Suddenly your computer is a telephone. You can talk to your computer (besides uttering unflattering oaths when it screws up!) and use it to communicate with associates. Leave that old phone on the hook! Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has been coming for years. Suddenly the technology is solid and everybody is getting into the act. The latest is Microsoft ...

The New York Times has been running a series of very informative articles about cancer. Today’s is about environment and cancer. It’s the fourth in a five-part series. Seems to me it’s a handy reference set, so here’s permanent back-door links to the articles that avoid the pricey archives. I’ll update the list when the final article, genetics and cancer, ...

From Physorg.com: An Israeli psychologist has developed a radical new technology which would enable an ordinary mobile phone to diagnose breast cancer and various type of heart disease, the Haaretz daily reported Friday. By installing new software and adding a basic infrared camera, a mobile phone could be transformed into a highly-effective diagnostic tool, offering far more accurate results than ...

Here’s a link to a snippet of video from Les Blogs 2.0 about corporate blogging. Another spot-on quote from it: "Attention is one of the most expensive  things in the blogosphere." So true. It don’t come easy.