iPhone
Well, I gave in and moved from my Nokia 6260 to an iPhone, despite all the bad press about network drop outs and poor reception and data speeds etc… The Nokia worked flawlessly for the last 4 years, even had the same battery as new and it still holds a charge. I’ll box it up as a backup 
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cleartext.com
Well, finally, years after setting up Cleartext we’ve managed to acquire cleartext.com, the domain name we just had to have.
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Old Marlin Roadster (kit car) found…
Every few months, or more, I pop back to the Marlin Owners Club we site to see if anyone has found my old kit car yet and behold, someone has. The new owner has posted a reply so I’m going to try an dmake contact and get some pics of the old car. Seems it was still dark blue and silver in 2000.
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XMPP Standards Foundation
We’re please to announce that we’ve become a sponsor of the XMPP Standards Foundation .
XMPP has been around since 1999 and was/is commonly called Jabber Instant messaging, but it’s much more than that now as social networks take off and architects are looking for a protocol to glue these systems together. XMPP has s shot at taking that space. We’ve been ‘lurking’ on the edges of IM/XMPP since 1999-2000 with our own EIM product called CipherIM which was unfortunately discontinued in 2003.
Keep checking at www.cleartext.net for news about our new XMPP platform later in 2008.
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VPS with 2 and 4Gb :)
I’ve been looking for a VPS solution that offers 2Gb or more for a while now, and Slicehost have something that may run Clearspace!
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You really do need your own enterprise IM system
The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ’security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that your conversations may not be very private…
How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy survey
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Data portability, connecting social networks
Having followed XMPP since it’s inception in 1999 and developed software around the platform, I can see some widespread activity in the greater web, rather than just discreet deployments as an IM platform.
The XMPP community is talking about social networks and how XMPP could have a role in connecting these in a pub-sub fashion. An interesting article (spotted by Tamir ) on Social Media Today points towards this type of connectivity.
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OpenFire Enterprise goes Open Source
Great news that Jive Software have open sourced the Enterprise features of OpenFire, read the post here.
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Jive Software news
Jive Software launched their new web site this weekend, focusing on Clearspace and Clearspace Community (formerly Clearspace X). This site is very slick and Web 2.0. Why not pop along and take a look or register for their new online community, Clearstep.
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Cool Sophos news on 1st April.
New Sophos facial recognition technology uses webcams to stop hackers and virus writers in their tracks—-Today, April 1, Sophos announced its new RAPIL (Recognition and Analysis of Potentially Intruding Lifeforms) system which is able to produce a real-time forensic analysis of facial features using webcams, to assess the facial characteristics of computer users, and cross-references them against features typically found in cybercriminals. The ability to stop hackers before they even get a chance to write their malware, let alone spread it, is a breakthrough in the fight against cybercrime. Keep reading for more on the RAPIL beta and how you can help the fight against malware. Full story here…http://www.sophos.com/news/2008/04/rapil.html
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