IPHONE GETS VOIP TRYOUT
In a demonstration at this year’s DEMOfall07 convention, British VoIP provider Truphone showed conventioneers how to use the iPhone’s built-in WiFi capability to make calls over Truphone’s VoIP network.
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT GEEK KING (OR QUEEN)?
In July 2008 Bill Gates, arguably the greatest Geek King there ever was, will step down as leader of Microsoft. Surely we will continue to hear from him, but his departure from the software world leaves a great void in Geek culture. Who will replace him? Who has his stature? Who has his utter geekiness? Should the geeks be ruled by committee? Should geeks even be ruled?
13 FREE TOOLS EASE IT MANAGEMENT
Finding the perfect tool to relieve a pain point or fill a gap can be invaluable to network managers. When the tool is free? Even better.
3COM CUSTOMERS SHOULD ‘STAND PAT,’ ANALYSTS SAY
Customers should feel little impact from this week’s acquisition of 3Com by Huawei and Bain Capital, analysts say.
INTERNET TAX MORATORIUM BILL STALLS
A U.S. Senate committee has postponed action on a bill that would extend an Internet tax moratorium after it
expires Nov. 1.
WEB 2.0 START-UP TARGETS ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS
A start-up called 360Hubs is tackling the Web 2.0 market with a set of collaboration, social networking, knowledge management and Web content …
USERS PRY XP REPRIEVE FROM MICROSOFT
Microsoft, clearly getting an earful from corporate users over the rapid demise of XP to make way for Vista, has responded by committing to extend the availability of XP for another five months.
AVAYA SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE $8.2 BILLION PRIVATE EQUITY BUYOUT
Avaya stockholders last week approved the company’s $8.2 billion acquisition by two private equity firms.
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BUZZBLOG: WAS T-SHIRT SUSPENSION STORY A TEXAS TALL TALE?
It was all over the ‘Net last week: Digg, Reddit, DailyKos, etc. A Texas kid was suspended just for wearing a “John Edwards for President” T-shirt to school, or so we were told. However, the mainstream press has completely ignored the juicy story…presuming there was a real story there to ignore. As for the Edwards campaign, it didn’t reply to my inquiry about the tale, which started on a blog on the campaign’s Web site. The campaign did, however, use my newly harvested e-mail address to send me spam asking for a contribution.
