RIM Launches BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing

From PC World: RIM announced on Friday the launch of BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, a free app designed to make scheduling and joining conference calls incredibly easy. If your company routinely (or even occasionally) relies on conference calls, I can see this quickly becoming an indispensible app.

The feature that most users will be the most excited about is One Click Join. When your calendar says it's time for a conference call to begin, you get a pop-up on your phone. Click a single button and you'll be dialed in, with no need to remember the dial-in number or the access code. The Mobile Conferencing app integrates deeply into BlackBerry's Calendar application, designed to make it easy to turn any meeting into a conference call without having to leave the Calendar app. You can also create recurring calls.

Other features include an easy way to reconnect to a call should you be dropped for any reason, as well as protected host codes. This means that moderator codes are kept hidden from other attendees, who only receive the information they need to join the call. The application will also automatically look for conference information in appointments on your BlackBerry from any calendar you have access to, and then integrate that into BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, which will hopefully eliminate redundant data entry.

It's designed to work with a majority of existing conference services right out of the box. However, if your company's provider of choice requires extra steps, such as pressing the star key and then entering a personal PIN, those unique steps can be stored in your conference profile. That information will be hidden from other participants, and you will still be able to use the One Click Join feature.

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