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Okay beyond the “Is it too late to apply for the fall semester” jokes, I think this is as important as computers, then laptops becoming deriguer on campus. I like the fact that Duke is giving them to the students, not requiring them to buy them. I was looking at Apple's site yesterday to read…

On Thursday, while watching CSI, I wrote about MS buying Lookout Software and that I downloaded the application to try. Now to be honest I haven't had the need to find a something since I installed. So I don't have the “holy smokes it saved my butt” kind of review. This is pretty basic. The…

On Monday I posted my initial thoughts about the new IM product InterComm from Five Across. If you haven't downloaded it (and I recommend you do) here is a good screen shot of it (from the Five Across website): The first thing I noticed was the nice UI. It's pretty intuitive and graphically appealing. The…

With this standard being ratified, Wi-Fi will start getting more secure. Though, it is hotspots where I think there is still a security gap. I wonder how hotspot operators will implement security, if at all. Given that the idea of hotspots is to connect quickly and easily, putting up security barrier goes against the grain….

Interesting post. I had heard about this earlier. Groove is an interesting choice for this. I think, really, any decent web-based collaboration tool, could've done the job. Earlier this month, Sanjana Yajitha Hattotuwa, a Rotary World Peace Scholar at the University of Queensland, spoke at the Third Annual Forum on Online Dispute Resolution in Melbourne,…

Sadly, this is very, very true. Tod Mafin of the CBC did a couple experiments where, essentially, he was able to get in and wander the halls of a company armed with nothing more than a clipboard and saying he was “from IT”. We all have to raise our level of savvy in this area…