Cisco WebEx became more useful than ever this week with the news that it was being extended to work with a range of business smartphones. The announcement, at Mobile World Congress, means users will be able to join Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Web and audio conferences on smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold, Curve 8900 and Storm from RIM, the Nokia Eseries and Nseries phones, and the Samsung Blackjack II.To use, you just launch Cisco WebEx Meeting Center through your smartphone browser and you get integrated audio and Web conferencing over 3G or a combination of 2G and Wi-Fi. You can join scheduled meetings and view presentations, applications and desktops with live annotations.There is also a nice function on WebEx whereby a host can send meeting invites via Short Message Service and a recipient can join simply by texting ’1′ back. Cisco WebEx smartphone support starts in April this year. Cisco @ Mobile World Congress.
WebEx Added to Smartphones at Mobile World Congress
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‘Cisco WebEx’ is really growing up by a purposeful means of offering mobile web conference for tech savvy/technology business people around the world. I personally think the Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Web and audio conferences should work on all the smartphones, the application should be generic enough to support at least all the major PDAs/smartphone in the market by Apple, Nokia, Samsung, Palm and specially blackberry smartphones because of its high business usage. There are also a lot of blackberry accessories out there which enhance the business functionality i.e bluetooth conference center for conducting conference call using blackberry. Similarly different PDA phone different uses different functionality to interact. In simple words, having the conference software for diverse PDA phones will make this online conference much popular as compared to having conference application limited to specific smartphone models.”
Online collaborating and teaching can work, If you have trust and the right tools.I recently tried http://www.showdocument.com – good app for uploading documents and working on them in real-time.Most file types are supported and it needs no installation. – andy