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Cisco Hopes NBA Makes its Videoconferencing a Slam Dunk
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Posted by Bobby White Cisco systems chose an unlikely spokesman to hawk one of its latest products: Yao Ming, the 7’6” Chinese-born center for the Houston Rockets basketball team. Yao talks tech Cisco is hoping Yao and the National Basketball Association will boost the visibility of its telepresence technology – a high-definition videoconference system that simulates face-to-face meetings between users. At a press conference Thursday Yao talked to reporters in China and the U.S. about how he will use telepresence in his role as Olympic Ambassador (and of course, a little basketball).
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