This week, on my way to the Metropolitan Hotel to see Toshiba's Christmas line, I turned the wrong corner and met a meeting hosted by Tamberg, a company specializing in telecommuting.
Video conferencing and mobile video.
I got a preview of some new products from Norwegian companies based in New York and Oslo.
Tandberg meets a range of business needs, from eliminating
Long board meeting
Remote medical diagnosis.
Don Burkett, sales account manager at Tandberg, Canada, believes that the current economic downturn will force companies to cut more air travel, paving the way for better utilization of virtual conference technologies that make up the Tandberg portfolio.
The E20, which is scheduled to launch at the beginning of the new year, is a $1,500 video conferencing device that puts video conferencing features into a desktop phone.
Another new device presented by Burkett is the field view camera, a wireless video device with a touch screen that can bring doctors and patients almost together, or allow experts to repair at a long distance
By holding the camera up in his hand to show the camera's ability, burkett says it has been used in BC to provide medical information to doctors at major medical centers about patients living in remote areas.