Official Google Australia Blog: Aussies can now have better meetings with Chromebox for meetings

Australia Blog

News and notes from Google Down Under

Aussies can now have better meetings with Chromebox for meetings

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The best meetings are face-to-face—you can brainstorm openly, collaborate closely and make faster decisions. But these days, we often connect with each other from far-flung locations, coordinating time zones and dialing into awkward conference calls from our phones. Meetings need to catch up with the way we work—they need to be face-to-face, easier to join, and available from anywhere and any device. Starting today, they can be. Any Aussie business can upgrade the way they do meetings with the new Chromebox for meetings. Chromebox for meetings brings together Google+ Hangouts and Google Apps in an easy-to-manage Chromebox, making it easy for any company to meet face-to-face and get things done. Here are a few highlights:

Instant meeting room. Chromebox for meetings comes with a Chromebox, a high-definition camera, a combined microphone and speaker unit and a remote control. You can set up your entire room in minutes and easily manage all meeting rooms from a web-based management console. All you need is the display in your room, and you’re good to go.

Simpler and faster meetings. Walk into the room, click the remote once and you’re instantly in the meeting. No more complex dial-in codes, passcodes or leader PINs. Share your laptop screen wirelessly, no need for any cords and adaptors. Integration with Google Apps makes it easy to invite others and add rooms to video meetings, directly from Google Calendar.

Meetings with anyone, anywhere. Up to 15 participants can join the video meeting from other conference rooms, their laptops, tablets or smartphones. Need to meet with a customer who doesn’t use Chromebox for meetings? That’s easy too—all they need is a Gmail account. You can also connect to rooms that have traditional video conferencing systems using a new tool from Vidyo, and participants who prefer phones can join your meeting with a conference call number from UberConference.

Chromebox for meetings is available for $1,450 which includes the ASUS Chromebox and everything you need to get going. That means for the same price that companies have typically paid for one meeting room, they'll be able to outfit 10 rooms—or more. SYNNEX and other Google resellers will help bring Chromebox for meetings to customers and resellers in Australia and help you and your coworkers see eye-to-eye. Happy meetings, everyone! Posted by Caesar Sengupta, VP, Product Management

Google

Labels

20%
3D
AdSense
AdWords
AdWords Express
Agencies
agencies adwords TV
AI
Analytics
android
announcements
antarctica
App Marketplace
apps
ARIA
art
Australia
Australian IT
big data
Big Query
blogging
blogs
books
broadband
business
calendar
campaign management
careers
CeBIT
chrome
Chromebox
Chromecast
climate
cloud computing
community
competition
computer science
conversion tracking
cooking
creativity
creators
culture
currents
cyber safety
cycling
dashboard
Developer Day
developers
devices
digital advertising
digital economy
Display
display ads
Doodles
drive
earphones
ebooks
education
Election
energy
enhanced campaigns
Enterprise
entertainment
entrepreneurship
environment
environmental insights explorer
Equatorgate
Fairfax
film
filtering
G'day Google
gardening
Getting Aussie Business Online
Gmail
gone google
gonegoogle
google
Google App Engine
Google Apps
Google Apps for Business
Google Apps for Education
Google Art Project
Google Arts & Culture
Google Assistant
Google Australia
Google Chrome
Google Code
Google docs
Google Drive
Google Earth
Google in Australia
google maps
Google Places
google play
Google Search
Google Serve
Google Sites
Google Talk
Google Trends
Google+
Googlers and culture
government
green
Guest blogger
guest speakers
Hangouts
hardware
HR
iGoogle
information
innovation
insights
internet
internet industry
IT
Julia Gillard
language
learning
life
local
Made By Google
maps
measurement
media industry
mental health
mobile
Moderator
movies
music
navigation
NBN
Nest
netball
new features
news
NGEN
non-profit
online advertising
online safety
open government
open source
Partnerships
phone
photography
picasa
Pixel
Pixel Buds
play
play points
Policy
politics
prime minister
privacy
prizes
Product
PSI
publishers
puppies
real estate
Reception
recruitment
removals
rentals
reporting
research
Running
Safety
scholarships
schools
science
search
search ads
Security
shopping
sitelinks
sketchup
small business
smartphones
SMB
software
street view
student programs
students
Stupid Google employee tricks
Summer of Code
Support
Support Act
survey
sustainability
sydney
symphony
tablet
technology
Themes
tips
training
transit
translate
transparency
transport
Universities
vault
videos
voicesearch
Wave
wellbeing
with me
women
workplace culture
YouTube
YouTube Kids
YouTube Live
YouTube Music
YouTube Originals
zeitgeiest

Feed

Media contacts

If you are a member of the press, please email our communications team at:
press-australia-nz@google.com

For all other enquiries, please visit our Help Centre.

Google
Privacy
Terms

Australia Blog

Aussies can now have better meetings with Chromebox for meetings

Labels

Archive

Feed

Media contacts