Test Center Tracker: Wi-Fi and VOIP are ready to mesh

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Feb 14, 20071 min

Seamless wireless: Enterprise Windows columnist Oliver Rist is taking a much-needed break from Vista and donning his prognostication cap. His prediction for this year: Wi-Fi and VOIP are going to converge in a big way. The bad news is, we likely won't start reaping the real benefits of that melding for a while. Will Internet kill the video star? The aforementioned Oliver Rist has indeed been busy, having just wr

Seamless wireless: Enterprise Windows columnist Oliver Rist is taking a much-needed break from Vista and donning his prognostication cap. His prediction for this year: Wi-Fi and VOIP are going to converge in a big way. The bad news is, we likely won’t start reaping the real benefits of that melding for a while.

Will Internet kill the video star? The aforementioned Oliver Rist has indeed been busy, having just wrapped up the 4th episode of InfoWorld LIVE!, our Internet radio program. This week’s focus is on data centers and how building strategies are changing. Special guests include Phillip Pokorny of Penguin Computers/Scyld and Test Center Senior Contributing Editor Logan Harbaugh.

Book review: Ajax on Rails: InfoWorld’s Strategic Developer Martin Heller recently curled up with Scott Raymond’s new book Ajax on Rails. “Focusing on the Ajax support in Ruby on Rails in just about the right depth for most developers, and offering some valuable insight without going too far afield,” Martin reports.