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Telepresence Forum
I hopped on a new forum today, this one dedicated to the world of “Telepresence”. Verrrrry interrrresssssting. The Telepresence Forum. I’ve already posted our version of “Personal Telepresence” and plan to visit that forum a lot more in the future. For the record, even though personal telepresence is being re-defined by marketing $, here is…
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Telecommute: The Time is Now!
If you have not yet been convinced that the time for telecommuting has finally arrived maybe you should look at what you spend on gas now driving to work. At over $4.00 a gallon (and Stockton being the highest in the Nation) a typical commute from Tracy to the Bay Area now can cost you…
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Comcast to offer 100 Mbps over Cable
June 2023: A History Lesson in Technology. Enjoy! This is an interesting news article. In the not to distant future, using a standard called DOSCIS 3.0 (which defines and supports very high speed data transmission over cable systems), Comcast expects to be able to offer most cable subscribers 100 Mbps download. YeOldeTechy questions: 1. With…
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YeOldeTechy Virus Hunter
OK…..I’m getting good at this, but, I should not have to do this at all. Elimination of virus infections on Windows Computers. With my handy-dandy 1 Gig dongle filled with virus killing software I visited a small business in Tracy today and spent 4 hours scanning, killing, and making everything work on this persons Windows…
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LinkedIn
OK, a few weeks ago, I signed up for LinkedIn. I entered a few bits of information and was invited by one person to join their network. I did nothing else. At the time, I decided that LinkedIn was a grown-up version of Facebook or MySpace. Even though I have a MySpace page I did…
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Telecommute to Survive I-5 Construction
Overview of the Problem Interstate 5 in Sacramento is due to be closed for construction over the next several weeks. Since I-5 is the major route to and from Sacramento this is going to cause major backups in and around the area. I wrote an email to KCRA Channel 3 in Sacramento a few days…
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Virtual Work in the Year 2004
This was originally published in August 1995 when I was CTO for the company that put on “TeleCon”. The old timers in the videoconferencing industry should remember….and for the the new folks….understand this: These were great times bringing this new technology we all know as videoconferencing into being. Now, in 2019, you can easily “video…
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CableCARD Agreement for Cable TV
—News Flash– Yesterday, Sony and many cable companies including: Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Cox Communications Inc., Charter Communications Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp. and Bright House Networks agreed to develop a cable card with the same capability and functionality as a set-top box. See this AP news article. –End News Flash– I have a…
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Personal Telepresence – The Original
With all the hoopla about “Personal Telepresence”, I dug up this 1994 video segment showing our “Personal Telepresence” concept of 1992 (see this link for the original abstract (or this newer link). This video is using the CLI Cameo which was the very first desktop videoconferencing system….enjoy. By the way, we are the ones who…
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Netbriefings Proclaim Works with WordPress
I received an email from Netbriefings announcing that Proclaim (which I think is terrific) now allows a blogger using WordPress technology (this blog is not, as far as I know) to very easily record a Proclaim video/audio and presentation stream, save it, and post it on a blog.Jeanneane Kloss from Netbriefings set me up with…
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