Teleconferences are similar to telephone calls

A teleconference is a telephone or video meeting between participants in two or more locations. Teleconferences are similar to telephone calls, but they can expand discussion to more than two people. Using teleconferencing in a planning process, members of a group can all participate in a conference with agency staff people.
Teleconferencing uses communications network technology to connect participants’ voices. In many cases, speaker telephones are used for conference calls among the participants. A two-way radio system can also be used. In some remote areas, satellite enhancement of connections is desirable.
Video conferencing can transmit pictures as well as voices through video cameras and computer modems. Video conferencing technology is developing rapidly, capitalizing on the increasingly powerful capabilities of computers and telecommunications networks. Video conferencing centers and equipment are available for rent in many locations.
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Google Buys Video Conferencing Software

Google Inc. decided to step to another level by purchasing video conferencing software from Marratech AB, a Stockholm-based vendor. They also hired the engineers involved with the software, a Google spokesman said Friday.

Google plans to use the software internally, as a tool for its employees, the spokesman said. The fact that Google might later try to market the technology or integrate it into one of its commercial products, were declined.
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Video conferencing news and trends

People link Launched the software based Video conferencing solution which is a one point solution for Video, Audio and data conferencing. This solution uses software based CODEC and can easily be Integratable to any windows Operating system and hence with this technology any one can do video conference from Board room, Desktop or Laptop. Now days every one looking for a true value solution, Peoplelink reduces the Capital investment and recurring cost one side and on the other side this video conferencing solution gives 100 times enhanced features to the investment.This solution has many more advantages like, this works on simple broad band internet connectivity also has a built in features like Data Presentation (which has a set of Features like White Board, File sharing, Co-Browsing, Dektop/application sharing, File transfer, Vioting, conference recording and Agenda) MCU inbuilt (Enables you to connect with 2500 users at a time and can see 48 video’s on the screen) Fully customized video lay outs Supports SD, HD, FullHD and Telepresence 50 free client licenses for a single user license Moderator control and many more.
With this cost effective video conferencing solution things have become much easier and faster specially for the companies like Corporate and Large corporate have enhanced this solution for their investments and communication Video conference, software based video conference, web conferencing

Rich Web Applications

The Internet is transforming society and business. The current wave of this technology revolution, called Web 2.0, followed the initial wave (Web 1.0) that collapsed with the dot.com boom and bust. Today, ‘always-on’, pervasive broadband is making access to the Internet easy enough for it to be no longer considered as a ‘technology’ but parts of the fabric of modern living, like the telephone or television. The key advantages of using the Internet can be summed up as ‘always on and everywhere’, reachable from mobile devices, laptops, and desktop machines.

Innovations in modern browsers allowed vendors to build the first RWA: applications which could split the application logic between presentation logic that runs on the client-side and business logic and data models that run on the server-side. The rich Web application User Interface (UI) is as ‘rich’ as in desktop applications, and runs in the browser using a combination of languages. One of the pioneering vendors – Adaptive Systems – called this approach Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX – although the preferred naming culture is now just Ajax). All modern browsers support JavaScript and this means that with Ajax there is just a small JavaScript rendering engine which is downloaded and held in memory while the application is running.

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Web Conferencing an online communities & social media

The field of Web conferencing software is growing at a breathtaking pace. In the summer of 1994 there were exactly two products in this category, both of them rather primitive freeware packages. Today there are well over 60 commercial and freeware products, many of them quite sophisticated, that support conferencing on the Web in one form or another.

With so many products available, the choice can seem overwhelming. But with a methodical approach, you’ll probably find that you can quickly whittle the list down to just a few candidates.

First, let’s define our terms. For our present purposes, conferencing is a form of group discussion that uses text messages stored on a computer as a communication medium. It does not include various types of real-time, or synchronous, communication, such as “chat rooms”, voice-based teleconferencing, or video conferencing.

A conferencing system is Web-based if it uses Web browsers and servers to provide most of its functionality. This is not as clear a distinction as it might sound. Most developers of conferencing software are hurrying to adapt their products to the Web, and the result is a lot of hybrid products that use the Web to a greater or lesser extent. Hence, the boundary between Web and non-Web conferencing software is a bit blurry.

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