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Cisco Supports Virtualization with the Nexus 7000
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:50:18 +0000

Sounding something like Harry Potter’s Nimbus 2000, Cisco has released the Nexus 7000, a big honkin’ switch, according to an article in the Register. The switch will handle more than your average “physical world” switch, says the report: But for this new incarnation of Cisco gear, the company is clearly focused on virtualization. The Nexus [...]

The Tin Foil Hat Theory of RFID Chips
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:33:59 +0000

Wired has run an AP Newswire story on its blog talking about the future of RFID chips, and some of the potential downsides of them. A seamless, global network of electronic “sniffers” will scan radio tags in myriad public settings, identifying people and their tastes instantly so that customized ads, “live spam,” may be beamed [...]

7 Sources for BlackBerry Apps
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:20:54 +0000

Mobile applications are more important than ever before. Mashable posted this resource showing seven places to get BlackBerry applications, skins, and resources. Currently, the top apps on my BlackBerry Curve are Google Mobile applications, and then a few bookmarked browser pages, like Twitter mobile. I don’t edit docs on my BlackBerry, and only occasionally read [...]

Turn Text into MP3s on the Fly
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:15:15 +0000

Looking for ways to put time back in your day? How about transferring some of the documents you have to read into MP3 files, throwing them on your portable player, and listening to them while you take a walk? New service VozMe makes it easy to do this. Though the voice isn’t especially good, it’s [...]

Collaborative Computing Slowly Gains Awareness and Acceptance
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:41:18 +0000

Enterprise technologists are getting closer to understanding and accepting the notions behind cloud computing. In this blog post, the folks at the FAST Forward blog point to an article about collective intelligence, cloud computing, and networked knowledge work. What’s happened over the past few years is that people writing web applications have found ways to [...]