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Too often a business assumes that IP based solutions are the best choice to satisfy their communication requirements.

I bought a new microphone/headset combo at the weekend - a Logitech USB Headset 250. A good price at PC World with added bonuses: it's Skype certified, and comes with 60 free SkypeOut minutes plus a month's free voicemail. Nice additions to my existing Skype account.

The company announced a trio of universities would adopt Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network solutions for some of their computing needs.

The encouragement to engage visitors in conversations with one's blog or website could deliver an embarrassment of riches to the publisher - or a rich embarrassment. Few publishers will shun feedback from their site visitors.

We touched on several database choices for developers in a recent article, and another one that has been less publicized than most also deserves a look.

The decision by Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital to drop $13.5 million into SimplyHired is an interesting one in light of the website's competition, who boasts more traffic. According to Hitwise, SimplyHired.com brings in only a third of traffic rival job site Indeed.com.

Some interesting moves going on with the free WordPress.com hosted blog service in the area of ease of use in design and layout that adds to its attraction as an alternative to TypePad, the hosted service you pay for.

The young executive sits with his back against the terminal wall and flips open his mobile phone. Using Google's Mobile Search, he begins sifting through an array of tawdry "religious experiences" and nobody's the wiser. Mr. Yuppie, like many others, chooses his mobile over his PC to seek out pornography, and Google has the numbers to prove it.