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The oddest musical number about a conference call you'll ever see

Posted January 23, 2013 - 11:31 am

Today's "what the heck did I just watch" video is a bunch of ladies singing about a conference call. Yep, you read that right.
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The last towns with Operator phone service

Posted January 19, 2013 - 8:01 am

Jump back in the time machine to see a time when people still needed to talk with a human being before using their phone to talk to another human being.
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Chevrolet Volt electric car streams movies, checks home on 4G connection

Posted September 19, 2012 - 11:29 am

General Motors has added a 4G data connection to a Volt research vehicle that lets passengers Skype video chat from the road among other tasks.
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Archive video: Telstar beams Kennedy news conference

Posted July 10, 2012 - 2:17 pm

Telstar, the world's first telecommunications satellite, launched 50 years ago this week and one of the first things it carried was a news conference by US President Kennedy.
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CES: Sharp's mobile TV's, meeting solution large-scale plans for 2012

Posted January 9, 2012 - 9:53 pm

Sharp marked it’s 100th year of business at CES by showing off a newly designed portable TV, the Aquos freestyle.
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Viral video week in review (Nov. 5 - 11)

Posted November 12, 2011 - 9:59 am

Looking back at some of the more entertaining videos in the world of sciene, tech and "geekery" this week, I noticed a lot of robots.
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Robot Rides a Bicycle

Posted November 11, 2011 - 11:42 am

From our friends in Japan, we end out the week of cool robot videos with a bipedal robot riding a bicycle, using only its arms to steer and make balance corrections.
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This blog post goes to eleven (Happy 11-11-11!)

Posted November 11, 2011 - 11:16 am

It's 11-11-11 today! Hit YouTube to see a lot of funny and disturbing 11-11-11 videos!
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Microsoft builds giant smartphone to promote Windows Phone 7.5

Posted November 8, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Microsoft installed a gigantic Windows Phone in New York’s Herald Square Monday to mark the debut of Windows Phone 7.5 devices on store shelves.
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Nokia unveils first Windows phones

Posted October 26, 2011 - 2:02 pm

The Lumia devices are Nokia's first big push for phones running the Windows Phone operating system after the company announced a partnership with Microsoft in February.
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A conversation with Siri on the iPhone 4S

Posted October 13, 2011 - 2:11 pm

Macworld's Jason Snell talks with the iPhone 4S's new Siri technology.
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Ceatec: RF chip detects motion, heartbeats

Posted October 6, 2011 - 2:38 pm

Alps Electric debuted a new sensor that the company hopes can be used in medical, security and other applications that could benefit from detection of slight movements.
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Plantronics headsets for the cool UC crowd

Posted June 28, 2011 - 1:41 pm

Keith Shaw chats with Plantronics about its unified communications-based headsets, letting users chat on their desk phones, mobile phones and PC phones with the same headset.
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Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5 billion

Posted May 10, 2011 - 8:20 am

Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
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VoIP Now Voice Over Internet Plumbing

Posted January 9, 2009 - 2:51 pm

I've never liked the acronym VoIP because it sounds so stupid out loud (vo-eep). But alas, the world yet again ignored my suggestions. Now I will try to recast the acronym to at least mean something much closer to the perception of many in the VoIP business: VoIP is now just phones over different plumbing, and no longer a Big Deal.
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40 Trillion Spam E-mails This Year

Posted October 9, 2008 - 11:49 am

Ferris Research, the mail and messaging specific research group, made plenty of noise not long ago when they said there will be 40 trillion (with a T) spam messages sent this year. They can predict fairly accurately, since 30 trillion spams went out last year.
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