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There are dozens, if not more, vendors offering Web conferencing services. They mostly fall into two price tiers: $50 or more per month, with various fees, and next to nothing that offer few features. The higher-priced spread is great on features but requires some setup, the low end can be quick to use but not very robust.

That middle ground is where YourOfficeAnywhere.com is trying to claim, and while I haven't used it for very long, it has some promise. For $10 per user per month, you get a combination of three separate services:

• A cloud-based file storage
• Web conferencing, including Web camera, screen sharing, audio conference bridge and whiteboarding
• Text chat, group messaging, and activity streams

The online meeting space continues to see lots of innovation, especially at what you can get for free.

There is a new service from FreeConferenceCalls.com called FreeScreenSharing.com that says exactly what it does and some major feature enhancements to YamLabs (for Yet Another Meeting).

There are lots of free or inexpensive Web conferencing services available, but how about this interesting twist from AnyMeeting.com where you can sell tickets to your participants? It seems like a nifty idea, especially if you run your own speaking business. As we wrote about them last month AnyMeeting is an otherwise free Web service that has a lot of the features found in the higher-priced spreads: polls, invitations, text chat, and recorded sessions for later playback.

Citrix announced today an add-on to its GoToMeeting service called HDFaces, a video conferencing feature that is included at no cost to those using the remote screen-sharing online meeting service. There is nothing to setup or configure, you simply click on an icon to start up your Web camera on your laptop and you bring up the video conference displays, which appear in a separate window alongside with your PowerPoint slides or other screen-oriented display. As one participant starts talking, his or her video screen is highlighted to make it easier to keep track.

With the announcement yesterday about Facebook's Video chat feature, there is more interest surrounding ways that you can share the apps running on your screen as well as your mug across a video link. There are dozens of Web conferencing products that I have cataloged here and I will mention a few of these services that are completely free and can be used to set up a video link between at least two computers with a minimum of fuss and bother

FuzeBox wants to make telepresence a less proprietary, boxed-in experience for businesses. To do this, they've begun integrating Fuze Meeting, their cross-platform online meeting product, with high-end telepresence systems like Polycom, Tandberg and LifeSize.

This move lets companies hang onto their legacy teleconference solutions while easily extending their functionality onto smart phones and tablet devices.

This week at Citrix's Synergy event the company announced a version of its remote troubleshooting tool GoToManage for the iPad. The company also announced XenServer monitoring for GoToManage and high definition video for GoToMeeting.

GoToManage gives IT staff the ability to remotely administer user desktops for troubleshooting purposes. According to the announcement, the iPad app "will have the ability to connect to and control unattended computers, conduct in-session chat sessions, and track and report on their support activities."

Online meeting service Fuze Meeting just released a new version of its iPad app, which now offers the ability to host webinars from the device.

We took at look at the Fuze Meeting app alongside three other iPad meeting apps a few months back and were quite impressed with it. Despite being the newest entrant to this space, Fuze was the first online meeting service to enable users to schedule and host meetings from the device itself (rather than simply attend meetings scheduled from the desktop). It also got a head start on the Android tablet space, offering the first meeting app for that platform in November.

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Have you ever wished you could print a business document from your mobile device? The Digital Inspiation blog had a rather handy post earlier this week outlining how you can do exactly that, using Dropbox. Very clever stuff.

Citrix announced today that users of its GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToTraining products will soon get HD video conferencing at no extra cost. The new technology, which they're calling HDFaces, was unveiled today at the Citrix Synergy event held in Berlin, Germany.

HDFaces allows up to six participants to join a video conference in resolutions as high as 1920p x 960p. Attendees can view the presenter's screen and see each other in high definition, making the experience a bit closer to a real, face-to-face meeting.