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Monday, September 02, 2002

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Survey: Web conferencing use grew sharply in past year
Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld

THE USE OF Web conferencing technologies increased sharply during the past year as companies looked for alternatives to travel after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a recently completed survey of more than 500 U.S. corporations by Wainhouse Research Inc. in Waltham, Mass. The results also show a similar rise in the use of other collaboration technologies such as audio- and videoconferencing during the period. At the same time, more than 40 percent of the respondents in the survey said they're taking fewer trips, while the number of respondents who believe that access to conferencing, whether audio, Web or video, is personally "very important" to them rose from 44.3 percent before the attacks to 63.9 percent after....

 


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