Travel Takes Its Toll on Wallets and Sanity

Travel has become a drag, and an expensive drag at that. Fuel prices have airfares skyrocketing, and all that money still only buys a ticket good for waiting in line on your way to a five-hour journey sitting on a glorified milking stool. But these travel woes are the best sales pitch ever for telepresence solutions. Whether it's the stripped-down tools from LifeSize or the massive offerings from Cisco and HP that require an engineer and a Feng Shui artist , they all look pretty good when compared with another redeye to the coast.