Ed's Telecom Alert » Technology Innovations http://www.edsalert.com POSTS ALERTS REGARDING TRS & ITS RELATED ISSUES Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:02:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 FCC Workshop On Expanding Disability Access http://www.edsalert.com/2010/04/27/fcc-workshop-on-expanding-disability-access/ http://www.edsalert.com/2010/04/27/fcc-workshop-on-expanding-disability-access/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:57 +0000 edsalert http://www.edsalert.com/2010/04/27/fcc-workshop-on-expanding-disability-access/ Folks..

The title of workshop is "EXPANDING DISABILITY ACCESS WITH WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES".

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-297706A1.pdf

Quotes:

*  Mobile communications access issues facing people with disabilities and the disparities in technology access.
*  Ways in which new technologies can offer opportunities to meet the communications access needs of people with disabilities.
*  Technology demonstrations of advanced mobile communications.

Workshop to be held on May 13, 2010, from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm. 

Encourage your Mover and Shakers of the Deaf/HOH World to attend this.  

Should be interesting…

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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And it is free.  So media folks have no excuse to say technology problems.  

"..today announced a new version of its popular do-it-yourself caption-authoring tool for digital media.."

"..which can be used to create closed-captioned videos formatted for playback on BlackBerry® smartphones. As before, authors can continue to write captions once and export them to formats compatible with QuickTime, Windows Media, RealPlayer and Flash."

WGBH

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

Long Link: http://ncam.wgbh.org/about/news/ncam-and-research-in-motion-en

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Having Internet connections while flying on a plane is way cool!    Makes me wonder if video chats would be possible?   Hope so, but this article did not say anything about video conference, though.  Talks about having access to Internet while flying. 

Article WIFI on Plane

Not free, though. 

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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You have heard lot of media news that USA is lagging far behind rest of the world for fastest broadband speeds.  Well this article is sorta a reality check and assess the circumstances realistically.  Turns out that we’re not too bad after all.  

Broadband Speeds

Biggest reason why we’re "behind" is simply we’re big country.   Most of Europe countries are densly packed.  

Click to this and be proud of being an American after all…

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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This is an old news according to a friend I video chatted with, but maybe the completion of the product is not so far in the future now?    

VRS industry now has four mobile VPs that I know of:  Purple’s MVP, two from CSDVRS’s Z-340 and PC-100, and Viable’s VPAD+.   This one is cell phone and it uses H.264 that uses an open source program.  

Of course, many of you probably already know that laptops with built-in web cameras can do VP and VRS as well.  

University Washington News

Video clip of a demo

Let me know what you think?  Would you purchase something like that?    Cell Phone/Pager with video conference capacity?  Should I put it to a vote?  

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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All..

Interesting article which seems to re-affirm the trend we’re seeing in the VRS industry.  In the beginning, it was enough that deaf/hoh just get the "device"; that is, video phone.  Not any more.  Over the years, the trend is now we look at the quality of service and features of the Video Phone.   It seems that now most of the video phones, the video quality are all good – at least most of them so service (interpreting and support service) and features (video mail, call waiting, missing call list, etc) are now sought after and compared. 

Tech Svc vs Device

Also, in that article it mentioned 3-D as the next wave of future; Golly, can u imagine VRS using 3-D monitors and seeing Video Interpreters and friends or relatives in 3-D image?   3-D on a monitor will give the impression that the person is in the monitor instead at the studio.

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

 

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NYC Hot Lines accepting video or photos from Cell/Pager Users.  You can video shoot crime in action and then send it to Hot Line.

That’s simply GREAT!  I predict that rest of USA will follow suit.   Means better chances for law to catch nefarious folks or save lives.  

NYC Photo Video

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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A quick one.  This is interesting link.  Scroll down and move the cursor over your states and see how fast broadband is down and up and then compare it to Massachusett.

I’m impressed with MA.  

State Speed Data

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed B

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Basically, Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) wanted to pass a bill that will allow monitoring of our Internet system in the USA to better know our limitations and how to improve it.   He felt that without such data/knowledge, we would not be able to know the true situation in the USA.  

Looks like a regulation to me even though he says it is not; I am not against regulation and I heartily support the concept that Inoye is wanting to see happen.  Read and be informed. 

Inouye Bill

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed B

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All..

Yuk!   This article is basically about Time Warner using a meter on customer to limit their "excessive" use of Internet network.

Meter for Internet Use Article

This is bit scary.   What about us deaf/hon who use video phones and VRS extensively?   Or for that matter those of VRS providers who employ deaf/hoh to make VRS calls to rack up VRS minutes?  Or those deaf/hoh organizations who sign up with VRS providers and then rack up VRS minutes to get their funds? 

ComCast Letter 

Read the article and the letter be concerned as it may impact us in a big way….

Will all this affect the traffic of Internet network and meters forced on us?   Let us know what you think?

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed B

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