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What is Blog Action Day? A chance to help fight global poverty.

Blog Action Day is, according to its founders, “an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day.” In 2007,...

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Who could resist Fennec? It’s so cute!

Site director Margaret Rouse and I were IMing a couple of weeks ago, which we do a fair amount of because our “office” spans about 800 miles. We were discussing a definition for Fennec, Mozilla’s...

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Skype’s 2008 — the good, the bad, the… back door?

On FierceVoIP, Doug Mohney discusses the kind of year Skype’s had: 2008 Year in Review: Just Skype, Baby Skype celebrated its fifth year of operation over the summer and now has more than 370 million...

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IPTV or Internet TV?

When I selected IPTV for today’s Word of the Day, it was in response to seeing articles about iTV (Internet television) and assuming — silly me! — that it was the same thing. Uh. No, as it turns out,...

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IPv6 addresses – how many is that in numbers?

IPv6 is our Word of the Day today. The big difference between it andIPv4 is the increase in address space. IPv4 addresses are 32 bits; IPv6 addresses are 128 bits. That’s a lot more, for sure, but what...

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Would a results-only work environment make you more productive?

Last Friday we featured results-only work environment (ROWE) as our word of the day and I felt stirring within me feelings I’d almost forgotten. Feelings of hope, glimmers of possibility. Maybe even...

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Closed-circuit TV “a high-tech Panopticon”

In The Guardian, Paul Lewis writes about Westminister’s CCTV system: “Using the latest remote technology, the cameras rotate 360 degrees, 365 days a year, providing a hi-tech version of what the 18th...

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So I updated the IT humor guide…

Here it is, Sunday afternoon. I thought I’d just pop into my office (Yes, that’s one of the perils of working from home.) and finish up a definition for IP surveillance, maybe update the blog. But...

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Selling the smart grid

“It turns out customers don’t actually want utilities to turn off their appliances.” ~ Mark Farber, Photon Consultants Well, there’s a shock. In her post on Earth2Tech.com, Josie Garthwaite writes...

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