Cisco Mobile Collaboration on the iPhone
January 7th UPDATE: I just learned that the Cisco iPhone application won a Best of Show award today at Macworld. Congratulations to the collaboration team and thank you to the Macworld editors!
Today, Cisco made an exciting announcement about the availability of some of our collaboration applications on the Apple iPhone.
Cisco will be offering two conference applications, to start with, on the iPhone. First is the Cisco WebEx Meeting Center application on the iPhone, which is available to download from the AppStore today. With this application, attendees can fully participate in WebEx meetings on their iPhone (both the web portion and the audio portion) on 3G and WiFi networks. Mobile users are no longer limited to audio-only participation.
The second application on the iPhone announced today will be available in CY Q2, 2009. This application is a superset of WebEx Meeting Center plus Cisco Unified MeetingPlace enhanced audio conferencing on the iPhone. It also supports "dusting" by seamlessly transferring WebEx Meeting Center and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace conferencing sessions from an iPhone to Mac or PC and vice versa.
I’m personally excited about this announcement because it’ll help me be more productive and responsive. I already spend my day "webexing". Now I can easily start a meeting on my phone using WiFi on the Cisco campus, walk over to my office and move the meeting from my iPhone to my PC with its larger screen without missing a beat. My meeting experience is no longer defined by my place and device. And frankly, the user experience on the iPhone is just fun!
So whether on PC, Mac or iPhone, on 3G, WiFi or wired, Cisco allows me to meet while moving freely from one platform to another, one network to another, one location to another. I call it meetings in motion.
Post by Alex Hadden-Boyd, Director of Marketing, Cisco Collaboration Software Group
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd at 01:08PM PST
kare Anderson Jan 6, 2009
As a non-geek, iPhone user, former WSJ reporter
now speaker/author I can think if multiple ways this can change my work and social life.
Not since I saw student-created short film, starring Tim Ferriss (at home) for the Cisco content have I been so excited about a Cisco announcement….