Archive for May, 2008
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 ago stating that the word "telecommuting" is never [...]
Virtual Work in the Year 2004 »
This was originally published in August 1995 for the company that put on "TeleCon". The old timers in the industry should remember....the new folks....understand this: There were great times bringing this new technology we all know as videoconferencing into being.Enjoy.++++++by Mike PihlmanPublished in Applied Business teleCommunications "View of [...]
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 [...]
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, if it still down this link, or this link for the whole paper). This video is using the CLI Cameo which was the very first desktop videoconferencing [...]
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 a demo account and [...]
