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1) Sharing the Olympic Spirit with Video Calls
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Communications
Sometimes a phone call is just not enough - imagine you could see your loved one when speaking to them on the telephone. A familiar face can be a precious sight if you're far from home and thanks to new and evolving technology this possibility becomes reality.
Video calls are taking on a new lease of life. No longer restricted to the workplace or your home computer, video calls can now be made from anywhere you have a webcam and internet connection. Some laptops have in-built...
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2) The Wonders of Webcams
Author:
Adam Singleton
Category:
Communications
Where in the world are your friends? Brothers in Berlin, sisters in Seville or colleagues in Cannes; whoever the contact, wherever they are, make sure you keep in touch using modern technology's latest offerings. Video technology has been used in business for several years now with video conference calls a popular choice for connecting colleagues working in offices worldwide.
It's not just the business world that's benefiting from the capabilities of technological expertise a...
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3) How Videos Are Changing the Structure of the Internet
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Internet
Nowadays, having a webcam is a must for any savvy internet user. If you don't have one yet, or you don't understand what the fuss is about, you might be surprised by the different uses.
The most obvious use, and the most common one, is to spice up online chat. When instant messaging services were first introduced they were purely text based, meaning tone and therefore meaning was lost. This led to the introduction of emoticons - or smilies - to reflect a user's reaction and when they were j...
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4) A Cheaper Alternative To A Postcard
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Communications
If you are going on holiday the common thing to do is to send a postcard home to tell people where you are staying, what you are doing and what a good time you're having. But if you do that you are restricted to the postcards you can find of that area, and it can also take a long time for them to get through the postal system and arrive at the homes of the people you have sent them to. In fact, it's not unusual for you to arrive back home before your postcards do!
But if you have your pock...
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5) Families keep in touch via the internet
Author:
Adam Singleton
Category:
Communications
Moving abroad away from family and friends can be traumatic, leaving everything you've known and dealing with isolation from the rest of the family. Well, that's how it used to be, but in this modern, globally orientated, technology-filled world, moving abroad is almost as easy as moving next door when it comes to keeping in touch.
Many will remember the moment in Star Trek when Captain Kirk stood on the Bridge of the Enterprise in front of a giant screen filled with the image o...
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6) Turn Your Webcam Into A Video Recorder with Webcam Recording Software
Author:
Nahshon Roberts
Category:
Software
These days, making videos with your webcam is as necessary as sending email. If you want your webcam to work like a video recorder, you will need software that can record and save your video into your personal computer. Don't fret because there are all kinds of webcam recording software available for download or for purchase in the Internet. This article will mention a few examples.Active WebcamWith Active Webcam developed by RCRSoft, your webcam can capture video with s...
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7) Face-to-face - the universally best accepted form of communication is free on the web
Author:
Victoria Cochrane
Category:
Communications
Despite the advances in workplace technology, and with them the addition of communication tools such as email and intranet; there is still no better way to communicate than face-to-face, and that idiom is backed up by a powerful piece of research.
The IRS review, a specialist employment journal, found that although there is a plethora of communication methods in the workplace that includes memos; emails; online handbooks; team newsletters and road shows, the single most effectiv...
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8) Stay in touch with long distance video calling
Author:
Elisha Burberry
Category:
Communications
Long distance travelling has always contained an element of adventure, but even more so in the past when communications with friends and family back home weren't always as readily available or cheap as they are now.
Postcards and letters are perennially popular ways of keeping in touch, but they only allow the sender to make a series of statements, or ask questions that can only be answered by the recipient in a similar vein. So, how did past adventurers and the early tourists c...
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9) Making Your Home Business More Accessible
Author:
Elisha Burberry
Category:
Business
More and more people are thinking about giving up the stress of the rat race and settling in to the more attractive proposition of working from home. Not only does working from home mean we no longer have to waste hours of our day travelling to and from work, we can also be much more flexible with our working hours. So long as the work is completed on time, it often doesn't matter whether we start work at nine o'clock in the morning or at midnight.
But there are times when it...
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10) Broadband: the conduit that allows instant worldwide communications
Author:
Paul McIndoe
Category:
Communications
Those with long enough memories will remember the first wave of dot.com mania in the 1990s, which led to a host of web businesses being valued at multi-millions of pounds by the stock market, despite never having generated any meaningful revenue. Many of those over-valued companies subsequently failed to make the predicted profits and disappeared without trace, incurring huge losses and leaving a lot of investors with burnt fingers.
One of the prime reasons for the failure of th...
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