] When was the last time you used a pay phone?

ah, the days of hacking COCOTS and other pay phone booths may be reappearing.

Pumping Life Into the Pay Phone

] The design package, called Wanda, is meant to create a
] cell phone that TI said would connect to each of these
] technologies: a Wi-Fi hot spot, which uses the 802.11b
] standards; a cell phone network using GSM (Global System
] for Mobile Communications); and any device using the
] short-range wireless standard called Bluetooth. TI says
] it is the first to combine all three in a single design.

sweet.

TI unveils a design called Wanda

] Regional telecommunications giant BellSouth on Wednesday
] turned over management of its data-hosting business to
] IBM.

from the ineptitude department...

IBM to manage BellSouth's data hosting

ldap2dns is a program to create DNS (Domain Name Service) records directly from a LDAP directory. It can and should be be used to replace the secondary name-server by a second primary one.
ldap2dns reduces all kind of administration overhead: No more flat file editing, no more zone file editing. After having installed ldap2dns, the administrator only has to access the LDAP directory.
Optionally she can add access control for each zone, create a GUI and add all other kind of zone and resource record information without interfering with the DNS server.
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Now you have to appreciate this!

LDAP to DNS gateway

] In 1985 the editor of the Globe called me into his office
] and assigned me to write a story about the technology
] slump.

To know the future, look at the past.

Boston Globe Online / Business / Bigger boom, bigger bust

Google. It's not just for making yourself seem smarter than all the other 1Us3rS.

Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google

] The border gateway protocol, a widely used technology for
] efficiently routing data through the Internet, is rife
] with security holes and needs to be replaced, a security
] consultant warned.

I can't believe there hasn't been more 'incidents' involving BGP.

News: Expert: Router holes threaten Net

A great article about business intelligence software, with some interesting examples of usage.

Looking for Intelligence in Ice Cream

The soldier on the front line needs a network structure and he has to be shown that power comes out of that network structure. He have to institutionalize peer-to-peer and power-to-the-edge. ... If we do that well we find that we step out of the information domain of merely networking and into the cognitive domain where battles are truly won or lost.

One of the most gut wrenching things that occured during the raid in Somalia depicted in Black Hawk Down was the direction of the caravan through the city through two levels of higharchy. It was obviously stupid. You had someone in a command center looking at a video of the caravan, making a decision, relaying that decision to someone in an airplane, who relayed that decision to the driver. By the time the driver got the decision the circumstances had totally changed.

Thats it in a nutshelll. In the past the people at the top made decisions because they were the only ones with the perspective to make them. This is an extremely inefficient way to operate. The people on the frontlines need to be making the decisions, and the people in the offices are simply there to give them the perspective they need to make those decisions.

These changes will mirror the changes you'll see in every kind of organization that exists.

Transformation Trends - 17 February 2003

] In a case calling into question the thoroughness of the
] certification process for touch-screen voting systems, a
] former engineer for an election software company has
] filed a lawsuit against his ex-employer, claiming
] executives ignored his warnings of potential defects.

the plot thickens...

Voting Software Firm Gets Sued