Tag: TEDWALLINGFORD

Believe it or not, if you're an American, you've been paying a 3% excise tax on all of your long distance calls to finance the Spanish-American war (yup--the same war that ended years before Theodore Veil founded the first long-distance networking firm, AT&T). This week, that tax has been officially repealed, hinting that the old war has finally been paid for, some 108 years later. Or, perhaps ...

As many have predicted for the last few years, free telephone service is here, today. You just can't get it from your local phone company. You've got to use the Internet to connect to a service that can route your calls for free. First to jump headfirst into the free phone action was Skype, offering free PC-to-phone calls for the rest of the year, and now Gizmo Project has joined Skype by ...

People have been wanting Apple to turn iChat into something MORE for years. When iChatAV first arrived, it was quite awesome, and certainly unique on the Mac platform at that time--voice conferencing and video chat plus instant messaging, all in a free download. But now that iChat's competitors have surpassed iChat in features and wow-factor, what can Apple really do to restore iChat's luster? We ...

It wasn't that long ago that I was reviewing the VoIP and video-conferencing tool SightSpeed, which allows Windows and Macintosh users to call each other with excellent quality via the Internet. Sightspeed's big claim to fame is its superior synchronization of audio and video (isn't it annoying when the person you're Skyping is mouthing the words 3 seconds after you hear them?). Now, Sightspeed ...