The Industry Standard: Guest Blog: Doc Searls: WTFone?

ByTris June 22, 2004

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 of the last 24 hours trying to figure exactly what was causing my IBM ThinkPad T-40, with its 802.11a/b/g card, to hook up with any of four Wi-Fi access points detectable from my desk (three here and one next door), and yet to exchange no data whatsoever. Oddly, it worked yesterday when a techie friend improved it; but when it got back on my desk the suckage set back in. “

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Blogwave Alpha 2 – features

ByTris July 28, 2004

This is an interesting tool that I saw on Scobleizer. My take is that it can publish a feed for you at a certain time (as Scoble points out if you're under an embargo and can't release information until a certain time). What I don't understand is how it might work with an existing blog…

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Tool lets VoIP providers tap Yahoo IM | CNET News.com

ByTris June 22, 2004

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…

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From the Telework Times

ByTris July 22, 2004

From the Telework Times today: I think the remote McDonalds has got to be the strangest one of these tidbits. And it is interesting that in Washinton D.C. they have to reduce the number of teleworkers. I guess too many people were trying to claim what ever tax bonus available. Revision to Criteria Reduces Number…

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Communicating with Your Patients Online

ByTris April 26, 2004

This has been discussed for almost a decade now (at least as long as I've been involved in the pharma industry). I think with cuts to healthcare, rural patients and urban physicians could take advantage of secure communications and high-speed internet to help with diagnosis and follow-ups. Communicating with Your Patients Online

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Boeing 7E7 engineering to rely on video collaboration tools

ByTris July 7, 2004

Beyond the fact that Boeing is investing so heavily in collaboration technologies, I think the underlying philosophy in the quotes below show that some businesses are recognizing that collaboration technologies fuel the way people work now. Video system to speed 7E7 work by Molly McMillin (The Wichita Eagle, July 4, 2004), says that “Collaboration rooms”…

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