So very true. However, a lot of people out there still prefer to grab "the phone" when it rings or pick it up when they want to talk to someone. Besides, have you ever tried to slam down a bluetooth headset when it all just got too much?

Yes, they do support PoE when docked in the media station.

They also require connectivity to a WLAN at all times for signalling, but will use the wired LAN for voice/video when docked. I must be one of the very few people who actually make use of a Cius, it has a lot of promise as a device that combines a video phone and with the addition KDM, a VDI client that you can pick up and take with you when you leave your desk.

There are some "version 1" issues of course, like the the hdmi display being limited to only to mirroring at the moment and I believe they are the only available Atom based Android tablet, so it does run warmer than others. I however think a 7" screen is too small when trying to use a tablet as a replacement for a laptop for things like note taking in meetings.

Now, if the Cius tablet is going away, might we see a dock for an iDevice that has a telephone handset?

It's going to be the current generation of phone, with an added Infiniband port. Then, you can lash a couple of thousand of them together to make a "super"-phone.

There used to be a company called Sun that had a product called Java you might like to as about that one.

The #1 movie in America was called "Ass." And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.

the IT Policy is what is universally hated, not the IT dept or the poor souls that make it up. Often there are some very bright and helpful people that will try to go out of their way to help out end users (especially researchers, who have "interesting" requirements -- we've gotten around this by setting up a department just to field their demands).

I also can't help feeling that IT depts have brought this reputation on themselves. "Our way is the One Try Way and you can't do it any other way". "Oh, yes, we installed this multi-million dollar pile of enterprise software that does not work, makes simple tasks week long epics, but you have to use it anyway".

Over the past decade, there has been a brain drain and now the IT depts are filled with "admins" that hardly know anything about only one particular platform and refuse to consider anything else (watch them squirm when the CEO / President walks in with a MacBook Air). To them, every problem can be solved by reinstalling the SOE, blaming the end user for installing "non-approved" tools etc etc.

IT is now looked upon as a cost centre. The business is quite rightly making comparisons with other providers who can provide the same service, for much less outlay.

Yes, there is, another browser. The Flash plugin seems to work in Dolphin for Pad as well as Firefox. This is after updating to version 11 as well.

I'm in Australia and had a friend bring me a Galaxy Tab 10.1 from overseas. It's not a bad unit, good size and weight, the speakers are okay. However, the most loudly touted feature, "it has Flash for the *full* web experience", does not work. The Flash plugin does not work in the default browser!

Just so you know, even a VTP *client* with a higher revision number and a different table used to be able to / can wipe out a VTP domain by being introduced. Being a VTP server just allows you to add and remove VLANs from the database. VTPv3 is supposed to fix these kinds of things though. The last time this happened to me, thankfully, I still had the output from a "show vlan" in my scroll back buffer.

No, just infinitely improbable.

No, Standards Australia abstained in the vote to fast track DIS29500.

Now you know why windows 7 is the fastest selling windows os ever ...

So, Windows Phone 7 is an app that Microsoft has submitted for approval in the App Store? Will Apple somehow stop Windows Phone 7 from being sold? Huh?

I don't think it's been proved they did have one. It may have been the typical play of "hey, look over here at (this video rendering of) what we have, ignore that iPad thing". When the iPad took off, they simply deleted the video files.

That and they listened to Microsoft and spent all their energy targetting OS/2 ...