In the old days, remote controls just changed the channel. Now, they can change your life.
The latest remote-controlled PC systems can do more than just integrate all your entertainment equipment, they can also handle such tasks as dimming the lights, adjusting room temperature and checking up on your snoozing baby. And you can control all this with the touch of a button.
Last week,...
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George Jetson, his boy Elroy, Dick Tracy and Capt. James T. Kirk have used video phones for decades, calling people across the universe with unselfconscious ease.
But Americans have never embraced the technology which - far from being science-fiction fantasy - has been around since AT&T unveiled it at the 1964 World's Fair.
Internet communications company Skype Technologies SA yest...
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While AOL the online service shows few signs of arresting its long decline, AOL the instant-messaging provider continues to own the market. And why not? Other services, such as MSN and Yahoo's, may offer more features, but AOL is the one network where you can count on finding almost everybody.
AOL has not hesitated to take advantage of AIM's privileged position, turning this free progra...
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TECHNOPOLIS Skype Technologies' updated Internet phone software transmits live images too. The quality is much better than that of video instant messaging.
Skype Technologies, the Luxemburg company famous for its free Internet telephone calls, last week launched an update that brings us closer to an elusive technological dream: the videophone.
The Skype 2.0 software offers the abil...
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Works on computers with Windows XP Logitech or Creative webcams can be used Video quality depends on Internet connection
Bangalore: The world's most popular free Internet telephone service has acquired a video edge. Luxembourg-based Skype, whose free Internet Protocol (IP)-based virtual telephone dialler has seen 200 million downloads and nearly 70 million regular users, announced a ...
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GREAT BEND - Standing in front of the crowd at the Great Bend Armory on Saturday, the 46 members of a Kansas National Guard battery returning from Iraq stood at attention.
Sgt. Christopher Wittig held the flag of Battery E Target Acquisition, 161st Field Artillery.
His eyes stared straight ahead, his face neutral - most of the time.
At times, he let his gaze turn to hi...
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Video chats, as part of instant messaging services such as one sponsored by Yahoo Inc., have been around for years, but they offer only jerky, pixelated, postage-stamp-sized video that looks like it was transmitted from Jupiter during a sunspot eruption. They seem to be popular mostly among the cyber-sex crowd, but I'm not sure how those people can see anything well enough to get excited.
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City crews were still clearing snow from Front Street in downtown Traverse City this morning at 11 a.m. According to the National Weather Service in Galyord, TC received 9 inches of snowfall overnight, with Suttons Bay reporting 18 inches by 6 a.m. Snow is expected to continued into the weekend, with at least another 2-5 inches today. For current weather forecasts, see our Weather page . Also c...
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Fri 12/02/2005 - Madison companies are sending high paying, highly skilled jobs to a fast growing, low cost market ---- India. Via webcam, 27 News spoke with the top executive of one Madison firm, operating in a New Delhi suburb, and asked about the impacts of offshore outsourcing on India and on the Badger state. It was just past midnight in Noida, India, but Vivek Das was in shirt and tie. Hi...
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THE RAF is using a Keswick shop’s webcam views of Skiddaw to plan its sorties in the Lake District.
Officers from RAF Linton-on-Ouse, near York, say the webcam at outdoor equipment shop George Fisher, on Borrowdale Road, is vital for providing last-minute information about fell top conditions.
RAF flight advisor Jan Janirek said the ability to do a last minute “actual” check o...
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