Cisco Blog > Corporate Social Responsibility
March 5, 2013 at 7:00 am PST
Today, many people and organizations use video to create real impact for social causes.
Meanwhile, the prevalence of video in our everyday lives is growing by the minute. A February 2013 report by Cisco indicates that video accounted for more than half of all mobile traffic for the first time in 2012. It is expected to account for two-thirds by 2017.
We are holding the potential to change the world in the palms of our hands.
To recognize those who are taking advantage of the power video has to multiply impact on people, communities, and the planet, Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is supporting the 2013 DoGooder Video Awards.
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Tags: awards, contest, dogooder, impact, social change, video, youtube
Have you seen a good movie lately? I have seen a couple – and I truly enjoyed the whole experience.
As a boy growing up in London, my parents taught me to appreciate the joys of cinematic storytelling. We would make the trip to the Odeon Cinema at Leicester Square in Soho, mostly for the viewing pleasure that we gained from their huge wide-screen 70mm film presentations.
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Tags: cinema, D-Box, entertainment, Galaxy Theatres, innovation, movies, technology, video
March 4, 2013 at 2:04 pm PST
It seems like Mobile World Congress in Barcelona continues to grow year over year, suggesting the appetite for mobile services and devices will continue to explode over the coming years. The range of exhibitors is overwhelming covering a range of technology products and services. In addition to the usual suspects of handset manufacturers, mobile app vendors, and mobile network platform vendors, I noticed a strong undercurrent of enterprise/business-class service offerings, as if mobile services are starting to break away from the consumer-centric roots of the industry and driving towards the business of delivering services that enterprises would care about. Mobile device management vendors were certainly at the forefront of this trend with the range of device management options growing exponentially it would seem.
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Tags: business video, medianet, mobile world congress, mobility, rich media, video
March 4, 2013 at 9:18 am PST
Retailers looking at the Big Data opportunity may well find themselves with an array of choices: the opportunities seem so vast, where does one begin?
Well, a pragmatic way forward is to focus on some pragmatic possibilities and then “follow the money”!
In examining the Big Data opportunity for retailers, Cisco IBSG has identified three key areas where we believe value can be generated through Big Data analytics – and we have put together a framework for assessing and comparing the financial impact of options within these areas.
As outlined in our previous report, “Surfing the Data Deluge: How Retailers Can Turn Big Data into Big Profits,” three areas – video, social and mobile data –promise unprecedented insights into what consumers want or need, at the earliest stages of interest, and will drive the Big Data thrust in retail over the next few years. These three essentials not only represent a major stream of incoming data, but also provide an outbound mechanism to communicate with customers on a more personalized basis. In other words, they are both a source of Big Data analytics and a way of implementing Big Data insights!
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Tags: analysis, analytics, Big Data, Cisco, high-definition cameras, IBSG, mobile data, retail, social media, video
If you’re in London this week for the 2013 Cable Congress, and have any interest in the roadmap and economics of cloud-TV, you don’t want to miss the keynote address by Jesper Andersen, SVP/GM of our Service Provider Video Technology Group.
He’s on at 4P on March 5, just after the international CTO panel.
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Tags: jesper andersen, Service Provider, video, videoscape
