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IT Gets Personal: Jonathan Christensen’s Personal Experience

IT Gets Personal: Jonathan Christensen’s Personal Experience

By on May 25, 2008

Our choice of PC’s and the associated applications are becoming a factor in the definition of our personality:: Windows or Mac? IBM or Dell? Our smartphone choices are becoming a factor in the definition of our personality. Blackberry, iPhone or, Nokia? But just as important is how these associations are also playing a role in [...]

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Tungle – Taking Meeting Organization into the “Open”

By on May 23, 2008

New service provides format- and platform-agnostic meeting scheduling and co-ordination across the web. To date groupware’s ability to perform meeting scheduling and coordination was limited to within an enterprise’s groupware community of users — i.e. – the employees and perhaps closely connected business associates. And everyone had to be using a common calendaring system running [...]

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Mobile VoIP Services — The Ergonomics of Making a Call Counts…

By on May 5, 2008

Luca Filigheddu, CEO of Abbeynet, has put up a guest post on IPCovergence.TV: Mobile VoIP Services – Conusmers Seek Usability and Real Cost Savings. His whole thesis is summed up by the statement: …. it’s very difficult for me to see another major disruption coming in the short term to impact mobile communications. I’m referring [...]

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High Quality Video: What’s the Benchmark?

By on November 26, 2007

Lots of confusion out there: High Quality Video, HD Video, HD Voice, High Definition Audio? What do these terms mean? And what does High Quality Video mean when it comes to Skype Video calling? “Well, my configuration should work”, comes from both other vendors and some end users. Did a bit of research to try [...]

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Skype 3.2 Sets New Standard for Sound Quality

Skype 3.2 Sets New Standard for Sound Quality

By on March 28, 2007

When Skype Vice President Stefan Oberg spoke at VON Canada last year his theme was how Skype’s goal was to be “Better Than a Phone”. To make his point he mentioned how even the simple task of plugging in a headset (often on the rear of a desktop PC or in a laptop docking station) [...]

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