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Colleges Interview Using Web Cam
UPDATE August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing and remote work. Enjoy! 🙂 I really need to take a day off…but this is sooo much fun. 🙂 So many technical innovations that we have been working on for many years seem to be coming to fruition. The form is different (in fact, we never…
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Radvision Scopia Desktop Review
Radvision Scopia Desktop Review December 12, 2008 Rating: 4 WaterTowers Radvision has recently made one of their Scopia MCU products available to the public for testing. Not being one to shy away from a good test, TelBitConsulting.com signed up and logged on. Since this blog is for “Everyone”, and Scopia Desktop is a complicated application…
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Videoconferencing 101, Chapter 1
Update: Chapter 2 has been added. 🙂 I will start new series where I will try to make videoconferencing, collaboration, streaming, and related technologies easy to understand for “Everyone”. Taking advantage of the Blog format, I will be able to add to this entry as new information appears, and make changes as needed (a…
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Google Gmail Video Chat Review
Rating: 3 WaterTowers Summary I signed up for Gmail (twice) and then downloaded the Google Videoconferencing application to see how well it works. Result: It works well although it appears to be limited to point-to-point video and text chat (i.e. no whiteboard or app sharing). Is it easy enough for “GrandMa” to use? No. But,…
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Google Adds Videoconferencing to Gmail
Google announced yesterday (see this article from Bloomberg) the addition of videoconferencing capability to it’s Gmail service. Bloomberg also says it is available to users of Google Apps. Looks like I have some signing up to do! I’ll give the VC over Google a try and review it here in a day or two…. TelBitConsulting.com…
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Election Day Technology – Hologram Reporter
If you were not watching CNN last night…here is a very cool application they used to talk to a reporter in Grant Park in Chicago. Hologram reporter….very cool. Embedded video from CNN Video If anyone knows a techie person at CNN who can give me the details, I’d love to post a simplified version of…
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Trinity Global LLC Mobile Videoconferencing
I have recently (hmmm, for the past ten years) had the opportunity to be involved in the development of a new twist to an old technology. Until now, videoconferencing has been tied to your desktop or to a conference room. Not any more. Now you can videoconference, with very high quality (much better than 3G),…
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Fun with oovoo
Who says you can’t have fun collaborating? ooVoo has a bunch of web cam effects that you can download to spice up your meetings. These are a lot of fun to play with. Unfortunately, my favorite does not work very well at all….that is the replacement of my background with a picture of a lake…
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3G and cell phone video – an application
If you are faint of heart or easily offended…please turn to another page. For the rest of you, this story in Time (remember this is not YeOldeTechy’s story, I am just passing along information) is interesting. But I believe it is more interesting after you hear my short story about this particular topic. Interesting Story…
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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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