Practical Technology

If you ever watched the later seasons of 24, you’ll recall that Jack and his buddies at the Counter Terrorist Unit were always using Cisco Telepresence for video-conferencing. That was no surprise. John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO, has long thought that Cisco should be thought of as not just the big dog of networking, but of [...]

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I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I hate the telephone. I hate being interrupted when I’m in the middle of writing. I can’t stand mobile phones, although I use them, and I’ve gotten sick and tired of buying both new landline and mobile phones every other year. Those are some of [...]

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People love Skype, the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) program, but Linux users have a love/hate relationship with it. Yes, Skype will run on some versions of Linux, but it doesn’t run on all of them and the Linux versions, 2.1-beta, lags far behind the Windows version. Still, Linux users really want Skype so every [...]

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Remember when Google first started Gmail and you had to have an invitation to get in? It’s going to be the same kind of deal with Google Voice. Google Voice, if you haven’t heard of it yet, is a free Web-based application that lets you control all your various phone numbers — work, home, mobile, [...]

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Google makes headlines if it sneezes, so it isn’t surprising that the company’s latest announcement, a revision of a Web app called GrandCentral now renamed Google Voice, has caught the attention of the Webverse. What is it? Google Voice, which is currently available only to former GrandCentral customers, is a free Web-based application that lets [...]

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