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- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
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- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'
- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'Bush finally managed to do in the Constitution and Bill of RightsIn one blow, done, gone, end of the representative republic that used to be the United States of America.Long live the Republic of Socialist Horrors I Totalitarianism.God Save the World Now.How exactly is this...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
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- The harsh reality of suburban broadband
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'
- Congressional leaders reached a compromise on a telecom immunity bill and the House passed it handily 293-129, AP reports. Compromise hardly seems like the word it, though. Listen to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), the lead Republican negotiator, quoted in the Wall Street Journal: ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Openness
- I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
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- There's interest among CIOs and technology executives to deploy WiMax and 57 percent of those surveyed are evaluating or piloting unified communications technology, but few have deployed it, according to a report from Forrester Research. The report, which examines the state of enterprise networks, has a few...
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- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Global telecom billing market to reach $6.6 bln by 2011
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Internet ad spend up 8.5 percent in first quarter
- Internet advertising grew at an 8.5 percent clip in the first quarter compared to a year ago, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Display advertising fell off of 2007's double digit growth, but relative to other categories Internet ads held up well. TNS' scorecard shows television media purchases...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Dems ready to cave on telecom immunity
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Dems ready to cave on telecom immunity
- Democratic leaders are preparing to cave to intense pressure to give telecom companies immunity from spying-related lawsuits, News.com's Anne Broache reports. Pitched as a "compromise" by Republicans, the new version essentially gives the Bush Administration "what it wants," Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU's Washington office, says....
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbers
- Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbersYeah. Sure.Right after we get the paperless office, flying car & the long-promised 3-day work week.Google has GrandCentral for contacting user's various phone numbersGoogle has GrandCentral something kind of along these lines with making multiple contacts but to the different phone numbers that one...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Sense and respond -- should humans be part of complex event processing?
- This week, a report out of the Financial Times cited here in the LA Times said that a bug used in the computer models used by analysts at Moody's Investors Service caused Moody's to award "incorrect triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product."...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- What is the U.S. doing about security? Part 2.
- Wow that was quick. No sooner did I get done posting my last article and I see on Wired the following story: Once again, supposedly sensitive information blacked out from a government report turns out to be visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys — and that...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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