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- Twitter and web forgery
- Last evening as I was winding down after a long journey imagine my surprise when I started to receive a tsunami of @ replies on my Twitter account. Apparently I was direct messaging a stack of people I don't know with a link to something that...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Business Week: 1.4 million Google Voice users, global push in the works
- In documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, Google said it had more than 1.4 million Google Voice users - with some 570,000 using the service seven days a week - and hinted that it has plans to expand the service, or possibly elements of it, beyond the U.S. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'
- Nice and Sharp Future Focus of Verizon!! BUT....The article covered most of the solid facts containing the research of verizon. They are the strong contender for the future of Wireless Industry of US.But still, the roadmap of telecom is not predetermind.Also the dwindling policies of FCC are creating roadblocks for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step
- For over a century the Bells have been masters of the bureaucratic game. Their failure in the Bell break-up, which delivered huge profits to investors, only taught them to fight harder. So after putting themselves together like the broom in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," of course they're going...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)
- HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Web powerhouses to FCC: We support open Internet
- The Internet's big guns have signed their names to a letter of support for a continued open Internet, sending it to the FCC this morning, just days before the agency is slated to vote on network neutrality rules. The letter is actually from the Open Internet Coalition,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- AT&T: Google has it in for nuns, mom, and apple pie
- Ummm what?Ok let's start:Blocking ambulance services: Errrm would a call to this service always be without error? no.Blocking other numbers: ok they might have a case.Does the blocking of the other numbers prevent the User from contacting those numbers by not using Google Voice?... I think not.Does AT&T has...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- AT&T to FCC: Close loopholes and write rules that apply to Google, too
- AT&T has taken off the boxing gloves in its fight with Google over the Google Voice service and proposed Net Neutrality rules. In a letter to the FCC PDF this week, AT&T went on the attack to portray Google as a big powerful company that's trying to fool the FCC...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Google defends itself as FCC asks for more information
- Per Wikipedia Google Voice IS a Telecommunications Service "Google Voice formerly GrandCentral is a telecommunications service by Google[1] launched on March 11, 2009. The service provisions a U.S. phone number, chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes,"and as such they should be required to play by...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- Lawmakers to FCC: Time for a closer look at Google Voice
- There's been yet another twist in the ongoing drama surrounding Google, AT&T and the FCC. Washington lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have asked the FCC to launch a formal investigation of Google Voice, specifically Google's blocking of calls to certain rural exchanges, according to a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- The 'Seven Laws of Projects'
- great!Seventh Point is the one always happen.RE: The 'Seven Laws of Projects'Unfortunately very true.A successful project is typically one where someone gets lucky and manages to balance your seven points to an 'optimal' level.Accepting #2 has given us the opportunity to go for more of an agile approach. If you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Google's response to AT&T's charges on Google Voice
- How about fixing the first articleso we know what you are talking about.Torn...I can certainly appreciate the arguments being trotted out by Google. They seem, however, to want to have the best of both worlds...acting as a de-facto "common carrier" while not actually being one. Given this, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- AT&T cries foul to FCC, uses Google Voice to spark Net Neutrality debate
- There's a Net Neutrality battle going on and AT&T has put a double-edged sword at the feet of the FCC - and Google's name is written all over it. AT&T sent a letter to the FCC today, asking the regulatory agency to look into the practices of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Ellison wants to model new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM
- At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talked to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He said he’d like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems. Ellison said that...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Telecommunications Leader Focuses Internal Communications With Powerful Intranet
- For more than 30 years, Illinois-based Tellabs has been a major player in the world of telecommunications, with products currently installed at 41 of the top 50 global telecom service providers. Because Tellabs is similarly dedicated to helping its own employees communicate and collaborate effectively, the company recently rebuilt its...
- Case studies 2009-09-14
- Time to bone up on energy-aware Internet routing
- Telecommunications companies have made call-routing as inexpensive as possible. So why shouldn't businesses finetune the most cost-efficient -- and energy-efficient -- path for data to travel their data centers and networks. There are several worth-reading blogs and articles floating around the blogosphere this week focused on the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Leaked upcoming BlackBerry OS screenshots reveal new features
- News is spreading quickly within the underground BlackBerry community of a leak within Research in Motion, the company that makes the phone, of the latest BlackBerry operating system. Designed for the Curve, the new OS which has been rumored for some time could easily be the upcoming release for other...
- Blog posts 2009-08-15
- U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room
- we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?
- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?Won't workThe only way News will get their revenue offset is if 'the pipe' is charged; in other words ISPs get charged and pass along the cost to you in the form of an increase surcharge on your broadband account.When a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers
- The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
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