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Facebook Video Chat
UPDATE Dec 2022: A History Lesson 🙂 I tried video chat (video conference) via Facebook about a year ago…it sucked. Now…the good folks at PCMag.com tell me that the co-founder of RealNetworks, Rob Glaser, has developed a new Facebook video chat (video call) application called “SocialEyes”. Very clever name. But it remains to be seen…
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Motorola XOOM
Looks like this new tablet from Motorola may cut into the sales of the iPad. Can you hear me know? Kinda late….but, maybe better late than never applies. It uses the Android 3.0 operating system. I hear it comes with two cameras, one front facing for video chats (video conferencing) and taking pictures of…
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Cell Phones and the Brain
Other than rendering an otherwise intelligent teenager a Borg like zombie…this article (in Bloomberg BusinessWeek) tells us that the effects of cell phone use on the brain is still not understood. They go so far as to say that they do not know if the stimulation of the brain near the cell phone antenna is…
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Taser Video Conferencing
Never in a million years did I ever think I would report about taser video conferencing. All I have to say is thank goodness the person at the remote end was not injured! How funny. One of the taser darts (is that right, a dart?) hit the laptop screen during a demo during a Skype…
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Old Days
It’s Valentines Day, and I am sitting at AltamontCowork just thinking about how technology has changed my life. MY technology, since I am an engineer (MSEE, University of Kansas) who spent most of his life advancing (or trying to advance) technology….in particular video conferencing and collaboration from a distance. Truthfully….I am not really sure if…
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PCMag Compares Skype and Facetime Video Conferencing
I ran across this this morning (see YouTube video). A very cool comparison by the very knowledgeable techy’s at PCMag.com showing the video call quality between Skype and Facetime. The test was completed via WiFi since Facetime is limited to that transport mechanism. My Opinions My issue with Facetime is it’s limited call-ability….it works fine between other iPhones,…
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Toshiba Android Tablet
It looks like Toshiba is coming out soon with an Android based tablet. I love Toshiba computers! See the header picture to see my “Old Faithful” Toshiba laptop (6 years old and still going strong), and am writing this on my new Satellite A665. Lori and Kristen both love their Toshiba laptops… Before buying a…
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Google Docs Application Sharing
Note: Fast forward to time 5:48 to see how you can share a doc. This past week, I tried something new: Joleen and I worked remotely, but, together, on a proposal we submitted for a new project. In the old days, application sharing (working together on a document) with video conferencing stuff was unheard of.…
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Linux H.323 Video Conferencing
I am on the Megaconference mailing list and saw a request for recommendations for a linux based H.323 video conferencing application. A Story At ESnet sooooo many years ago, we had a lot of Linux / Unix users who were left out of videoconferencing that the rest of us, on Windows machines (don’t even talk…
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Participate in TeleWork Week
I got an email today from the TeleWork Exchange. There will be a TeleWork Week in February that you and your company can pledge to participate in. Here is a snippet of the email. Pledge to telework during Telework Week, a nationwide effort to encourage agencies, organizations, and individuals to telework on February 14-18, 2011. More than…
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