December 30, 2006More Tips For Video Calling Etiquette
Andy Abramson recently offered his own six tips for video calling and planning, in response to something Peter Csathy said about video call pre-planning. Andy’s tips are sort of supplemental to my own video calling etiquettetips of past months. However, we seem to be of differing opinions onsome issues. I guess it depends on who you are and whom you’re talkingto.Vanity. It should be more about
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December 30, 2006Funding Free Municipal Wi-Fi
You’ve no doubt heard or read about all the muncipal Wi-Fi projectspopping up across the United States and elsewhere. In some cities,there are several subscription options for different access speeds. Inothers, it’s all free. One question that comes to mind is who is goingto pay for the costs of this “free” Wi-Fi? In Portland, Oregon,Microsoft is involved in a full-speed wireless network that’ll offerfree
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December 30, 2006Phisher Kings: Teach Someone To Phish?
Someone’s psychology, sociology, and/ or electronic anthropologydoctoral paper is lurking beneath all this latest research that showsphishers/ spammers/ scammers are using ever sophisticated methods tograb your attention so they can grab something of yours - preferablye-money.
Now I’m not going to get into the psych makeup ofphishers; that’s not my intent, despite my opinions. But the low
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December 30, 2006Network Physics VoIP Quality Monitors
VoIP sys admins will have another potential tool in their arsenal with new VoIP quality monitors
from Network Physics. The offering, called NetSensory Solution Insight for VoIP, works as anextension set for Network Physics’ appliances. These extensions measureover 60 metrics related to VoIP call quality.
AsI’ve pointed out before, there are many factors that affect VoIP callservice, but
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December 29, 2006The Indian Bluetooth Gambit: Or How To Cheat At Chess
Grandmaster Bobby Fischercaused a ruckus in the 1970s. when he he denounced the United States -where he grew up - and made pointed political comments. More recently,he renounced his US citizenship to avoid deportation to the US and a 10-year jail sentence. He also spoke in Icelandabout President Bush’s “regime”. By comparison, Umakant Sharma, anIndian chess player, might be considered
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December 29, 2006Tips For Shy Online Daters
With New Year’s a couple of days away, there’ll be a lot of socializinggoing on, in real or online. Online dating is hot, at least as anapplication and revenue generator (whether or not people actually havesuccessful relationships or not). But each dating website has to beinnovative and break new ground. PlentyofFish.com introduced freememberships and PPC (pay per click) advertising to pay for it. Verbdate
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December 29, 2006Liar, Liar Phone’s On Fire
Do you lie? Ever or at all? Seems if you are honest enough to admityour dishonesty, you probably do it on a mobile device such as a BlackBerry. Apparently, technology makes people feel less guiltyabout lying, but that doesn’t extend to email. The poll conducted byUK-based 72 Point, of nearly 1,500 respondents, found that around 75%of them lied via technology. Nearly 70% also said they lied at work,with “being ill” the biggest one.
December 29, 2006Skype Call In Numbers Not In Your Country?
With the impending SkypeOut pricing for the entire world to be revealedat the end of January 2007, you’d think Skype might also try to pushtheir SkypeIn option. SkypeIn is essentially a local phone number. Ifyou get one of these, people can call you on your computer fromlandlines and mobiles (and from Skype), just as if you had a regularphone number. Well, call quality issuesaside, this
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