It was announced on the 20th July 2011, that the Lifesize division of the Logitech Corporation have aquired the Italian company Mirial the provider of personal and mobile video conferencing solutions.

"FREMONT, Calif. and MORGES, Switzerland, July 20, 2011 - Logitech International (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI) today announced the acquisition of Mirial, a Milan-based leading provider of personal and mobile video conferencing solutions. Mirial will be integrated into Logitech’s LifeSize division.

With the acquisition of Mirial, LifeSize now offers a more comprehensive portfolio of universal video collaboration solutions, from conference room endpoints and infrastructure to now including best-in-class desktop, tablet and mobile video calling software. Mirial brings to LifeSize strong leadership in extending open, interoperable video collaboration solutions to anyone, anywhere on nearly any mobile device through Mirial’s standalone video software clients for the PC and Mac, client/server enterprise video software solutions, and service provider offerings. Mirial supports a broad range of iOS and Android devices including the iPhone 4, 3GS and iPad 2; HTC EVO, Desire, Incredible, myTouch 4G, Sensation and ThunderBolt; Motorola Atrix and Xoom; Samsung Epic 4G, Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab as well as Google Nexus S and Dell Streak."

This follows closely on the acquisition of SKYPE by Microsoft earlier this year.

Now Lifesize will have the Mirial range of software endpoints availble to them and this will enhance the range of Lifesize products considerably.

Geoff Constable, the WVN support officer, based at Aberystwyth University recently carried out an evaluation of the Mirial products as part of a VTAS project. The review document can be found here  Mirial Softphone evaluation .