Conduct meetings using video conferencing

The art of meetings has come a long way. It all started – seemingly almost in Neanderthal times – with two people standing, or sitting, face-to-face to talk. It progressed to people from different places sitting down together in a boardroom to people in...

Customise video communications with APIs

Today’s working environment is more mobile than ever. Employees are no longer bound to their desks but can now work from home, on the road, while travelling, irrespective of what part of the world they are in, says David Sales, head of Product Management at Kathea....

Avoiding common collaboration mistakes

Collaboration is vital to an agile business, plus it is one of the best ways to be effectively creative. That is, by bringing together limited resources, people and great ideas, collaboration plays an important role in companies rising above the rest and remaining...

Taking video collaboration to the cloud

The benefits of video conferencing (VC) are widely acknowledged – the technology enables face-to-face communication on demand, without the need to travel, improving productivity and enhancing collaborative abilities, says Divesh Nathoo, pre-sales manager at Kathea....

IM landscape changes rapidly in SA

The rapid growth of the WhatsApp instant messaging (IM) client and the decline in the volume of chat messages going through MXit over the past 12 months in South Africa, are indicative of the change in the way people are using their mobile phones to communicate with...

How tech is changing the way businesses talk

Networked-based communications – or Voice over IP (VoIP) – is responsible for a radical overhaul of the role of the business PBX. Previously a mere utility that switched voice calls, today’s IP-PBX offers unprecedented efficiencies, flexibility and functional variety,...