Could be an important step toward the development of useful, practical telemedicine A University of Alabama at Birmingham surgical team has performed one of the first surgeries using a virtu... Read more
Connecting kids to lots of interesting experiences has become a lot easier with Skype in the Classroom, a program from the online phone service that connects students with guest speakers and... Read more
You may not be able to control the privacy of your electronic data. But keeping yourself off security cameras? There’s an app for that. Given the recent NSA revelations, there may not be any... Read more
A new “telerehabilitation” approach lets physical therapists assess patients with low back pain (LBP) over the Internet A new “telerehabilitation” approach lets physi... Read more
Steganography: Speaking with silence SKYPE, a computer program that allows its users to have telephone-style conversations over the internet, is extremely popular. The service, owned... Read more
The LuminAR device can project interactive images onto a surface, sensing when a person’s finger or hand points to an element within those images. Powerful computers are becoming small and c... Read more
She hopes to sell her tiny Botiful telepresence robot for just US$299. Telepresence robots are definitely a neat idea – they allow users not only to interact with people in remote locations,... Read more
FreedomPop’s ultimate goal of providing our customers with a free mobile broadband alternative FreedomPop, the latest project of Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, aims to disrupt the... Read more
Turns out we aren’t that different from other apes after all. Our primate cousins at a handful of zoos love to use iPads to combat boredom just as much as humans. Zookeepers say... Read more
LiveMinutes is worth a try. There are still a number of pain points with existing web conferencing platforms, including having to install software, complicated pricing plans, poor usability,... Read more
For years, internet service providers have been raising the costs of broadband internet service due to what they call “increasing demand for service.” Both fixed and mobile inter... Read more
New approaches will let smart-phone users send video and video chat with any other smart-phone user, regardless of the network or platform Thanks to Skype, Apple FaceTime and at least a half... Read more
As expected, Facebook has announced Skype-powered video calling for its users, who now number more than 750 million according to the company. The new feature was unveiled by Facebook CEO Mar... Read more
Today, long-winded talkers need to worry about running out of minutes on their cellphone plans. But someday there will be no minutes to run out of — just megabytes. Wireless carriers now fun... Read more
