A meeting in New York? Can't we videoconference?

12 May 2009 | 21:13 - By Stefano Boscutti

Until about a year ago, Joe Sharkey used to scoff at the assertion, long made by the videoconferencing industry, that its high-end technology negated the need to get on an airplane and travel to a face-to-face meeting.

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But starting early last year, sales began to rise, offering evidence that videoconferencing was, in fact, being used more often to replace some business travel.  He now regularly uses videoconferencing. Often, his wife has to stay back East while he has the luxury of working in Arizona.  They use a simple Skype Internet connection - little cameras and microphones hooked to our laptops - to hold nightly videoconferences, in which their two pet parrots in New Jersey also participate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/business/12road.html

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

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