Whois & Analysis for hellodirect.com

Polycom is an American multinational corporation that develops video, voice and content collaboration and communication technology.

The firm employs approximately 3,800 employees and had annual revenues of approximately $1.4 billion in 2013.

It is the largest pure-play collaboration company in its industry.

The company also licenses: H.264 video codecs, Siren codecs, session initiation protocol, native 1080p high-definition cameras and displays, native 720p and 1080p high-definition encoding/decoding, low-latency architecture and low bandwidth utilization, wideband advanced audio coding with low delay (AAC-LD), multichannel spatial audio with echo cancellation and interference filters to eliminate feedback from mobile devices, and inter-operation with legacy video conferencing.

In July 2016, it was announced that the company was being taken private by private equity firm Siris Capital Group.

Direct Connect (DC) is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.

Direct Connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one another.

Advanced Direct Connect can be considered a successor protocol.

A headset combines a headphone with a microphone.

Headsets are made with either a single-earpiece (mono) or a double-earpiece (mono to both ears or stereo).

Headsets provide the equivalent functionality of a telephone handset but with hands-free operation.

They have many uses including in call centers and other telephone-intensive jobs and for anybody wishing to have both hands free during a telephone conversation.

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically.

The ability of computers to follow a sequence of operations, called a program, make computers very applicable to a wide range of tasks.

Such computers are used as control systems for a very wide variety of industrial and consumer devices.

This includes simple special purpose devices like microwave ovens and remote controls, factory devices such as industrial robots and computer assisted design, but also in general purpose devices like personal computers and mobile devices such as smartphones.

The Internet is run on computers and it connects millions of other computers.

Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.

It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas.

Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language.

Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand.

On 10 July 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide.