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  • Skype Offers Free Calling

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    Online Voice over IP vendor Skype has just announced free calling with in the US and Canada until the end of the year. This is an interesting move and further commoditize the long distance market. But the real questions is whether this is sustainable. I.e. How will Skype pay the bill for these PSTN calls? And…

  • Foldera Online PIM

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    Foldera is a new personal information manager (PIM) that is completely online. Complete with all of the usual Ajax goodies, this service is currently in beta. This might just be the perfect solution for someone who works on several different machines (desktop, laptop, home PC) each day. Centralizing your information out on the Internet clearly…

  • The IM Generation

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    There is an interesting article at AlwaysOn on what is being billed as the “IM Generation.” Born between 1980 and 2000, this next generation is living in a 24/7 online world where IM is more important that email. This generation is also bring a new look to the venture market where boot-strapping a company is the name…

  • April CTO Breakfast

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    I attended Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast this morning. As always we had a good discussion on all things technology. I found a couple of interesting ideas from this meeting. First off, Nathan Conger from Novell showed us some of the latest features of the SUSE Enterprise Linux desktop. I must admit that it’s been a while since I’ve played with…

  • Another Great WebOS Article

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    Richard MacManus with ZDNet posted another great article on the WebOS market, calling for Google or any one of the small startups in this space to become the next Linux. Wishful thinking you may ask? Maybe. There is clearly something here that is very interesting, but without a killer application to drive adoption it may…

  • The Internet as an OS vs. Virtual / Online Desktops

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    I’m been thinking a lot lately about Web 2.0, web services, and client / server applications moving online. And it occurred to me that Internet could be seen as one big operating system with the various components scattered through out cyberspace. The next new thing could be moving traditional local operating system services into the…

  • The SEOmoz.org Web 2.0 Awards

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    For those of you interested in the cutting edge of the Web 2.0 movement, check out the Web 2.0 Awards from SEOmoz.org. It provides a pretty good cross section of the types of solutions out there. My gut tells me that this is just the tip of the iceberg. With the rampant availability of high…

  • CIA Kryptos Sculpture Reveals 8 More Characters

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    There is an interesting Wired article on new developments in the quest to solve the secrets of a CIA sculpture called Kryptos. It turns out that Jim Sanborn the puzzles creator left off one character of the approximately 1800 letters cipher. This one small change revealed the words “layer two”. What that means and if…

  • The Evolution of the Software Industry

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    Dan Farber wrote and interesting blog entry (ZDNet Between The Lines) recaping Software 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. He highlights some interesting themes in software industry and how we need to shift to a customer centric mentality. Gone are the days of charging customers maintenance fees to fix our own software. Gone are…

  • Free Online Backup Software, The Mozy Way

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    If you have been following my InfoTech articles published in Landscape Management Magazine, you know that I highly recommend offsite backup as a means to keep your data safe and secure. I would venture to say that most of you still need some help in this area.  Let me introduce Josh Coates and his company…