Web conferencing and instant messaging allow people to have meetings sooner because shorter meetings without travel are easier to fit into diaries. Web conferencing can make a big reduction in the waste of time and money spent travelling to meetings.
IM gives you a virtual office,” says Steve Gandy, co-founder of conferencing company MeetingZone. Presence will even be of benefit for those sceptical managers who suspect homeworkers of spending their time doing the washing up and watching...
He said the agreement will result in "speed, security and ease-of-use" for end users, allowing applications such as video conferencing over IP. In recent months it has noted that as higher-speed wireless LAN services come into use based on the...
A lot of the reasons why people are looking at VoIP now is because of a natural replacement cycle," said Singleton. Tony Johnson, CIO of Virgin Megastores, told silicon.com: "We're currently assessing whether there is a business benefit in VoIP.
My TomTom invites me during calculation to select a "Fastest", "Shortest", "Cycle", "Walking" or "Non Motorway" route. The same amount of benefit fraud would probably have been picked up by investigating claims at random --- and could have saved...
Other transformational techs not far behind web 2.0 on the hype cycle are cloud computing, virtual worlds and service-oriented architecture (SOA) - which the analyst reckons are all within two to five years of mainstream adoption.