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Society RSS FeedsMalware & Hackers Heading to Mac Land - News that I'd rather not think about, but have to, is the new upsurge in malware written specifically for Apple users. Still a drop in the bucket compared to Windows vulnerabilities, but Mac nastyware is on the rise. Two new Mac-ware Trojans that emerged in February and June ought to shake Mac users of their misconceptions that their computers (and, eventually, iPods and iPhones) are impenetrable. To put this in perspective, the fir...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Can We Do Anything about iPod Audio Quality? - In the iPod age, music sound quality has been dumbed down to "Fisher-Price toy" levels, said one of my all time favorite rockers, Neil Young, at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference."Apple has taken a detour down the convenience highway," he said, talking about what he considers to be the poor audio quality of MP3.He's currently working on a multimedia archiving project of his entire career, which he says should be available as a series of B... Calling All Spies! - Now you can take care of your inner spy in grand fashion!BrickHouseSecurity.com is like being inside Q's lab in all of those James Bond movies.Take a look at this, for example, the DVR Pen. It looks and feels like a regular pen -- it even writes like a regular pen. But beware! With the click of one covert button you can begin recording color video for up to eight hours. When you're ready to review your video, simply unscrew the pen and plug... See All the IP Devices at Home? - Can you believe that shipments of Internet-Protocol (IP)-enabled consumer electronics reached 64 million units in 2007 -- a growth of more than 70%?However, the market continues to be dominated by Internet-enabled video game consoles. While many of these game console IP interfaces remain unconnected, the enormous developing installed base represents a "Trojan horse" with enormous potential for online gaming, music and video downloads as well as f... Objectworld Offers Unified Communications for 7 Cents a Day - Today, Objectworld introduced Unified Communications for just 7 cents per day per user. Their platform can work with your existing non-VoIP PBX via gateways or you can go the 100% VoIP route as well since their server can communicate with any SIP-based IP-PBX.It's a pretty feature-rich solution offering VoIP, personal call control, text-to-speech, conference server, unified messaging, integrated fax server, Active Directory-based administration, ... A Crapware-Free PC? Now, You're Talking! - Sick and tired of getting a new PC and discovering all of the free trial software and other stuff you don't need, didn't ask for and now have clogging up valuable drive space on your new baby?Well, looks like Sony has taken the noble step of making it possible to configure your own PC (like the VAIO notebook) without any of that extra stuff included. And they do it for free.Like the concept? Then read more about it here.
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Related... Inside, Really Inside the Lego Factory - Anybody want to guess how many Lego bricks are made every year? How about a clue? Let's say more than 50 million a day? Sounds like a lot. And yes it is! To the tune of 19 billion every year. Yes, 19 billion of those little bricks that can build just about anything -- from castles and spaceships to monster and robots. Now Gizmodo is giving us a chance to take a video tour of the factory that makes all of this stuff. Get this part: "Wh... ITEXPO 90% Sold Out - IP Communications industry looks strong - ITEXPO is still two months away (September 16-18, 2008 -- Los Angeles, CA) yet Rich reports that the exhibit booth space is already 90% sold out. Rich is pretty excited when he writes, "There has been more interest in ITEXPO Fall 2008, Los Angeles, CA September 16-18 than any other Internet Telephony Conference & Expo I can remember in recent years." At first I thought perhaps Rich is being a bit too exuberant. After all, one well-known com... CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 -- Gettin' Better All the Time ... - We get all excited about Adobe PhotoShop and the suite of related products that make it such a great graphics program, but there are other solid choices out there for you to take into consideration.CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is at the top of that list! Drawing on its years of expertise, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 delivers all the essential tools for today's busy designer. You can do whatever you need to do -- create illustrations, logos, brochu... Controlling Asterisk based on Microsoft OCS 2007 user's presence -
Paul Adams contacted me recently since he's been reading my posts about Asterisk and 'Microsoft OCS 2007' integration.
Paul wrote an interesting application that enables call queuing that 'respects' OCS presence. That is, if the agent's OCS status is "Busy", "Away" or "Do not D... Plumble Ad Sponsored "Free" Calls - You remember Pudding Media, right? They offered ad sponsored phone calls in exchange for "listening" in on your phone conversations so it could target audio ads. Pudding Media essentially leverages keyword wordspotting using speech recognition. Well, today, I learned about Plumble from Telecom Monthly. The article seems giddy with what it thinks is some new revelation Once in a blue moon, a new product comes along with an idea so obvious that you... Can't Anybody Make Up Their Mind (AT&T)!!! - Free Wi-Fi access from AT&T on the iPhone?More like "now you see it, now you don't"?Or more like, "let's try it for a while and see" -- or maybe "we can change our mind and nobody will notice" -- maybe before the days of blogs and instant communications and publishing that might have held true, but not any more.If you want to see what all the noise is about, click here.
Tags: apple, att, iphone, ... iPhone 3G Now a Week Old! And What a Week! - The Apple iPhone 3G is now a week old and what a week it's been!How about this for out of the box -- 1 million sold in the first weekend! And now I'm wondering how sales kept up through the week But yikes! Now there's a shortage!Aren't gadgets great! Too many, too little it's not easy to be a manufacturer when you can have problems about selling too little product and then too much product! Yikes again!
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Relat... T-Mobile VoIP Shenanigans - AGAIN! - I've written about T-Mobile's VoIP blocking shenanigan's here, here, and here. Not to mention their blocking of MinuteWatcher for tracking cellphone minute usage. I also wrote how ... The Downside of Livin' in a Virtual World - Anybody remember the big noise about 3D virtual worlds and how they are going to change our lives forever? Well, that may still be true today, but how about the big time scam -- and big time bucks lost -- with "Second Life"? The Wall Street Journal covers this very nicely and then takes us into the future for where we might be headed. BTW, what avatar were you?
Tags: avatar, second life, ... What's Your Favorite iPhone 3G App? - I know it's still early days in the history of the iPhone 3G, but with a million sold already (and steadily counting!), wanted to find out what some of the most popular iPhone 3G apps are. Now I could go to some other places and get the Top 10 or Top 25 list, but I wanted to get some direct feedback from you.Do you have a favorite that you can't believe you lived without until now? So let us know, OK?
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