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- Outrage: Verizon Wireless wants to sell your personally identifiable data: here's how you can stop this
- Â Last week, it was revealed that Verizon Wireless is mailing a notice advising wireless subscribers that if they fail to Opt Out within 30 days, Verizon will begin SELLING their Customer Proprietary Network Information CPNI to "third parties and affiliates". CPNI information includes...
- Tags: FCC Commissioner, FCC, Chairman, Verizon Communications Inc., Network Instruments, Verizon Wireless, Customer Proprietary Network Information Information, Federal Government, E-mail, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Online Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
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- Guess who else is married to paper?
- Another paper perilThankfully, knock on wood, I don't get sick very often.Since I hadn't been there for years, my Clinic threw away my entire medical history.Paper is a fact of life.You have to a have a paper trail, the entire concept of goingpaperless is just silliness.I am sure with the...
- Tags: patient, doctors office
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Google: Is there anyone who doesn't have an opinion?
- Google is 1995 MicrosoftFor now, Google is up there, with great products, a bright future and way in front. But...Google can't be different from any other company that ever emerged, flourish and then met their nemesis. Everybody thinks it will be MS or Apple but the reality will probably be...
- Tags: Strategy, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...
- Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Sprint lures two from Verizon; new 'unlimited' plan seals deal
- Gone to Sprint!As a 21 year VZW customer and my wife as a 16 year VZW customer, our bills with data on our phones and 400 minutes for me and unlimited and text for hers, our bills were $270/month combined (mine with a 6% discount on a business plan). ...
- Tags: GPS, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Verizon Communications Inc., VZW, Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- BusinessWeek: Apple is most innovative company
- BusinessWeek: Apple is most innovative companyCongrats Apple! Question for the Apple zealots though...Yay Apple! Wow, #1 most innovative company. That's fantastic. A reason for celebration.However, this news isn't entirely good for the Apple zealot who consistently maintains that MS [b]never[/b] innovates and only ever copies from Apple. Yet here we...
- Tags: Leadership, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Products, Apple Inc., innovative company, BusinessWeek
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- LG 160 (Credo Mobile)
- Specialty cell phone carriers haven't had the best track record. Virgin Mobile is still around, but Mobile ESPN, Disney Mobile, and Amp'd Mobile have gone under. Even hotshot Helio, which offered the Helio Ocean, merged with Virgin Mobile last year. Yet, that hasn't stopped Credo mobile from giving the wireless...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Overall IT, display, LG 160, LG Electronics Inc., Credo Mobile, phone
- Product reviews 2009-05-18
- How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
- Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...
- Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?
- Updated: Spies have reportedly been probing the U.S. electrical grid for months and planting software that could be activated at a future date, according to a Wall Street Journal. The report highlights the latest vulnerabilities facing U.S. power infrastructure. The Journal notes that the spies are from China,...
- Tags: Security, SCADA, Grid, Master Station, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Gmail outage not a cloud deal-breaker
- Gmail outage not a cloud deal-breakeryour right I personally was not affected but the few people I knew that were did't look at it as a bad thing they took the time to get cought up and get prepared for the bombardment they would get laterRE: Gmail outage not a...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Gmail outage, outage, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- Verizon's Hub: Another way to fight iPhone churn?
- Verizon Wireless today announced a new product that goes after an old market - the landline home phone crowd. There aren't a ton of details yet about the Verizon Hub - but stay with me here for a minute while I go out on a limb for...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless, Wireless, Verizon Hub, Open Source Application Development, Telecom & Utilities, Keyboards, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Peripherals, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- 10 reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession
- TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware. But IT consultant Erik Eckel suggests that trying to coast on failing or outdated equipment will cost you more in the long run. You...
- Tags: Employee, PC, Recession, Server, Hardware, Organization, Budgets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Business, Business Method, Business Strategy, Dave Bort, Dion Hinchcliffe, Internet, Management, Network, Open Source, Reasons Organization, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Low cost is king
- Low cost is kingI have most of the gear to go with blu-ray... i just refuse to pay for it.So money is the big deal. Why pay for something thats slightly better when i have can use something thats easily transportable use in any device now , takes up...
- Tags: Sales strategy, advertisement, online advertising, Apple Inc., sales, Low-cost
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?Your Mac Lust borders on Creepy....Geez... that article is just a little bit scary. The kid on the eTrade commercials is in my head..."I seriously underestimated the creepiness factor"... he says this about a clown and I am applying it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Notebooks, Apple Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave
- Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal waveStallman sounds panicIf FOSS folks believe they can compete with proprietary software, why not build their own FOSS cloud and then take the battle right to the other proprietary cloud platforms?Ever been in a restaurant kitchen ?How old is the food ? Where have...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, OPEN SOURCE, Stallman, cloud computing, tidal wave, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a monthWith collaberative suites like Zimbra....why pay MS a dime. Even the smallest IT departments from 1 person on up can install Zimbra on a Linux box, spend $1000 or less on the hardware(for small business, a little more fore medium size...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., service subscription
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...
- Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties
- Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live tiesI take it ...."We have an opportunity to make it much easier for customers to ‘get started' with Windows Live. Our goal should be to have customers log in, type their Live ID, and then they are automatically 'set up' with Live. For...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, details Windows 7-Windows Live ty, details Windows 7-Windows Live, internal memo, Microsoft Windows Live
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- The Linux Census: No one entity owns the kernel
- The Linux Census: No one entity owns the kernelCollaboration of large corporations.Good to see confirmation that even the kernel is largely about large corporations reducing staff by formal or informal cooperation to make the software respond to business needs.Or does someone think that these companies are taking a hobbyist's interest...
- Tags: kernel, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
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