LiveOffice announced upcoming plans to integrate its IMConferencing web conferencing system with Google Talk. IMConferencing’s interoperability capability will allow Google Talk users to connect to IMConferencing’s web, audio and video conferencing platform, which will enable users to launch online meetings and collaboration sessions to one or several participants.

Only the host of the IMConferencing session needs to be a registered user, which gives participants quick access to the collaboration session because they do not have to pre-register with IMConferencing in order to use the service. Once a meeting host using Google Talk clicks the Start Meeting button in their IM window, participants can join an IMConferencing meeting and begin using its collaboration tools, which include:

• Mixed telephone and VoIP audio conferences that allow all participants to connect into a single teleconference regardless of there telephony technology.
  
  
• Multi-point hi-definition video conferences
  
  
• Desktop and application sharing that allows the host and participants to jointly view and collaborate on any application or document

The current version of IMConferencing is available now at a cost of $50 per seat license per month. The integrated version of IMConferencing and Google Talk will be available in Q4 2005.