by Jeff Yablon | Apr 27, 2016 | Business Process
Ever found yourself thinking “it’s time videoconferencing gets real”? It just did. The picture you see here is of a new Chrome-based computer from Google and Acer. The Chromebase 24 is an all-in-one, touch-enabled desk-or-wall-mountable computer...
by Jeff Yablon | Apr 6, 2012 | Business Process, Development
In their continuing effort to stave off irrelevancy, Microsoft keeps branching into new businesses. The beast from Redmond will never again see the same kind of dominance they enjoyed with Windows and Office, but lately they’re making some pretty good moves. No,...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 8, 2011 | Business Process
How’d you like to do high resolution video calls through your high definition TV? How’d you like to spend way, way, way too much for the privelege? Then hustle out right now and buy yourself a Cisco ūmi. Not interested? No kidding. Five months ago, Cisco...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 7, 2010 | Business Process, Design, Development
I have seen the future. And it certainly is not Cisco’s new video conferencing system. ūmi ( that’s its name) takes a cute enough idea and finds every possible way to break it. I won’t pick on that silly name. I’m sure it means something very...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 7, 2010 | Business Process
Ignore for the moment that certain kinds of multitasking are just plain dangerous. Ditto the oft-documented fact that in general multi-tasking is a bad idea. If you do video calling, there’s a new problem with multi-tasking that you might not have thought about....
