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- Telecom Company
- An organization that provides voice or data transmission services, such as AT&T, Verizon and Qwest. A company that specializes in making carrier-class hardware and software, such as Lucent and...
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- Zoho lands Swisscom as partner
- Zoho said Tuesday that it will partner with telecom company Swisscom to offer the company's business applications to its enterprise customers. Swisscom has 300,000 business customers and for emerging software as a service SaaS player Zoho it's a big win. Zoho said in a post that the...
- Tags: swisscom ag, zoho business, human capital, telephony, telecom & utilities, telecommunications, human resources, workforce management, networking, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4
- Something about getting a new neck earlier this spring made me start thinking about how to change my life to make America a better place. Here a few that you can try to make the country better over the Fourth of July weekend: 1.) Turn off your...
- Tags: phone, pc, cell phone, computer, productivity, telecom & utilities, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, mitch ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Anhui Telecom Deploys Data Warehouse to Manage Up to 40TB Data
- Anhui Telecom Company Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Telecom, the largest fixed service telecommunications provider in China. Anhui Telecom offers voice, data, internet, multimedia, and information services to more than 10.5 million customers in the province of Anhui. Anhui Telecom wanted to build a data warehouse to...
- Tags: data warehouse, oracle corp., anhui telecom, business intelligence, storage, databases, enterprise software, software, data management, hardware
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Anhui Telecom Improves Processing Performance of Online Charging System by an Increase of 150 Times
- Anhui Telecom Company Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Telecom, the largest fixed service telecommunications provider in China. Anhui Telecom wanted to implement an online charging system that incorporates the company's 3G operations and eliminate processing issues that were affecting the performance of the system. The challenge was to...
- Tags: oracle corp., performance, anhui telecom, 3g, performance management, storage, sales channel, databases, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, human resources, workforce management, hardware, sales, enterprise software, software, data management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Pakistan+removed+from+the+Internet
- Pakistan+removed+from+the+InternetThis has nothing to do with DNSThis has nothing to do with DNS. This is happening at a MUCH lower layer. DNS is name resolution for applications like web browsers and mail servers. Routing tables determine where the IPs are routed.The routes are being hijacked by poisoned...
- Tags: internet service providers (isps), routers & switches, bgp, ssh, bgp route, internet, shell account, government, router, dns
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
- Pakistan removed from the Internet
- 4:30 PM Eastern US. The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to...
- Tags: youtube inc., pakistan, internet, internet service providers (isps), richard stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- EU: User privacy rights trump intellectual property
- Good and bad news for European net users. The European Union's high court said that under EU law ISPs don't have to provider user data to record labels and movie studios looking to track down illegal downloaders, the AP reports. It seems that privacy rights in the...
- Tags: privacy, intellectual property right, european union, intellectual property, government, research & development, business operations, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Save Internet freedom--from regulation
- Save Internet freedom--from regulationIf only.....it were that simple.What the writer fails to acknowledge is the fact that ethics subverted by greed within some companies have done harm to people for the sake of expanding profit thereby inviting regulation on themselves by the representatives of the people whom they were abusing.Given...
- Tags: regulations, telecom & utilities, rogers cable, regulation, save internet freedom, telecommunications, net neutrality
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- F-Secure: More than 100-150 malware variants targeting Macs
- F-Secure: More than 100-150 malware variants targeting MacsHmm most of the planet vs a vanishingly small naive user groupEssentially going after Mac users is like shooting sitting ducks. To most hackers it wasn't even a challenge considering the small user base. The more Apple raises its profile (and...
- Tags: desktops, linux, cyberthreats, construction, spyware, adware & malware, security, viruses and worms, f-secure corp., apple macintosh, attack, window, malware, antivirus
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Making the case for telework
- Making the case for teleworkRE: Making the case for teleworkMy wife and I are both independent translators living in Costa Rica and we have been working from home for over a decade, keeping in touch with our clients over the Internet and the telephone. That has allowed us to enjoy...
- Tags: government, vertical industries, benefit
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Could other ISPs follow BT's free Web biz-app offering, thus challenging Salesforce, others?
- A scan of the RSS feeds I monitor (by no means the end-all, be-all sub list) reveals that hardly anyone may have noticed or cared that the UK telecom company BT took not just a natural step in what is now becoming a tradition of ISPs and telcos offering free...
- Tags: salesforce.com inc., google inc., web, telecommunications company, british telecommunications, internet service provider, bt business builder, david berlind
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote Democratic
- Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote DemocraticWhat in the world makes ........ you think it would be any different with a Democratic Whitehouse. You Bush haters are so blinded by that hatred you can't see the truth when it is right in front of your face. The...
- Tags: net neutrality, bush administration, internet
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- The Ballmer and Chambers show--no fireworks
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers are holding court with interviewer Charlie Rose in New York City, discussing how they view the market transition, Google, coopetition and industry cooperation. The two industry titans both view the market as in an early stage transition, with lots of...
- Tags: john chambers, google inc., steve ballmer, industry, microsoft corp., cisco systems inc., dan farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Sun sets on SunRocket
- Sun sets on SunRocketIf Only They Had Listened!Maybe if SunRocket listened to what you've been saying all along with creating strategic partnerships with Cricket Wireless or Metro PCS they might not be closing their doors tonight. ViaTalk and other providers should take note.--RHhttp://www.CheapCellPhoneWireless.comWhat???? Am I SOL?I just paid...
- Tags: telephony, voip, telecommunications, cable, network technology, sun microsystems inc., onesuite, lingo, sunrocket
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- BEA joins race to event-driven SOA
- Is EDA (event-driven architecture) the next frontier of SOA? BEA believes it is. Just a couple of weeks back, Oracle also said the future of SOA is EDA. The vision is that a SOA , though loosely coupled, should be able to respond to events in real time (or at...
- Tags: general, vendor watch
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Is Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hat's shopping list?
- Is Red Hat going to use its Red Hat Exchange to find acquisition targets? Its quite possible. And if thats the case Zimbra and potentially Alfresco will part of Red Hat at some point. That speculation is just one of...
- Tags: general, linux, open source, red hat, software infrastructure, web technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Mexico City to go wireless by 2008
- All of Mexico City will be one free, wireless Internet hotspot by 2008, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced, according to AFP. The project "will accelerate the technological development of the city," Ebrard said after signing a contract with the Chinese telecoms and networking giant ZTE. "Why connect 4,000 cameras...
- Tags: municipal broadband, international, government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Nortel has a burn the boats strategy says CTO
- The clap and rumble of thunder is followed within seconds by the sound of a torrential, tropical downpour. Im sitting in the Tonga Room, in the bowels of the swank Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, with John Roese, CTO of Nortel, the $11bn Canadian telecoms equipment giant.The thunder and lighting...
- Tags: business strategy, enterprise it, top interviews
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- If not iPhone, how about Apple iFon?
- I offered a few suggestions and a poll for renaming the iPhone in the likelihood that Apple loses its lawsuit with Cisco over rights to use the name. Apple calling the lawsuit "silly" would indicate that Steve Jobs isnt interested in coming back to the negotiating table with Cisco....
- Tags: general, personal technology, wired & wireless, web technology, mobile, legal, apple, cisco, iphone, cingular, apple computer inc., apple iphone
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Google partners with China Mobile on WAP portal
- Google partners with China Mobile on WAP portalAlexander has reached china, Taiwan without much fual!I guess Google search didn't get much success in china, and its strong rival Baidu.com got great success. The only remaining option for Google is to catch mobile search before someone else develop “multimedia searching” on...
- Tags: portals, business structures, web technology, advertising & promotion, cellular phones, wi-fi, alexander, google inc., wap portal, google partner, china mobile ltd., wap, mobile, portal, partnership
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
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