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- City's fiber project goes to a vote
- City's fiber project goes to a votelocal rightsif the citizens of a community want to take the risk of creating a network, then why shouldn't they be given the opportunity. The federal government needs to "step away from the car". As long as access is not limited by local governments...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Network technology, Nothing, network, government, fiber, Lafayette, local government, taxpayer, voter
- Discussion threads 2005-07-16
- Lafayette hits snag in fiber build
- Lafayette hits snag in fiber buildLeave it aloneWith the advent of the WiMAX steamroller, the city needs to buy a few WiMAX routers - that's it. Not good news for the fiber-optic cable makers and construction workers . . .need for betterBellsouth has had a strangle hold on the populace...
- Tags: WiMAX, Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, BellSouth Corp., gov, Lafayette, fiber
- Discussion threads 2005-02-25
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- Who kicked up the cell phone scare?
- His name is Vini Khurana right. Doctor Khurana to you. Best known until now for having performed the first brain keyhole surgery with the patient awake, he has now compiled a review of all the data he could find on cell phones and brain cancer. (The last...
- Tags: Phone, Dr., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk writes that the greatest commercial battle currently is between the ad and the algorithm, between predictability and "ticklability." Facebook needs to figure out how to make its users feel like they aren't being sold up the river. Even when you go to...
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Banking, Chris, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Sorry, Google Phone hopefuls: someone else has already applied for GPhone trademark
- Based on reports originating in India, the blogosphere and the Diggosphere are revving up a Meme about the arrival of the "Google Phone" in a couple of weeks. The presumed name: "GPhone."But I don't think so. Google is fastidious about securing trademarks for products and services it releases. If they were...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- LA Supreme Court hears utility broadband appeal
- Its a government utility against the telecommunications industry, as the Louisiana Supreme Court hears arguments on the Lafayette Utilities Systems plans to deploy a phone, cable and Internet service, the Advocate reports. Voters approved the plan but Louisiana 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals stopped the plan, saying that...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, LUS
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Harold Feld has read the Ensign bill and he doesn't like what he sees
- Here's Harold Feld's take on Sen. Ensign's Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act. While there are a few positives, the list of negatives is very long. They all boil down to this: "What the act generally does is strip the states and local governments of any regulatory power over telecom...
- Tags: Harold Feld, network
- Blog posts 2005-07-29
- Rewrite of Telecom Act introduced, addresses muni Wi-Fi
- Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com has perspective on the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005, essentially a rewrite of the current law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, introduced on July 27 by Sen. John Ensigh (R-Nevada). The bill directly deals with local governments' ability to deploy municipal wireless. Here...
- Tags: Here is Esme, government, local government
- Blog posts 2005-07-29
- Voters approve citywide fiber project
- Voters approve citywide fiber projectLooks like No_Ax called this one wrong.From: http://news.zdnet.com/5208-1035-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=11899&messageID=236908&start=-1[b]To expensive at $1000 per person.[/b]I doubt many people will be willing to spend $1000 a person to do it.[b]Posted by:[/b] No_Ax_to_Grind [b]Posted on:[/b] 07/16/05 In reality, this fiber allows for better and faster service than...
- Tags: Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, cable, Cox, network, phone, SBC, fiber
- Discussion threads 2005-07-17
- Dell falls off the Cluetrain
- Dell falls off the CluetrainSo be Dell's downfall....Time for someone else to step in and take over the business. Perhaps Lenovo will take advantage of the IBM name it now has and serve up people with what they want from support. Perhaps HP will get things moving in the...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-15
- End-to-End Cisco Solution Powers Purdue's Campus-Wide Wireless Network
- Purdue University, one of the nation's leading research institutions, is Indiana's land-, sea-, and space-grant university. In the late 1990s, wireless communications were introduced into some areas of the West Lafayette campus by individual departments. As a result of this decentralized deployment, there were approximately 200 access points from several...
- Tags: Purdue University, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Systems Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies
- Toshiba's Tablet PC Makes the Grade After Its First Semester at Purdue University
- Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, has a student body of over 38,000 students, and serves in the vanguard as an innovator of educational techniques. Purdue's educational leadership was illustrated by their introduction of Toshiba's tablet PCs into the curriculum of the University's Department of Communication. After completing its...
- Tags: Purdue University, PC, Tablet PC, Toshiba Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Case studies
- Oracle Case Study: Lafayette Utilities System
- Lafayette Utilities System LUS, serving the people of Lafayette for more than 100 years, realized that its 30-year-old legacy system wasn't keeping up with the business demands. Deregulation was also presenting major challenges that LUS's system could not support. The organization selected Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise CIS for Utilities, part of...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Hardware Upgrade, Operational Accounting, Regulations, Telephony, Hardware, Finance, Government, Networking
- Case studies
- Oracle Case Study: LaSer Fidelisation
- LaSer Fidelisation, formed from the combination of two existing companies within Groupe Galeries Lafayette, had recently extended its customer loyalty services to external clients for the first time ever. LaSer needed an efficient way to leverage the experience of legacy companies while supporting its own unique channels and business processes....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Laser
- Case studies
- LaSer Optimizes Sales Strategy for Enhanced Customer Loyalty
- Lafayette Services, best known as LaSer, is a subsidiary of the Galeries Lafayette group, France's pre-eminent department stores. The company wanted to optimize sales strategy in order to capitalize on customer loyalty and take greater advantage of market opportunities. The challenge was to enable the company to work with multiple...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Laser, Sales Strategy, Sales
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