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…

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 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…

VSee and MDLIVE teamed up at the AHIP Institute 2013 last week to help spread word of the exciting things that are happening in this rapidly transforming health care marketplace. For the VSee and MDLIVE partnership, this means showing off our awesome telehealth platform to deliver a seamless and complete healthcare experience to…

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…

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…

Telehealth is on the move! Recently, Roz Ben-Chitrit wrote about the rosy future he saw from the deck of the ATA Telemedicine Trade Show. Here’s what people in the trenches (including VSee CEO, Milton) are saying about the telehealth market: 1. Telehealth and telemedicine is beginning to see a return on investment with…

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…

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:…

One thing holding back telemedicine is the lack of access to broadband networks. According to the government data, 119 million Americans lack broadband access (defined as 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up). Out of those 119 million, 19 million live in areas where they don’t even have the option to buy a wired…

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…

For several years, NPR has been following telemedicine champion, Dr. Ray Dorsey and his team of neurologists at Johns Hopkins University in their quest to make telemedicine widely available. Dr. Dorsey and his associates are even offering free first time video conference consultations for those with Parkinson’s Disease. Recently, NPR…

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 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…

VSee vs. Blue Jeans on iPad I recently saw a Blue Jeans Network newsletter announcing its exciting new feature: “dual HD streams for interactive video and content sharing.” Dual streaming has the advantage that meeting participants can see both video and content at the same time as they work together.  They claim…

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…

Who would have thought that cutting edge technology and alternative healing could go hand in hand. At VSee we love it that unexpected use cases are always turning up with VSee’s simple group video chat tool. Recently, VSee was featured in the Repatterning Journal as a wonderful tool for the art…

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…

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…

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 🙂