It was a public holiday down here on Monday (“Queen’s Birthday”) and after a very nice walk across some open countryside near the Southern Alps with my family, we stopped into visit a family from church. They run a 340 acre dairy farm, and while the children played […]
Team Collaboration Video in Parlano MindAlign … Parlano showed off video calling capabilities within MindAlign, its persistent chat application. “This is the first demonstration of fully integrated group chat and video calls utilizing the soon-to-be released Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and the SIP/SIMPLE unified communications standard.” It’s […]
Team Collaboration Microsoft Hosted Services … Microsoft is developing a suite of hosted services for business customers, such as for Exchange and SharePoint. Energizer Holdings, with 9000 users across 130 countries, is in a beta programme for such services from Microsoft. Key benefits for Energizer: (a) less hassle […]
Team Collaboration Google Gears … Google released Google Gears, for taking online applications offline. It works with IE, Firefox and Safari, with Opera support coming. Available immediately to developers, as open source. ZDNet, TechTree. David is pleased as he can now catch up with his RSS feeds when […]
Yesterday Jeff Hawkins, the founder of Palm and Handspring, tooks the wraps of Palm Foleo, a new “mobile companion” device. With its 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard, the Palm Foleo mobile companion connects wirelessly with your smartphone to help you do more on the go. Unfold it, press […]
Team Collaboration Livescribe Mobile Computing … Livescribe announced a paper-based computing platform, whereby users write with a special pen on specially-printed paper and where the audio content in the environment is captured and cued to the place on the paper where notes were taken. “The possibilities for paper-based […]
“This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles“, Psalm 34:6 NIV I am compelled to write about how God has been taking care of me and my family since leaving my previous place of employment. Since He has done […]
Microsoft today tooks the wraps off Microsoft Surface, a new touch-sensitive, gesture-recognizing interface / display / surface. The idea is to take everyday analog objects–tables, mirrors, maybe even doors–and replace them with a digital version. In the initial positioning of Microsoft Surface, ideas are presented for a Surface-enabled […]
Team Collaboration SharePoint Gets DoD Certification … Microsoft announced that SharePoint Server 2007 has received DoD 5015.2 certification, which means it meets the US government’s requirements for document and records management. Add-on packs for SharePoint to implement the certification will be available later in 2007. Microsoft, InformationWeek Huddle […]
When you are having a discussion–face-to-face or via electronic media–with another person or a group, what factors contribute to make the discussion “productive” or not? What do you use as the basis for evaluation as to whether the discussion was worth it? Here’s what I think: Alternatives are […]
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