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• ​Royal Hobart Hospital trials virtual online training

  Biomedical staff at Royal Hobart Hospital are receiving training on advanced medical equipment from clinicians in other parts of Australia under a new telepresence system trial.

• West Sydney school gets connected to improve student literacy

  Delany College in Granville, western Sydney will use Telstra's 'connected classroom' that features video conferencing to improve Year 7 and 8 student’s literacy levels.

• HFC NBN just fine for Telepresence: Cisco

  Cisco has endorsed using hybrid-fibre cable (HFC) as a more expedient way to connect 3 million homes to Australia’s National Broadband Network.

• Cisco not looking to kill Microsoft/Skype deal, says Chambers

  Cisco doesn't want to kill Microsoft's marriage to Skype -- it just wants a dowry.

• Cisco appealing EU approval of Microsoft/Skype union, again

  Cisco is reportedly attempting to persuade Europe's second-highest court that it should overturn the European Union's approval of the Microsoft/Skype union, an $8.5 billion blockbuster originally announced by the companies two years ago.

• CSIRO telepresence robots connect students with National Museum

  The National Museum in Canberra and CSIRO are trialling a virtual tour system using robots called B1 and B2. The robots, which contain telepresence technology, navigate the galleries of the Museum with a human staff member on hand to explain the exhibits.

• Relationships Australia WA looks to collaboration

  With disparate branches spread across Western Australia and long travel times, not-for-profit organisation Relationships Australia WA has plans to roll out Cisco IP phones and TelePresence video conferencing.

• JWS Lawyers makes the case for telepresence

  Faced with a large inter-state travel bill and the need to keep partners abreast of the latest law developments, Johnson Winter & Slattery (JWS) began the roll out of five videoconferencing systems in April 2012.

• In pictures: The Cisco Live speakers

  A stellar line up of speakers at Cisco Live in Melbourne ensured that attendees went away with real world examples of collaboration and video conferencing. Customer speakers included JWS Lawyers, ME Bank and the Australian Industry Group.

• The future of telepresence: It's virtual, mobile and social

  It wasn't so long ago that we were in awe of telepresence -- its ability to bend space and time to put people who are thousands of miles apart face-to-face instantaneously. Now that we've experienced the power of telepresence, we want more. We want telepresence all the time. We want it to be available and effortless to use like a mobile phone. In effect, we want telepresence to be taken to the next dimension, one that allows for high-intensity collaboration.

• Cisco replaces collaboration group head again

  Cisco has named a former Symantec executive to head its struggling collaboration group, which saw three different leaders in less than a year.

• 5 things you need to know about videoconferencing

  Your office is now optional. A recent study from Infonetics Research projects that enterprises will spend $5 billion on videoconferencing and telepresence by 2015. To accommodate the need for instant connectivity and information sharing at the office, CIOs need to coordinate IT investments with physical space. Vendors like Polycom and Steelcase are teaming up to integrate audio, video and file sharing using multiple ports and display screens at office meeting tables.

• Australian school students to use telepresence in mission to Mars

  Telepresence technology will allow students from across Australia to participate in a simulated mission to Mars, with the Pathways to Space program being launched today in Sydney.

• Juniper, Polycom team up for telepresence

  Juniper and Polycom this week announced an alliance to offer telepresence and video conferencing services to enterprises through service providers.

• Cisco pushes to open up telepresence

  Cisco is making a concerted effort to improve the compatibility of its telepresence gear, something that industry observers say has been lagging, but that is sorely needed if it and other vendors are to succeed.