The splendidly named David Sales, general manager of BT Conferencing, said: "I believe the fuel crisis has helped change many people's perceptions about the necessity of face-to-face meetings. Increasingly, phone conferencing is being seen as a...
IM and presence detection enables voice, video and web conferencing meetings to take place in a more ad hoc and impromptu way," explains Tony Heyworth, marketing director EMEA at conferencing company Polycom.
Falk Bleyl, senior product manager for VoIP and converged networks at communications provider Thus, recently asked a conference audience how many of them had used Microsoft NetMeeting - an old and simple application routinely bundled with the...
Hector Ruiz, AMD chairman, president and CEO, said: "We've been able to cut down on executive travel and we are able to have impromptu meetings with colleagues located miles away. Dubbed the HP Halo Collaboration Studio (Halo), the e-conferencing...
BT claims to have reduced its carbon footprint by 97,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by using phone conferences and videoconferencing to cut back on staff travel for meetings. The survey found the widespread use of conferencing leads to faster decision...
UK employees think more than one-third of face-to-face business meetings are both unnecessary and counter-productive, according to research commissioned by WebEx, which found workers attend 91 face-to-face meetings per year.