Sometimes you just hafta sally forth and ask, instead of sitting around waiting for answers to come to you. So...I asked. I asked Rebekah Wilson of Source-Elements about the Holiday flyer she sent out. It had all sorts of good news about Source-Connect Beta vO.5, and some verbiage about upgrades...
This'll be brief. Info in today's blog relates back specifically to yesterday's blog (Lobbing the Grenade Into No-No Land). What I'm about to reveal harkens back even further to any number of articles I've written over the last five years that indicates the certain and now accelerating death march...
Put your ear to the railroad track, and you can hear it coming. Bobbin Beam's great article of this week on "HELLO??? WHERE IS MY TELEPHONE CALL GOING" explains so well -- AGAIN-- what many of us have been chronicling for years: the Internet is disrupting the comfortable state-of-affairs for...
My ISDN lines were installed 5 years ago. I was giddy when my Telos XStream codec arrived. When I have a session, I'm grateful for the technology, but honestly...I'm starting to see ISDN as a ball 'n' chain. You know me...I like cutting edge. When I see something waning into oblivion...I want...
Free-market forces are having a heyday in anticipation of ISDN's eventual downfall. If you've spent any time at all on the pages of this blog, you know that I've been following this trail closely. There doesn't have to be just ONE successor to the throne of the twisted copper wires. There may be...
Several emails recently have suggested that everyone might benefit from a side-by-side comparison of the three emerging technologies that seem poised to move into the space being slo-o-o-o-owly vacated by ISDN: hi-fidelity remote audio recording. I can think of people like George Whittam who...
Let's recap. ISDN is dying. IP-based technologies are scrabbling to fill the void ISDN will leave behind. Top contenders in this space are: ipDTL Source-Connect NOW SoundStreak Skype Another possibility that hasn't done much with their patented technology is ConnectionOpen. That's about it. Just...
No other question dominates discussions about the recent spate of ISDN-replacement technologies: How much will it cost? Kevin Leach at ipDTL has tinkered with his subscription fee a little since the first release. SoundStreak offered their service at no cost for the longest time. Now that it's...
My dogs are tired. Walking the floor of the NAB exhibit hall requires stamina, a plan, and a good pair of sneakers. Without the plan, you need a GREAT pair of sneakers. Luckily, without planning, I ran into plenty of help. Mike Laponis and his twin-brother-of-different-mothers Tim Keenan walked...
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. ...