The revolution will not be televised? The revolution is television. IP television. IPTV. There is nothing much on the website of The Venice Project yet except sign-up links, but Om Malik has the scoop: the co-founders of both Kazaa (file sharing) and Skype have a new project in the works to marry television and theContinue Reading
My father, a retired professor who continues his side interest of real estate brokering, sent me an email last week that completely surprised me. Whenever a new VoIP soft phone shows up online, I usually download it and give it a go. My father has served as my test subject several times, as he’s usuallyContinue Reading
While some universities are banning Skype, others will be offering students a package of broadband Internet, IPTV, and VoIP. This will come due to a contract between Ubiquity Software and Inuk Networks. Using Ubiquity’s SIP-based platform, students will be able to make phone calls from soft phones. (Think they’ll want to watch live concerts?) CallsContinue Reading
In Jack Womack‘s future-past slipstream novel Elvissey, a couple from a future Earth society goes back into the past to an alternate Earth, 1950s era, before that Earth’s Elvis Presley became famous, and then takes him unwillingly back to the future to worship him. In Bradley Denton‘s science fiction novel Buddy Holly Is Alive AndContinue Reading