EDITOR'S NOTE

TelePresence has to date been more of a 'like to have' rather than a 'need to have' in most organisations.

Even weighed against our rather urgent requirements to cut down on carbon emissions, the price tags for TelePresence technologies are simply too exorbitant for most private sector companies to consider.

Thankfully for Cisco and Telstra, the usually-frugal folk at the Department of Finance have deep pockets and are splashing out on twenty TelePresence units.

Do you plan to deploy TelePresence anytime soon?

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | February 27, 2009

Federal Government ministers will need to defer some 20,000 flights to see a return on investment from today's purchase of 20 TelePresence units from Cisco and Telstra.

By Ry Crozier | February 27, 2009

A local satellite mobile broadband provider actually proactively warns its customers when they start downloading abnormal amounts of data and offers to shift them to a better value plan to save money.

By Brett Winterford | February 27, 2009

NEC and Telstra have won a $1.6 million tender to supply a converged communications platform for the Victorian Sheriffs Office at the Victorian Department of Justice.

By Iain Thomson | February 27, 2009

Nokia is "looking very actively" at getting into the laptop market, according to the company's chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.

By Staff writers | February 27, 2009

Haymarket Media is set to re-shape Australian IT channel publishing with the May 4 reboot of its CRN portfolio.

By Shaun Nichols | February 27, 2009

Dell announced a fresh round of cuts Thursday in the aftermath of a rough fiscal quarter.

By Shaun Nichols | February 27, 2009

Adobe has posted a security fix for its Flash multimedia browser plug-in.

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