Research: Home video calling is set to boom; better technology is making it happen

January 31, 2012 | Posted by: LarryBouchie | Comments (0)

By Jim O'Neill

Editor's Corner

If you own a relatively new smartphone or tablet like Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)'s iPad, chances are you've at least noodled around with video calling through any number of apps including Facetime, Tango, Skype and more.

Ditto in the office. Videoconferencing isn't yet ubiquitous, but the gains in popularity it has seen as a cost-cutting tool and for collaboration among teams point to it becoming so.

So, if you think you're likely to avoid it at home, think again. The technology is a nascent one, and there are only a few vendors pushing it hard, but, according to new research, it's likely to grow more than tenfold by 2015.

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