Monthly Archives: December 2012

Google vs Bing – no contest really and Yahoo is well….hmm

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Rod McCall

My blog gets quite a lot of visitors everyone month so I decided to look at where everyone comes from. If my blog is representative then Google should be very pleased and Microsoft (Bing) more than a little annoyed. Yahoo … Continue reading →

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Review: Oovoo

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Rod McCall

There is little on this earth to beat the expensive Cisco telepresence rooms that you can find across the world, but at several hundred Euros per hour they are not the cheapest option. So for the rest of us there … Continue reading →

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Paper: Driving Simulator

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Rod McCall

Title: Towards a Simple City Driving Simulator Based on Speed Dreams and OSM Tigran Avanesov, Nicolas Louveton, Roderick McCall, Vincent Koenig, Martin Kracheel A short work-in-progress paper which we recently presented at Auto UI 2012. Abstract: This paper presents an architecture … Continue reading →

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In Search of a New Skype?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Rod McCall

  After about eight years of using Skype am I the only one who has found that the quality has started to get worse? I pay for Skype both for calls to landlines and also for the premium service so … Continue reading →

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