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- Telecom Expense Management: 5 Best Practices for Reducing Telecom Cost
- Telecommunications expenses are among the largest cost items on corporate income statements. According to leading industry analysts, many companies can lower their telecommunications costs by 15% or more without damaging their service quality, and the savings would go directly to their bottom lines. In this white...
- Tags: Best Practice, MBG Expense Management, Telecommunications Expense, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2009-10-05
- Five Key Best Practices for Reducing Telecom Expenses
- Telecommunications expenses are among the largest cost items on the corporate income statement, easily overlooked by companies as simply the cost of doing business. Rapid technological advancements in voice, data, web services, and wireless devices have made it essential for corporations to keep pace in order remaining competitive. Despite declining...
- Tags: Best Practice, MBG Expense Management, Telecommunications Expense, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2008-06-30
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- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?
- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?Won't workThe only way News will get their revenue offset is if 'the pipe' is charged; in other words ISPs get charged and pass along the cost to you in the form of an increase surcharge on your broadband account.When a...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Operational accounting, grand subscription plan, minimal revenue, News Corp., Much Ado, subscription plan, Rupert Murdoch, revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- Should broadband connectivity be a right?
- Should broadband connectivity be a right?Not at all.Yes, it is going to be a necessity but it will never be a right. In my opinion, this goes along with the whole "Is health care a right" ordeal. Neither of these are rights. They are both almost absolutely necessary but no...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, INTERNET, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, broadband connectivity
- Discussion threads 2009-05-31
- Broadband expansion, but at what expense?
- Telecommunications firms vying for $7.2 billion in funding for broadband expansion are urging regulators to allow all companies that have current government licenses to be eligible to apply. Firms, regulators and consumer groups are all lobbying to shape the unwritten rules that will govern how regulators dole...
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cable Might Try To Kill TV. It Would Not Be Suicide.
- Cable operators have a love-hate relationship with TV. Giving Americans scores of TV channels,where they once had just three or four, built them into the telecommunications giants that they are today. But now, the TV business is the least profitable of the three legs they stand on....
- Tags: Cable, CMCSA, VZ, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Mobiles for your users
- We all have users for whom a mobile phone of some sort makes a lot of sense. Our district has always either provided a phone or a moderate subsidy for key staff who need to stay in touch. Principals need to be reachable in case of emergencies with...
- Tags: District, Phone, Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- The Open Source Commandments
- Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...
- Tags: Jason Perlow, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Operating Systems, Pharaoh Rameses, Software, UNIX
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging marketsIt is a process to hit price points that will work everywhere. OLPC hasat least hit price points that mean probably hundreds of millions more will now be able to afford computers. True, there are billions in need, but, prices will...
- Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, emerging market, $100 laptop, laptop computer, Gartner Inc., phone, computer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- State and wireless firms squabble over blame for high cellphone rates
- State and wireless firms squabble over blame for high cellphone ratesShow the taxes on the bill!Allowing governmental bodies to squash the explicit listing of taxes on cell phone bills would be like allowing them to forbid gas stations from posting those signs on the pump which break out the various...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Cellular phones, tax, cell phone, wireless firm, high cellphone rate, cellphone rate, blame, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Face it, Windows Ultimate Extras are history
- Face it, Windows Ultimate Extras are historyIt's OK, the rebate will be on it's way soon. NTTripleIIYou are not seeing the big picture...My rep once again confirmed for me the "Ultimate Advantage" is more of a concept than a product. The media needs to understand this. You bought the Ultimate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PC, Microsloth, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, FACE IT, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Enterprise telecom spending: The big unknown following AT&T's consumer comments
- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson delivered the quotes heard around the technology industry. Stephenson's comments on Tuesday about consumers not being able to pay their bills rattled the stock market. But what about enterprise telecom spending? First, here's what Stephenson said in comments at the Citigroup Entertainment, Media...
- Tags: CIO, AT&T Corp., IP, Enterprise Telecom, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Is Google Apps now a real Microsoft Office competitor?
- An alliance forged between Google and systems integrator CapGemini was the talk of the blogosphere on September 10. Many commentators are looking at the new partnership as proof that Google finally is ready to make business inroads with Google Apps Premier Edition GAPE -- mostly at Microsoft's expense. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Capgemini, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Analyst: FTC could block Google-DoubleClick deal; Is there a case?
- Scott Cleland, an analyst at the Precursor group, argues in a 36-page white paper that the Federal Trade Commission could shoot down Google's acquisition of DoubleClick. First a few notes: I've interviewed Cleland a few times mostly on telecommunications matters and find him very credible. He knows tech, telecom and...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Microsoft, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Analyst: Touchscreen, OSX-based iPods en route
- Analyst: Touchscreen, OSX-based iPods en routeYes, I wonder how the Zoune is doing?Haven't heard much regarding the Zoune product. I wonder how well it is doing? I asked my Microsoft rep regarding regarding his mp3 player and he showed me his (creative Zen, that is)Vista on Zune...heh8/10. You...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, touch screen, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- Vonage: Is there a future?
- VOIP giant Vonage reported its fourth quarter results and analysts are teeing off on the company. Vonage is still churning a good chunk of customers, spending too much on marketing and serving up a disappointing outlook. The good news: Vonage...
- Tags: General, Telecommunications, VOIP, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Demystifying Enterprise Fixed Mobile Convergence
- The adoption and use of the mobile device has grown exponentially since its invention little more than 20 years ago. It is expected that by the year 2010 almost 80% of the global adult population will own a mobile device. More significant than the huge growth in subscribers is the...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, Convergence, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Robert Fort, CIO Virgin Entertainment Group
- Dan Farber:Robert thanks for joining me.Robert Fort: Well, thanks for having me.Dan Farber:Virgin is a very large and diverse company based in the U.K., and you’re CIO for Virgin Entertainment Group. What precisely is in that group?Robert Fort:Virgin Entertainment Group is predominantly the Virgin Megastores here in the United States.Dan...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Robert Fort, CIO Virgin Entertainment Group
- Dan Farber: Robert thanks for joining me. Robert Fort: Well, thanks for having me. Dan Farber: Virgin is a very large and diverse company based in the U.K., and you’re CIO for Virgin Entertainment Group. What precisely is in that...
- Tags: Innovation, Virgin Entertainment, Risk, CD, Product, Customer, Kiosk, Sales, Store, Technology, Internet, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Appeals court upholds Net-wiretapping rules
- Appeals court upholds Net-wiretapping rulesLawless LeadersI used to be a Republican because they were the party of limited government and acknowledged the difference between a democracy and a republic is a republic limits popular democracy with an established structure of laws that cannot be lightly changed (the Constitution and Bill...
- Tags: Federal government, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, FCC, leeway, substantial leeway, Constitution, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2006-06-09
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