Recently I reported on plans for VAPPS to rebrand its business grade conference calling service as HiDefConferencing. Well last week it happened. And the plans have been renamed to Pay-As-You-Go, HiDef 10/25/50/100 and HiDef Ultra for 500 participant calls. Each plan has Unlimited minutes for those accessing the call via Skype. A new plan, High [...]
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Mobivox
Mobivox is a service that let’s you make low cost or free calls worldwide at little or no cost from any phone, whether wireless or landline. Call a local access number in any of over 40 countries and tell the MobiVox Girl whom you wish to call and whether to call their home, office, mobile [...]

Installing a Logitech High Quality Video Camera: The Experience.
The major new feature with the recently released Skype 3.6 for Windows is the High Quality Video (“HQV”) which provides 640 x 320 VGA resolution at 30 frames per second (“fps”). (As a reference point, my previous Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks Deluxe would only work on video calls at 320 x 240 resolution with <10 [...]
SlingPlayer for Household Chores – SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian Introduced
Since I last gave a complete report on SlingMedia’s various hardware platforms and the various SlingPlayers for remotely delivering your cable/satellite TV subscription to any location on the Internet with appropriate access, the SlingMedia team has been busy releasing new versions of their player. The Mac version appeared in May and last week a Symbian [...]
Conference Calls Amongst Your Facebook Friends
iotum introduces its Free Conference Call service for North American facebook subscribers We’ve all been deluged over the summer with not only various services for making low cost mobile voice calls but also an avalanche of Facebook applications, most of which I have had a tendency to ignore. Occasionally there comes along a service that [...]
CES 2007: Skype Hardware on Display II: Skype Appliances
In a previous post I presented several of the “PC Free” Skype dual mode cordless phones that were announced and/or exhibited at CES 2007. In this post I will cover other Skype appliance hardware that I encountered as I walked the show floor. (Note: click on the slide show to get the complete slide show [...]
A Successor to Every Home Entertainment Device
Bill Gates keynote this evening of course introduced Windows Vista; however, it is not simply an operating system “upgrade” but rather a transformational product that brings media management and storage to the consumer audience. You can find more details in the multiple posts that will flow out; however, at the Bloghaus we were able to [...]
SightSpeed – Focusing on Personal Video Services
Since its introduction at the final Fall Comdex in 2003, I have been following the SightSpeed video communications service as it has evolved into one of the more highly respected personal video calling services. Today they are releasing a new version 5.0; last week I spent an hour talking with Peter Csathey, CEO of SightSpeed, [...]
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