The phenomenal year of the iPod continues this week following the announcement that the New Oxford American Dictionary has designated “podcast” as the 2005 Word of the Year. According to the dictionary company, just 12 months ago, podcast was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted geeks.
Arts Extra Podcast: 12/08/2005 (Newsweek)
Featuring content from our Friday and Saturday section, Arts Extra, this podcast covers film, TV, music, fashion, museums and much more. Tara Weingarten gets behind the wheel of some seductive sedans, impressive imports, and other alluring automobiles.
BT declares war on rivals with VoIP move (FT.com via Yahoo! News)
BT Group on Thursday in effect declared war on Skype and other voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) telephony providers when it insisted it would undercut the company that put the service on the map.
Yahoo Launches VoIP Service Linked To Web Features (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)
Yahoo steps into the crowded VoIP sector with a service that will link with existing Yahoo e-mail and instant messaging features.
Reach for the Stars – and beyond.
Time for a break – time to get away from internet sales, marketing, hype and hoo-har.
Time to consider what your computer could be doing when you aren’t using it.
This is just a quick post ‘cos I want to suggest that you find out all you can about BOINCing. Who knows you might be surprised.
Maybe you’ll join the team?