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Cisco to sell videoconferencing box for the home

Cisco Systems Inc., seeking to become a bigger name in consumer electronics, said Wednesday that it’s going to start selling a $599 box that turns living-room TV sets into big videophones.

It’s the first entry by Cisco, the world’s largest maker of computer-networking gear, into a home videoconferencing market that’s been dominated by free, PC-oriented services such as Skype SA.

Cisco said that the "umi" device, pronounced "you me," will include a camera and a TV set-top box and will be controlled by a remote. It will give consumers such features as the ability to retrieve video messages left for them when they’re not at home.

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