Archive for November, 2008
Blockbuster OnDemand Streaming Video Player »
Blockbuster has announced a streaming video player made by 2Wire. This article in Information Week says it competes with Apple TV and NetFlix, but, unfortunately, it completely leaves out the one participant in this space that TelBitConsulting.com uses and loves: VUDU. No matter what, the future is clear: Watching movies via the Internet [...]
Electric Vehicle Charging Network in Bay Area »
It's 2008 in the San Franciso Bay Area and you own an electric car that is running low on charge. What do you do? Where do you go to re-charge? Right about now you are wishing you had your gas guzzling, carbon emission spitting, automobile back and the heck with the environment. But wait....fast forward a few years to 2012 and the San [...]
Telecommute »
Gas prices have come down. I went to the gas station yesterday and paid $1.94 for a gallon of gas. For a starving blogger, this is good news. I now have more precious $$ in my pocket for other things (Did someone say beer at The Great Plate?) Do you stop thinking about telecommuting? Do you stop thinking about more efficient [...]
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, [...]
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 says: The way to [...]
