Excerpts From Tech TV - November, 2001
In Washington, one tech company says it can help businesses cut down on flying by using technology that makes a business meeting just a click away.
Tech TV reporter Monique Conrad has the story from our DC bureau.
Hi Steve. It's called eZ and it allows people to conference one another either online or through a network communication. Now, the great thing is that it gives people the ability to collaborate, share or mark-up data via the computer in real time. And even the Congress and the Pentagon are thinking about using it.
The eZ shows off its high tech stuff in Virginia Congressman's Rick Boucher's office. The technology allows as many as 32 people to share up to 32 documents, pictures, or virtually any information via the Internet or network while meeting participants speak on the phone. The company says it can help lawmakers craft legislation without having to leave their offices or even allows them to keep working when they have to leave because of emergencies like September 11th or the anthrax scare.
Charlie White, CEO Sigma Design: This is a new paradigm here in information. Because you are looking at information in two locations, simultaneously, but nothing was sent. There are no copies of it.
Monique Conrad: eZ was just released last week at the peer-to-peer conference in Washington. The software is a new form of point-to-point communication that offers secure sharing of images to conferees, but not copies of documents.
Charlie White: What's important is the concept of no copies. We call it host in control. For instances, if I go to save that file, it's going to tell me that I can't save it because I'm not the document's host. You own that file. I can only see that file, and zoom in and mark it up.
Monique Conrad: All delivered in real time whether the conferees are in different offices or different countries. There is no outside server and eZ uses virtually no bandwidth after the initial connection. You can instant message and even scan in new images.
Charlie White: It automatically put any document into an eZ. And then you will see that with one button click, I'm able to share it with anybody in the world.
The technology was first used by architects and engineers, but it has applications for the medical field and even the military.
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