Skype my become illegal in China based on the People’s Daily Online post. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said all VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone services are illegal on the Chinese mainland, except those provided by telecommunications carriers China Telecom and China Uniom. The ministry gave no timetable on when the ruling …
Putin to Order Russian Government to Switch to Free Software
Mashable.com (2010-12-29) -Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015. The 25-point document (available here) outlines specific steps the government must take in order to move off proprietary software and onto free and/or …
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What Actually Happened to Skype
Skype has released a more detailed explanation today on what actually caused the service outage this month. According to the Skype Blog (2010-12-29), “On Wednesday, December 22, a cluster of support servers responsible for offline instant messaging became overloaded. As a result of this overload, some Skype clients received delayed responses from the overloaded servers. …
What I Want for Christmas and the Cloud
http://www.sys-con.com (2010-12-23) – What I Want for Christmas and the Cloud — What I want for Christmas 2010: 1. A promise from Gartner that they’ll never mention Cloud again. Please, go screw up other parts of the business, but leave Cloud alone. 2. An admission by Private Cloud vendors that if it’s onsite, unmeasured, and has …
Skype will Reimburse Customers After Outage
Skype announced past Thursday (12/23/2010) afternoon that it will reimburse its paying customers for the inconvenience during the services outage. read more …
IBM’s Next Five in Five
IBM has posted on YouTube their annual “Next 5 in 5”, five consumer technology predictions in the next 5 years. Here is the video.
CIOs Big E-mail Security Problems
CIO (2010-12-17) – The Three Big E-mail Security Problems That Keep CIOs Up at Night: Data loss, Data Liability, and Reputation. Such losses, companies must implement effective controls to their messaging infrastructure, while at the same time working with their business owners to not break day-to-day operations. read more…
Motorola presents Tablet Evolution
I am impressed by this video
Changing the Lotus Notes Traveler Password
Lotus.com (2010-12-17) – Excellent topic : how to change or to reset the Lotus Notes Traveler password on your mobile device. You might run into this situation when your HTTP password has been changed and you need to update your mobile device with the new password for Lotus Notes Traveler. Below are the steps: – Select the …
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IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for Nokia Smartphones
Indianexpress.com (2010-12-17) – Nokia India and IBM announced their collaboration to deliver business mobility solutions to Indian enterprises. Building on their global alliance for business mobility, Nokia and IBM also shared an update on the deployment of IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for Nokia smartphones highlighting substantial traction among Indian enterprises. The solution – which delivers direct, …
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