July 2008

Teleportation exists only in the imaginations of techies and Trekkies, but Kaleidoscope Videoconferencing has the next best thing that technology has to offer.
The Columbia-based business combines video communications systems with PCs, the Internet and multi-media devices to create customized conferences that allow multi-site, real-time interactive exchanges.

I used to enjoy the sport of politics. It was for me, like many, an art form — the debate, the issues, the future. There are rare occasions in which that art form still exists. One is the Columbia Business Times’ Sunday Morning Roundtable. Another is Meet the Press. The unique atmosphere of those environments

KRCG, Channel 13, had the biggest increase in newscast market share in the latest Nielson ratings, according to an analysis of the three local news broadcasts that  True Media produced for the CBT. TrueMedia, a media strategy and communications firm, compared the ratings of KRCG, KMIZ and KOMU in May 2008 with their ratings in

  1939 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Cable-model TV This is the first television model manufactured and produced for home viewing. The first television was introduced to the U.S. on April 30, 1939. Designed by John Vassos, this analog television set has a five-inch picture screen about the size of the modern day iPhone that

When a fellow mom told Nikki Barnes that she ought to be concerned about her daughter’s MySpace page, she responded, “My daughter doesn’t have a MySpace page.” “Oh, yes she does,” the other mother answered, and she proved it by showing Barnes the site. Seven months earlier, when her 14-year-old daughter had asked to set

Jim and Kathryn Hayden. Jim Hayden, when he was 5 years old, got down on one knee and proposed marriage to his next-door neighbor, Kathryn. Even after he grew up, Jim knew this was the girl for him, and just about everyone who knew them through their school years in Belle, about 70 miles south

A Web site is an essential tool in many companies’ marketing mixes nowadays. Not having a site is often a detriment in today’s information-crazed, I-want-it-now, Web-savvy world. In combination with other marketing pieces, it can be an important image-enhancing and information distribution tool. According to a Retail Advertising & Marketing Association survey published last year