Meeting the future.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] QA have three employees who work remotely from a couple of locations. I would like to meet with them, maybe do training sessions. I know I can do virtual meetings, but doesn't that cost a lot? I've tried an online chat session, but that was not successful. --Anonymous Via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Well, you've probably read about standard VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. ) solutions such as WebEx and Skype in Techwatch. WebEx (www.webex.com), for example, offers a variety of meeting and collaboration options beginning with a pay-per-use plan of $0.33 cents per minute per participant. Skype for Business (www.skype.com/business) lets you make voice and video calls and share and transfer files. Microsoft's Windows Meeting Space Windows Meeting Space (codenamed Windows Collaboration) is the name of a peer-to-peer collaboration program in Windows Vista which lets 2-10 users start sessions with other users for collaboration. and Live Meeting www.microsoft.com/windows/ products/windowsvista) are also good meeting options. But if you're looking toward the future, I recommend doing some exploring. Based in Montpellier, France, Tixeo (www.tixeo.com), offers meeting3D, which lets users meet and share desktops and whiteboard The electronic equivalent of chalk and blackboard, but between remote users. Whiteboard systems allow network participants to simultaneously view one or more users drawing on an on-screen blackboard or running an application. space, and Workspace3D, which accommodates an unlimited number of users and meeting organizers. There's also Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , California-based Qwaq (www.qwaq.com), which lets you and your collaborators set up a virtual meeting space in which you can share files and work within applications together. Mail your technology questions to Cyberwise, BLACK ENTERPRISE 130 Fifth Ave., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10011 or send an e-mail to cyberwisese@blackenterprise.com |
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