If you don’t use Firefox for web browsing, this probably won’t be of much use to you. On the other hand, if you don’t use Firefox for browsing… why not try it. OK, enough on that…. here’s the real intent of this article.

It may be [...]

I remember, somewhat fondly, my first PDA (the original Palm). It had an Infrared port that allowed you to “beam” your business card to another similarly equipped Palm devices. I remember thinking, this is great, this will spell the end of paper business cards. Well, too many years later, we are still a drift in [...]

OK, so this post has nothing at all to do with IT or technology….. or does it? The video below is powerful on a multitude of levels….

Powerful message — One Love… unite the world !
Powerful music — Who doesn’t like Bob Marley?
Powerful demonstration of collaboration — People from all over the world, singing and playing [...]

Remember the holographic, hand gesture computers used in the movie Minority Report? Well it turns out that the technology was more real that we believed. One of the co-founders of Oblong (see video below) was the science advisor for the flick and much of what we saw in the movie was [...]

One of the things that has consistently annoyed me about trying to set up a mutually agreeable time for a meeting, is the amount of back and forth emails and/or calendar counter proposals that are required. OK, it may be trifling to you, but it bugs the heck out of me.

So… to the rescue comes [...]

The venerable and well respected site CIO.COM has posted an article called “How to Say Goodbye to Spreadsheets“, which caught my eye. Having lived through the early years of spreadsheets, and having witnessed their evolution into a standard tool of business, I [...]

The longstanding stalwart PBX giant Avaya was recently bought by Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group for $8.2 Billion. Aside from it being a lot of dough, this illustrates the turmoil happening in the competitive corporate phone system business. From my perspective, I think they paid [...]

I recently stumbled upon a cool web 2.0 application called dabbledb. As the name might suggest, it’s an online database. So what you say, DBs are everywhere. The difference here is that for a very low price (free if [...]

Yahoo recently purchased Zimbra for $350 million. This a great example of good things happening to good products. For those who don’t know, Zimbra is an open source Email, Calendar and file collaboration suite that is simply amazing. They have an AJAX based UI that is simple, elegant and IMHO [...]