As long as you’re dragging that smart phone everywhere you go, you may as well put it to work. We’ve rounded up nine must-have apps for meeting professionals (and a few more just for fun). All are built for the iPhone, but BlackBerry users take...

Advice from Patti Tackeff, president and COO at Lenos, a San Francisco company specializing in event marketing and strategic meetings management software

Great Deal: APEX (Accepted Practices Exchange) Meeting and Event Toolbox 3.0. This user-friendly software package by OfficeReady includes 50 APEX-specific meeting management templates. These are industry-recommended forms for everything from RFPs...

If you’re looking down the barrel of a big cancellation penalty, a new online service could help save your budget. MeetingTrader, a clearinghouse for canceled meeting space, expects to come out of its beta-test phase in the first quarter of 2010...

San Francisco-based rade Show Internet, launched in May, has shipped out hundreds of its $299 plug-and-play Internet kits.

Once every few generations, there is a technological development that historians later realize actually amounted to a rapid transformational change for an entire profession. The job of architects, for example, was transformed with the advent of...