No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Vidyo Video Conferencing App for iPad2 & iPhone

    This press release came in via email a couple of days ago.  Very cool. —  HACKENSACK, NJ – October 6, 2011 — Vidyo, Inc., today announced availability of VidyoMobile™ for iOS 4.x on iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch on the Apple App Store. The VidyoMobile application allows Vidyo’s enterprise customers to seamlessly offer mobile workers the ability to participate…

  • DVE Telepresence

    Looking at LinkedIn the other day, I ran across a familiar name (I must be getting old, but, I think I remember them from like 1999, 2000?), DVE Telepresence,  and decided to take a peek at the videos. NOW…you know me….I think driving to a room to sit in a meeting with a bunch of…

  • Steve Jobs Dies

    OMG…the world just lost a GREAT man. A man who changed the world….not just once, but, several times. (Apple II, Mac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, Pixar, Next…graphical interface?  commercial mouse?) Where most are content to design a product that is evolutionary, Jobs dared to design products that were revolutionary. Such a sad day…October 5, 2011.…

  • Radvision Scopia Mobile Video Conferencing

    How in the world did this escape me?  Here is some info on the Radvision Scopia Mobile app for iPhone and iPad. Those of you who know me, know that my dealings with Radvision go W-A-Y back .  As we were developing the ESnet H.323 architecture (starting in 1999), Radvision was there with us.  Eventually,…

  • Starleaf Personal Telepresence Demo

    Starleaf Personal Telepresence Demo

    Update:  Old (well not old…longtime) friend, David Maldow, wrote a more detailed article on Starleaf here. Google+ friend CZoli posted a link to this video demo of Starleaf’s Personal Telepresence application (damn, we were FAR ahead of the time…see the ORIGINAL Personal Telepresence here). The person running this demo is old friend Will McDonald.  I…

  • Amazon Kindle Fire

    Today, Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire tablet. I watched a few news reports and to summarize: The Kindle Fire is fast using a dual processor, it can run Android Apps but you gotta get them from Amazon (not a bad thing). One analyst says it is NOT an iPad killer since the Kindle Fire is…

  • 8×8 Video Conferencing in the Cloud

    8×8 Video Conferencing in the Cloud

    Update September 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. I still have the 8×8 units in the garage. 🙂 Surfing the Internet for some information on Polycom (my next blog entry on Products and Services) I ran across the mention of 8×8 cloud based video conferencing. Knowing 8×8 from WAY back (see the picture above…

  • Visual Communications Industry Group Conference

    For the old timers reading this, you remember TeleCon.  Once a year in Anaheim, 20,000 or so of your industry friends would gather to learn about video conferencing, audio conferencing and collaboration. The conference was electric (and Disneyland and Universal were soooo close)….lots of ideas, lots of stuff, lots of great people….wow! RANT { Then….at…

  • Video Conferencing Products & Services Update: Cisco / Tandberg

    Update August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing! I disabled the links since I wrote this in 2011……Enjoy! Cisco/Tandberg Overarching Philosophy (my take) Corporate, high end, “Telepresence” What I Think of When I Think of Cisco / Tandberg Routers / Reliable Video Conferencing Hardware Product Line Tandberg has been around the video conferencing…

  • Google Flight Search

    Surfing the Internet yesterday I found this interesting tidbit. Google is now offering a “Flight Search” service where you can, in one place, find your flights!  Since I hardly ever fly (someday I will tell you why) I hope never to use it, but, you might find it helpful! – – LIMITATIONS   Well it…