I just booked my plane reservations. I'll be at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas from January 6th to the 8th. I'm bringing a guest to the BillG keynote and then of course I'll be spending time on the floor looking at all the toys. If you...

If you're running Vista and Office 2007, by now you'll have received notice of the new Office 2007 Service Pack 1. You'll need to open Windows Update yourself to pull it in and install, like I just did this weekend. While you're at it, if you have a Windows...

Look at all the phones I have in my office. On the far right is that white Syspine Response Point base unit. Just to the left is the Dlink version I also have one white Syspine phone and a black Dlink phone. On the left, just under the left monitor is...

Here's a very realistic TTS voice , from a company in Edinburgh called CereProc . They apparently use their map of "emotional space" (everything from "depressed" to "delighted") to tag features to a synthesized voice, making it sound unusually realistic...

Tom Keating wonders about the pluses and minuses of forbidding people to carry laptops to meetings, but I think the whole controversy revolves around the reasons we have meetings in the first place. At Microsoft we probably would have to stop meetings...