat or SightSpeed users, but PC owners can download a free, basic version of the program at www.sightspeed.com."
  
  "Both the dock and video chat applications will be standard features on the Studio line, said Anne Camden, a Dell spokeswoman. The dock will be added to several current products over the summer, she said, and both it and the chat application will be added to new consumer products as they launch."
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• VoIP Planet
  June 26, 2008
  
  Dell Partners with SightSpeed for Video Chat
  
  "We reviewed SightSpeed's video communications service earlier this year, and noted at the time a significant up-tick in activity in the IP-based video marketplace."
  
  Today Dell Computer announced it will be bundling Dell Video Chat (a custom-designed, re-branded version of SightSpeed, officially dubbed 'Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed') with its slick, new, consumer-focused Studio line of laptops, confirming our impression that video over IP has rapidly been moving toward mainstream status."
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• Web Worker Daily
  June 26, 2008
  
  SightSpeed Goes Mainstream with Dell Video Chat
  
  "I was pleasantly surprised. The SightSpeed software installed easily on my Mac, and the video conversation with Mr. Csathy was crisp, smooth and effortless as compared to any I've tried with Skype. He had a fancy headset, but I was just using the MacBook Pro's built-in speakers and microphone. For once, video conferencing felt approachable to me beyond Apple iChat."
  
  "It's exactly this "good for everyone" mentality that is guiding Dell and SightSpeed's partnership. Dell laptops will now ship with specially branded SightSpeed software built-in and ready to go with a single click. The software enables users to participate in free, unlimited one-on-one video, audio and text chats worldwide."
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• TMCnet
  June 26, 2008
  
  Sightspeed Powers New 'Dell Video Chat' Application
  
  "Video Chat is gaining acceptance as a great way to stay in touch with friends and family across the country or globe. SightSpeed has been recognized by the industry for delivering best-in class video chat capability that works across multiple platforms, including Windows,Apple ( News - Alert) and Linux."
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• AppScout
  June 26, 2008
  
  Dell Bundling SightSpeed Voice Chat With Studio Notebooks
  
  "Dell and Internet video provider SightSpeed announced today a partnership that will bundle the software company's technology on Dell's new Studio laptops. The new Dell Video Chat comes preinstalled on the aforementioned systems and can be shared with non-Studio owners using the invitee client program."
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• TechCraver
  June 26, 2008
  
  Dell Launches SightSpeed-Powered Video Conferencing on PCs
  
  "To accompany the launch of their sexy Studio line of laptops, Dell is including a new utility on their Studio line computers called Dell Video Chat which is powered by SightSpeed, a proven video conferencing application I’ve written about before. The inclusion of this application will bring simple video conferencing amongst the new Dell users and will allow them to interface with friends, family, and colleagues who are on Windows, Linux, or Apple computers."
  
  "One competitive advantage SightSpeed brings to the table is their inclusion of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the standard VoIP protocol used on the internet and enabling you to make VoIP calls to almost any VoiP user on the globe."
  
  "Just for Dell, SightSpeed has a new UI just for the Studio laptops that is redesigned and slick. Dell Video Chat includes free unlimited video, voice, and text chats worldwide to anyone else on SightSpeed and video conferencing with up to 4 people."
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• VoIP
  June 23, 2008
  
  "The folks at SightSpeed continue to quietly amaze. As I mentioned last week, SightSpeed was going to announce 9-way video conferencing, and they did exactly that for their SightSpeed Business customers. SightSpeed Business customers can now talk to up to 9 people simultaneously on a video call with prices starting at $19.95 a month per user. My experience with SightSpeed's 4-way video calling was pretty good. I'm told, though I haven't yet tested it myself, that the 9-way calling is even better thanks to some work they did on the server end. Keeping 9 videos in sync is quite a feat to say the least!"
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• ZDNet
  June 23, 2008
  
  "I spent part of the weekend trying out the new SightSpeed build that I mentioned Friday. WOW. There is so much more to this – it seemed like the more I looked, the more I found and the better it got. My favorite part of this (SightSpeed) release, though, is all of the little things that have been changed and improved. I'm a very detail-oriented person, and I tend to notice things that a lot of other people don't, or that they see and just shrug off. The fact that SightSpeed has noticed these things, and taken the time and effort to fix or improve them, indicates to me that their developers are paying attention, they care about their product down to the smallest details, and they are really trying to make it the best that they can for their users. "
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• DEMO.com
  June 23, 2008
  
  "Responding to the market shift that most mobile computers have cameras, Internet video provider SightSpeed, Inc. (DEMO 04) of Berkeley, CA today introduces the first simultaneous nine-way video conferencing and text chat. "
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• macvoip.com
  June 22, 2008
  
  "The applications for this are numerous: distance training and businessmeetings chief among them. The application that first brought qualityvideo quality to the masses, Sightspeed, now offers nine-wayvideo-conferencing. Check it out."
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• AsiaOne Digital
  June 10, 2008
  
  "You know that SightSpeed has got it going when industry experts label it as one of the few Internet telephony sites that can truly knock Skype off its perch.
  
  Impressively, the current SightSpeed version lets users do real-time video recording as well as five-person conference calls without any time lag. It also lets you make overseas calls via the PC. Dialing Britain, for example, was a breeze and the sound quality was great. My friend sounded as if she was in the same
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• 2008 CODiE AWARDS
  May 22, 2008
  
  "Codie award goes to SightSpeed - Best Communication Solution"
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• Web Worker Daily
  May 7, 2008
  
  "SightSpeed Offers Useful Video Conferencing.
  SightSpeed (previously covered at GigaOm) is a great offering that does not require you to install expensive equipment to confer with your colleagues and team mates."
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• VentureBeat
  April 21, 2008
  
  "SightSpeed Light provides a Flash-based free video chat and video mail between MySpace users, but it is also integrated with SightSpeed on the desktop. The company has plans to release the widget on social networks LinkedIn, Salesforce, Plaxo, Orkut, Hi5 and others.
  
  Chief Technology Officer Aron Rosenberg says he considers the widget as just one way video conferencing will reach a mass audience."
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• ZDNet
  April 19, 2008
  
  "The people at SightSpeed continue to impress me with their originality and creativity. I received an announcement this morning in my email of a new (beta) version of SightSpeed Light for MySpace ... I think this will be a really good addition for a lot of MySpace users."
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• VoIP-News
  March 27, 2008
  
  VoIP-News.com Names SightSpeed to "Best Phone Services List" Twice.
  "SightSpeed is an award-winning video phone system that is free for personal use. Business plans start at $19.95 per month. SightSpeed offers free voice, IM and video chat with video mail, too. The service is Mac and Windows compliant."
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• CNET
  March 14, 2008
  
  See And Speak: A Guide To Making Video Calls
  "Built from the ground up for video calling, SightSpeed has an easy-to-use interface and a proprietary processing algorithm that removes unnecessary information from images -- such as backgrounds that don't change. The end result is more fluid video and a better overall experience."
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• VoIP News
  February 26, 2008
  
  Top Residential VoIP Tools
  "SightSpeed is another video calling application, but it is fairly mature and offers a range of tools, from free video chat with other users to more robust, business-level video conferencing with advanced features like recording."
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• Laptop Magazine
  February 25, 2008
  
  Laptop Magazine Editor’s Choice - 5 Stars
  Excellent video quality. Audio and video synced perfectly, and there were no drops or other hiccups. It’s a snap to record videos (up to 30 seconds each for the free version) and then send them to friends.
  "Verdict: If you’re going to stay in touch via video, this is your best bet."
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• Financial Times
  February 2, 2008
  
  "There is one form of personal video communication that appears to be growing steadily - desktop videocams (sometimes, somewhat confusingly, called webcams) … If, however, you get serious about video communications and desktop videoconferencing, I would recommend downloading one of the specialist video packages now available. My favourite, Sightspeed 6 (www.sightspeed)."
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• ZDNet
  January 30, 2008
  
  SightSpeed Chat, Without Installing SightSpeed!
  "...I think [My SightSpeed] is a very interesting and very under-promoted feature in SightSpeed - the ability to have someone call you on SightSpeed without having to install the SightSpeed software on their computer! ...I find this capability very interesting, and potentially very useful..."
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• Electronic TeleSpan
  January 28, 2008
  
  "Yes, there will be the need for high-end, room-based [video conferencing] systems, but with laptop bundles galore, I think some large business users best put their sights on SightSpeed ...My bet? SightSpeed will grow very quickly..."
  
  - Elliot Gold
• FierceVoIP
  January 10, 2008
  
  SightSpeed launches Video chat
  "SightSpeed Takes on video chat in the social world"
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• USA Today
  January 7, 2008
  
  Professors help students virtually
  "Lillie also uses SightSpeed, a video conferencing program, to record three-minute videos discussing students' work, which they can see by clicking on a link."
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• Mashable
  January 7, 2008
  
  Skype Alternative for MySpace Chats: SightSpeed on Open Social
  "Video chat tool SightSpeed is introducing a new service called SightSpped Light, which is made to work with various social networks in order to provide video chat within a more integrated platform."
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2007

• Los Angeles Times
  November, 2007
  
  Say hello to lower phone costs on Net
  "Jonathan Bernstein is such a big fan of SightSpeed that he's now a beta tester with ideas on how to develop the program for business use. Bernstein signed up this year to call his son in Florida but wound up instead using it more for his Sierra Madre-based crisis management firm, where it has become a videoconferencing tool that lets him train clients and provide other help. SightSpeed can replace expensive conferencing hardware, he said."
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• Macworld
  October, 2007
  
  Internet-Calling FAQ
  "It's the special features that make desktop calling software so cool compared with phone-line-replacement services. Skype and SightSpeed both offer videoconferencing with other members. SightSpeed's video quality is superb."
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• VON Magazine
  October, 2007
  
  Conferencing and Collaboration: Critical Enterprise Applications
  "The company [SightSpeed], which is based in Berkeley, Calif., recently released version 6.0 of its offer as well as an upcoming version that targets SMBs. New functionality in V6.0 includes full SIP conversion at the back end as well as the ability to record live calls, video, and/or voice on the PC. The SMB version will be fully supported, and the architecture is intrinsically secure; i.e., no super-nodes necessary"
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• ecademy
  October, 10 2007
  
  Outsourcing News: Virtual Personal Assistants
  "Work assignments are communicated through e-mail, SightSpeed, skype, phone, fax, mail and real-time online messaging. The services offered by Your Virtual Assistant vary from one customer to the next, based on their area of need."
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• San Jose Mercury News
  September, 17 2007
  
  Takahashi: Technology closes gaps to talk better face to faces
  "SightSpeed, which has a free one-to-one video conferencing system and a paid version for a conference of as many as four people for $4.95 a month."
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• Sound & Video Contractor
  September, 13 2007
  
  VoIP Provides the Next Level of Service
  "Working with SightSpeed, an Internet-based video communications company, Xpress was able to set up a web-based videoconferencing system that the company's clients could also use. But the real benefit was providing clients with a realtime look of their product as it was coming off the press. All the clients have to do is dial in from their own computers… "SightSpeed has helped us facilitate that immensely because it’s just a couple of mouse clicks and you are connected as opposed to something like we are doing here like a webex where you have to dial in, set up the conference and get everybody to accept, it's just too time consuming because that’s the old way of doing things. We think things like SightSpeed represent new technology and affordability that we haven’t seen in the past,” says Joe Barnhill, president of Xpress.
  
  Barnhill says the addition of the SightSpeed system has changed their relationships with their clients. "In terms of speed and personalization, it's a much more cordial relationship that we have with people," he says. "You can see them face to face as opposed to just an email or a voice mail. You get to know people, and you get to know them more personally because you are having more of an interaction. So I would say that it has helped us in our overall business model because of the way we interact with people. It's more like a family relationship dealing with our customers as opposed to doing it the old fashioned way."
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• PC Magazine
  August 29th, 2007
  
  SMB Boot Camp: Virtual Offices
  "5-Stars (Highest Rating of Services profiled); The Basic SightSpeed service (free) gives anyone with at least a 128-Kbps connection and a webcam free, brilliantly clear computer-to--computer video and voice calls, chat sessions, 30-second video e-mails to other service -members, and more."
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• The Wainhouse Report
  August 29th, 2007
  
  News and views on Real-Time Unified Communications
  "SightSpeed's service falls between the Yahoo chat-type video services and the full blown videoconferencing capabilities you may get with room-based system deployments. We've believed for several years that the breakthrough needed to take videoconferencing to the mainstream is not to be found in the realm of the hardware manufacturers but rather in the service provider community.' Wainhouse credits SightSpeed 'for implementing a service that will make videoconferencing easy to use for the masses and low cost at the same time. Notably, the number one business reason for using SightSpeed is... to have more face time with customers. Think about it!'"
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• TMCNET
  August 21th, 2007
  
  The Green Side of Video Conferencing
  "SightSpeed Inc., a provider of desktop video conferencing solutions, recognizes the importance of this technology and the responsibility of their own company's operations and for this reason utilizes the power of their own offering to reduce environmental impacts and the carbon footprint of all company employees."
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• TMCNET
  August 21th, 2007
  
  Video Conferencing: A Q&A Session with SightSpeed
  "SightSpeed, a provider of desktop video conferencing services brings to the market an affordable, unique offering that makes fast, quality video calls over theInternet possible for any user."
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• The Catalyst
  July 16th, 2007
  
  The amazing adventures of SightSpeed
  "There were many arenas to choose and try. Over the last year I tried iChat, AIM, Yahoo, Trillion, Skype and finally SightSpeed. Each of the above had some sort of challenge: lack of good quality video, a lot of jumping pictures when there was slight movement and sometimes when there was not. One was so severe I felt it better to use the voice and simply paste a photo of myself in the camera's eye. Finally, SightSpeed seemed to be the best of those tried, and so the journey and communication really began."
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• East Bay Business Times
  June 27, 2007
  
  Heather Crothers brings Intuit background to SightSpeed
  "The videoconferencing software company created the new position as it prepares to launch a new version of its software targeting small and medium businesses."
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• PC WORLD
  June 26, 2007
  
  Free video chat for broadband users as SightSpeed opens up shop
  "A new Internet application launched Tuesday allows Australian broadband users to video chat with one another for free."
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• PC WORLD
  May 21, 2007
  
  The 100 Best Products of 2007
  "The best videoconferencing app we've tested improved further in version 6 with a tabbed interface for contacts. Even better: SightSpeed is still free."
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• Financial Times
  May 11, 2007
  
  The next level of video conferencing
  "Desktop video conferencing software and services have been around for a decade and most IM (instant messaging) packages now offer video alongside voice and chat features. But the latest version of SightSpeed's package, SightSpeed 6.0 ... takes desktop video conferencing to the next level ..."
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• San Francisco Chronicle
  May 6, 2007
  
  THE MAZE MELTDOWN
  "Video conferencing, enhanced by more powerful compression technology, is proliferating as well, developing a following among those who aren't ready for avatars and want some face-to-face contact. A variety of companies offer video conferencing, including Pleasanton's Polycom and Berkeley's SightSpeed."
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• Telephony World
  April 5, 2007
  
  SightSpeed Now Compatible with AuPix Videophone
  "The simplicity and quality of SightSpeed online video calling is now available on a stand-alone videophone Service [that] is ideal for business users who take their video calling seriously."
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• Macworld
  March 29, 2007
  
  Vlip Video Sharing Site Encourages Public Debate
  "Vlip is a new video sharing community with a twist. What makes Vlip different from services like YouTube or Google Video, according to its creators, is interactivity. Powered by Internet video service software SightSpeed, Vlip is designed to provide users with threaded video messaging capabities."
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• PC World
  March 29, 2007
  
  Vlip Video Sharing Site Encourages Public Debate
  "Vlip enables users to link postings and their replies together, not just on the Vlip.com Web site but also on other Web sites, blogs and wikis, so viewers can see entire sequences of video exchanges rather than just fragments of one user's video or another."
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• Venture Beat
  March 19, 2007
  
  Vlip offers interactive video feature
  "Vlip's strength is its simplicity. No other site offers this. YouTube offers a way to reply to videos, but not a button to have an immediate live video chat with someone. The video call is good quality, because it is the bread and butter of Vlip's parent company, SightSpeed ... The company is particularly well placed, now that many PCs and other devices are being released with webcams built in."
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• Webware
  March 16, 2007
  
  Vlip launches
  "Vlogging social network Vlip launched this morning, providing users with a way to record and share video messages with others using their Webcams. Vlip has incorporated a system similar to YouTube's, allowing Vlip users to post a video response to another user's video. Both the video and its responses can be viewed from embedded Vlip clips on social networking profiles, blogs, and Web sites (similar to the dynamically updating embeds on SplashCast and Searchles.) Posting and browsing the site requires no registration."
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• PC Magazine
  March 7, 2007
  
  SightSpeed 6.0
  "Version 6.0 further cements SightSpeed’s position as the top provider of free Internet video calling. This release features some subtle but noticeable changes to video quality, Windows and Mac compatibility, and a new, streamlined interface. Under the hood, it boasts totally revised code, which is now fully SIP-based. These improvements to SightSpeed's already excellent service are more than enough to garner the app an Editors' Choice …"
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• The Christian Science Monitor
  March 7, 2007
  
  Reach out and see someone
  "But as much as I like [Windows Live Messenger], I chose SightSpeed, because it works on my PC as well as on my wife's Mac ... SightSpeed was easy to set up ... Is it the next best thing to being there? I won't know until I start traveling in a few weeks. But I like the way the young military father profiled in the Spokesman Review's video blog described it: 'At least I can be there emotionally, even if I can't be there physically."
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• PC World
  March 5, 2007
  
  SightSpeed 6.0
  "... [SightSpeed 6.0's] performance -- especially its ability to sync audio and video -- was impressive ... Downloading and installing the software is a snap ... The quality of SightSpeed's PC-to-PC voice calls is on par with that of services like Skype ... Unlike PC-calling apps like Skype that have added video features, SightSpeed's focus has been on video from the start -- and it shows."
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• Laptop Magazine
  March 2007
  
  "More personal than the traditional conference call or IM session, a videoconference lets you communicate through facial expressions, hand gestures, and body language. No matter the geographic distance, you can meet face-to-face with coworkers and loved ones … Here’s how to set up … a multiperson videoconference using SightSpeed.
• The Wall Street Journal
  February 7, 2007
  
  Rating the New Instant-Messaging Programs
  "If you're interested in a specific type of instant messaging, Skype Limited and SightSpeed Inc. offer IM programs that specialize in phone and video capabilities, respectively, though they both allow text messaging as well."
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• The Wall Street Journal
  January 18, 2007
  
  Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walter S. Mossberg answers readers' questions
  "Try SightSpeed, a very nice video-conferencing service that works on both Windows PCs and Macs. It can be downloaded at www.sightspeed.com."
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• Von Magazine
  January 5, 2007
  
  Desktop video: the right stuff from SightSpeed
  "Version 6.0 will feature full SIP conversion on the back end as well as the ability to record live calls on the subscriber’s PC. And support for mobile personal video is on the radar screen."
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