VSee in Gabon – Albert Schweitzer Hospital 100 Years Legacy

Eric has had a crazy and amazing week bringing the VSee telemedicine suitcase into the jungles of Gabon. He has been setting up VSee satellite calls to bring Harvard doctors and Albert Schweitzer Hospital doctors face to face virtually for telehealth consultations.  And he has been training medical staff to use the VSee telemedicine…

Four Crazy Tips For Creating Effective Remote Teams

Virtual teams are a very different breed of animal from traditional office teams. So it stands to reason that creating a virtual team with the same level of rapport and efficacy requires different measures or as iDoneThis CEO Walter Chen believes, it requires “extreme measures.” Here are his 4 extreme habits (via Jeff…

VSee Takes Innovation to Rwanda

The VSee team has been in Africa this past week bringing VSee simple, low-bandwidth telehealth to various groups. Yesterday they were in Rwanda where VSee CEO, Milton, was invited to share his expertise at kLab, a one-of-a-kind tech innovation hub located in the capital city of Kigali. kLab is the…

Google Loon – Moonshot To Bring Internet Access For All

Google recently unveiled its secret, ambitious Project Loon — a visionary project, involving the launch of an armada of “Internet balloons” to bring cheap Internet access to people all over the world. Even as online resources and communications become an increasingly critical way to get healthcare, education, jobs and business opportunities, two-thirds of…

5 Best Video Collaboration Tools To Ride Out the BART Strike

The BART strike hit Bay Area’s 400K daily commuters this morning with a slap in the face. Oakland ferry lines were stretching around the corner and the Bay Bridge has been backed up since 5:30 a.m. KTVU-TV’s @sal_castaneda tweets: In 1997 [the last BART strike] most people couldn’t work from…

VSee Android Seeking Dedicated C++ Lead Dev

VSee is looking for a few good C++ devs to bring the VSee Android app to life. If you’ve got C++ chops, and you love working with Android NDK, come check us out. Experience with multi-threaded programming and graphics manipulation on NDK a must; bonus if you know Swig, Boost and have experience…

Race is on for Easy Telemedicine Video Conference

Chris Stegh was right on when he wrote in this post about video telemedicine that “the race is on to perfect easy-to-use video tools.” One reason he says more video telemedicine isn’t being used is because traditional room conferencing solutions like Polycom, Cisco Tandberg, etc. have been difficult to use. It’s…

VSee Selected for TATA Tech Innovation Forum

VSee is one of 15 companies chosen to be a part of this year’s In-Radar Tech Startup Showcase at the TATA Innovation Forum 2013 in Santa Clara. The Innovation Forum brings together some of the best and brightest minds from renowned companies, academia, and innovative startups in North America for an…

Pexip: New Cloud-based Video Conference Plans to Squeeze Vidyo and Blue Jeans

Pexip, a new video conferencing venture is joining market disruptors like Vidyo, Blue Jeans, and VSee 🙂 with its software-based (cloud) Infinity video conference offering. Led by former top Cisco Tandberg execs and developers, Pexip promises to make it possible to connect to any video conference system on any device…

VSee Update 614 – Improved meetings

Please check to make sure your VSee is updated to Windows version 13.0.0.614 Mac version 22.0 (15913) Mac and Windows: Show network status notification in address book if the computer is behind a restrictive firewall Improved meeting recovery after crashing (callers re-added after 20 seconds) Windows: Fixed username tooltip on address book…

VSee Tip #6 – Deleting Contacts

To delete a contact from your VSee address book, move the cursor arrow over the contact’s name until it is highlighted and right-click. Select “Delete Contact” from the menu that appears.  In fact, you can delete an entire group in the same way, by simply right-clicking on the highlighted group. * Note:…

VSee iPad New Release 2.1 – Better Video, Better Screen Share

VSee iPad version 2.1 (15765) is out!  Enjoy better video performance and better screen share experience on VSee simple group video chat app for 5 faces + shared screens. Now in Spanish, too!    VSee iPad app improvements: VSee API 3.1 support Improved support for secure medical work flows Improved video…

VSee Update 530: Multi-language for Group Chat

Special thanks to John for multi-language support on group chat. Please check to make sure your VSee is updated to Windows version 13.0.0.530 Mac version 21.1 (15770) Mac and Windows: Fixes for non-English language bugs in VSee API 3.0 Windows: Multi-language support in group chat Mac: Fixes for crashes on…

VSee Tip #4 – Setting Your Status

Your VSee status tells other people how available you are for a video chat. VSee has four possible status indicators: green with white clock hands – Online but inactive at least 5 min. green – Available red – In a call white – Offline or invisible You can purposely change…

VSee New Release for Mac – API support

VSee is pleased to bring you added API support for your secure telehealth needs! Please take a few moments to make sure your VSee has been updated to Mac version: 21.0 (15701) The following additions have been made: VSee API 3.0 support for secure telehealth work flow (all platforms) Full name…

Skype Risks – Putting Your Privacy in Microsoft’s Hand

Skype telemedicine users, here’s more bad news for you when it comes to Skype privacy. The H Security team recently found evidence that Microsoft does make use of their Skype security policies to read users’ text chats.  As they put it “Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company…

VSee New Release 516 for Windows: Multi-Language Chat!

VSee users around the world can now text chat and display names in any language! Please take a few moments to make sure your VSee has been updated to Windows version: 13.0.0.516 The following additions have been made: VSee API 3.0 support for secure telehealth work flow Full name display on…

VSee Hosts Visitors from Poland’s Top 500 Innovators Science Program

Yesterday, VSee treated a group of Poland’s brightest scientists, researchers, and professors to a taste of innovation and entrepreneurship in action as part of an innovator’s training program. VSee was one of approximately 10 companies the group will be visiting, including established names such as Polycom, IDEO, Google to startups…

VSee Multi-Language Support Preview

You asked for it and now it’s here. Coming up in our next release – Arabic, Greek, Chinese… all languages supported on Windows text chats! *Mac already has multi-language support 🙂

VSee Telehealth Beats Vidyo, Polycom, Cisco at ATA

VSee was a smashing success at this past weekend’s ATA show in Austin, TX. With a truly innovative approach to video conferencing, VSee telehealth completely stole the show from Polycom, Cisco, and Vidyo. The excited crowds kept the VSee team so busy throughout the entire conference that the team barely…