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FCC extends disability provisions of Communications Act to VoIP

Late Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission extended the disability access requirements of Sections 225 and 255 of the Communications Act, which currently apply to traditional phone services, to providers of interconnected VoIP services and to manufacturers of equipment used to provide those services.Section 255 of the...

Tags: Regulatory

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Open spectrum can close the broadband gap

Open spectrum can close the broadband gapOf course more is neededThere's no end of spectrum needs. Not to sound flippant, I happen to agree that more open spectrum is absolutely required in order to have ubiquitous wireless services. More to the point, unless there is spectrum...

Tags: Federal government, Communications Act, spectrum, auction, broadband

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Annoyance isn't against the law, but, wait, it is now!

Declan McCullagh catches a ridiculous new change to federal telecommunications laws: It is now illegal, after President Bush signed H.R. 3402, the "Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005," to harrass someone by posting an anonymous comment on their blog.This is a law open to...

Tags: C

Blog posts 2006-01-09

Powell: New phone competition rules soon

Powell: New phone competition rules soongood thing the spintworlcom merger was stoppedlol, the market was dying and everyone was trying to stay a float, now looks like mergers will happen, and this time the gov will not get in their way - ma bell here we comeCommunications Act of 1996The...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Mergers & Acquisitions, phone competition, Communications Act, telecommunications, Powell, phone

Discussion threads 2004-07-13

Additional Resources

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...

Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

3am LineScope (msi)

LineScope enables non-intrusive monitoring of synchronous and asynchronous communications over a telephone line. It's just the thing for version 22bis modem integrators and dial-up application developers. Engineers in the payment terminal sector will appreciate the built-in support for FastConnect, SDLC/HDLC and ISO-8583. Works only with supplied WAV file samples. This...

Tags: LineScope, Modems, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?

Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?Not realy, their flaw isThey honestly believe they know vastly more than everyone else, refuse to listen, and miss major oportunities.Not a fatal flaw, but MS recognizes the need to change.MS became dominant, the big dog with selling it's and only it's OS on PCs...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., fatal flaw, flaw, computer, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hidingPalin Yes - Obama NoIt amazes me the the Left's knee-jerk reaction to Sarah Palin, when you have Barry Obama with his association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and anti-American bigot Jeremiah Wright. And never mind the fact Obama...

Tags: Obama, Sarah Palin, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...

Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?RE: Palin e-mail hacker indictedIf someone opened your U.S. mail box and took your mail he or she would be prosecuted and possibly jailed . . . this is no different.RE: Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice...

Tags: Social Security, Palin, Palin e-mail hacker, e-mail hacker, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

$236m judgment against spammer couple

$236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...

Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails

There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...

Tags: Google Gmail, Jon, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Internet, Online Communications, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Cisco SONA

Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...

Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Measuring the Pain: What is Fragmented Communications Costing Your Enterprise?

In this document, you will discover the results of the largest-ever survey of enterprise and contact center employees. Their workflows reveal the silent but staggering costs of fragmented communications. In fact enterprises with 1000 plus employees could be losing more than £6 million a year. ...

Tags: Siemens AG, Contact Center, Enterprise, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-10-08

ITIL - Service Approach for Siemens Enterprise Communications

The structure of ITIL is evolving from Version 2 to Version 3; understand how the adoption and application of the ITIL framework can add value to your enterprise, and how Siemens is taking the ITIL model and using it to drive portfolio and proposition development, alongside global service delivery capabilities....

Tags: Siemens AG, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2008-10-08

YieldCurveFitter (for Pocket PC 2002) (CAB)

YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...

Tags: Pocket PC 2002, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Pocket PC, Investment, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Hardware, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

YieldCurveFitter (for Windows Mobile 5.0) (CAB)

YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

YieldCurveFitter (for Windows Mobile 6.0) (CAB)

YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08