Mozilla’s decision to support the Theora codec in Firefox carries risks. While Theora is open source, it is not the only open source codec and may not be the best. Mozilla vice president-engineering Mike Shaver says Mozilla will contribute $100,000 to make Theora better, and director of evange...

What is the best way to monitor our teens’ Facebook activity? To my mind, this is more a parenting issue than a technology one. The easiest method would be to join Facebook yourself and become one of your teens’ ”friends” on each account they have. That might not sit wel...

I'll be at Internet Telephony Expo West in Los Angeles beginning late morning tomorrow.  I have a few meetings scheduled tomorrow afternoon and two presentations later in the show.  NMS also has a booth on the show floor where I should be when I'm not otherwise engaged. At 9am on Wednesday, I'm gi...