Month: January 2005

Update: Curio 2.1

Update: Curio 2.1. The freeform sketchbook and notetaker adds better Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger support, more flowchart and mind map shapes, and other changes. [MacInTouch]

Keeping Tabs

Technology Review: Keeping Tabs. How many college students today ever flip through trays of library catalogue cards? Some of them may never have used an actual tabbed file. But the tab as an information technology metaphor is everywhere in use. And whether our tabs are cardboard extensions or digital projections, they all date to an… Continue reading Keeping Tabs

F.B.I. Close to Scrapping Parts of Troubled Computer System

F.B.I. Close to Scrapping Parts of Troubled Computer System. The computer system is considered critical to the campaign against terrorism, but has been riddled with problems. By ERIC LICHTBLAU. [NYT > Home Page]

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Google Shrinks Enterprise Search

Google Shrinks Enterprise Search. A $5,000 appliance targets SMBs, as the race to help companies find information in databases and other archives heats up. [Datamation Product News]

Be Your Own Phone Company

Be Your Own Phone Company. SlashDot points out an article by George Ou that explains how, with the help of open-source VOIP server Asterisk, you can start your own telecommunications company for under $6000. “…You can build a phone system that can support 72 analog telephones or fax machines, 100 IP hard or soft phones… Continue reading Be Your Own Phone Company

Microsoft rules out new Exchange data store

Microsoft rules out new Exchange data store. “Microsoft has long talked about moving its Exchange messaging software to a new database technology, but it has now decided that the next major version of Exchange will not adopt a new data store. … [MS Exchange Blog]