Can you imagine surfing the web if you had to remember all the digits of a website's IP address? For example www.cbc.ca resolves to: 208.38.45.182. I think typing in www.cbc.ca is much easier. Dr. Mockapetris, the inventor of domain names, discusses in this BBC article about how the system of domain names was just a…

This is interesting news. I hate using “convergence”, but this is really what this is. The steady merging of e-mail, IM, and voice. This should be an interesting time. Tool lets VoIP providers tap Yahoo IM | CNET News.com: “update CHICAGO–Can Yahoo replace the telephone? Net telephony software developer Sylantro apparently thinks so. The company…

Some good advice for the virtual company. I found many times moving away from the keyboard and picking up the phone resolved a question or problem in minutes. Voice inflection can be so important. As Dana points out, the article is a little dated, but still the concept is still true today. In Virtual Company…

It can be done! Telework isn't a pipe dream or really onerous. It will take some work, but as you can read there are significant payoffs to the bottom line. Delving a bit into history again, on the trail of the “virtual organization”, here's a great case study on the business case for virtual companies,…

Good advice for anyone with WiFi…watch those 2.4 GHz cordless phones (and baby monitors, and microwaves). My 2.4 GHz phone will stick with one channel and not move unless needed, so that keeps the interference down. I'm always keeping an eye on it, though. The Industry Standard: Guest Blog: Doc Searls: WTFone?: “I've spent much…

As those of you in Canada know we are in the final days of a federal election. The “major” parties, that is the Liberals, Conservatives, and NPD, have been focusing on healthcare, taxes, and other standard campaign issues. The Greens, not considered a “major” party although they are running candidates in all 308 federal ridings,…

IM security is something to keep an eye on in the next little while. I've tried ZoneLabs' IMSecure and while I really like the application, the drawback is that you have to get all your colleagues to run it as well to make IM more secure. Now, since the basic version is free, there shouldn't…

This is a very interesting technology and could be a great benefit to home users too if you could just plug in a “system cleaner” Ostensibly it could something people could check out from a store or local computer company to run and return. For telecommuters it would be very handy for trips back into…

The buzz surrounding VoIP continue. Hopefully some interesting announcements will come out of this conference. Companies are satisfied that Net phones work, but now they want cool new apps, say experts at the Supercomm 2004 conference. [CNET News.com]

So now that AOL has followed Yahoo and abandoned the corporate IM game, I guess that Redmond is going to be free to take it over. I know that there are many robust corporate IM clients, but the fact remains that if you're a Microsoft shop and you have Exchange server 2003/4 installed, they are…