LONDON, November 10, 2006 -- The Information & Communications Technology Group at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its Exclusive 2006 Quarterly Webinar on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 15:00 GMT.

In an increasingly complex world, collaboration technologies are moving center stage as companies seek new ways to differentiate their businesses and create new opportunities for competitive advantage.

This briefing will be hosted by Dominic Dodd and Roopam Jain, senior analysts in the conferencing and collaboration group at Frost & Sullivan. The briefing will provide a detailed review of the web conferencing and collaboration markets. Specific emphasis is given to the continuing development of the technologies in this area and reporting on the accelerating trend towards further integration of the synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous collaboration modes.

"The web conferencing market is reaching a pivotal point in initiating wider adoption as well as introducing new user paradigms," says Frost & Sullivan Principal Analyst Roopam Jain. "A broadening base of applications, improved user friendliness, and greater affordability are working together to help web conferencing establish itself as a ubiquitous tool that is part of everyday business communications"

"The exhilarating pace of change in web conferencing and collaboration looks set to continue beyond the end of 2006, as the market anticipates major moves by Microsoft and IBM Lotus," adds Frost & Sullivan Senior Analyst Dominic Dodd. "New business growth opportunities are being created by the fusion of web conferencing with other technologies, presenting collaborative solution providers with exciting and valuable new products to take to their customers."

Those interested in participating in the interactive webinar should send an email to Srividhya Parthasarathy - Corporate Communications at sparthasarathy@frost.com with the following information: your full name, company name, title, telephone number, e-mail address, city, state and country. She will send the registration details via email upon receipt of the above information.

The information and ideas to be conveyed in this briefing is of particular importance to strategy, marketing and business development professionals in value-added service providers, network operators, software developers and communications infrastructure manufacturers who are interested in understanding more about the rapidly developing markets for conferencing and collaboration software and services.

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