Large, on-premise conferencing solutions can be useful for well-resourced companies with in-house IT teams, but companies without dedicated IT staff need something smaller and simpler. Cloud-based collaboration systems can help bridge this gap.

Next week, San Francisco-based Voxeet launches the fourth iteration of its mobile and desktop-based audio conferencing system, designed to give companies an audio conferencing and collaboration system tailored to include mobile users.

Dustin Jordan, sales director at Canadian power equipment rental firm Trinity Power Tools, said the company has been using the system to pull around ten of its staffers into a daily audio ‘huddle.’

“Every single one of our …

One big reason that we maintain home theaters instead of watching everything on mobile devices is sound quality. Getting big, room-filling sound—particularly 3D surround sound—tends to be a bit more than a typical smartphone can handle. That may not be the case much longer based on a new development from Voxeet, which brings 3D surround sound to a mobile workforce collaboration tool.

Voxeet is perhaps better known for its TrueVoice technology, a system which provides 3D surround sound to a variety of devices. This same technology can also be used to make a conference call sound less like a standard phone …

Summary:A French/Silicon Valley start-up has introduced a multiplatform, 3D high-definition voice conferencing platform which alleviates many of the audio quality issues that plague most unified communications systems.

Excerpt: Voxeet, a startup which has its engineering team in Bordeaux, France and corporate offices in San Francisco, seeks to solve these problems by introducing high-definition sampling, multiple data channels and 3D audio mixing to provide a unique, high-value experience in audio conferencing.

3D audio is certainly nothing new, it’s been a widespread part of PC and console gaming technology since the AC’97 audio codec standard was introduced by Intel (which has since been superseded byIntel …

PRODUCT REVIEW: Little-known Voxeet has come up with a new, free-of-charge conference call app that enables talk-overs, cuts static — and just works.

Let’s face it: Conference calls—those unavoidable staples of business communications—basically stink in quality.

Outsider Becomes a Distrupter

Sometimes it takes a completely new player in the field to shake things up. This is where little-known Voxeet has stepped in to move the standards bar way up. The 5-year-old Sausalito, Calif.-based company has come up with a new, free of charge (at least at this time, anyway) voice over IP (VOIP) conference app that is everything a concall is supposed to …