Hiring?

I've been hearing rumors that everyone is looking at hiring plans for the next couple of quarters....and that alot of them have big numbers of new headcount.

I'm curious what the rest of you have been hearing. Please send me a note and let me know what you've been hearing!

New Cisco 1100

New Cisco TP System

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10521/index.html

HP in the desktop vtc market

http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/jul-sep/skyroom.html

TAA HD USB

I just heard from one of the videomonkey readers that the release code is out and many issues were fixed. URL is here: http://ftp.tandberg.com/pub/software/camera/cc1/

Tandberg HD USB Camera

While we're at it...I guess I will comment....since Wainhouse obviously isnt authoritative on the news they send out.

I've got one here and have been using it for the last two weeks. Fairly amazing is what I have to say. Optics are wonderful. Field of vision is very good. It has automatic focus and its fairly good. I had a few instances of where it strayed from my face (yeah..probably because I'm ugly)..but it corrected itself 1/2 second later. It has a built in microphone and pickup, noise suppression, and echo cancellation were very good. Of course, the new Movi software works really well. I tested between Movi systems and also out to legacy H.323 endpoints and I have yet to get that to fail.

The only thing I was not happy with and I haven't had time to delve into it was why I could not get inbound audio and video when I was behind a Polycom v2iu. Yeah..quite weird as Movi is SIP based and the v2iu should be seeing it as outbound originated traffic and it should traverse the v2iu. I actually had to hard code static nat statements to allow those ports inbound. Other firewalls....cheaper ones...had no issues and they traversed without any config changes. Not sure if the ALG engine on the v2iu was trying to do something with it...or the traversal logic in Movi was messed up.

But..getting back to the camera. It is heavy! Very heavy compared to regular webcams. It has this arm that you can position multiple ways and one way is to hang the camera on a lcd panel or a notebook lcd lid...but on a notebook, the camera is a bit heavy. But..the stand works really well for placing the camera on a flat surface and with the autofocus makes placement a breeze.

And one other issue...and I really don't have the tools to prove this..but the picture I see locally does not look like 720p. Now...for all fairness, the drivers are beta drivers, so I guess we'll see as things are tweaked and improved.

Ok, I'm not perfect, but...

I just got to know. If you think Wainhouse sucks, raise your hand! (or post a comment) I certainly was not an english major...and sometimes my writing comes off as rather tart, but... man, I don't think they put any thought into what they write. Its certainly pretty biased reporting..and a ton of self promotion. Like..how many times have you opened up an issue of their newsletter and saw a picture of Wainhouse staff? Yeah..like every issue. Sorry, just had to get that out of my system. I've been meaning to say that publicly for about 6 years. I just opened up todays issue and they had a one liner about the new Tandberg HD USB camera...you could tell from the sparseness of information and the lack of knowledge like "...claims that we have not yet been able to verify include high quality glass optics...".

C'mon. Do you guys just read websites and regurgitate information? or do you actually dive in?