* Backspin: Is Sony’s CD DRM malware? * Gearhead: Goof fix, Outlook nicknames, more VoIP * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Backspin: Is Sony’s CD DRM malware?
One of the biggest challenges the computer industry faces is getting Joe and Josephine Enduser interested in the security, reliability and manageability of their machines.
To read this week’s Backspin in full, please go to: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/110705backspin.html?nl
Gearhead: Goof fix, Outlook nicknames, more VoIP
Goof Department: Last week we wrote about the Linksys CIT200 wireless VoIP phone, and although we got it right in the introduction, we later wrote: “The CIT200 works only with Vonage.” The device, of course, works only with Skype. Thanks to reader Dave Greene for pointing out our mistake, and we agree with him – “interesting device, but I wish it worked with Vonage!”
To read this week’s Gearhead in full, please go to: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/110705gearhead.html?nl
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog:
This Week in Backspin: VoIP for Soccer Moms
In Backspin this week I discuss the future of Vonage (which we have a separate thread for) as well as the issue of solving VoIP service problems particularly if you aren’t a tech geek. In this blog entry I want to discuss product complexity and why VoIP’s promise might never appear.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3353
The future of Vonage
I’ve been using Vonage for several months now, but this week,
I question whether it has much of a future in its current form. Your thoughts?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=vonage
Fish and Silicon Chips
London Aquarium has just put robotic fish on display … see
BBC News and Essex Robotics. Cool. Very cool.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3344
Boob Beat
From Ananova: Breast implants could be chipped to store music… “BT futurology, who have developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years” and suggest that “One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person’s whole music collection.”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3343
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Released
Version 5.10 of Ubuntu, a well respected Linux distro based on Debian, has just been released.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3342
Video iPod
So, it looks like the smart money was right, Wednesday’s product launch by Apple was, indeed, a video iPod. Kinda cool. Kinda not. Kinda cool because it is an iPod and so has mind share, a hot brand, and nice packaging (hopefully without the broken screens and easily scratched case of the first batch of iPod nanos).
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3340
