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- E911
- (Enhanced 911) Refers to 911 emergency service on cellular and Internet telephone calls VoIP. In 1996, the FCC mandated a two-phase implementation for cellphone carriers to be completed...
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ZDNet Resources
- Level 3 E 9-1-1 Exec Describes The Challenges
- At the CTIA VoIP Mobility Conference late yesterday, I listened to Level 3 Communications vice president of E-911 Product Development William Clay recite some impediments to optimal 9-1-1 service- both VoIP and over standard phone lines.Among the issues E-911 infrastructure issues Clay mentioned that need solving include:No support for mobile...
- Tags: E-911 Product Development William Clay, PSAP
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Concerned about VoIP E911? Here's a list of all PSAPs in the U.S.
- The recent imperative by VoIP service providers to make their E911 service compatible with the U.S.' nearly 8,000 Public Safety Answering Points has generated a new focus on what these PSAPs are and what they do.One might think that PSAP territories totally overlap jurisdictional city and county boundaries. No,...
- Tags: PSAP
- Blog posts 2006-02-23
- PSAP manager on VoIP E911: "When your child is choking..."
- One of the more ominous TalkBacks I've received to my Vonage IPO filing describes E911 chamber of horrors post was from a reader named Kenathena.This reader identified her(?) self as a PSAP Public Safety Answering Point manager. PSAPs are often the front line of E911 calls from VoIP and...
- Tags: PSAP
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
Additional Resources
- Open source in a time of recession
- We face what my late friend Russell Shaw called "a shrinking water hole." Not every company will survive the drought. But open source as a business model will survive, because it's an adaptation that is meant for days like these. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Is VoIP the way forward?
- Is VoIP the way forward?VOIP Works Well For MeI disconnected at the street telco box for a coupla yrs now.The Shaw cable signal here in Calgary is reliable. I have an APC UPS unit to carry me thro' a brown/blackout. I'm paying for cable anyway to give me high speed...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Sprint Airave
- Since a cell phone is practically useless without good signal strength, a signal booster is sometimes required to boost it. We've seen plenty signal boosters here at CNET, from the Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL to the ARC Freedom Antenna. However, Sprint has decided to release device to boost the signal of...
- Tags: Handhelds, Sprint Airave, Sprint Communications, GPS
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff
- and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date
- Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...
- Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward
- Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it's led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight....
- Tags: Innovation, Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Alex Russell, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Mac and PC are at it again
- Mac and PC are at it againBuy Macs and...Use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP not Vista.Set up VMWare in coherence mode so the few Windows apps appear in the Mac OS X environment.Put 4 GB in EVERY computer. Don't even think of less than 4.Ask every user who they...
- Tags: Desktops, PC, Apple Macintosh, X.x
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- 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
- What gets Photoshop cooking?
- Adobe Photoshop has been the app of choice for several generations of image editors. Tweaking its performance is a hobby for some, but what practices can really make a difference? Adobe blogger John Nack recently posted notes from the performance tuning presentation offered at Photoshop World by...
- Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDF Presentation, Mac User, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- ZoomInfo spins off 'bizographic' platform for controlled circulation online advertising play
- Business information provider ZoomInfo has spun off its advertising business units in a new company, Bizo, offering a targeted B2B advertising platform, or what it calls "bizographic" advertising. Privately held and venture-backed ZoomInfo, Waltham, Mass., announced a new set of business segments last fall, but has now...
- Tags: Advertisement, Online Advertising, ZoomInfo, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...
- Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Nvidia chip with Java allows 3D modeling on cell phones
- At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Ken Russell and Sven Gothel of Sun Microsystems explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to cell phones. Users will be able to play games and navigate cities in 3D using...
- Tags: 3D, Phone, 3D Modeling, NVidia Corp., Cell Phone, Chip, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, JavaOne, Nvidia, cell phones, Java Application, Middleware, Enterprise Software
- Videos 2008-05-12
- Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?
- A couple of weeks ago, Russell Beattie announced that Mowser was at the end of its life. His post took on a life of its own into a discussion of the mobile web and approaches to the internet on mobile devices. I heard today that Mowser will continue to live...
- Tags: Mobile, Domain, Web Browser, Advertising & Promotion, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- If you want to sell a startup, plan a shutdown
- Almost a month ago, Mowser founder Russell Beattie was lamenting his debts and telling folks his creation was disappearing. He also questioned the idea of the mobile Web overall. Fast forward a bit and Beattie is announcing the sale of Mowser to dotMobi. Go figure. ...
- Tags: Web, Phone, Mobile, Web Browser, Russell Beattie, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
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