Use of videophone technology for cable TV news networks just got a promotion from the talking head. It's all thanks to MSNBC’s Jim Bruton, who just last week gave it a 100 percent bandwidth boost.

When I was a boy, I was puzzled by a page in the World Book Encyclopedia. The entry for "Telephone" included a sequence of 14 photos of phones through the years, ending with a videophone—one of those ...

The spread of high-speed Internet access and the increasing sophistication of videoconferencing tools have given the deaf broad new access to a simple pleasure that most people take for granted: ...

Before iPhones, people had their own version of FaceTime with a retro device from the '90s. We can imagine the phones back then to have a curly cord and there's no way you can see your friends using ...

This is the 16th in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The Jetsons episode “The Little Man” originally aired on ABC on Sunday January ...

Capt. Kirk and his unforgettable "Beam me up, Scotty" introduced a generation to the concept of videophones on the 1960s drama series "Star Trek." The phones are now a reality - for more than 100,000 ...

ASUS have rolled out a new version of their standalone Skype videophone, in the shape of the AiGuru SV1T. The most significant change from the first-gen AiGuru SV1 is that the 7-inch 800 x 480 display ...

We’ve been imagining a future of ubiquitous videophones for over a century. And today it’s considered no big deal that we’re able to make video calls with devices that we carry around in our pockets.

What ever happened to the videophone? The Jetsons had them. They also showed up in science-fiction movies like Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey. And while they're certainly available on the ...

In technology marketing, product placements on the right television shows and in movies are a key strategy. That's because there is a demonstrated overlap between shows that appeal to techies, and the ...

Avaya and Polycom unveiled on Monday an Internet videophone for businesses, adding to a growing lineup of more affordable, easier-to-use gear of the sort once seen only in newspaper comic strips.