Gear News Roundup
By
Andrew Brennan on January 16, 2009 in Miscellaneous.
Skype at CES
- FierceVOIP has a nice roundup of Skype announcements, and several others mention Skype Lite on Android and phones that run Java.
- Mr. Gadget from the Las Vegas Sun checked out Skype's booth at CES Showstoppers (52 seconds in).
- Here's a great wiki that lists different ways to use Skype in the classroom and classrooms that are interested in speaking with other classrooms. There's also a similar 'Around the World with 80 Schools' project.
- A professor taught the first day of his class this semester from Iraq via Skype.
- Students in the US from Boston are going to Washington DC to participate in next week's inauguration of Barack Obama, and will be using Skype to report back to their classmates.
- Universities are using Skype to conduct interviews with potential students.
- Oprah has been using Skype for quite a while now to interact with her audience and have far-away guests on her show. She recently told Meryl Streep, on the show via Skype, she wanted a part in Streep's new film Doubt.
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman recorded a voice part for an animated feature with the assistance of Skype.
- Some comedians got their show together through Skype.
- Interesting story in the New York Times about families who work apart but use Skype to read to their children and keep in touch. A follow-up post on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reader blog has some other ideas for ways to use Skype with books.
- An opera singer uses Skype to keep in touch with her partner while traveling.
- A soldier son in Iraq gave his mother in America a 50th birthday present via Skype.
