Officials in Sutton are seeing impressive results as they complete a pilot programme in which local magistrates can render a decision without ever meeting a criminal in person, the Sutton Guardian reports.
The Courts are using video conferencing system to link to the police station and the courthouse. According to the paper, the magistrate oversees the process from the courthouse, while the defendant and lawyers for both sides use specially adapted rooms to conduct the trial.
Through the use of the 'virtual court' officials told the paper it is possible for a criminal to be arrested, convicted and sentenced within a two-hour window.
Adoption of the system nationwide could save millions of pounds. “Virtual courts bring swift justice, and in doing so, have the potential to transform how the justice system deals with crimes,” Bridget Prentice, minister for the courts told the paper. read more

MegaMeeting is the market leader in browser based video conference tools. read more

Leading Saudi ISP Sahara Net has announced a deal that will see it sell and support video conferencing solutions from MegaMeeting. read more

Keep Britain Tidy has implemented a web-based videoconferencing system that has eradicated the need for many of its remote staff to attend internal face-to-face meetings. read more

Megameeting.co.uk offers a similar concept to WebEx, but with the exception that it's entirely browser-based, requiring none of the plug-ins that proved so troublesome with the WebEx system. read more

Andy Ramsden, Head of e-learning at the University of Bath, scheduled a session where the team would test Megameeting, a web conferencing software. I assumed at the time that this would mean that we would all scatter around the campus and connect to the relevant server to test the service. In fact, the session was tested more realistically than we had envisaged! read more

Despite experiencing the coldest winter for over a decade and with no sign of a let-up in sight many businesses are seriously disrupted. Not so at Wisework.co.uk where they provide consultancy help to organisations who are introducing remote working.

On Monday morning Peter Thomsom, a Director of Wisework, was able to have a morning meeting with Tony Wareing, a fellow director, as usual. Peter was sitting at his desk in his home office near Henley-on-Thames whilst Tony was at his home in the village of Granborough in Buckinghamshire. As they go through the week they will be continuing to meet with other colleagues and clients without having to step outside their front doors. The secret of their success is called "Megameeting". read more

One of the many emerging low-cost desktop videoconferencing solutions that are appearing on the market, MegaMeeting offers secure web conferencing either as a hosted application or in-house on dedicated internal servers. With current fuel prices and the need to reduce our carbon footprint, desktop videoconferencing is set to become an essential piece of technology over the next few years. read more