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Byline: PCQ Bureau Picture this: You are away in a different city. Suddenly, a message from your manager pops up on your mobile screen, urging you to attend a meeting. [...]

Visiting young readers at schools and libraries is a significant part of many children's book authors' and illustrators' jobs. School visits are also a big piece of publishers' publicity campaigns [...]

BOOK tours. In-person networking at conferences. Physical mailings. All gone in an instant. COVID has changed the way publishers promote books--and how libraries buy them. Events on Instagram, Crowdcast, and [...]

When the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shuttered local community centers in March 2020, Fairfax County, Virginia, immediately recognized the negative impact that isolation would have on older adults and persons with [...]

Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay GEORGINA IS IN no hurry to get back to the office. The 37-year-old, who works in financial services in [...]

A few weekends ago, I went to a birthday party for a buddy of mine. The theme was ''Lord of the Rings.'' When I arrived, I could see that many [...]

Domo reported John Mellor, chief strategy officer, will lead a keynote session at the CIO 100 AGENDA20 Conference being held virtually on October 6, 7, 13 and 14. Additionally, Ben [...]

Game-engine power Game-engine power Game-engine power Computer-generated realities are becoming ubiquitous, no headset required, says Alok Jha AS OTHER MUSICIANS were settling down on their sofas during lockdown, Travis Scott [...]

Chiefs in the sector have hailed the impact of librarians, many of whom have gone above and beyond to serve the needs of their local communities and children during the [...]

Schools are embracing virtual author and illustrator visits at a time when many of their libraries are still closed, according to a company that organises author tours and events. Authors [...]

With 58 branches across Wyoming and Montana and 2,600 miles between the most distant locations, First Interstate Bank really needed an efficient, cost effective, time-saving way to manage internal communications. [...]

Authors, shut out of holding i nperson events at bookstores, are getting more creative and collaborative when it comes to promoting their books. Forthe publication of Melanie Conroy-Goldman's debut novel, [...]

Take a deep dive with these reports The CIO Revolution Is Under Way It's time for a new manifesto. Here are ways that CIO rebels can take on new roles. [...]

An advanced form of teleconferencing dubbed "telepresence" will become common in a year, Cisco Systems President and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday in a keynote speech at Interop Las Vegas […]

MediaOnDemand.com provides Webcasting services to United Nations for Millennium Summit MediaOnDemand.com (New York) is helping the United Nations break down geographic barriers by Webcasting content in live and on-demand formats. [...]

'High-speed Internet access' is quickly taking on a whole new meaning as technologies come to market that could theoretically blow the prevailing Internet-over-cable speeds out of the water. These technologies [...]

Conferencing capabilities are about to undergo a dramatic transformation, as all forms of conferencing media that are discrete today-voice, video and data-merge on a single IP infrastructure. Imagine the following […]

The Wright Company (Bangkok, Thailand) overcame travel problems due to SARS during its executive hiring process by relying upon videoconferencing. The company has retained this procedure, as it saved the company time and money. However, as other companies begin relying upon the same technology, airlines should expect a decline in business travel.

Long ago and far, far away, businessmen sat down in a hotel for a videoconference. Thanks to a sophisticated Star Wars technology involving satellites, video cameras and earth stations, they […]

A look into the future Imagine that a busy manager wants to hire an engineer. He calls the personnel office of his company and asks, 'Do you know of any [...]

Telecommunications 2000 In November 1972, I spoke at a luncheon of the Telecommunications Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers. Entitled 'Telecommunications-1985,' my talk was reported in TE&M (Dec. 1, [...]

Elliot Gold has a thing about teleconferencing. First as a user, and now as a consultant and newletter publisher, he's been one of the industry's biggest boosters for nearly a [...]

Computer conferencing could become a major new use for computers in the 1990s, with a concurrent growth in the sales of computer conferencing equipment and software. Intel Corp, which is the dominant computer microprocessor manufacture, has introduced three computer conferencing products, called the ProShare series, and plans to introduce more than 12 such products in 1994. Other aspects of computer conferencing are also discussed., If you accept the premise that the personal computer will serve as the hub of the coming information superhighway, then you can appreciate the potential of the PC conferencing/video-conferencing market. [...]

Why do people keep saying things such as '40 per cent of the world's wealth has been destroyed', as Hamish McRae, the Independent's economics commentator, did the other day? What [...]

Telephone conference calling has been increasing in acceptance for a variety of reasons. Rates for conference calls have decreased considerably in recent years, and at the same time the cost [...]

Web conferencing, video conferencing and other forms of teleconferencing have increased remarkably and their popularity is due to the relatively low-cost convenience and the near ubiquity of the needed technologies. Teleconferencing is considered as a good, viable option at a time when business travel budgets are shrinking and security concerns after September 11 terrorist attacks have made people reluctant to travel.

The Council of State Governments will host a national teleconference on May 5 entitled "Order the Quarantine! Assessing State Health Powers and Readiness." The 2001 postal anthrax episode and a […]

Employees might complain about offices and cubicles, but at least they're productive there. Recent surveys show that most workers don't like to travel. It takes two days to catch up […]

In the past five years, the teleconferencing industry has experienced a more than 40 percent growth in call volume, according to TeleSpan Publishing, a market research firm in Altadena, California. [...]

A year ago in January, a group of 19 leaders of the teleconferencing industry met for three days on Maui. The subject of this 'summit meeting,' as it was called, [...]

As privatization, liberalization, and ambitious modernization programs take hold, the world telecommunications marketplace will explode. * From 1996 to 2000, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of China plans to [...]

Today you are just as likely to see employees working at home as at an office. Companies today regularly introduce advanced technologies into the workplace. Local area networks connect with […]