shaw communications

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Slashdotters fume at Shaw Communications QoS fee

Slashdotters fume at Shaw Communications QoS feeI don't know how surprised I am . . .. . . that an ISP is starting to nickel and dime customers for services that are of limited usefulness . . . I'm more surprised that they haven't begun already. One thing's for...

Tags: Shaw Communications QoS, Slashdotters, Shaw Communications, QoS

Discussion threads 2006-03-13

Slashdotters fume at Shaw Communications QoS fee

Over the last couple of weeks,there's been quite a ruckus caused by what some deem Canada-based ISP Shaw Communications' $10 "packet prioritization" fee for guaranteed Quality of Service on non-Shaw VoIP calls carried over their broadband network.Vonage has complained to the Canadian Radio and Television Commission. Now Slashdotters are...

Tags: Shaw Communications, QoS

Blog posts 2006-03-13

Shaw-Vonage Canada fight heating up

On Tuesday, I reported that Vonage Canada filed a complaint with the Canadian Radio and Television Commission CRTC about broadband cable Internet access provider Shaw Communications' $10 Quality of Service Enhancement fee pitched to their subscribers as a voluntary plan to ensure quality of service for Vonage and other...

Tags: Shaw Communications, Vonage Canada, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Cable broadband ISP's QoS enhancement surcharge draws Vonage's ire

As I posted last week, more than a few Vonage customers are suspicious that Comcast is crimping the quality of their voice calls. Vonage denies the charge, but the subject is still a red-hot issue on the Vonage Forum. But now we have concrete proof of another strategy broadband...

Tags: Shaw Communications, Shaw Digital Phone

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Another cable VoIP plays the self-fulfilling ROI pricing game

Edmonton, Alberta is known for the world's largest shopping mall, the NHL's Edmonton Oilers remember hockey? and now, the site of the Canadian cable television industry's first VoIP-based deployment.Sometime next month, Shaw Communications (no relation to the author :-) will offer its Edmonton customers 1,000 minutes of VoIP for $60...

Tags: Shaw Communications, ROI

Blog posts 2005-01-14

File-swapping lawsuits loom in Canada

Canadian record labels ask a court to order ISPs to identify subscribers it suspects may have illegally distributed music files, in prelude to filing piracy lawsuits. The Canadian music industry is going to court to seek the identities of 29 online file swappers, in preparation to filing lawsuits similar...

Tags: Lawsuit, RIAA, File-swapping, Internet Service Provider, Canadian Recording Industry Association, Shaw Communications, Music, CRIA, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, John Borland, Software

News items 2004-02-13

Additional Resources

Microsoft external PR chief to get a blue badge

Microsoft's newest Corporate Vice President, who picks up his blue employee badge at the end of August, will be someone very familiar with the inner workings of the company. Frank Shaw, who currently heads the Microsoft account at PR agency Waggener Edstrom, will become the company's new Corporate Vice President...

Tags: Vice President, Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Intel's Barrett to retire in May

Intel announced today that company chairman Craig Barrett, who also served as the CEO of the chip maker from 1998 to 2005, will retire in May at the company's annual shareholders meeting. Barrett joined Intel in 1974 and. most recently, has been active with Intel's World Ahead...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10

Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10Over a barrelis where IBM has you if you still use mainframes. Not only is the hardware very expensive, but the labor is too. Universities stopped their mainframes ages ago, so no CS student today has any idea what a mainframe is. This means that you...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware cost, Shaw, mainframe, Z10, hardware, CPU

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

5 tips to prevent IT extinction

Here are 5 tips to help IT avoid extinction. I pose this question to IT departments everywhere: "Is your department evolving upwards or fading away on a seemingly-inevitable tide of outsourcing?" If the latter, I suggest you study these points carefully. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Blogger Kate Carruthers, Commenter, Blogger Kelly Shaw, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-26

News to know: EclipseCon; Tired browser wars; Apple; P4P; R.I.P. Russell Shaw

Notable headlines: Rest in peace Russell Shaw. Techmeme Ed Burnette: EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more Jason O'Grady: Getting tired of the browser-go-round David Morgenstern: Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's icons Jason Perlow:...

Tags: EclipseCon, Yahoo! Inc., P2P, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case

The meme that this FCC is highly partial to the interests of large broadband service providers and telcos has often been hammered home on these screens. While I am certainly not ready to contradict those overarching feelings, I nevertheless...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Subscriber, Charge, Rule, Sprint Communications, Carrier, Complainant, Section 258, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby Feds in 2007

The Associated Press reports that Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby the federal government in 2007. Vonage's key lobbying activities  were related to  telecommunications competition and consumer issues. That's according...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

News to know: EC vs. Microsoft; Google Sites; Evernote's incredible search; iPhone roadmap

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: EU slaps Microsoft with $1.35 billion fine Mary Jo Foley: European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable? Dennis Howlett: Steelie Neelie slaps Microsoft with record fine John Carroll: Microsoft vs. the EC, round 236 ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Nanotechnology, Hacking, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-02-28

9-1-1 VoIP passes Senate, but that's far from a complete solution

The IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act of 2007 has just been passed by the U.S. Senate. The hill amends the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999 to irequire interstate VoIP providers to provide enhanced 9-1-1-services. Not only that,...

Tags: Hill, U.S. Senate, GPS, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Federal Government, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Government, Hardware, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-27

iotum's conference call Facebook app picks up three new intl partners

Internet calling solutions provider  iotum has announced expanded availability  for its  FREE Conference Calls application on Facebook. Internatinal in scope, the expansion fir the five-month-old service is being facilitated by  agreements with Internet communications partners Truphone in the U.K., Abbeynet in Italy and MOI Telecom in France....

Tags: Facebook, Partnership, Conference, FREE, Iotum, Internet, Business Structures, Podcasts, Finance, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Remember this, BlackBerry: when it comes to customer communications, it's NOT all about the carriers

Once again, there were scattered BlackBerry service outages yesterday. This time, it was maintenance on the BlackBerry Internet Service side of the business. The one that forwards your other email account messages to your BlackBerry. Unfortunately, yesterday proved that when it comes to letting customers know what...

Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Carrier, Handhelds, Hardware, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"

Without mentioning Comcast's broadband Internet throttling by name, Google's Public Policy analyst and blogger Derek Slater has just made a post resoundingly in favor of the net neutrality legislation introduced this week by Congressmen Ed Markey and Chip Pickering: Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip...

Tags: Google Inc., Broadband, Net Neutrality, Broadband Policy, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-14

OnState Unified Messaging for Skype debuts today

Contact center solutions provider OnState Communications has just announced OnState Unified Messaging for Skype. This is a single-platform, subscription-based Skype messaging solution that integrates email; voicemail; business chat; and customer contact messaging and recording systems. With a starting price as ...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Messaging, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-12

How this nearly barenaked lady has been brought to you courtesy of a Skype SPIM-mer

Skype Journal's Phil Wolff uses this screencap from a Skype SPIM Spam Over Instant Messaging session to explain how Skype SPIM-ers initiate these contacts. Phil mentions 10 ways this is done. Perhaps number 6 is the most sneakingly cunning: ...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Journal, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-07