Skyway West Recommended June 11th to June 24th

Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, kind of a Digg-lite for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think like we do (internet trends, internet privacy, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want to wait ’til Monday, we usually tweet and link to these as we come across them…

Techtarget: Compare free UC from Skype and Google Voice to business phone systems

The goal of a unified communications initiative is to combine all the tools a business uses to communicate in a single application. Integrating UC features with existing business phone systems is nice, but nirvana would be to manage UC features collectively and to be able to easily switch from one to another, as needed. Free UC would be even better. Read More (requires free membership)…

GigaOm: Twitter’s role in delivering media grows with expanded Tweets

Twitter announced that it will partner with a variety of online media companies to provide an enhanced version of “expanded Tweets,” which allow users to preview stories and videos linked to in Tweets without ever leaving Twitter’s site. The new features comes as the company embraces its role in delivering online media and blurs the line between content provider and producer. Read More…

GigaOm: Twitter Just Threw a Lifeline to the Content Industry

Twitter just achieved a holy trinity of snackable multimedia: you could already view Instagram pictures and YouTube videos within tweets, but now you can also listen to SoundCloud sounds without ever leaving Twitter. Read More…

PC World: DOJ Questions Cable Companies About Competition With Online Video

The U.S. Department of Justice has contacted affected companies about potentially anticompetitive behavior of cable companies toward online video services, according to a source close to the matter. Read More…

Vancouver Sun: Smart Phone Adoption First Wave of Digital Tsunami

Talk, text, email, entertainment, and next, the deluge. Telecoms around the world are scrambling to build and maintain wireless networks that can satisfy the expectations of government, business and the public. Read More…

 USA Today: Search Results May Deliver Tainted Links

Internet search results have surpassed e-mail as the main way cybercriminals attempt to victimize Internet users. That’s the upshot of an analysis of Web traffic from more than 75 million users on home and corporate networks conducted by Blue Coat Security Lab. Read More…

 The Western Star: Wi-Fi WEP Encryption is the Laughing Stock of IT Community

In North America, 78.6 per cent of people have Internet at home. How many Internet connections are essentially open windows into these homes. Read More…