If you sit at the head of a business organization and are on the fence about taking your marketplace global, it may just need a little push to get you off of that fence. Today global marketing and international business is something that is much easier to achieve than it ever has been. And you don't need a large cash influx to accomplish this. The business sector today is one with a climate that changes on a daily basis. Clients and prospective clients require change like the wind, and the marketplace both locally and globally has entered a realm of fierce and stiff competition. Today it is even more difficult to rise to the top of the crop if you are not using the advantages and appeal of technology to make your business a global workforce.

Telepresencecangreatly enhance the effectiveness of distance learning by allowing students to take virtual field trips to distant locations and by connecting them with top-quality educators in the field. By using advanced communication technologies such as highspeed networks, high definition video and audio, and large, high resolution displays, telepresence technology produces realistic, interactive virtual experiences that far surpass traditional video conferencing. With telepresence, instructors and students feel like they are in the same room or even immersed in a remote environment. Telepresence is already being used today by a number of university and educational institutions for purposes as varied as medical resident training, admission interviews to screen prospective students, teacher mentoring, and inter-school academic planning.

Today we live in a world where the term global marketplace is a household term. What this means is that business is expanding at the global level. This term was initially reserved for big business in the corporate sector as they had established branches all across the globe. Today, with the Internet being less of the latest invention and more of a global commodity, technology has revolutionized the way in which business works. Even small businesses today can, and should, take advantage of all of the commodities the Internet and technology has to offer in terms of reaching out to markets at a global level.

Hemisphere Expo Services, producers of the Telepresence World Conference Series , announced today the featured speakers and panellists who will address attendees of Telepresence World 2008 London, which will take place on 18th - 19th March at ExCel London, the internationally acclaimed exhibition and conference centre located in the UK's capital city.

You have got your computer; you have got your headphones and your speakers. You found the perfect microphone and you have got your IP connection. Now all you need to videoconference is a camera. What kind of camera should you buy? The kind of camera will depend on the computer system you use and the kind of videoconferencing you want to achieve. First of all, your computer must be multimedia compatible.

Medical telepresence, which makes use of advanced communication technologies such as highspeed networks, high definition video and audio, and large, high resolution displays to produce realistic, interactive experiences, has great potential as a medical tool for remote diagnosis, training and surgery. Telepresence can also save physicians and medical administrators precious time and money by reducing the need for travel. The result: doctors are able to see more patients, provide better health care, and perform more research while, at the same time, supporting the all-important "bottom line."

Telanetix Inc (OTCBB: TNXI), an IP solutions provider offering telepresence and VoIP services to the SMB and SME markets, announced on Tuesday (29 January) that the company has appointed Imago Group PLC, a distributor of video communications products in Europe, as a distributor for its digital presence products in the UK, France and Benelux.

HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video encoders, announces that on Thursday (January 31) at Broadcast LIVE and VideoForum 2008, IVC Media is highlighting the MAKO-HD high definition (HD) codec within the important seminar "Streaming Media in Healthcare - The Cutting Edge of Video." The seminar focuses on the latest video developments within healthcare including the integration of very low latency network video for collaborative medical efforts.

Tandberg, a global provider of telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing and mobile video solutions, Tuesday launched the Tandberg Codian MSE 8321 gateway, enabling organizations to hold up to 1,000 concurrent IP (Internet Protocol) and ISDN videoconferencing calls. Both service providers and large enterprises will now have the flexibility to deliver a variety of services at an unprecedented level, worldwide.

Video conferencing for Apple computers is not only possible; it is as easy as it is on a PC. There are Instant Messenger programs that also have streaming video. They provide Mac to Mac and Mac to PC video streaming, making it possible to stay in the loop in an overwhelming PC world. A visit to a Macintosh friendly website reveals several easily obtained programs that support videoconferencing for Apple computers.