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VoIP is giving the states heartburn

Calling Vonage "the Amazon of VoIP," a recent article in Governing magazine discusses the issues surrounding the regulation and taxation of VoIP. The reason for the Amazon comparison is a feeling in the minds of State government officials that this "problem" is analogous to the issues States have...

Tags: VoIP, public utility commission

Blog posts 2005-04-08

VoIP is giving the states heartburn

Calling Vonage "the Amazon of VoIP," arecent article in Governing magazine discusses the issues surrounding theregulation and taxation of VoIP. The reason for the Amazon comparisonis a feeling in the minds of State government officials that this"problem" is analogous to the issues States have in collecting sales taxrevenues on...

Tags: public utility commission, VoIP

Blog posts 2005-04-08

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No drama, Obama? Sounds dramatic to me...

In today's radio address, the President-elect specifically said he intends to add jobs in the greentech sector. Here's the specific passage: "We'll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Facebook scores SEC exemption

Facebook has been granted an exemption by the Securities and Exchange Commission that allows the company to not comply with the same law that pushed Google into becoming a public company. The exemption, reported by Business Week today, was granted on October 14 and allows the company to continue to...

Tags: Facebook, Exemption, SEC, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Taleo's November to forget

An HR Soap Opera This month hasn't been a good one for Taleo. Here's the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn't delight Wall...

Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-21

iPhone 2.2 firmware released

As expected, Apple released iPhone firmware 2.2 today. The 246MB update includes the following published features: Enhancements to Maps Google Street View Public transit and walking directions Display address of dropped pins Share location via email ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Firmware, Apple iTunes, E-mail, Digital Music, Digital Media, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?

The MacArthur Foundation just released a study suggesting that, not surprisingly, given the integration of social media into business and modern culture, the time kids spend with so-called new media, is generally neither wasted nor particularly harmful. In fact, as one of the lead researchers points out in the...

Tags: Youth, Media, Social Media, MySpace, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration

There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...

Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd had Vista concerns

HP CEO Mark Hurd told Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an e-mail last year that HP's call centers were "being overrun" by customers who were having difficulties upgrading to Windows Vista, a detail that was revealed in the unsealing of a court filing in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Steve Ballmer, Mark Hurd, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-20

It's official: No IE 8 until 2009

After one more public test build early next year, Microsoft plans to release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 in calendar 2009. Microsoft officials shared the updated timetable via a November 19 post on the IE Blog. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2008-11-20

News to know: Storm; Holiday gift guide;Lenovo malware; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm Gallery: Up close and personal: The BlackBerry Storm ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide: Top...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, Malware, RIM BlackBerry, VUDU, Handhelds, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Be careful when syncing your Gmail contacts with the updated BlackBerry sync utility

When I had my BlackBerry Bold I used the Google Sync for BlackBerry utility to keep my calendar updated with my Google Calendar since my Google Calendar was also synced to my Outlook/Exchange account. Google has now added contacts sync to the utility that makes it even more functional. If...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, RIM BlackBerry, Google Calendar, Handhelds, Hardware, Matthew Miller, E-mail Providers, Internet

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Diigo for education

I posted several bookmarks via Diigo on Wednesday. Although I had planned to use delicious, I find the interface to be really kludgy, so I set about looking for another social bookmarking site. Although plenty of teachers in my district post lists of links on their blogs or...

Tags: Education, Bookmark, Social Bookmarking, Teacher, Diigo, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Coal strikes back

An electric utility is suing the state of Kansas for denying said utility the permit to build more coal-fired electricity generation facilities in rural western Kansas. It's been thirteen unhappy months for Sunflower Electric Power since Kansas refused them the air quality permits for the additional coal-burning plants. ...

Tags: Permit, Kansas, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-19

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...

Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Commercial vendor of spyware under legal fire

Just like every decent marketer out there, vendors of commercial malware tools are very good at positioning their tools. However, their pitches often contradict with themselves in a way that what's promoted as a Remote Administration Tool, has in fact built-in antivirus software evading capabilities, rootkit functionality and tutorials on...

Tags: Malware, FTC, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-18

What really happened to the candidates' computers?

Now that two weeks have passed since the end of the presidential campaigns, it is worthwhile to take a look at what I think should have one of the biggest cybercrime stories of the year. As Ryan blogged the day after the election, both the McCain and the Obama...

Tags: BusinessWeek, Computer, Attack, Government, E-mail, Vertical Industries, Security, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie 'Morro'

Microsoft today announced plans to kill its Windows Live OneCare PC care and security suite and replace it with a free anti-malware utility. The new product, code-named "Morro," will be designed for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Live, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-18

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-18

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18