Before Voice over IP (VoIP), life was pretty black and white. You had your office jockeys and your road warriors.
Office jockeys operated PCs, desk phones and faxes. Their jobs started and ended when they entered and left the premises. You could ge...
Telephone management systems (TMSs) have been largely under-utilised by many companies.
These applications are often procured, sometimes at considerable cost, with only one objective in mind -- to identify and cut unnecessary costs, while ignoring ...
Isolated applications give no hint of massive legwork and explosive potential
The emergence of location-based services (LBS) on mobile phones is a much more important development than currently seems to be the case.
While novelty applications like...
Submitted by Brendan McNulty
Since two people I know are now professional iPhone developers, I've taken a bit of a closer look at the App Store, the iPhone and marketing of applications. There are a few things I find interesting:
1) It's essent...
The social media buzz is barely dying down as more and more mainstream companies jump on the well-oiled bandwagon that has been created in the last couple of years. There is, however, one problem the social media gurus never told us -- harnessing the...
Jerry Yang will be stepping down as Yahoo! CEO in the near future; as soon as they find a capable replacement. In an email to the employees, he says the decision to step down was taken jointly with the board. In translation: the board gave a vote of ...
I've promised myself never to go on too much about social apps, but there is one app that I've fallen in love with, and I'd love to share it. I signed up to Geni purely by chance -- I think it was to check out the flash tree visualisation -- and my a...
In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit.(it.jhu.edu/glossary/mno.html)
This is a less-confusing name for what is also called 'free software'. It...
I've been covering IT, and its newer acronym, ICT, for nearly ten years. In that time I've had the joy of watching the trends go around, and around. I've watched hype become reality, usually in a far longer time period than the vendors would like, an...
Have I allowed myself to become outdated, irrelevant, inconsequential and stuck in a dark corner of the early 2000s? Has technology passed me by and been handed on to a younger generation of smart, happening geeks?
My friend Vincent called me up s...
