Video Conferencing Blog

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association is facing tough economic times. During the 2009-2010 school year, the organization was forced to make a bevy of cuts and changes in order to balance the budget.

Business in the Lakeshore School Division in Manitoba, Canada, just got a bit easier.

It was no easy task getting farming information to the most rural parts of India. That is, until the emergence of video conferencing technology.

Officials in Paris, Tennessee, have found that their state-of-the-art video conferencing technology has resulted in a huge leap forward for the Henry County Sheriff’s Department and the Henry County General Sessions Court, reports the Paris Post-Intelligencer.

NASA LEARN, or Learning Environments and Research Network, has teamed up with NASA Explorer Schools to bring the organization’s educational resources to educators via a series of webinars, reports Space Ref.

Looking to get up to date news and information about Video Conferencing?  Well you have come to the right place.  Every Friday visit the VideoConferencingBlog.com to view a list of stories about Web and Video Conferencing that have been collected from around the web.  Please feel free to comment on your favorite article, we would love you hear your thoughts!

CitiBank Opens ‘Bank of the Future’ With Touchscreens in Union Square

CitiBank has just opened its first “innovative flagship branch,” a bank with cool touch screens and video conferencing, in New York’s Union Square. Citi CEO Vikram Pandit and CEO of Consumer Banking for the Americas Manuel Medina-Mora spoke at the event, as well as Brad Dinsmore, Head of Retail Banking and North America Consumer Banking.

Videoconferencing Early Adopters: Heat Miser and Snow Miser

Sure, the technology around video phone calls has been around for many years, but it’s never become a mainstream reality until possibly over the past few years with Webcams, and now, telepresence. But there’s hope for us all if the Miser Brothers can use the technology with ease. Although the technology hasn’t advanced enough where we can shoot out flames or ice streams at each other over the connection. Maybe we need more bandwidth for that to occur.

Video Conferencing Saves the Most Green

The world’s largest software company, SAP, recently tried several energy-saving techniques at their first U.S. location in Palo Alto, California, such as adopting solar power, LED lights, electric cars and video conferencing. Read more »

An alumnus of Montana State University has donated more than $3 million to MSU’s College of Business, reports the school. The gift will improve technology for entrepreneurship students.

When it comes to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, security is imperative for protecting identities.

There is no slowing down today’s business world.  Technology has made sure of that.  Lightening fast internet speeds and countless ways for professionals to stay connected, has forced organizations to rethink and adjust the way they operate as a whole.  A higher demand for telecommuting opportunities and increased global wide communication has made tools such as video conferencing an imperative part of any business. Read more »

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