San Antonio-based AT&T (News - Alert) has won a contract from global emission technology company EMCON to connect the latter’s operations in 19 countries through managed voice and data services

ClearOne (News - Alert) is a developer of audio conferencing products, and one of the companies whose conference phones are distributed by Parallel Technologies. The company is recognized in the conferencing marketplace as having the most comprehensive portfolio of audio conferencing products, as well as a broad portfolio of customers, including Parallel. ClearOne is, in fact, the global market leader for installed audio conferencing products, with more than 50% global market share.

Back in September of this year, Vello introduced a new service to improve business collaboration by making it much easier to be connected to a conference call. The service, Vello, "The Conference That Calls You," takes away the need for dial-in numbers and pin codes and instead calls participants to connect them to the conference.

Westcon Group, Inc. is looking to distribute Polycom's (News - Alert) Collaboration and videoconferencing solutions to Canadian resellers. As per the announcement, Westcon Canada would now support its Canadian resellers with a full line of collaboration and video conferencing solutions from Polycom. Westcon Group, Inc. is one of the leading specialty distributors in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors, including Cisco (News - Alert), Nortel and Avaya, Inc.

A new conference phone that promises to provide all the latest high-tech features needed to improve communications has been launched by Konftel. The new Konftel 300 boasts enhanced features like the ability to record meetings, connect a wireless headset, and other innovative capabilities.

Konftel, a European supplier of conference phones, is launching the Konftel 200AUX, which the company claims is the world’s first conference phone that can be used with a wireless headset. The new phone gives liberty to the user to participate in a phone meeting outside the phone’s reception area—a useful feature for presentations and lectures.

Polycom (News - Alert) appointed D. Scott Mercer to its board of directors, according to release today from the company. A recognized leader in the technology industry, Mercer has enjoyed a career that covers three decades and a variety of executive functions. These functions range from operations and strategic planning to finance, within both the storage and computer industry segments.

Audio and video communications product manufacturer LifeSize recently introduced a new VoIP-enabled phone to the audio-conferencing market that the company claims provides twice the quality and fidelity of standard conference-room phones

For any company with a dispersed workforce or client base, conferencing solutions provide a way to effectively collaborate, without the need to travel. These collaborations have in the past, sometimes lacked clear quality and did not always provide an answer, especially in situations when face-to-face communications were essential

In recent years, many new features and functionalities have become available for conference phones that are affordable for even small businesses. With all the choices out there, though, choosing the right phone can be confusing. TMCnet asked Eric Sayles, Product Specialist at KeyPhonesDirect.com, a professional online dealer of conference phones, to explain some of the new features and provide insight into things shoppers should keep in mind when choosing a conference phone.