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Jajah will provide free global phone service between consumers in eighty countries on Christmas Day. Registered Jajah users will be able to make free calls, conference calls, scheduled calls, and text messages to anyone in the eighty countries even if...
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Editor · Patch Management
The Exchange 2007 MP for MS MOM 2005 is now available.
Filed at 4:13am
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audio streams bbc conversations interviews lie detector podcast podcasting podcasts podleaders skype stress levels Technology The BBC is reporting that there will very shortly be a plugin for Skype which acts as a lie detector by analysing:
Filed at 7:53am
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arrington bill gates bloggers consumer device digital music drm incentive systems microsoft payment models TechnologyIn a previous post on Digital Rights Management (DRM) I said:DRM is an evil, market restricting, anti-consumer device (why shouldn’t I be able to play DVDs bought in the US on my...
Filed at 8:36am
Editor · Wireless
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a new toy at Christmas? How about a recall? Nintendo is recalling 3.2 million straps that hold the wireless Wii remote controllers to your wrist. Of course, Wii owners have been having the problem of the straps breaking and the controllers going flying - often breaking their TVs, windows or other objects in the room. The company is replacing the .6 millimeter-thick straps with ones that are 1 millimeter thick. (We suggest metal chains.) The Wii has outsold Playstation3 by more than a 2-1 margin, in part because of the PS3 shortage. (Photo courtesy Flickr)
Filed at 8:37am
Editor · VoIP / Wireless
I'm starting (or really have started) on a project I'm calling "Working Anywhere." It's about the nomadic worker, the kind of person who can work (and play) anywhere at any time. While not everyone can Nomadic those of us who...
Filed at 9:33am
Editor · Enterprise Applications
Business intelligence applications typically deal with data that is already stored, often in a depressing number of places i.e. a number greater than 1. Much BI data is of its nature not real-time e.g. looking at monthly averages or trends. However at the other end of the spectrum there are some applications that are truly...
Filed at 9:59am
Editor · Business Intelligence
Having read the EXCELLENT book The Wisdom of Crowds a while back, I'm a huge proponent of doing a lot more work in this intriguing area. Nitin Karandikar over at Read/Write Web has written a post summing up the interesting talk recently at the yahoo.confab event about using prediction markets within organizations. This is the first I've really hard about this idea being used as widely as the enterprise, so it's exciting to see the topic talked and posted about.
Filed at 11:37am
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All Adam Tinworth's photos from the Le Web 3 conference in Paris
Filed at 11:44am
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Yesterday I wrote about the comment storms that were happening on myblog. Many people made some great suggestions and I plan onimplementing many of them in the coming weeks. I found something,however, that was pretty simple and, so far, seems to be workingbeautifully.
Filed at 11:58am
Editor · VoIP
According to a Reuters report , a burglar who broke into a home and was attempting to steal stuff was captured through the assistance of a laptop connecting to a remote security system installed in the home, which included a video camera hooked up to the Internet. A Brazilian businessman traveling in Germany watched by live video as a burglar robbed his house in Brazil. He received an alert on his cell phone from his home security system, booted up his laptop and using video streaming over IP he watched the robber in his home. The police were alerted, surrounded the home, and arrested him. Ain't technology grand? TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP & Gadget Blog | Permalink: Laptop and Video over IP captures would-be Thief
Filed at 12:14pm
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According to this AP story , Google in partnership with domain registrar GoDaddy, will start offering domain registration for the major TLDs at $10 per year. Why is this important or meaningful? Because it becomes a “foot in the door” to offer other services (e.g., website building/hosting, advertising services, productivity tools ) to small businesses.
Filed at 12:40pm
Editor · Wireless
I’m swamped so I didn’t get around to this yesterday, but Jaxtr launched. Jaxtr is a click-to-call service that offers a widget that can go on any blog or social networking site. Basically it allows users to call each other and redirects those calls to any phone number the user/recipient specifies.
Filed at 12:59pm
Editor · Security / VoIP
First it was spam, now it is phishing. Following months of reports about rocketing levels of junk emails, the Anti-Phishing Working Group has revealed that the number of phishing sites has also demonstrated well beyond average growth this autumn. The APWG released a combined September-October report this month, which shows that there has been a 757% increase in the number of active phishing sites between October 2005 and 2006.
Filed at 1:29pm
Editor · Intrusion Prevention / Security
Every now and then I get a but annoyed with malware writers. One instance of this is when I cleared my schedule to analyze some malware, and it turns out that it took me about 5 minutes to analyze the sames and find out that they were nothing more than adware downloaders.
Filed at 1:50pm
Editor · VoIP
Hey, I'm not picking on Sony this time, but Nintendo, which is facing a silly Wii situation where the strap that holds the do-hickie on your wrist seems to break too easily.
Filed at 2:20pm
Editor · Storage
Google makes patent searching easy with Google Patent Search . See Google Launches Patent Search Beta , a TechNewsWorld article for more information.
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Editor · IT Management
I spent last weekend at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics , catching up with ideas and people. The workshop's organizers scored a major coup by getting Robert J. Gordon to be our dinner speaker. Gordon has been studying macroeconomic trends like productivity growth, income distribution, and the business cycle for a long time, and is that rare academic who has mastered every form of communication, from highly technical articles to more descriptive writing that places IT context with other major innovations to (as we learned) after-dinner speaking.
Filed at 4:29pm
Editor · VoIP
I'm talking across-the-room wireless connectivity, not just short range like other wireless keyboard/mouse combo kits.
Filed at 4:42pm
Editor · Storage
A hard disk crash isn’t the worst that can happenAl Shugart, an engineer on the first commercial disk drive (see Happy Birthday, Rotating Rust!) and later founder of Shugart Associates, a leading floppy drive maker, and still later, disk titan Seagate, died Tuesday.He founded Seagate with Finis Connor in 1979.
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