WOBURN, Mass., Dec. 4, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LogMeIn, Inc. (Nasdaq:LOGM) just released an update to its popular online meeting app, join.me, which provides iPad owners the ability to host meetings and present files from anywhere with an Internet connection. A quick update for existing app users and as a download for new users, the
join.me app provides people the ability to virtually collaborate with others in a matter of seconds. People can now invite others into a meeting, visually share files, and even join into a conversation via VoIP or chat directly from their iPad. Meeting attendees can join the iPad-hosted meeting for free from PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android and Windows 8 devices. As a result, people are free to work with colleagues and customers from virtually anywhere in the world.
A light-weight, simple and secure online meeting app, join.me is one of the world’s most popular collaboration products. Every month more than one million people host or attend their first ever join.me meeting. And every week more than half a million people use join.me to collaborate on projects across the hall or across the globe. Offered in both free
and premium, or ‘pro’, editions, join.me can be used to start and join online meetings in a matter of seconds, offering a stark contrast to the notoriously slow set-up time for traditional web conferencing tools.
“The modern worker is no longer tethered to their desk, nor dependent on company-issued tools to be productive — the iPad being the ultimate example of this trend. People are demanding simple, secure solutions that free them to work from virtually anywhere on virtually any device,” said Michael Simon, CEO of LogMeIn. “We believe collaboration
is about people, not desktops or devices, and with this update, we’re putting instant collaboration at the fingertips of information workers, no matter where they are or what they’re carrying.”
The new iPad hosting capabilities work in conjunction with active join.me pro accounts, while joining a meeting from the app is free for everyone. People interested in trying out the iPad hosting capabilities can sign up for a risk-free, 14-day trial of join.me pro on the join.me website, no credit card required. The iPad app is a free download and can also be used to attend join.me meetings from anywhere with an Internet connection. A video demonstration of the app in action is
available on the join.me blog.
The updated join.me iPad app includes the ability to:
— Host or join meetings through a single app
— Select and visually present files from email and other iPad apps with up to 250 people
— Open files from other productivity, business, collaboration and cloud apps in join.me for quick sharing
— Store files in the join.me iPad app for future meetings and presentations
— Invite attendees via email or link into a join.me session
— Talk to attendees via VoIP or free, dedicated teleconference line
— Secure and control meetings via “lock” feature, requiring attendees to seek permission prior to joining a meeting in session
— Trigger a touch-based ‘laser pointer’ for highlighting areas of content being shared
— Use built-in chat feature to talk with individual or all attendees
