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What AT&T and Verizon's new E-911 claims downplay - or don't say

I'm not all that impressed by AT&T's and Verizon's separate announcements late yesterday that yea, they are flooring it on E-911.Sure, there's some movement, but these press releases are all about spin control- assuring anxious current and would-be subscribers that "yea, we're working on it."Let's look at each announcement with...

Tags: AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc.

Blog posts 2005-07-12

Here's how Vonage-Verizon E-911 will work

As was expected, Vonage and Verizon have announced an agreement that will allow Vonage customers to access Verizon's Enhanced 911 network.When the system is in place by the end of this year, it does not appear at the outset that it will solve all the problems of E-911 access experienced...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., E911

Blog posts 2005-05-04

Two reasons why Verizon is opening up its NYC E911 to VoIP

As we report today, Verizon Communications now says it will open its New York City E911 call infrastructure to VoIP operators this summer.If the technology goes well, and to quote Verizon "all the kinks are ironed out," the company will open E911 call infrastructure in all of its service areas...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., E911

Blog posts 2005-04-26

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Blogger ethics, public relations... and you

Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...

Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"

A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...

Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Live Webcast: The 2008 Email Security Benchmarking Report

Email is a critical tool for business communications, but its use is threatened by the growing volume and sophistication of external attacks. Today's best-in-class organizations are realizing significant benefits compared to other organizations, particularly through the use of Software as a Service SaaS security applications. Join this...

Tags: Google Inc., Webcast, E-mail Security, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security

Webcasts 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?

I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...

Tags: Mobile, Fuss, Tool, Productivity, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Gil Yehuda

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks

The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that...

Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-10-06

RIM BlackBerry Pearl - black (T-Mobile)

RIM BlackBerry Pearl - black (T-Mobile)Love my Pearl 8130I love my Pearl 8130 Verizon so much that I blog about it at http://newBBie.com. I also own a Curve 8330. Love 'em both. Prefer the Pearl's smaller size, and actually love the non-full-QWERTY keyboard (no, really). Prefer the Curve's larger screen...

Tags: Handhelds, PEARL, Pearl 8130, Curve 8330, RIM BlackBerry Pearl, Research In Motion Ltd., T-Mobile, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-10-04

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon Wireless)

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 Verizon WirelessLove my Curve 8330I love my new Curve so much that I'm blogging about it at http://newBBie.com. I also own a Pearl 8130 and am undecided which of the two models I prefer. The Pearl I like for its smaller size, and GET THIS: I...

Tags: Curve 8330, Research In Motion Ltd., Verizon Wireless, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-10-04

Videos: Nokia 5800 touchscreen phone

Videos: Nokia 5800 touchscreen phoneI'm no guru...I'm all for alternatives to the iPhone, but the screen on this thing looks like it's made of cheap plastic. I dunno, maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.That's awesome how the device has handwriting recognition built in. I never had...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, phone, Nokia 5800, touchscreen phone, touch screen, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?

Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service

Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese serviceSo when do we clean up our own act?First we need to clean up our own operation, put a little sunshine into the dark corners of the domestic-"intelligence" "community", enact and enforce strong privacy legislation (at least on par with what's in effect...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Says, agreement

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Watch tonight's debate on your mobile; just not on the iPhone

If you are on the go tonight and don't want to miss the Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin you can watch it on your mobile phone. But only if it's on Verizon. If you're a Verizon Wireless customer there are two ways you...

Tags: Apple iPhone, NBC, Mobile, MSNBC, Debate, Verizon Wireless, CBS Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Content management software vendors eye social networking

Content management software vendors eye social networkingSocial Content Management is alive and kickingThe merging of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is a tough transition, and one which we at Emojo have been working on for a number of years. In practice it has meant that we've had to re-engineer from...

Tags: Web technology, content management, vendors eye social networking, Web 1.0, content management system, software

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

A great reason to jailbreak: tethering

A great reason to jailbreak: tetheringNokia: No Jailbreaking Required[url=http://www.opentoanything.com/]Open to Anything.[/url]So much so, in fact Nokia has put Symbian into open source.What kind of smartphone doesn't allow you to tether?If you ask me, that's just dumb.Here's a [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]link[/url] to one of my articles listing some of the things you can...

Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Engineering, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, great reason, Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone, battery

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages

Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messagescheaper solutionJust get the logs from NSA, or run a joint operation...viztorThe U.S. does the sameIs there really much difference?Zillions of warrentless wiretaps. Deep packet inspection on the backbones.Getting search records from search companies for U.S citizens.U.S. laws broken repeatedly.Who are we to call the kettle...

Tags: Tom-Skype, Chinese monitoring, Tom-Skype message, monitoring

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

The cost of doing business in China: Privacy

The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...

Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

California governor: Silicon Valley Should Go to Germany

After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...

Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-01