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Comment Re:Intermedia - First in hosted OCS (Score 1) 4

Very well done!

I'm waiting on a call from Broadsoft.. Intermedia answered right away, very friendly and helpful. Apparently the terms "Unified Communications" and "Office Communications" are synonymous.

I'd still love to hear some user experinces with this software solution. Have you used it? Do you love it, hate it?

Thanks to CheifRED and adoyle!

Comment Spoke with Police Dept. (Score 4, Interesting) 1232

The on duty desk officer assured me that it did not happen today, it was a few days ago. The officer is employed there. And he also assured me that the facts as they were being presented were inaccurate.. However, you can call their media unit at (206) 684-5520 for more information.

By the way, they're getting slashdotted!

Microsoft

Submission + - MS Unified Communications for Small Businesses? (microsoft.com) 4

coryboehne writes: "Have you heard of Microsoft's Unified Communications? This toy/tool bridges the divide between computers and telephones. The company that I work for would like to take advantage of these capabilities, the problem is that we don't have the budget or staff to host our own Unified Communications Server. We have exhausted multiple angles of approach on this problem, and have found no acceptable solutions. I find it hard to believe that no one offers Unified Communications hosting as a monthly service, like so many companies do for MS Exchange hosting. Is there a technological, financial, or feasibility issue with offering this as a service that anyone is aware of? So have you worked with Unified Communications in a small business setting? How did your company deal with implementation?"
Mars

Submission + - Mars Opportunity Rover Threatened by Dust Storm (msn.com) 1

mdsolar writes: "MSNBC is reporting that the Oportunity Rover, planned to descend into Victoria Crater, may end up defunct owing to lack of power by the end of two large dust storms now blowing on Mars. 99% of sunlight is currently being blocked by dust in the atmosphere and managers are trying to figure out what more can be shut down to save power. A complete battery discharge would end the mission because electonics would become too cold and break owing to thermal stress. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19622820"
Power

MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb 394

kcurtis writes "According to the Boston Globe, MIT Researchers have powered a light bulb remotely. The successful experiment lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two meters away, with no physical connection between the power source and the light bulb. Details about WiTricity, or wireless electricity, are scheduled to be reported today in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said. 'The team from MIT is not the first group to suggest wireless energy transfer. Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented with long-range wireless energy transfer, but his most ambitious attempt - the 29m high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower, in New York - failed when he ran out of money. Others have worked on highly directional mechanisms of energy transfer such as lasers. However, unlike the MIT work, these require an uninterrupted line of sight, and are therefore not good for powering objects around the home.'"
Wireless Networking

Submission + - MIT demonstrates wireless power transfer (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: "Power wires are dead, long live power cords. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has experimentally shown how everything from iPods to laptops could be wirelessly recharged by using a carefully designed magnetic field to deliver power to such devices from a range of 10 to 15 feet.WiTricity is rooted in such well-known laws of physics that it makes one wonder why no one thought of it before. "In the past, there was no great demand for such a system, so people did not have a strong motivation to look into it," points out MIT professor John Joannopoulos. The researcher said MIT would handle licensing of the technology should it be used in a consumer service or product in the future. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1599 8"
Privacy

Submission + - LiveJournal Giving Russian Sites Your Username (livejournal.com)

An anonymous reader writes: As if LiveJournal didn't have enough problems, a member of the no_lj_ads community discovered that whenever you visit the Russian sites kommersant.ru or livejournal.ru (confusingly, not actually owned by Livejournal), it automatically hands them your currently logged-in username. Unlike normal OpenID, you don't get asked for permission first, or even told that this has happened. Better still, livejournal.ru has a JavaScript injection hole that allows any other site to discover your LiveJournal username too, without your knowledge.

The official solution? Log off from LiveJournal before visiting the sites. It may also be possible to get the same result by deliberately breaking OpenID on your journal, but it remains to be seen how long this loophole will last for.

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