Link roundup for 8/24/07

By Ben Gross
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Hear no evil, see no evil: business e-mail overtakes the telephone | NetworkWorld.com Community: a report on a study from Datamonitor/Dimension Data about workplace communication. The survey studied 390 IT managers and 524 enterprise users from 13 countries.

DynDNS: Newsletter — Issue 8: MailHop and NDRs: DynDNS, one of the larger dynamic DNS services will no longer deliver locally-generated non-delivery reports (NDRs) for their MailHop systems. While this violates RFC 2821, DynDNS provides justification in that it will prevent backscatter and that mail systems are much more reliable now a days so NDRs are less important.
(Via Slashdot)

Two-way Video Conferencing for iPhone: is decidedly not commercially available, but was an award winning hack from the C-4 developer conference that uses a hacked iPhone with a custom video conferencing application and a modified mirror setup to use the built in camera. The interesting part of this demonstration is that it shows this is possible with existing technology.

Published August 24, 2007