Press Releases

07/01/09 - omNovia Adds Twitter Integration to its Web Conference Platform

omNovia Technologies announced that its Web Conference Platform now offers an integrated Twitter module that allows presenters and/or attendees to send tweets to their followers directly from the omNovia Web Conference system. The company also added a new feature to its Event Manager to schedule automated tweets to promote online events. omNovia is the first web conference provider to offer integrations with social networking websites. And, as the demand for social networking increases, other web conference providers are likely to follow omNovia's suit.

06/30/09 - State of North Carolina Issues Contract for Adobe Web Conferencing Services

Carahsoft Technology Corp., a leading government IT solutions provider, today announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract for Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro web conferencing services by the State of North Carolina.

06/30/09 - Viack Corporation Receives 2009 Best of Scottsdale Award for Software Development of VIA3

Viack Corporation has been selected for the 2009 Best of Scottsdale Award in the Computer Software Development category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

06/30/09 - Silicon Valley Small Business Owner Increases Sales of Gift Baskets Through Technology

It's no surprise the technology is coming from Silicon Valley but the fact it's coming from a gift basket company is capturing the attention of many potential customers.

06/30/09 - VIA3 Releases Intelligent Recording (IntelliRecord) Feature for VIA3 Web Conferencing

VIA3 announced the immediate availability of their new industry leading intelligent recording (IntelliRecord) feature for VIA3 web conferencing.

06/25/09 - Frost & Sullivan: Economic Downturn Triggers Buoyancy in Conferencing Services Market in Western Europe

The market for conferencing services in Europe remains a place of both opportunity and challenge with a complex picture emerging out of regional differences of legacy, new technology and media type adoption across the continent.

06/25/09 - Business Expert Webinars Launches Corporate eLearning Training Program

Business Expert Webinars (BEW), the leading provider of business eLearning, announced it has launched a new offering focused on helping companies develop their employees in difficult economic times.

06/24/09 - Beginners Tool for Web Conferencing Saves Money on First Use

Web application developer telepark today unveiled its new low-cost entry tool for Web Conferencing, called "teamslide". teamslide lets presenters show slides and images live to up to 20 viewers simultaneously over the web. teamslide is unique in it's ease-of-use and the fact, that it does not require any browser plug-in's to work. It's such a powerful, low-cost solution, that it pays for itself on first use in saved travel expenses.

06/24/09 - MSS Technologies Going Green with iLinc

MSS Technologies, has selected iLinc, a web conferencing service provider, as an integral component for collaboration and as a communication platform between customers, prospects and consultants.

06/23/09 - Serotek Releases Accessible Event

New Service Brings Group Meetings, Webinars and Lectures to the Deaf and Blind

06/18/09 - Web conferencing portal removes Yugma from ranking – in light of company wind-down

The vendor-independent portal www.webconferencing-test.com is to remove Yugma from its ranking list. The decision comes after the site's operators, Publicare, receive notification of a planned shut-down.

06/17/09 - InstantPresenter Announces New Features for Enhanced Webinar Delivery

InstantPresenter.com, a leading provider of web conferencing, video conferencing and webinar service announces new features and upgrades to its service. These new features give greater capabilities to existing customers, allowing them to streamline their webinar delivery and derive further value from their InstantPresenter service. Among the new features are expanded Question & Answer capabilities, a more in depth Polling feature and easier to create Registration Forms and Surveys.

06/17/09 - Online Course at the Wharton School Reaches More Than 50,000 Students and Alumni via Mediasite

Online course on Economic and Financial Crisis delivered to desktops around the world

06/17/09 - HP Helps Customers Boost Productivity with New Video Collaboration Offerings

Company aligns HP Halo unit within HP ProCurve Networking business

06/16/09 - Sonic Foundry Introduces Mediasite 5.1 for Advanced Lecture Capture

Latest enhancements include lecture capture’s first fully Silverlight-based Players, automated closed captioning and streamlined course scheduling

06/16/09 - IGSM Announced Its Intention to Offer a Full Product Suite of Distance Learning and Customer Interaction Services

Products will provide a single provider solution for distance learning, corporate training and motivational training, etc. IGSM plans on providing the architecture to deliver webinars, conference services.

06/16/09 - Intelicall unveils "triple play" conference calling with free web conferencing & desktop video

Launch of InteliCall Meeting Center, a Fully Integrated Audio, Web & Video Global Conferencing Platform. Revolutionary pricing model promises to transform the industry

06/16/09 - ReadyTalk Launches Conference Center 3.2

ReadyTalk, a leader in integrated audio and Web conferencing services, announces the launch of its Conference Center 3.2 service.

06/15/09 - Netviewer Enables Free Online Support

Now for Free for Private Users: Web Conferences Facilitate Remote Control and Rapid Assistance for Computer Problems

06/15/09 - The American Marketing Association Forms Strategic Partnership with ReadyTalk

Agreement designed to benefit AMA and its members by providing the resources and customer support to build successful webcasts and podcasts.

06/15/09 - Saudi Telecom Becomes First Cisco WebEx Authorised Partner in Middle East

Leading National Provider of Telecommunication Services First to Deliver Webex Collaboration Technology in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

06/15/09 - Onstream Media to Debut iEncode V2, a Self-Administered Webcasting Solution at InfoComm 09

Will introduce the latest enhancements to its self-administered webcasting solution – iEncode

06/12/09 - EduComm 2009 Selects Sonic Foundry as Conference Webcasting Partner

Attendees will have access to Mediasite catalog of all conference sessions

06/12/09 - ConferencePlus Adds WebEx Web Conference Recordings and Event Manager Registrations to Content Management Service

ConferencePlus, a global conferencing service provider, announced the latest release of Share Portal, an online content management service for conferencing. This release adds the capability to securely store, publish and share WebEx web conference recordings and Event Manager event registrations through the content management tool. The expanded functionality bolsters the Share Portal offering which already includes audio recordings and Microsoft Office Live Meeting web conference recordings.

06/11/09 - The Role of Streaming Media in the Future of Virtual Events

Virtual Edge and Stream57 Collaborate to Educate and Inform on a Rapidly Changing Industry

06/10/09 - New Fuze Meeting Application Now Available for Free Download on the App Store

Online and Mobile Meeting Service Lets Users See HD Video and Share Their Desktop From the iPhone

06/10/09 - Webcasting On-the-Fly to be Launched By Onstream at InfoComm 09

Webcasting is taking shape as one of the seminal killer apps of this decade, and Onstream Media is taking the powerful online broadcasting medium a step further with the launch of its new self-administering, on-the-fly webcasting solution called iEncode.

06/10/09 - Web Conferencing is the New "Face Time" DoConference is the New Face

Web based, or virtual meetings, are changing the way companies communicate. As travel costs rise in a slowing economy, many are looking for ways to reduce conventional travel, lower operating expenses, and reduce their carbon footprint. Rescott LLCs new DoConference web conferencing platform meets the needs of the business and education market with an easy to use but feature-rich platform.

06/09/09 - NEC Introduces Video & Web Collaboration Solutions for Enterprise & SMB

UCE Collaboration offers robust features for large organizations; Hosted Collaboration offers affordable service-based solution for SMBs

06/09/09 - VIA3 CEO Calls Out WebEx Pay-Per-Use Meetings "Price Gouging"

In a speech to a user group in San Jose, VIA3 CEO Neil Woodruff pointed out a glaring discrepancy in web conferencing pricing between VIA3 and Cisco WebEx's "Pay-Per-Use" meeting model

06/05/09 - Sonic Foundry's Event Services Partners with American Society for Training & Development for Blended Conference

Leading blended conference provider streamed key sessions with Mediasite

06/04/09 - Copper Conferencing Partners With Dave Riveness for the Business Webinar Series

Free Online Learning Series for Business Professionals

06/03/09 - Dimdim Adds Best-of-Breed Web Conferencing To Intuit Partner Platform

Millions of Small Business Users Can Now Access Dimdim’s Easy, Open and Affordable Web Conferencing Solution

06/02/09 - Meeting Producer.com announces proposal incentives for Convention and Meeting Planners

Meeting Producer.com has launched as internet's best resource for Meeting Producers who are skilled in the production and execution of Business Meetings, Conferences and Conventions across the USA and abroad

News Stories

07/01/09 - Cisco to Expand Mobile Collaboration Features

Cisco will tackle the mobile world over the next year with a series of new features to bring smartphones into business communications, the head of the company's software group said at the Cisco Live conference on Wednesday.
By Stephen Lawson in CIO

06/30/09 - Making Web Meetings Work

By Vince Thompson on smartplanet.com

06/29/09 - Webinars Are the Virtual Media Format of Today

By Shaila Mentore on minonline.com

06/29/09 - Inner-office travel: How online conferencing can help save the planet

By Shermakaye Bass on KABC-TV Green Living

06/23/09 - Video saves time and travel

By Julia Talevski on theage.com.au

06/22/09 - Breaking down the laptop wall with conferencing software

By Christopher Dawson on ZDNet Education

06/21/09 - RHUB's Web meeting service is affordable

By David Radin in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

06/19/09 - IS unveils collaboration tool

On ITWeb.co.za

06/16/09 - Netviewer aims to outshine WebEx in Europe

By Phil Wainewright on ZDNet blogs

06/15/09 - Adobe Preps New Acrobat.com Services to Battle Google in Collaboration

By Clint Boulton on eWeek.com

06/15/09 - Citrix Online Brings SMBs Into the Virtual Meeting Room

By Jack Germain in E-Commerce Times

06/15/09 - Dimdim's interactive tools: a game-changer in web conferencing

By Sam Diaz on ZDNet blogs

06/15/09 - A Virtual Events Pro with a Decade of Experience Reveals Tips on Building Your Virtual Events Team

By Michael Doyle on VE Newswire

06/10/09 - Cisco WebEx Meeting Center for iPhone

Recent update resolves earlier limitations for mobile WebEx client
By Dale Gardner on Macworld.com

06/05/09 - The Conference Group Adds New Feature to its ReadyShow Web Conferencing Service

By Patrick Barnard on TMCnet.com

06/04/09 - Schwarzenegger's webcast technical difficulties don't stop dissatisfaction from pouring in

By Scott Sabatini on Examiner.com