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Interesting view from US reporter visiting Toronto recently: I felt in some strange way that I was leaving the kind of place that, at least in spirit, the U.S. had been in another time — prior to colour-coded alerts, scenes of towers crumbling, midnight anti-terror laws and everywhere the pervasive selling of fear and vigilance. […]

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Interesting little device that I can see taking off with kids as Linux Devices points out: Aeronix used Linux to build a $99 instant messenger appliance aimed at keeping kids from tying up the family PC while chatting with friends. Naturally, hackers soon appropriated the device for other duties, such as remotely controlling/monitoring Sony's Aibo […]

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I wrote about Linksys and their declining customer service in the past but this time its about their anti-competitive practices. Just recently I purchased a Linksys PAP2 VoIP adapter thinking I could use it to connect to my VoIP provider. It does say on the box that it is a Vonage start-up kit but nowhere […]

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Well, here we go again. I was beginning to wonder why traffic to koSmo.com was larger than normal for people looking for koZmo.com. Just when I was going to remove references to KoZmo from the website as well. A google search for koZmo and koSmo show 609 results. Doesn't surprise me. Look at how many […]

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Visual Thesaurus looks interesting:

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I can't believe the hoops I'm having to jump through to order a $7.99 piece of software. Obviously the folks at SipPhone have no clue about ecommerce or web usability. I suggest they start with Steve Krug's book Don't Make Me Think and go from there. He is what I've gone through so far. Fumble […]

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I thought I would put together an example using Ajaxian techniques, JSRS and Google Maps. Click here to go see the example. Quoted from that page: This is just a prototype example using Ajaxian techniques, JSRS (Javascript Remote Scripting), and Google Maps to show how one could display network monitoring updates in real-time. I started […]

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Erik is right on the money here: VoIP Magazine writer Bryan Richard has a lot to say about Skype. I happen to think Skype is a good thing for VoIP in general as it increases awareness and brings more attention to the softphone. I also firmly beleive that Skype will either adopt SIP [by partnership […]

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