On Message with Ben Gross

From Ed Brill:
Lotus Awards 2007:

Congratulations to the 2007 Lotus Awards winners, announced yesterday.  The winners are:

Best Messaging and Collaboration Solution: Intravision / Denmark, 4IPT Phone Suite
Best Contextual Collaboration Solution: Relavis Corporation / USA, Relavis CRM
Best Portal Solution: Kryos Systems /Canada, Prairie Farmers solutions for zSeries Linux WebSphere Portal
Best Industry [...]

State of the Art: Cellphones That Track the Kids:

Many parents may have fleetingly harbored the fantasy of equipping their children with tracking devices.

Jennifer Urban: “Digital Rights Management is broken”:

Jennifer Urban and Cory Doctorow spoke in tandem at the December 14 DIY Media seminar. I will post separate entries, although their presentations were closely related.
“DRM is broken,” Urban declared, at the beginning of her talk about “Bits will never get harder to copy: the limits of copyright online.” [...]

I’m a bit late reporting on Flurry, which offers a free application that will work on any Java-capable phone, and allow subscribers with a data plan to send, receive, and filter email, manage an address book, and read RSS feeds. Flurry highlights email addresses, telephone numbers, and links so that clicking will initiate a message, [...]