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- Appeals court ruling upholds Net phone taxes
- Appeals court ruling upholds Net phone taxesDidn't think Long Distance calling existedI had Vonage and you just get long distance calling. What I used to pay a fee for to the Telcos was free with Vonage, part of the monthly service fee. So how do you tax something that doesn't...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, VoIP, tax, Net-phone tax, USF, Internet phone
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Emerging eGovernment mashups
- Emerging eGovernment mashupse-campaignsPhil, thanks for this post. Web services and mashups within government is the key infrastructure necessary for transparency, and its great to see some of the things you called for happening.At USF, we're working on a project to make SF campaign information transparent, and the big next step...
- Tags: USF, Phil, e-government
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- USF fees to raise cellular, VoIP bills?
- USF fees to raise cellular, VoIP bills?At what point will they realize...That I left Land Line phones because of taxes.. Now they want to raise the cost on Cellular as well... Let me think about that... umm... no. What a bunch of crap, all of this because of...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Government, Telecom & Utilities, USF, tax, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- New taxes could run rural broadband
- New taxes could run rural broadbandWhy should I pay twice for having VOIPWouldn't that double tax most people that have VOIP service. I don't mind paying my share, but since to have VOIP service I must also have a broadbannd connection I get hit twice. Not really fair,...
- Tags: Network technology, Taxes, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, broadband, cable, rural broadband, USF, phone, tax, rural area, subsidy
- Discussion threads 2005-11-17
- Stealth DSL price increases loom
- Stealth DSL price increases loomTaxes ect.Well, anything good the Government is going to tax it.How annoying!First, the Baby Bells cannot tell me that they didn't factor in these taxes in their cost/price analysis. To add this increase in this manner is what annoys customers about the utility companies, in general.Secondly,...
- Tags: Taxes, Network technology, Free trade, Broadband Internet, Telecom & Utilities, BellSouth Corp., DSL, tax, USF, cable
- Discussion threads 2004-04-06
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- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutrality
- New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutralityI think this should be handled through ICANNThey say.. if you try to impose restriction on websites that you do not host, we terminate your name associations and IP blocks.Problem solved.In its current form.. net neutraility does more harm than good. Any restrictions other than the ones blocking monopolies...
- Tags: Web site development, INTERNET, Net Neutrality, Web site, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Pity the fools at Time-Warner
- Pity the fools at Time-WarnerBitTorrent and DivXSeems [url=http://www.divx.com/company/press/press_detail.php?pr_id=286]Sony[/url] and [url=http://www.divx.com/company/press/press_detail.php?pr_id=287]AMD[/url] have taken an keen interest in using DivX.The interesting part about DivX is that it is portable across many devices, and the compression is excellent resulting in relatively small video files without sacrificing video/audio quality.My money is on DivX and...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, DivXNetworks, Time-Warner
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- NASA checks coastal waters from space
- Using NASA satellite imagery, researchers at the University of South Florida USF in St. Petersburg have found that it is possible to monitor coastal water quality. This means that water quality can be checked daily rather than monthly as done by traditional methods which involves expensive boat surveys. This information...
- Tags: Technique, NASA, Satellite, Water, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- USF Lakeland Equips New Building With Help of Dell Installation Services
- University of South Florida Lakeland, located between Tampa and Orlando in the Florida High Tech Corridor serves more than 2,000 students and leads USF in the field of Information Technology. The three-member IT staff had a narrow window of time to deploy innovative technology in the new space and move...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., USF Lakeland, Printers, Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Management
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Schools fights IT outsourcing fears
- How much does outsourcing jobs overseas affect enrollment in IT courses in colleges? Computer degrees have seen a sharp decline since the dot-com bust and thats putting pressure on colleges to recruit students, reports the Tampa Tribune. Some teachers such as Kaushal Chari, the head of an information technology...
- Tags: Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Net neutrality, patents, broadband top new Congress's tech agenda
- When the 110th Congress convenes next year, a number of tech-related initiatives will take center stage, Grant Gross writes for IDG News Service. Among them privacy, patents and network neutrality. Privacy and data breach notification With data breaches exploding all over the private and public sectors, there...
- Tags: Universal Service Fund, Representative Rick Boucher, patent
- Blog posts 2006-12-25
- Uh-Oh Canada: You're about to deregulate VoIP
- Uh-Oh Canada: You're about to deregulate VoIPI think in the endIf the price drops and the services are there.. It's a win win for us Canadians.The only exception being putting these cable co.'s out of VOIP in place of Bell etc.. They will just get us in again and start...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cable, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP
- Discussion threads 2006-11-16
- Verizon drops DSL surcharge
- Verizon drops DSL surchargeThey'll probably just wait 6 months, and then have an overall rate increaseThey recently raised prices on our basic, analog phone connections in my area. If anything, POTS should be getting cheaper, not more expensive. It's not like it hasn't had 100 years to pay...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Verizon Communications Inc., QoS, DSL
- Discussion threads 2006-08-31
- Why SunRocket's new pay-by-the-year calling plans will fizzle off the launching pad
- Why SunRocket's new pay-by-the-year calling plans will fizzle off the launching padBrian is rightThe fact is that for the same feature set actually a subset of the SunRocket features with Verizon I was paying $75 a month once you counted all of the taxes and surcharges. The $199 annual fee...
- Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, SunRocket, phone
- Discussion threads 2006-07-10
- Why Vonage needs a Universal Service Fund surcharge like a hole in the head
- The FCC is strongly considering requiring VoIP companies to pay into the Universal Service Fund.Although the move has been talked about for some time now, The Wall Street Journal reports that the initiative to extract money from VoIP providers for the phone service subsidy is now actively being explored by...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-02
- My analysis: what will the AT
- My analysis: what will the ATTwo dinosaurs matingjust before the asteroid hits. That's MY analysis.Big Bang Theoryand the closed universe concept. 1984 saw the "Big Bang", the breakup of the Bell operating system. Seems the universe created back then has reached it's maximum expansion point, and is contracting back in...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, environment, stupidity, government, Bad News, AT&T Corp., BellSouth Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., analysis
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- No to Internet taxes
- No to Internet taxesWhose ox again?[i]Government has a habit of tilting the natural flow of an economy in artificial directions.[i]Which is fine, as long as they're favoring the "unnatural direction" that suits you.As the old jokes go,"[b]I[/b] want the Government to protect rights.""[b]You[/b] want the Government to invest in the...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, satellite, phone, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-03-01
- No to Internet taxes
- When I read that Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, was a strong supporter of plans to tax Internet communications in order to prop up the wilting Universal Service Fund a pool of funds used to subsidize telecommunications services in rural areas, I had...
- Tags: telecommunications, Internet, Universal Service Fund
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- Time running out on the big carriers
- Time running out on the big carriersBroadband access NOTDo you know that the telcos were given $200 BILLION in incentatives, tax cuts, grants from the gov't for which they promised to bring broadband access to every home in th US? Where did the money go? The money that is brough...
- Tags: Taxes, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Free trade, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, phone, tax, cell company, cell site
- Discussion threads 2006-03-01
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