videoconferencing news from FierceCIO

Telecommuting offers well-known benefits to the worker and to the environment, and yet millions of employees who want to work from home aren't allowed to or aren't able to. One reason is that IT Read more...

A vast range of video-conferencing tools suiting just about every possible need has been around for years, and yet the technology is far from gaining widespread popularity. The reasons are both Read more...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) ballyhooed its "official" ownership of Skype Thursday, although there are a few regulators around the world yet to approve the 8.5 billion acquisition. The question looming Read more...

The future of videoconferencing is starting to look up, as Polycom and the major telecom carriers around the world join forces to take the complexity out of connecting systems. The newly formed Open Read more...

AT&T (NYSE: T) Bell Labs demonstrated video-conferencing as early as 1964 with the PicturePhone Mod 1, but it's only been in the last few years that the technology's cost and convenience factors Read more...

If there's any winner in the chaos created by the volcanic ash spewing out of Iceland, it is teleconferencing services. Stranded business travelers around the world are turning to audio and video Read more...

The conventional business meeting is under siege, and the attacks are coming from every direction. On one front is the relentless onslaught of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies. On the Read more...

A new survey by Dice Holding has found that IT workers don't like commuting and in fact, 37 percent would be willing to take up to a 10 percent pay cut to work from home full time. With the high cost Read more...

Travel is often a fact of life in corporate America, but not many people relish the idea of spending time away from home, eating hotel food and dealing with travel delays just to attend a meeting Read more...

By now, virtually all corporations have good disaster recovery plans in place. But that may not be enough. Without proper coordination by the IT department looking to put the pieces back again, Read more...