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Month of October, 2008

Watch Two TV Programs at Once on Same TV!

hdtv_new_3-d_tv.jpg It sounds like an offer out of the back of a comic book, but Texas Instruments (TI), the maker of the DLP Cinema chip, is developing technology that might make it possible to watch two programs on one TV at the same time. The company recently outlined some of its early developments that use 3-D technology for home entertainment at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical Conference and Exhibition in Hollywood, CA.

Multi-Channel Election Night Coverage

If one channel just enough during election season, Dish Network is offering a mosiac channel with six simultaneous feeds of news channels. It started Tuesday, Oct. 28, and will run through Nov. 7. For those 11 days, you can turn to Channel 100 and catch Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNN Headlines News, C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2. (At least the remote control will get some rest ...) Since May, Dish has offered Dish Decision 2008, an interactive application with news and information about the presidential candidates, plus state-by-state news, information and polling about congressional and gubernatorial races.

Nintendo Gets New DSi Ready

dsi r.jpegNintendo is reportedly likely to launch a new model of its top-selling handheld player, the DS, in overseas markets by next summer. Nintendo will start selling the DSi, which can take pictures, play music and is slimmer than the current model, in Japan tomorrow for 18,900 yen ($192) in a move to revive slowing domestic sales ahead of the critical holiday season. Nintendo previously said it planned an overseas DSi launch in 2009. DS sales in the April-September fiscal first half grew 3% from a year earlier to 13.73 million units worldwide, beating Sony's PlayStation Portable by a 2-to-1 margin.

Virtual Call Centre Solution - Home-Based Workforce Benefits

The Hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) market has been propelled into the future of communication due to the inception of the Virtual Call Centre solution into the range of products available from telephony service providers. Designed to revolutionise the way call centres currently operate, the solution enables a home-based work force to complete business communications as if they were in the office. This removes the need for fixed offices and the associated operational overheads. The Virtual Call Centre solution is aimed at creating a more appealing working environment for part-time workers, those who require flexible working arrangements or who are unable to travel into an office, such as working parents, students or the physically disabled.

Searching For the Best VoIP Phone Providers

Telephones occupy a higher plane in the scheme of modern telecommunications technology. One of the most important modes of remote communications, it presents people with a convenient and easy way to touch base with anyone who is not with them. This article will give you some advantages of using VOIP.

What's New in Administration and Management with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

With Microsoft OCS R2's pending release, I thought you'd be interested in seeing a video interview of Microsoft's Ananad Lakshminarayanan about some of the new features in Office Communications Server R2, which is Microsoft's popular unified communications platform. In the video you'll see some of the IT Admin specific features in OCS R2, which includes an OCS architecture planner to make OCS much easier to deploy.

Happy Halloween: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the untold story!


Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
 The Untold Story

HP's Netbook/Mobile Package Plot

hp r.jpeg Hewlett-Packard wants to employ a new tactic to market netbook computers in the U.S., offering them at a steep discount to customers who sign-up for wireless service contracts. This bundling of cellular service with PCs isn't done in the U.S., but in Asia and Europe wireless carriers routinely knock hundreds of dollars off the price of a computer if a customer also buys a long-term service contract. Maybe AT&T and Verizon Wireless are interested? For example, Taiwanese carrier Far EasTone Communications sells the EEE PC from Asustek Computer for $29 with a two-year contract, rather than the usual price of $429.

How to Maintain Perfect Small Group and Church Communications Using Voice Broadcasting Software

Small groups such as churches, civic organizations, service clubs and the like have a real challenge when it comes to communications. The most commonly used methods of keeping in touch all have their drawbacks: emails get caught on spam filters, newsletters and other snail mail take a while to get there, and making phone calls eats up a lot of valuable staff and volunteer time. What if there was a better way?

TMC Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary for ITEXPO!

The next ITEXPO marks the 10th anniversary for Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. I for one cannot believe its been 10 years! We started ITEXPO way back in 1999. That was way back in the 20th century. Did VoIP even exist back then? Yep, it sure did - take a walk down memory lane. In celebration of 10 years of TMC's most successful event, our art department has designed a new logo. Check it out: itexpo-logo-10-year-east.jpg