U.S. Cell-Only Households Keep Climbing

Nearly 18 percent of households in the United States have no traditional telephone and rely on wireless services only, which is up several percentage points from a year earlier, the government said on Wednesday. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) Nearly 18 percent of households in the United States have no traditional telephone and rely on wireless services only, which is up several percentage points from a year earlier, the government said on Wednesday. In the first half of 2008, 17.5 percent of households were wi...

 

Web Conferencing Fills Void in Tight Times

During this current recession, companies are looking for ways to cut costs. One way is to cut out travel costs and leverage collaboration systems such as Web conferencing. Products in this category include Cisco WebEx, Citrix GotoMeeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte all of which let users conduct meetings via the Internet. - As businesses all over the world slide deeper into the yawning chasm of recession, CEOs and CFOs must strike a delicate balance between the cost and benefit of travel. Does meeting face to face outweigh the thousands of dollars spent for the business trip? In a recession, the answer is often no...