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- Here's what I think about Von Coalition's request for 90-day E911 acknowl. reprieve
- The Von Coalition, a group of Internet phone service providers, has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to give VoIP companies an additional 90 days to seek acknowledgements from all subscribers that they acknowledge the current limitations of E911 over VoIP.Starting Tuesday of next week, VoIP providers are supposed to interrupt...
- Tags: acknowledgement, VoIP, E911, VON Coalition
- Blog posts 2005-08-26
- Why E911 acknowledgement PITA factor will help Skype and other softphoners
- PITA=Pain In The Anterior or whateverIf you haven't gotten back to your IP Telephony provider yet with your acknowledgement that you understand the current limitations of VoIP E911 services, get ready to be pestered like hell.Emails, service pop ups, phone calls, snail mail. They are supposed to cut you off,...
- Tags: acknowledgement, VoIP, E911
- Blog posts 2005-08-16
- You haven't acknowledged VoIP E911 limitations? Get ready for pester-overdrive
- If you are a VoIP subscriber, you better hope your VoIP provider keeps efficient enough records to separate those customers who have acknowledged the limitations of VoIP E911 from those who have not.Should your VoIP provider not have that data wall in place, get ready for a barrage of emails,voice...
- Tags: VoIP company, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-07-27
- VoIP providers to customers: tell us you understand E911 is limited for now
- The FCC is requiring VoIP service providers to obtain acknowledgement from customers that they understand the current limitations of their provider's E911 service.The requirement is to be fulfilled by July 29. That's a week from tomorrow, you know?According to an article in telephony news site Voxilla, some service providers are...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP company, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
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- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fast
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dan Glass A recent blog proclaiming that Twitter could soon become a rival to PayPal made me shudder in fear. The blog author postulated that Twitter could offer a method to...
- Tags: Payment, PayPal, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Palm Centro - cobalt blue (Verizon Wireless)
- It's not quite the Palm Treo 850 news we were hoping for, but we're sure Verizon Wireless customers will still be happy to hear that they'll be able to get their hands on a Palm Centro. First introduced on Sprint and then AT&T, the Centro has breathed new life into...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, contact book, Verizon Wireless, Palm Centro, Palm Inc.
- Product reviews 2008-06-16
- iPhone 3G to be subsidized?
- Financial Times has received word from unnamed sources that the iPhone 3G – which is widely expected to be announced today at WWDC – will receive carrier subsidies that will dramatically reduce its price. The new version of the Apple iPhone is set to be sold at significantly...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary softwareA comment and a typo to correctFirst the typo:[i]Sugar, even on Windows, always *was* and always will be open source. [/i]At least I think that's what you meant to say.[i]But let’s not throw babies out with bathwaters. Just because Ferraris are fun cars...
- Tags: Web browsers, open source, Stallman, Netscape Communications Corp., software, proprietary software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- SocialText moves the collaboration goalposts
- SocialText moves the collaboration goalpostsSocialText *IS* onto something... WIKIS work!Not that this Google Trend is "proof" or anything but it certainly helps support a theory that I have that wikis are culturally more signficant and potentially far more powerful than e-mail. http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiki%2C+email&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0It's the awakening/acknowledgement of the hive mind,...
- Tags: Wiki, Socialtext, goalpost, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Apple releases Safari 3.1.1 security update
- Apple releases Safari 3.1.1 security updateAnd they offered it to me, even though I said "ignore" Safari beforeThey also offered me a new iTunes+QuickTime, which I've "ignored" countless times before. (All I have is QuickTime installed.)They offered a new Apple Software Update, which I installed, so maybe the new...
- Tags: Security administration, Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Apple Software Update, Apple Software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement
- Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringementOK ?>>As Watkins says, this isn’t about money. Companies have spent a substantial amount of money on SSD R&D and Seagate is not looking for acknowledgement and cross-licensing opportunities to reduce future R&D costs. This not only makes sense for the bottom...
- Tags: Research & Development, STEC, SSD, Seagate Technology LLC, R&D
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement
- Hard drive giant Seagate Technology has filed a lawsuit against rival STEC Inc, claiming patent infringement. The Solid State Drive SSD turf war has begun. Seagate claims that STEC SSD products violate four patents held by the company. This isn't about money, it's about...
- Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Squaring the cloud
- Hosting your application in the cloud got a lot easier yesterday — but there are still some gaps to fill for hosted application providers. Referring to Amazon's introduction of persistent storage volumes to its EC2 cloud computing service, Rightscale CEO Thorsten Von Eicken declared "clearly the cloud has just squared...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Storage Volume, Storage, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Court stays FCC's new E911 standards
- Court stays FCC's new E911 standardsSeptember 11 coincidence?I wonder how much of this legislation is going to be used for the purposes of tracking domestic citizens, under the guise of a “safety” law?
- Tags: Federal government, Quality, E911, FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- News to know: AMD; Google; Oracle worries; Eluma; Nuospace
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD releases Quad and Triple core Phenom processors Larry Dignan: Google paid click growth sluggish in February; More worries emerge. Techmeme. Oracle new license revenue raises IT spending worries Dennis Howlett: Nuospace: enterprise collaboration for the rest...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control
- Bob Briscoe Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP Transmission Control Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...
- Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- The+end+of+my+love+affair+with+Google%3F
- The+end+of+my+love+affair+with+Google%3FThe anti-Microsoft.Do you really think Google is anything different from Microsoft?I would say that in some ways worse read on, but Microsoft are clearly trying to emulate their ad-based model, so there is not so much difference.They use your own data to profile you, and then sell their ability to...
- Tags: E-mail, E-mail providers, Google Inc., Gmail-account, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- Police Blotter: E911 rules aid police in tracking cell phones
- Police Blotter: E911 rules aid police in tracking cell phonesLegal ThoughtsIf the cellphone tracking information is good enough to provide as evidence in court, it should require probably cause.Likewise, if it is not good enough to provide as evidence, it should be disallowed. Just that simple.In short, we all...
- Tags: Police Blotter, cell phone, E911, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- News to know: A Vista SP1 feast; Yahoo says no; Mobile World Congress; DC in data centers
- Notable headlines: All you need to know about Vista SP1 and then some. Ed Bott: A Vista SP1 FAQ. Vista SP1 hands-on: six trouble-free upgrades Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' ongoing test drive: Vista SP1, making it a little harder for users to forget their...
- Tags: Data Center, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Alcatel, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Governance, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
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