Brad Treat, CEO, SightSpeed

In an August 15, 2005 press release aptly entitled "SightSpeed Eases Back-to-School Goodbye Through Starter Kit at CompUSA®; Easy-to-Use, Award-Winning Video Calling Service Keeps Students in Touch with Family Back Home," the Berkeley-based videoconferencing company announced its latest promotion in support of its on-going effort to convert the world's desktop and laptop PC's into videophones.

SightSpeed CEO Brad Treat made a brief videoconferenced appearance today on Etopia Media's Broadband Wireless Access World to talk personally about this new offer; about the strenuous testing his company's products had to undergo before gaining the support they now enjoy from Intel Corporation; and about a recent video conversation he had with a friend who was enjoying using SightSpeed to communicate with him from a beach in Mexico.

Also included in that conversation is a brief discussion of the emerging synergy generated by the combination of proliferating muni-broadband networks, wireless-enabled Centrino-based mobile laptop computers, and the SightSpeed videoconferencing software that can turn these portable and widely-dispersed devices into videophones that can function as distributed television stations for the origination of news clips such as this one with SightSpeed CEO Brad Treat, which you can access by clicking here.

You can visit the SightSpeed web site by clicking here.

For an audio interview about the deployment of Wi-Fi access in Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle, and other recent developments in the Wi-Fi space, click here.