WorldGate: Definition and additional resources from ZDNet

(WorldGate Communications, Inc., Trevose, PA, www.wgate.com) A company founded in 1995 to provide Internet access over your existing TV cable. The technology, which used an advanced cable set-top box and wireless keyboard, transmitted Web data via the vertical blanking interval between TV frames. Citing industry delays in the adoption of ITV services, WorldGate changed direction and sold its interactive television intellectual property in 2003 to TVGateway, LLC. WorldGate's primary product became the Ojo personal videophone, which allows visual communication at up to 30 frames per second using 150 kbps of broadband bandwidth obtained by cable and DSL providers.

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Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path: Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy pathCisco should buy themI recently saw an ad for "Cisco Telepresence."If Ojo isn't the best product to add to their teleconferencing portfolio, I don't know what is. It's been out a while, people have them, and incorporating Ojo into their stable...; Tags: Litigation, Telephony, Cellular phones, Ojo, bankruptcy path, videophone, bankruptcy, VoIP; Discussion threads 2008-02-05
Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path: Tom Keating is one of those VoIP bloggers who understands business and technology, and mixes journalistic doggedness with the backgrounding of an engineer. I say this because Tom reports this morning that Worldgate Communications is experiencing a financial rough patch. A really bad...; Tags: VoIP, Videophone, Worldgate Communications, Bankruptcy, Tom Keating, Litigation, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-05