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Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom

In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain.  The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...

Tags: Data Communications Bill, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Nathan McFeters, Phone, Software, Storage, Telecom & Utilities

Blog posts 2008-07-16

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In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

10 things I think I think about Palm's Pixi webOS smartphone

It looks like my Treo ProVery few differences from the front point of view.I don't get it. Is it a common knowledge thatSprint is a mediocre wireless carrier? Didn't you all complained that AT&T service sucks? if that is the case, what is left among major suppliers? Verizon? Some of...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Cellular phones, smart phone, Palm Inc., Wi-Fi, Sprint Communications, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

AT&T's "problem" customers get the blame

Fortune Magazine swallows the AT&T pitch hook, line and sinker in a story titled "Bandwidth hogs â€" iPhones and other smartphones." Writer Jon Fortt dishes up a steaming dish of bull shoveled straight out of AT&T PR: Now the wireless providers hawking those Internet-enabled mobile devices...

Tags: AT&T Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-09-02

WSJ wrongly blames AT&T for Google Voice iPhone app rejection

ActuallyAT&T's formal statement about Google Voice was ambiguous! A proper blog would have quoted it and discussed this fact. Because if you interpret their statement literally, you realize AT&T didn't say anything you probably didn't already believe: that AT&T doesn't do the actual flipping of the switch that puts iPhone...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Apple iPhone, App Store

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Seagate uses social media to 'humanize' storage devices

It was about two years ago that storage device company Seagate realized it had to get into the social media game. The company's initial strategy was to listen, build community and learn. So, the communications team set up a presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and so on, and strapped...

Tags: Storage Device, Storage, Social Media, Twitter, Seagate Technology LLC, Harris, Q., Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-06-16

News to know: Pre; NetApp; Bartz; Windows 7; Netbooks

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: From Starter to Ultimate: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition? Matthew Miller: Palm Pre reviews appear; can it beat the...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-04

News to know: Facebook; Psystar Chapter 11; Intel; Twitter API; Nokia's Ovi Store

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., API, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operational Planning, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-27

News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Twitter, Engineering, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-05-15

IBM math wonk: Social media another source of data

IBM math wonk: Social media another source of dataData also needs a context...It's a great point. Social media data can be of tremendous value in assessing behavioral responses to a variety of strategic inputs. Having said that, I do think it's important to think beyond the immediate use...

Tags: social media, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Woman sues for $5K data bill; AT&T says 'read TOS'

A woman who received a $5,077 bill from AT&T for data charges on her Netbook is suing the wireless carrier and RadioShack for fraud, reports Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica. The lawsuit alleges that the two companies conspired to promote a netbook plus data deal that deliberately...

Tags: RadioShack Corp., AT&T Corp., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'

Imagine drawing on floor-to-ceiling office windows with your finger, using them like a whiteboard, aided by contextual information right at your fingertips, translated as necessary. You haven't lost your marbles -- you're participating in a global corporate meeting, and your colleagues are doing the same thing on four other continents....

Tags: Software, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Consumer Quality, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

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

News to know: Perfect Windows storm; Nokia; SugarCRM; Google Earth

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 delayed again Mary Jo Foley: XP, Vista, Win 7: The brewing of a perfect storm...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Google Earth, SugarCRM, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Smb/Sme, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Verizon Wireless: Our employees breached Obama's cell phone records

Verizon Wireless: Our employees breached Obama's cell phone recordsGo ahead, putall your privae information on line with cloud computing. No one look....Hello? It happens everywhere. Everywhere.You do not think that humans by nature are an uncurious or uninquisative lot, do you?Such penalties are put into place as without the...

Tags: Obama, cell phone record, Verizon Wireless, leave, cell phone

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Are you being gouged on your cable bill?

Are you being gouged on your cable bill?cableI was receiving the standard package about 50 channels, costing about 29.99 - in 8 months with no changes the cost escallated to 80.00, they lost a customer, there is no explaination for the cost increase, there is no one checking them either.COX...

Tags: Network technology, DirectTV, cable, cable company, Cox Cable

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

What the fight against cancer really needs

What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...

Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot

So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...

Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-26