Avistar Demos New Video Applications at European Fixed Income eTrading Conference.Powerful, Collaborative Visual Tools Offer Fully Portable, Easily Accessible Alternative to Time-Consuming, Costly Travel LONDON -- Avistar Communications Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AVSR (Audio Visual Speech Recognition) Using lip reading software to enhance speech recognition. In noisy environments where a camera can be included, AVSR improves the computer's ability to recognize the speaker's words by visually tracking lip movement and ), a video collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. provider, will be at next week's SIFMA SIFMA Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association SIFMA Socialized Industrial Forest Management Agreement European Fixed Income eTrading Conference to demonstrate how global financial services institutions are using video communications to increase productivity, speed decision-making and reduce costly, time-consuming travel. On display at stand #24 at Old Billingsgate Market The Victorian incarnation of Billingsgate Fish Market in the City of London is now used as a hospitality and events venue under the name Old Billingsgate Market. In 1849, the fish market was moved off the streets into its own riverside building, which was demolished c. in London on 6-7 February, Avistar's video solution helps to speed and improve financial processes on a number of levels. Beyond travel savings, visual communications also drive: * Clearer, more nuanced exchange of trade strategies across geographies; * Higher quality collaboration around the latest research on derivatives, interest rates, mortgages or other data; * Speedier transactions for time-sensitive sales; * Quicker dissemination of new deal structures among all key participants; * Accelerated syndication internally among "virtual teams" and with clients for deeper advisory and trust relationships; and * Closer communication among client teams for improved cross line-of-business sales. "Fixed income operations, including credit, rates and commodities, benefit from integrated client strategies, cross selling of products and leveraging of geographically dispersed expertise," said Gerald J. Burnett, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Avistar. "The Avistar desktop video solution connects teams wherever they are and provides a crucial 'face-to-face' link and visual advantage for high-quality, high-speed collaboration in dynamic markets." Software-based, affordable and easily accessible from an Internet-connected laptop or desktop, Avistar's enterprise video applications include: * One-click, one-to-one and multiparty video calling; * Real-time interactive broadcasting of meetings and presentations to large audiences; * Video recording and playback, even during a live call; * Video content creation, publishing and distribution via multiple channels including email or the Web; * Data sharing for collaboration on documents or graphics during a call. * One-click, presence-based integration with the Lotus[R] Sametime[R] 7.5 instant messaging platform and Microsoft[R] Office business applications. Those not able to attend the SIFMA event February 6 and 7 can view a video demonstration of Avistar's financial services solution at http://www.avistar.com/assets/media/Avistar_Communications_1003.wmv. About Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar Communications Corporation develops, markets, and supports a video collaboration platform for the enterprise, all powered by the AvistarVOS[TM] software. From the desktop, Avistar delivers business-quality video calling, recording, publishing to web and e-mails, video-on-demand, broadcast origination and distribution, and document sharing. Avistar video-enables business processes by integrating visual communications into the daily workflow and connecting communities of users within and across enterprises. Founded in 1993, Avistar is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. , with offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London. Avistar's technology is used in more than 35 countries. Collaboration Properties, Inc Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation. It holds US and foreign patents in the primary areas of presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, . (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ), a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Avistar Communications Corporation, was founded in 1997. CPI develops patents for presence-based interactions, wireless communications, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, and a service-rich video network architecture. It holds a current portfolio of 74 patents for inventions in the primary areas of video and network technology. CPI offers licenses to its patent portfolio and Avistar's video-enabling technologies to companies in the video conferencing, rich-media services, public networking, and related industries. Current licensees include Sony Corporation, Polycom, Inc., and Emblaze-VCON. Copyright (c) 2007 Avistar Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Avistar, AvistarVOS[TM], and the Avistar logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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