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...
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...
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. ...
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,...
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...
Oddly enough, a new-client call from Bahrain put me on notice... and I was unprepared! I hadn't used my Source-Connect in months and months. More importantly, I hadn't tried connecting to ANYONE on SourceConnect (SC) since I put my new computer in my studio earlier this year. Sure, SC was...
You haven't heard much from me, here on Voice-Acting in Vegas about FaffCon4. Sheesh, the thing sold-out in, like...I dunno...a couple of hours? One of the pluses about THIS un-conference is that the seating is limited. That's so YOUR seat has the same great view as everyone else's! Unlike other...