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...
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. ...
The National Association of Broadcasters hits town this week. Broadcasting? I thought broadcasting was dead...taken over by the internet, tablet computers, Netflix, and Twitter. ...and yet, there it is, the National Association of Broadcasters convention...among the top-5 best attended...
We raised a few eyebrows in the VO community when WoVO came out with its Emancipation from ISDN Proclamation, but it's looking more and more like we read the tea leaves right. Plumbing the waters on ANYTHING developing in our business is best done in online community groups and forums. Lately,...
My geek genes run deep. But you already knew that. When I was aimlessly walking around the show floor at CES in January a bauble caught my eye, and now it's on my desk. I've been watching the growth and acceptance of ChromeBooks over past months, and when Toshiba got into the game, I saw the...
By now, you MUST have heard of BitCoin. Decentralized digital money. It's origins shrouded in mystery, BitCoin is the loose currency canon that is threatening global monetary systems, confounding financial analysts, and exciting markets with the promise of a true world-wide economy...unencumbered...
All the churning in online forums lately about new remote recording solutions is getting serious. It's also raising plenty of disclaimers that (again) the rumors of ISDN's demise are greatly exaggerated. World-Voices Organization recently took a bold stand encouraging people on both sides of the...
...in the spirit of a recent rash of posts about a voice-actor's use of video, I humbly re-submit this blog which I wrote more than a year ago, and which is still every bit relevant. Screen capture programs are becoming more and more handy. I'm referring to programs that can capture everything...
In the midst of an unbridled enthusiasm for ipDtL... one of the first providers of non-ISDN remote, high-quality recording -- Source Elements -- is out with a compelling competing product. Even as World-Voices Organization calls for an industry-wide end to ISDN, pretenders to the throne are...
People wonder why I hammer away at the one big issue that faces us all. I'm not even sure what to call it... but it has to do with the impending death of ISDN, and pretenders to the throne. A voice-over friend in Canada wrote me yesterday to ask my opinion of ipDtL. I hope he won't mind my...