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Article: Videoconferencing's never-ending entrance.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- October 30, 2007
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Byline: Johna Till Johnson
While the feds and the carriers are taking turns taking the heat for warrantless wiretapping (and a pox on both their
houses, say I), I'm beginning to wonder why we ordinary Joes and Janes don't spend more time watching each other. Or more
accurately, wondering when we're going to start.
I'm not talking about snooping through e-mail, or wiretapping each other's phones (who would want to, anyway?). I'm talking
about literally staying in each others' faces. Videoconferencing's been "the next big thing" since, oh, approximately 1988
-- yet it's never really taken off in a major way, at least ...