Story by Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe
If you’ve ever tried to beam into a conference room via video, you know that it’s one of those feats that looks far easier in the movies.
In real life, videoconferencing at work is plagued by clunky software, cameras that offer a bird’s eye view of every bald spot around the conference table, and the dreaded freeze-frame just as someone in the Dallas branch is finally getting around to making a coherent point.
