Digital technology
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Safe Wifi Roaming in all our cities is within reach, soon
Ever dreamed of using free Wifi roaming? http://fon.com is a website enabling you to use your home Internet gateway and turn it into a public hotspot for the FON community. Please note that not all ISP’s have signed a deal with FON. Safe Wifi Roaming in all our cities is…
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My vision for the future of the Internet: it will eventually disappear
The Elon University website is host an interesting initiative whereby they are asking you what your future vision of the Internet is. Now, let’s be provocative, here is my vision of the future of the Internet: It will disappear! (I have reproduced my entry in the Elon University website hereafter).…
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Will Wifi clinch it for Microsoft Zune vs Apple’s iPod?
Microsoft has just announced a new product (Zune) aimed at fighting back the iPod mania that has lasted for a few years now and does not seem to die down. Will Wifi clinch it for Microsoft Zune vs Apple’s iPod? Although it’s difficult to tell right now what will become…
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Paris enters competition for most wired and Wifi-enabled city
Ars Technica issued comments on Paris Mayor Delanoe’s decision to wire up the City of Lights with fibre and provide 400 free Wifi hotspots by the end of 2007. So now Paris is getting even with San Francisco, London or even Chicago. Paris enters the competition for most wired and…
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Google Spreadsheets: Google Apps powered by Ajax
Google Labs is showing what’s new at Google with Google Spreadsheets. If you open that page, you will take a sneak peek at Google’s new project Google Spreadsheets: Google Apps powered by Ajax This is not yet another Google project that may be added to the already long list of…
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Yahoo! launches new AJAX-based webmail Beta
At last! It is now available. The much-awaited Ajax-based version of Yahoo mail – in beta version – is now available to those who registered for its trial at http://mail.yahoo.com. Some of the main new features include: automatic refresh to fetch out new mails, composing emails in rich format, automatic…
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MS employee Who daPunk wants Management to be fired
Microsoft has decided to postpone the launch of its much-awaited Vista operating software. Here is an article from ‘The Register‘ describing the hooha it prompted within Ms employees. Some of them do not hesitate to post angry comments on their Internet blogs. An individual who goes by the nickname of…
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Feed2podcast Turns Blog Into Chatterbox
The guys from Feed2podcast have delivered a new piece of software that may turn your blog into a chatterbox. This may prove useful if you have bad eyesight but this is not all. It can be really useful to bloggers who want to unleash the multimedia revolution without having to…
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Nicholas Carr: IT doesn’t matter or does IT, really?
If there is one article worth reading at the moment, it must be Nicholas Carr ‘s “IT doesn’t matter” which was published by the Harvard Business Review in May 2003. Its sharp criticism of today’s IT worship is devastating, and it echoes greatly the sweeping changes that are currently imposing…
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