Part 2 of defensively installing a VoIP telephone adapter. Debating with Robert L. Mitchell about whether a VoIP box should be plugged into a broadband modem or into a router. I vote for the router.

Consultant pilot fish is hired to help debug a company's homegrown purchase-order system, which worked fine when it was installed three years ago -- but has been slowing down ever since.

Is your iPhone overheating? Are you vunerable to an Apple SMS security issue? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate problems with their shiny, precious, hot things.

By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who independently selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention more Error'd...

Having trouble finding a Linux netbook? Consider Toys R Us. No seriously. They may be one of the last retail places you'll be able to find any Linux netbook.

Michael Jackson wasn’t dead six hours when I already heard the first of several (bad) jokes about the superstar.  In the same vein, fraudsters were already taking advantage of the public’s curiosity within minutes of his death. These miscreants know that information seekers are more readily lured to bogus sites so that they’ll be on top of the latest dirt.

Microsoft seems to have heeded the critics who were less than enthralled with the company's recent Internet Explorer ad that featured a housewife spewing vomit on her husband after she saw the porn he was viewing on his computer. The ad has been pulled from a Microsoft YouTube channel, as well as from a Web site launched for the ad campaign.

In today's podcast: iPhone SMS bug; Firefox 3.5 bugs; and Chinese censorware postponed, not abandoned.

This company's pension distribution system is a heavily customized version of a well-known package. And it works fine for years -- until the COO retires.

Usenet.com has lost its copyright lawsuit vs. the RIAA over MP3 filesharing. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate the latest battle in the copyright war and the legal nicities of the Betamax Defense.

By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention how we used to play games on phones...

Former Inquirer writer Charlie Demerjian is reporting that Apple may stop using NVIDIA chips in upcoming Macs. He reports for SemiAccurate (a name that inspires confidence!), that Apple-NVIDIA negotiations on upcoming motherboard chips have come to a bitter halt.

Adding just a smidgen of structure to your information on the Web brings so much reader value. That's why there's so much interest these days in the intersection of journalism and technology.

In this special IT Blogwatch, we look back at what bloggers were saying about IT news in June. From iPhones to aviation and from H-1B workers to Windows 7, bloggers blogged it and your humble blogwatcher watched it.

By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who selects bloggy morsels for your enjoyment every day. Not to mention how we used to play games on phones...

In September 2008, the London Stock Exchange collapsed because its Windows-based electronic trading platform, TradElect completely failed. Now, under new leadership, the Exchange will finally do away with its fatally flawed Windows system.

Microsoft has launched a new ad campaign for Internet Explorer that is either clever and slyly humorous, or obnoxious and snarky, depending on your point of view. But in one ad promoting IE 8's so-called porn mode, the software giant has crossed the line of bad taste --- by about three miles. I've got details and the video itself in my blog.

In today's podcast: China postpones deadline to install Web filtering software; Juniper puts stop to presentation on hacking ATMs; and US and Italy to tackle cybercrime.