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Online Calendar, Google Style

If you haven’t heard already, Google just released an online calendar web application. It has all of the slick interface items that you have come to expect from Google. But was makes this offering...

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Free Online Backup Software, The Mozy Way

If you have been following my InfoTech articles published in Landscape Management Magazine, you know that I highly recommend offsite backup as a means to keep your data safe and secure. I would venture...

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The Evolution of the Software Industry

Dan Farber wrote and interesting blog entry (ZDNet Between The Lines) recaping Software 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. He highlights some interesting themes in software industry and how we...

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April CTO Breakfast

I attended Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast this morning. As always we had a good discussion on all things technology. I found a couple of interesting ideas from this meeting. First off, Nathan Conger from...

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Skype Offers Free Calling

Online Voice over IP vendor Skype has just announced free calling with in the US and Canada until the end of the year. This is an interesting move and further commoditize the long distance market. But...

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ASCII Maps and Poly9

Have you ever wondered what happened to the ASCII art phenomenon on the 70s and 80s? Look no further than ASCII Maps from Canadian based Poly9 Group Inc. ASCII Maps is a mashup between Google maps and...

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May CTO Breakfast

We had a good discussion today at the Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast. A couple of items really stood out. Bruce Fryer with a new startup Digisense brought up the Amazon S3 web service is being used by...

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Next Generation Touch Screen Interface

Check out this video of Jeff Han from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences as he demos his new touch screen interface that allows multi-touch input. Sign me up to the beta!

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400MHz Linux PC for your Back Pocket

Check out this 1″x5″ PC from Gumstix. It comes with 64MB of RAM, 16MB Flash, Compact Flash, and an Ethernet port. Add a wareable display from Microvision and a halfkeyboard from Matias and you can...

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Unified Messaging for the Masses

I just stumbled upon an interesting consumer voice mail business called GotVoice. They offer a free service to have your home of cell phone voice mail sent to your email in the form of an mp3 file. I...

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Apple Unveils New iPhone

Steve Jobs made the big announcement at Macworld in San Francisco this week by unveiling Apple’s entry into the cell phone market. The unique take away’s for me is the new “multitouch’ interface that...

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ChaCha.com a Google Killer?

What do you get when you combine the human intelligence behind Amazon’s MTurk and Google’s clean and accurate approach to web searching: ChaCha.com For a search engine ChaCha.com provides a clean...

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Robotic Flying Dragonfly at CES

Check out this video of a robotic dragonfly from the company Wow Wee. Just one more reason why I should be attending CES. http://news.com.com/1606-12994_3-6150150.html?tag=ne.video.6150150  Technorati...

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500 Gallons of Fresh Water a Day

Do you dream of living “Off the Grid?” Check out this solution for fresh water that is reminiscent of the moisture farms on Tatooine. Aqua Sciences, Inc. has a technology that can product up to 500...

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Is Gigabit Quantum-Encryption ‘Uncrackable’?

I saw an interesting announcement today by id Quantique SA and Senetas Corp. Ltd. about a commercial application of quantum encryption. They claim 1 gigabit per second data rates in their prototype...

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Solving a Home CATV Wiring Problem

Yesterday I had an interesting experience helping a good friend and neighbor set up some CATV wiring in his basement. Now I’ve done this kind of stuff in past jobs and even in my own basement. So you...

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Why I didn’t go to TED, Bil, or ETech: The Big Business & Technology Expo.

Just to be clear, all of these conferences are great. I’m just not into them this year. It doesn’t work with the travel budget and I’m busy on other projects. But watching the coverage of all these...

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Solar Power on Peru’s Eros Islands

As many of you know, I recently spent 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador seeing the sites and working on content for our new travel site, MunchkinTravel.com. We took our 4 year old with us and he had the time...

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My Attempt to Find the Ecuadorian Equator

As many of you know, I recently spent 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador seeing the sites and working on content for our new travel site, MunchkinTravel.com. We took our 4 year old with us and he had the time...

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SocialPaywall.com and the Kynetx Platform

So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a fun stealth project. And now it’s time to open it up to a little wider beta audience. So, I’m now introducing…. SocialPaywall.com - Get paid for...

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