A year ago the two of us were in the Bachelor mansion competing for $250,000. While we're no strangers to this game, Bachelor Pad season 2 appears to come with new dynamics and unexpected twists sure to keep us all guessing. We've become friends with many on both sides of this game, so now we're looking forward to sitting back with you each week, rooting and reacting as hopefully the most deserving competitors make their way to a $250,000. Bunkmates are still being chosen, friends and enemies are being sorted, the first challenge has barely been completed and already we have just witnessed...
- 8/9/2011
- by Tenley Molzahn and Kiptyn Locke
- PEOPLE.com
Video conferencing technology has been around for years, but most of us still don't spend our days sitting in large rooms staring at virtual counterparts of our distant coworkers--we prefer confusing conference calls or plain old Skype instead. Why is that? If video conferencing is the meeting of the future, a movement toward a world that is truly flat, why, in 2010, isn't everyone on it?
Well, mostly because it's so damn complicated. Because it hogs bandwidth. Because the thingamajig in my office doesn't work with the thingamajig in your office. Because it's a big hassle. But today's partnership announcement from telecom leader Polycom and networking hardware company Juniper Networks hopes to make things run a lot smoother.
"We're of the same religion, with the same view of open collaboration," says Scott Stevens, vice president of technology at Juniper. "The way the industry is now, the left hand and the right hand don't talk.
Well, mostly because it's so damn complicated. Because it hogs bandwidth. Because the thingamajig in my office doesn't work with the thingamajig in your office. Because it's a big hassle. But today's partnership announcement from telecom leader Polycom and networking hardware company Juniper Networks hopes to make things run a lot smoother.
"We're of the same religion, with the same view of open collaboration," says Scott Stevens, vice president of technology at Juniper. "The way the industry is now, the left hand and the right hand don't talk.
- 1/25/2010
- by Zachary Wilson
- Fast Company
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