Vidyo's technology is able to optimize the user's video experience to reduce latency with H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC), an adaptive codec that can ensure a more reliable video experience on best-effort networks.
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The two areas in which the most hand waving has been done are the ability to provide a quality telephone product over the best-effort Internet and the possibility that providing telephone service over IP might be economically feasible.
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Taylor Morris, of South Jordan, Utah, in his first full season racing internationally, had a personal-best 17th-place effort.
Exelixis is still an early-stage drug company--though it is one of the best--and Renovis, his last effort, was best known for a very innovative attempt at a stroke drug that did not make it.
Carter set himself, took one quick glance and sent a low kick - not his best effort but now one of his most memorable - wobbling between the posts.
Carbone then shot narrowly wide from Merson's cross - the best effort of the match so far.
Exelixis (nasdaq: EXEL - news - people ) is still an early-stage drug company--though it is one of the best--and Renovis (nasdaq: RNVS - news - people ), his last effort, was best known for a very innovative attempt at a stroke drug that did not make it.
Nadal has lost only once at Roland Garros since his first appearance in Paris in 2005, when he began a run of four successive French Open titles, while Monaco's best effort is a fourth-round defeat in 2007.
By now the game had developed into a classic Cup tie and both sides had further chances before the break - Heskey and Petrov heading over for Villa, while Palace's best effort came when Ambrose's deflected free-kick forced Friedel to punch clear.
While there's some visual noise to the video, the room was quite dimly lit, and these fixed-mode types of cameras -- like in a phone -- often give a "best effort", which the Zoom did admirably.
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The HB-SIA craft was piloted by Bertrand Piccard, a co-founder of the effort, who is perhaps best known for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot-air balloon, in 1999.
In an effort to stick to its locals-know-best philosophy, sometimes Spark even funds projects that it has misgivings about, like a potato cultivation effort in the northern Rwandan village of Nyabageni, where a group of 80 families wanted to use insecticides instead of organic farming methods (chemical insecticides are common in Rwanda, says Lesh).
While he figured the Nokia phone would beat his best effort "Nokia performance-wise is extremely fast" he wasn't remotely interested in abandoning his iPhone.
James held an early shot from Gillett and, after Sharp had fired over the crossbar, was at his acrobatic best to tip George Friend's near-post effort around the post as Rovers created the better first-half chances.
If we want a real revolution in education, we should make an all-out effort to attract and keep our best people in our schools.
Harriers enjoyed their best spell after half-time but aside from Byrne's effort they produced little to worry the visitors.
The Punjab batsman has opened in one-day matches for India before, indeed his best effort 159 not out against Zimbabwe, came in that slot.
Dean Whitehead had Sunderland's two best chances in the opening period, with his second effort - a low shot - producing a fine save from Nelson.
Their best effort since returning to international cricket was in 1993-94 when they went 1-0 up under Hansie Cronje's captaincy only to lose the final Test in Adelaide by 191 runs.
With the hosts looking increasingly impotent up front, it was left to the unlikeliest of sources to force their best effort to that point, John Terry unleashing a 40-yard piledriver that Howard tipped wide.
Nasri's 25-yard shot against the woodwork turned out to be their best effort, but the league leaders were largely subdued on a freezing night.
Zuckerberg took subtle jabs Wednesday at the new Google network, saying Facebook provides the best way for people to organize their friends into groups -- with minimal effort.
Katerina Doskova had the visitors' best chance, but keeper Siobhan Chamberlain did well to save her 12-yard effort.
Tbilisi, by contrast, had not created too many problems for the Newcastle defence - a lone header from Melkadze, which drifted wide, their best effort.
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Kallis was three short of his Test best score of 189 when edging Oram to Brendon McCullum to end a 262-ball effort - his 28th Test century.
The judges shared the same opinions on some campaigns, such as the marketing effort behind The Blair Witch Project, which came in as the best-ever social media campaign--and one of the first of its kind.
The Old Spice effort and Burger King's order-taking chicken are among the best-ever social media campaigns identified by Forbes.com and a group of experts.
The ministers also aim to stop "asylum shopping" - the phrase used to describe how would-be refugees move through EU member states in an effort to find the best host country.
They will pounce on managed care reform as part of a broader effort to project their party as the one best able to defend average Americans -- and portray GOP as pro-HMO, pro-tobacco and in the pocket of big business.
These options must be considered, Ban writes, because "in spite of the best efforts of (the mission) to support the parties in the effort to de-escalate the crisis, there is not a cessation of violence, and the basic human rights whose protection is at the core of the (six-point) plan continue to be violated, " the report says.
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