Announcing: Video conferencing purchase available on the iPad

Reaching one more rung on our ladder to 100% mobility, we’re pleased to announce that now, Fuze Meeting Pro is available as an in app purchase on your iPad! With this purchase option, you’ll have access to the total Fuze Pro package which includes video conferencing with up to 10 video feeds, up to 100 attendees and webinar mode!

Freshly approved by Apple, when you go to make an in-app purchase, you will now see THIS little beauty.

Note: The copy says you’ll get access to 15 attendees. Don’t worry, for Pro you’ll still get 100, just like if you sign up on the web. The copy in the app will be updated shortly!

It’s no secret that here at Fuze Meeting we pride ourselves on our mobile collaboration expertise.  So it’s always nice to receive, and share, great news about any of our mobile apps.

Today, we can officially announce that our awesome Fuze Meeting iPad app is now on all iPads in every Apple Store in the U.S.!

Our iPad customers love the full range of functionality our app offers, including HD video conferencing, so we’re confident that Fuze Meeting will wow the millions that enter Apple Stores on a daily basis.

Huge thanks to our product and development teams for the hard work on getting our app pre-installed. It’s a huge compliment to have a company who values quality user experiences, such as Apple, include us on their marquee in-store product.

If you happen to be in an Apple Store any time soon, please check us out and tell us what you think by visiting our Facebook Page or on Twitter @fuzemeeting.

Thank you Apple and thank you to our amazing customers!

Big news!!!!

We were listed in the top 10 Apps on Honeycomb from PC Magazine! (Check it out!)

I’m guessing most of you weren’t live at our press preview in Barcelona – but we brought the goods right back to you so take a second to see why the press has been making such a big fuss about us lately!

Without further ado…here’s what to expect on the Xoom!

The Fuze Meeting team is on planes and heading back stateside and while they were there, they snapped some pictures of the scenery. Since were in the Android booth..well, you’ll see.

Check out these shots snapped by our team!

While Fuze Meeting was demoing from the Android booth, they took a break to collect a few pins...you know, for posterity!

From the 2nd floor lounge in the Android Both, you could get a great view of the landscape. Those giant green Android guys are hard to miss!

This booth, is where we set up shop to demo. Shucks...Mr. Android didn't have to dress up for *us*!

One of our stars, Christine takes a second to pose with one of Fuze Meeting's favorite friends.

What would an international conference be without an after party? And really...who can throw a better party than Google?

With video conferencing on the way, we were especially excited to be invited to demo from both Motorola’s and Google’s booths this week in Barcelona.

Have you seen our home page right now (click on the learn more)? We are embracing the fact that we’re fantastically 4G. And, that we’re in fact, the ONLY option if you have a 4G device.

So – what does it all mean?

For you non-techies out there, there are two things you need to know about 4G for now:

1. That download and upload speeds are wicked fast
2. That it’s an entirely different technology than is used for 3G

This means that if you don’t have a 4G device, you won’t be able to experience the benefit of 4G – connection speeds when you’re on-the-go that rival those you currently have on your computer. If your mobile device can go as fast as your computer, you’ll become less dependent on the computer for the sake of a good connection and THAT means that you just got more mobile.

So what will you notice?

Fuze Meeting customers on BOTH 3G and 4G will still have the great meeting experience that you’ve come to expect, so don’t fret if you’re not planning to make the switch from 3G – you’ll be just fine. BUT, if you’re meeting in 4G, you’re going to notice crazyfast upload and download times. So uploading content on the fly will be so easy that by the time you say “hold on a sec while it’s uploaded” the image or file will already be up on someone’s screen. All 4G-ers on a meeting will be able to see video about 10 times sooner than the 3G mobile attendees.

Nice, huh?

And, video conferencing from a mobile device (it’s coming!) is going to be unbelievable. You know those commercials where people are chatting it up on their smartphones and all you can think is YEAH RIGHT you’re obviously on wifi, buddy? Well, in 4G you’ll get the same unrealistically amazing quality that you *actually* see in the commercials.

See? Now that’s just great news for everyone!

Did you hear that world? We’re officially first YES FIRST to market with a web conferencing or online meeting or mobile meeting or desktop sharer or meter-on-the-goer or WHATEVER you want to call it – we are first, first, first with a dedicated app for your Android.

Not JUST a mobile browser-based,  jimmy rigged version that sort-of works on your Android if you shake it just right, but a real-deal app built especially for that Android device in your hands (Note: if one is not currently in your hands, just pretend for a sec).

So, you ask, what have you in this Android app?

• View desktop sharing – Yep. See exactly what they’re looking at on their computer screen when you view their shared desktop! And (I know what you’re thinking.) You can zoom in see everything really clearly. Copy, images, everything.
• Get Active – To break out my press release language – you get an unprecedented ability to watch and listen to high-quality video and audio – start, stop and pause with the same level of functionality as meeting hosts have.  Wowzers! (That last bit did not make it into the press release)
• Share content straight from your Android – As soon as your meeting host designates you as a presenter, you can upload video or image files straight from your phone.

How do I get it?!?!?!

Scan this QR code from your Android or

Follow this link from your Android Device

Pouring over blog analytics yet again, we noticed a traffic and comment bump around our lone iPad article, which I’ll take to mean WE WANT MORE NEWS ON THE iPAD!

So – here’s your update.

Right now the release date for our AH-mazing iPad app is scheduled for mid-ish July-ish – emphasis on the AH-mazing and the ishes.

Emphasis on the AH-mazing

Let me just say, I spent last week in The Bahamas giving demos of the iPad app, and I’m authorized to CONFIRM that the interface is soooo smooth, it’s like melted buttah sliding off Mr. Clean’s glossy noggin. LIKE BUTTAH!

The details are super top secret, but our Fuze Meeting app is promised to set us apart from the competition. Not only are we taking advantage of the uncanny ability of the iPad to showcase hi res images and high def video, we’re releasing some functionality no one else in the space has even approached yet. Which means…

Emphasis on the ishes

We’ve got an international dev team geeking out on the iPad app, and you see, grasshoppers, brilliance takes time. So, all we can do is beg for your patience and offer a 100% Money Back Guarantee (on our free app) that it’s going to be worth the short wait. In the mean time, we’ll be looking for Beta testers in a bit, so if you’re interested, smack a comment down there and we’ll be in contact once we’re moving into Beta.

You can get your Apple loving fingers ready by sliding them around our iPhone app.

It’s worth the wait. Pinky Swear.

Dear Cyberspace,

Fuze Meeting is YES INDEED about to launch an app for the Android, but we’re looking for beta testers. Do you Fuze? Do you Android?

If your answers were OF COURSE and OBVIOUSLY, leave a comment on this post and we’ll send you an email. We would appreciate your feedback ever so much! (You have to enter your email.) (I can see your email but no one else can.) (Don’t worry, I won’t spam you.)

We will of course  make a big stink about it on the blog when Fuze Meeting for Android goes live, so until then sign up for beta or rock back and forth in wild anticipation.

- Over and out -

The Fuze Meeting team got quite a treat yesterday when a couple of us were wandering through the Apple store scopin’ the iPads on Market Street (we’re in SF) and WHAM, we saw that …

The Fuze Meeting mobile app is one of the default apps on all in-store iPhones!!!

For serious! I mean, yes, we were expecting it…but we didn’t know when they would hit stores and man-oh-man are we pleased!

So naturally, I cut my Fuze T-shirt into my best 80’s-off-the-shoulder get-up and popped out to take a picture with our little mobile collaboration buddy. Say cheese! *click*

“What,” you ask, “makes Fuze Meeting on the iPhone so amazing that Apple would actually ask us to feature it in stores?” Well – a few things actually.

• It’s super sexy. You know Apple cares quite as much about design as they do about functionality. Don’t worry, we’re functional too, but the sleek factor really gave us a leg up here.
• It’s intuitive to use. As in – you probably won’t find yourself using the Google machine to tap out ‘how to use Fuze Meeting iPhone.’
• It’s the only free app on the iPhone that is a client for OCS. OCS is the Microsoft Office Communicator program – like IM for the workplace, but you can’t get it on your phone for free, unless of course you use Fuze!

Calling all pseudo photographers who want free T-shirts!

I see right through you. You’re almost probably for sure definitely going to sneak into an Apple store in the near future to ogle over the iPad. While you’re waiting, swing around to the other table and take a picture of you (or…anyone) holding up an open Fuze Meeting app, send it in to community(at)fuzebox(dot)com, and maybe, JUST MAYBE you can have your very own hand cut 80’s Fuze Box T-shirt. I will personally break out the scissors and mail the sender of the email their very own sliced-up t-shirt if I deem the photo to be “totally awesome.” Awesomeness includes but is not limited to costumes, poses, puppies or Apple stores in fun locations!

Disclaimer: This is hardly a real contest and judging is completely based on my personal feelings of awesomeness. I may send 4 T’s, I may send 40…not knowing is part of the adventure! If I feel like I want to post the images on our Facebook or Tweetshare pages, then I will. So don’t send something you don’t want public. And good luck!