US leads web conferencing boom

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US firms are making cost and CO2 savings by using web links instead of hopping across the Pond

Will increasing interest in a more rational use of resources in business lead to a full blown take-off of Web and video conferencing? For whatever reason, especially in Europe, executives still seem keener...

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