Zoom.us is great. Despite the hackers, the zoombombs, the security issues, and the network overload...they are still the default video conferencing in the age of COVID. ...and I think rightly so. I used to use SKYPE (more at that below) and I gave up on Citrix' Go-To Meeting. Just awful. So when...
Erik Sheppard hosts this video with me explaining the Skype phone patch.
Hard-wired phone lines are almost an anachronism for all but serious businesses, government, and other formal institutions. POTS (plain old telephone systems) services are not going away, but for most individual consumers, and certainly 3rd-world countries, phone communications have jumped...
Think synthetic voices aren't a part of our reality yet? Check out Skype's new feature, providing a real-time spoken word translation from one language to another. Now, mind you...no one seems to be saying how well this works...but kudos to Microsoft for moving aggressively into this AI arena. I...
The cooler heads were right.....back then.Years ago, when I began blogging of the impending death of ISDN, there were plenty of people around to tell me the end of that technology was still far away.They were right, and I was right. It WAS the beginning of the end several years ago. But any...
Ya live long enough, and you start to see evidence of the (mostly) subtle and unrelenting march of change. Within science and technology that march is double-time. And yet, some once-revolutionary/now-aged technologies are hard to upend. Why do we still have FAXes? Printed books? Gasoline...
When I first got into ISDN, I connected through AudioTX. Not that many people are familiar with it. AudioTX is a UK firm with a 14-yr track record in connectivity. The equipment is nothing like a Telos or Musicam codec. No box at all. You get a dongle, some software, and then you have to...
Years ago, I was lamenting (complaining, really) that Apple chose the word "voiceover" for the voice command functions on the iOS devices. It just made searching for topics in our industry much less effective. But now that cat's out of the bag. Heck...people in our business can't even decide...
Sure, everybody loves to bash Microsoft, the most recent owner of Skype...but the truth is, the lion's share of Skype employees live in Luxembourg, and the development team is mostly in Estonia (the birthplace of Skype). That's hardly a typical Redmond-based mishandling of some browser brouhaha. ...
Some might say I'm obsessed with this topic... the one about what happens when ISDN disappears. It will go away...although the reports of its demise are quite likely grossly accelerated. Let's not get into that. Let's just say the first cracks are showing in the monolithic façade of ISDN's...