Religion and the brain

See this at: networkworld.com| Added on 11/02/05

The software, Citrix Application Gateway 6.0, now includes a Smart Agent client application that lets end users click on a phone number in any application or Web page and dial the number from a desktop IP phone. Citrix says the software can help end... See more

The software, Citrix Application Gateway 6.0, now includes a Smart Agent client application that lets end users click on a phone number in any application or Web page and dial the number from a desktop IP phone. Citrix says the software can help end users be more productive with computer telephony integration (CTI), without the expensive and complicated configuration required for CTI in the past. To use the software, uses would download and install the Smart Agent software from an internal corporate server. This software interacts with the Citrix Application Gateway, an appliance that allows corporate applications to be converted for use on IP telephone interfaces. This could include data input applications or calendar software, with interfaces that are shrunken for viewing on an IP phone’s LCD, with dial pad-based controls. When end users click on a phone number in any Web page, Web-based application (e.g. Salesforce.com or Siebel) or e-mail program, the number is dialed through the... See less

Highlights: VoIP, servers to the rescue - How one IT exec designed a $2.5 million communications ...

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Friday, October 28, 2005By Sharon Begley, The Wall Street Journal Life is full of surprises, but it's rare to reach for a carafe of wine and find your hand clutching a bottle of milk -- and even rarer, you'd think, to react by deciding the milk was... See more

Friday, October 28, 2005By Sharon Begley, The Wall Street Journal Life is full of surprises, but it's rare to reach for a carafe of wine and find your hand clutching a bottle of milk -- and even rarer, you'd think, to react by deciding the milk was actually what you wanted all along. Yet something like that happened when scientists in Sweden asked people to choose which of two women's photos they found most attractive. After the subject made his choice, whom we'll call Beth, the experimenter turned the chosen photo face down. Sliding it across the table, he asked the subject the reasons he chose the photo he did. But the experimenter was a sleight-of-hand artist. A copy of the unchosen photo, "Grizelda," was tucked behind Beth's, so what he actually slid was the duplicate of Grizelda, palming Beth. Few subjects batted an eye. Looking at the unchosen Grizelda, they smoothly explained why they had chosen her ("She was smiling," "she looks hot"), even though they hadn't. In 1966, Time... See less

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May 7 issue — One Sunday morning in March, 19 years ago, as Dr. James Austin waited for a train in London, he glanced away from the tracks toward the river Thames. The neurologist—who was spending a sabbatical year in England—saw nothing out of the... See more

May 7 issue — One Sunday morning in March, 19 years ago, as Dr. James Austin waited for a train in London, he glanced away from the tracks toward the river Thames. The neurologist—who was spending a sabbatical year in England—saw nothing out of the ordinary: the grimy Underground station, a few dingy buildings, some pale gray sky. He was thinking, a bit absent-mindedly, about the Zen Buddhist retreat he was headed toward. And then Austin suddenly felt a sense of enlightenmen... See less