Microsoft to acquire Web conferencing provider. This is bigger than it appears. Placeware is a web conferencing tool — the current focus of all the next generation networking activity in the telco’s. Placeware is distributed through nearly every major carrier in the US. Unlike WebEx, and all of the other web conferencing providers, Placeware chose to use the carriers as a channel for their services rather than compete with them by setting up their own conferencing bridge. This is a very interesting development.
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Two U.S. airmen face justice for accidentally killing four Canadians. This is quite good. I’ve been following the Article 32 proceedings against Mjrs. Schmidt and Umbach with some interest, and avoiding commenting on it, simply because there are new points of view, facts, and allegations being published daily. This writer presents a balanced view of what we know, and concludes that the most important thing being done here is the examination in the open of the incident.
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