ALSO CALLED: Online Meetings, Video Teleconferences, Video Conferences, and Net Meetings DEFINITION: A videoconference is a live connection between people in separate locations for the purpose of communication, usually involving audio and often text as well as video. At its simplest, videoconferencing provides transmission of static images and text between two locations. At its most sophisticated,
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Polycom?, Inc., today announced the Polycom VSX? 3000, the first and only personal video conferencing system that delivers the highest levels of video and voice quality in a fully-integrated desktop system, that doubles as a PC display.
VIDEOCONFERENCES DEFINITION (continued): it provides transmission of full-motion video images and high-quality audio between multiple locations.
Videoconferencing software is quickly becoming standard computer equipment. For example, Microsoft's NetMeeting is included in Windows 2000 and is also available for free download from the NetMeeting homepage. For personal use, free or inexpensive videoconference software and a digital camera afford the user easy - and cheap - live connections to distant friends and family. Although Videoconferences definition sponsored by SearchMobileComputing.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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