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EFF sues DOJ for lobbying data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain records on telecom lobbying efforts, Ars Technica reports. EFF is seeking documentation of lobbying around amendments to the FISA law and the granting of immunity for surveillance activities. What connections and...

Tags: ars technica, electronic frontier foundation, telecommunications company, government, u.s. department of justice, bush administration, telephony, telecom & utilities, telecommunications, networking, zdnet government

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Phony choices in the net neutrality debate

George Ou's long post on net neutrality -- he uses the Bell spin "net stupidity" -- is a great example of FUD. This is not a complex debate. It's not about government vs. "the market." The idea that monopolists represent "the market" is one of the biggest...

Tags: google inc., phone, edge, net neutrality, bush administration, bush justice department, internet, telecom & utilities, networking, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Additional Resources

TSA 'checkpoint-friendly' bags fly on 16 August

After the news earlier this week the the Department of Homeland Security DHS is authorized to perform notebook computer searches at U.S. borders and the subsequent suits announced by the EFF and ALC comes a softer, friendlier federal government. The Transportation Security Administration TSA – who the...

Tags: transportation security administration, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, jason d. o\'grady

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Paris for President: Energy crisis solved

Paris for President: Energy crisis solvedActually...[i] "Only problem with Paris’s solution: any production from offshore drilling won’t kick in for five years..."[/i]Unfortunately, this shows an ignorance of how gas prices are arrived at. While production from those sources won't arrive in the markets for five years, the prices will...

Tags: hilton hotels corp., energy crisis

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Telecom spending to reach $923.91 bln in 2008

Total communications spending is projected to increase 5.4% to $923.91 bln in 2008, as strong gains in the institutional and alternative media sectors offset the downward pressure of declining traditional advertising spending, according to Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The industry’s primary growth driver in 2008 is the institutional sector, particularly professional...

Tags: telecommunications, compound annual growth rate, sector, investment, workforce management, advertising & promotion, training and certification, finance, human resources, marketing, am

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Cisco's quarter clears hurdles; Outlook murky but close enough

Updated: Cisco Systems on Tuesday delivered fiscal fourth quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 33 cents a share, on revenue of $10.4 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, Cisco reported fourth quarter earnings of 40 cents a share, a penny ahead of estimates. ...

Tags: john chambers, microsoft outlook, cisco systems inc., larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

How a lack of insurance kills

How a lack of insurance killsNot everyone can get insuranceAnd not everyone can afford it when they can be accepted.The insurance companies focus on excluding people that might have an existing condition cuts out a large group of people. My wife is a good example - she had breast...

Tags: financial planning, vertical industries, benefits, healthcare, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

AT&T joins the cloud computing game

AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting. The telecom giant described Synaptic as a "next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses." That's a fancy way to say AT&T is offering a...

Tags: game, at&t corp., cloud computing service, cloud computing, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Cisco faces tricky fourth quarter report

Cisco Systems reports its fourth quarter earnings Tuesday and an analyst says the quarter may be "the trickiest in memory." Wall Street is expecting fourth quarter earnings of 39 cents a share on revenue of $10.31 billion, according to Reuters' Thomson Financial. But observers will be combing...

Tags: john chambers, analyst, cisco systems inc., data centers, storage, hardware, data management, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Free IP Tools (exe)

IP Tools is a convenient way to keep all important network utilities in one place. Twelve essential network tools inside a single user-friendly application. Customizable ping and traceroute, intelligent port scanner, remote host monitor, email address verifier, SNMP device scanner, system files editor, IP blacklist checker, NetBIOS scanner, and raw...

Tags: network, ip, tool, ip tools, scanners, productivity, networking, hardware, peripherals

Software downloads 2008-08-05

Judge hints he will declare mistrial in Thomas case

Judge hints he will declare mistrial in Thomas caseDangerous PrecedentIsn't it enough that this person actually dared to have their music on her computer. We are all guilty of making available, if it is on your hard drive and you are on the internet, via some exploit, security hole...

Tags: security, riaa, mistrial

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista

The Mother-in-law versus Vista battle cold war never ends. Every week, it's something different that goes wrong that brings us to the brink of annihilation, and I have to swoop in on the weekends to fix the inevitable new problem that comes up. Fortunately, I have the system more or...

Tags: mozilla firefox, microsoft windows xp, microsoft windows vista, rachel, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), web browsers, operating systems, microsoft windows, software, internet, jason perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-04

CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants out

CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants outNews Flash: 60% of CIOs plan to upgrade to Vista!Larry, does this mean the tide is turning?RE: CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants outI'd really like a good, clear article on this point. We've been...

Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), virtualization, ip storage, storage management, storage, microsoft windows vista, pc upgrade, storage virtualization, pc, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...

Tags: anti-p2p, monitoring

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Would you give the Feds your computers?

Would you give the Feds your computers?knee-jerkI completely agree. It's nice to see some sane responses, rather than knee-jerk reactions only.Why should a government entity require a warrant?Why should the library have any desire or need to protect it's users' privacy? I'd bet they have signs at the computer...

Tags: productivity, real estate, advertising & promotion, warrant, computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P

Although George Bush is expected to sign the Higher Education Act, reauthorized by both the House and Senate, provisions requiring academic institutions to police peer-to-peer traffic on campus has many colleges nervous. According to Ars Technica, the act does not contain any penalties for colleges that don't prevent copyright...

Tags: anti-p2p, p2p, institution, peer to peer (p2p), internet, christopher dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Are we seeing a disturbing trend in "blackmail" innovation...?

I've been thinking about the acquisition of a Silicon Valley startup, Ribbit, by BT, the giant British telecoms firm. Ribbit started out in classic form as the vendor of disruptive telecom technologies. Ribbit declared itself "Silicon Valley's First Phone Company" - a...

Tags: silicon valley, innovation, telecommunications company, ribbit, telecom & utilities, leadership, telecommunications, telephony, strategy, management, networking, tom foremski

Blog posts 2008-08-04

String Resource Translator (exe)

Editor for resource files that supports internationalization. Allows you to edit the string resources in existing files, create new files for new locales, update one resource file from another and so on. One part of a pair of utilities the other is the String Resource Creator from Tom Jorgenson Consulting...

Tags: resource, globalization, .net, application servers, middleware, strategy, management, software development, software/web development, enterprise software, software

Software downloads 2008-08-04

FlexMap (zip)

FlexMap is a free vector based map drawing tool that you can use to create self-describing maps for many of Racingspider Games' utilities and games. All of the information concerning the map: movement cost, defensive value, detection cost and texture the fill bitmap are all stored inside the map. FlexMap's...

Tags: map, terrain, racingspider games, flexmap, productivity, games, personal technology

Software downloads 2008-08-04

Fixing McCain's techno-ignorance

The New York Times' Mark Leibovich takes note of the tittering twitters over John McCain's recent admission that he's not exactly tech-savvy. "Not only did John McCain not invent the Internet, he can barely use it," he sniggers. McCain's argument, as Cynthia Brumfield summarizes, is that as...

Tags: john mccain, leibovich, e-mail, web site development, scanners, online communications, internet, hardware, peripherals, richard koman

Blog posts 2008-08-03