Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchThoughts on Phones- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Ted Leung on the air One of the features of this past trip was how bad my connectivity was. I was most successful at picking up my mail via WiFi or wired connections at hotels or people's houses. It turns out that the T-Mobile GPRS was absolutely useless at my Uncle's house in Simi Valley, because he's backed up to a mountain, and that's not very good for the radios. So my super cellphone turned into a super paperweight, and caused me a bunch of frustration because I expected to have that for...http://www.sauria.com/blog/2004/10/31#1124 Service, not device- (Found July 5, 2008 ) CollabuTech Jon Udell has now chipped in to the TimJeremyRussell debate on do-it-all cell phones: "Pervasive connectivity and ubiquitous computing don't depend on the device you tote in your briefcase or clip to your belt. Or anyway, they shouldn't. The environments we visit, as well as the ones we live and work in, could provide for our communication and computational needs. Service portability would, in many cases, trump device portability." Absolutely. Why should I have to worry about...http://collabutech.blogspot.com/2004/11/service-not-device.html Passive vs. Active Amplification- (Found July 5, 2008 ) 106 Miles to Chicago Jon Udell has a very interesting idea in how to use del.icio.us when working on an article. "Here's the protocol I envision: For a story on TOPIC, I'm collecting links at del.icio.usjudellTOPIC. To monitor that evolving collection, subscribe to del.icio.usrssjudellTOPIC. If you would like to suggest links I've missed, please post them to del.icio.usYOURNAMETOPIC. I guarantee that I'll monitor the aggregation of contributed links at del.icio.usrsstagTOPIC. I don't guarantee..http://www.stonecottage.com/josh/archives/000753.html A Day to Forget for SCO- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Linux Today The SCO Group Inc. is reconsidering its plans to launch an alternative to the Groklaw.net Web site that had been scheduled to go live this week, a company spokeswoman said Monday. Nearly one month after promising to launch the Web site, which was to provide information on SCO's various legal disputes, a number of undisclosed issues are causing the company to have second thoughts on the project, said Janielle Fernandes, a spokeswoman for the Lindon, Utah software vendor...http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-11-02-013-26-NW-BZ-CD Solaris 10- (Found July 5, 2008 ) noticiaslinux.com.br Segundo informa a InfoWorld, dia 15 de novembro a Sun apresentar a verso final do sistema operacional Solaris 10 para as plataformas SPARC, Intel x86 e pela primeira vez AMD. O Solaris 10 um importante passo na evoluo do sistema operacional, com numerosas alteraes como a adoo do Gnome como interface grfica padro, a incluso de ferramentas de monitorao avanadas (dtrace) e outros mais, como a impossibilidade de se executar um rm -rf . Alm disto a Sun tem prevista a publicao...http://www.noticiaslinux.com.br/nl1099446227.html Internet Explorer losing market share- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Ted's Radio Weblog "Although Microsoft Corp. still dominates the Web browser space, its Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to open-source rival Mozilla." (From InfoWorld: Top News) Funny thing about a monopoly - it's likely the only change in popularity could be downward. For Microsoft and IE, the change may seem rather insignificant, tenths of percentage points. But for the FireFox promoters, this means over seven million downloads!. Wow. It's a pretty slick browser, and I'm...http://radio.weblogs.com/0117767/2004/11/03.html#a1286 Screen Scraping for 2 euros. Enter the Feed Mercenary- (Found July 5, 2008 ) James Governor's MonkChips During a recent conversation with Microsoft Servers and Tools uberhoncho Eric Rudder I argued that web service interfaces are being increasingly standardized in interesting and useful ways (stating the bleedin' obvious in other words!), pointing to John Udell's very lightweight, yet very powerful integration of Amazon, bookmarklets and online library catalogs, which allows you to find out whether your local library has a copy of the book you just found on Amazon. I...http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000239.html E-voting problems cited as election gets under way- (Found July 5, 2008 ) miscellaneous meanderings Reports of problems were evenly spread across states leaning either toward Democratic challenger John Kerry or Republican President George Bush, as well as in states that could go either way, Doherty said from Arlington, Virginia, where Verified Voting set up an "election protection nerve center" that fielded more than 50,000 calls by mid-day Tuesday. In Philadelphia, rumors spread quickly that electronic voting machines were showing vote totals before the start of...http://blogs.utiligeek.com/stevensblog.php/2004/11/02/e_voting_problems_cited_as_election_... Hosted Content Management Systems- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Strategic Agility There is a nice article on Hosted Content Management Systems at Infoworld. Unfortunately it misses out completely on the personal Publishing issues. That can make a MASSIVE difference. For example if as part of a Knowledge Management initiative a company is deploying an improved CMS, it would be wise to take into account the latest major new thought leadership taking place on the importance of Personal KM for progressing Organizational KM. Personal Publishing, blogging...http://stratagility.blogspot.com/2004/11/hosted-content-management-systems.html Proxim introduces pre-WiMax product- (Found July 5, 2008 ) WISP Directory Wireless ISPWi-Fi Hotspot Industry News Proxim (Profile, Products, Articles) announced on Monday the Tsunami MP.11 Model 5054-R, the next product in a generation of point-to-multipoint outdoor fixed wireless devices that will serve as a part of a migration platform to WiMax solutions expected in the second half of 2005. WiMax is on the fast track to become an industry standard long-distance fixed wireless solution to connect buildings within approximately a 30-mile to 40-mile...http://www.wispdirectory.com/blog/index.php?p=2796 |