Halfway through the second decade of the 21st century, two clear trends have emerged with respect to meetings: First, meeting presenters and participants are relying more on tablets, smartphones, and “phablets” than traditional computing platforms to display slides, photos, and videos. And second, meetings are taking place in unusual spaces, including areas without traditional desks, chairs, whiteboards, and projection screens.

Sales of tablets and smartphones, also known as “bring your own device” (BYOD) products, have grown at exponential rates in the past four years while cutting into the sales of traditional notebook and desktop computers. That should be no surprise, as BYODs are actually powerful computing platforms with fast CPUs, gigabytes of flash memory, sophisticated operating systems  ...read more.