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- Zut alors! the French are revolting
- The French have a long tradition of using cartoons to make a point and this does the job perfectly. Referring to SAP's proposed price increase in software maintenance costs, LeMagIT is reporting that USF - the French equivalent of ASUG is applying pressure to see action...
- Tags: SAP AG, USF, Public Relations, Wiki, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- $3b approved for rural broadband
- $3b approved for rural broadbandPhone service?Isn't USF for phone service, not broadband? not sureWAIT??????Isn't the Universal Service Fund supposed to help pay this?The USF has 4 programs including 1 for High Cost, that consumers in all regions of the nation have access to telecommunications services at rates that are affordable...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USF, broadband, rural broadband
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- 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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- Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?
- I was on an interview the other day and began thinking about how nice it would have been to record the rather long-winded engineer on the other end of the line. This got me thinking: are you allowed to record your VoIP calls without asking for permission first? Of course...
- Tags: Phone, Permission, Vonage Holdings Corp., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Enterprise vendors: in pursuit of reality
- Michael Hickins at BNet cracks open the customer/vendor relationship kimono, using Ray Wang's most recent post as the backdrop. As we enter the conference season, the timing could not be better: Indeed, most customers have a love-hate relationship with their vendors that is heavily weighted towards hate....
- Tags: Beverage, Customer, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO PR, Carr, Food & Beverage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Managed Hosting, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- White House hates Martin's free Net plan
- White House hates Martin's free Net planBroadband also had to be fairly priced..There is extreme variances in the pricing of broadband among carriers of similiar technologies. Take cable for example, in the Salisbury, MD market; Comcast HSI only will cost you $60 a month for the mid-level tier (8Mbps down/2Mbps...
- Tags: Pricing, Network technology, Net Plan, White House, broadband, pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- AppLabs Case Study: University of San Francisco
- In order to support its vision, The University of San Francisco USF articulated a strategic priority of deploying technology solutions to enhance learning and improve service. The University needed to use the new registration system at the customary time for registration in the academic calendar; therefore, there was no flexibility...
- Tags: AppLabs, Business Services, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-09-03
- 2008 South Florida Bulls Football Schedule Widget 4.0 (Mac)
- Instant automated access to the latest USF Bulls Football kick-off and schedule information for the 2008 South Florida Bulls Football football games. All games are listed with the date and time, home or away, TV scheduling plus the scores from the previously played games. Team logo hot link to...
- Tags: Team, Apple Macintosh, Rio Wicked Widget Works, Games, Team Management, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2008-08-11
- 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
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