AccuConference beefs up web conferencing solutions for Mac users

Posted by Dennis Sellers Nov 15, 2006 at 6:34pm

AccuConference, which specializes in audio and Web conferencing technologies, is releasing Mac compatible products in this area, due mainly to requests from higher-ed Mac users, as well as Mac consultants. Among their Mac compatible solutions is the insight service. insight is the latest feature from AccuConference that brings integration of PowerPoint presentations to conference calling.

Compatible with Mac OS X and Windows, insight incorporates comprehensive host controls online and can mute and un-mute participants at will, not to mention facilitating live Q&A sessions, David Byrd told Macsimum News. Unlike many other products, insight users don’t have to download anything to view presentations and participate in collaborative sessions, he adds.


”Our first version wasn’t Mac friendly, being pre-Firefox and incompatible with Safari,” Byrd says. “Now have version 2.0, if you will, of the online interface. It was released in March, and we’ve been tweaking it ever since.

AccuConference plans to add a polling feature by the end of the year. With that and PowerPoint integration, the company will have covered 90 percent of the feature requests it gets, Byrd says. An even more fully fleshed out version of the AccuConference software is due in mid-2007—and it will be Mac compatible, he adds.

“Anytime there’s a need that’s not being met, we like to confront it and face the challenge,” Byrd says. “Nine times out of 10 we have the solution, we just may have to put the pieces into place. If not, we can build the solution quickly in most cases.”

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