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Qwest Being sued for VoIP Patent violation by RTI Inc

2007-07-20T07:56:00.001-07:00

Rates Technology Inc (RTI), which has sued high-profile companies like Nortel Networks, Google Inc. and Vonage Holdling Corp, seeking billions of dollars in damages, now has set its sights on Qwest Inc.

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Get an iPhone for $400! may be $300

2007-07-18T15:46:00.001-07:00

One more way to get an iPhone cheaper that what Apple and AT&T sells for. A little leg work but might work out for you!

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Anothe iPhone openion

2007-07-03T20:15:00.001-07:00

Just the title saya it

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2007-07-02T18:44:00.000-07:00

iPhone alternatives, 10 of them!

July 3rd, 2007

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iPhone coverage by media, through CNN

July 3rd, 2007

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Magic India

July 3rd, 2007

What about a jump in the past, in a magic place like India?
Looking for hotels in India this is what you can find: old mansions converted in luxury hotels.
You can still experience the old charm but with all comforts of contemporary living.
What about a castle that offers the opportunity to stay as the guest of a royal family and explore some of the most picturesque tribal areas in all of India?
Isn’t it an intriguing and exciting experience?
If you are looking for a special holyday, this could be the one.
The rooms are furnished in period style (something I really love), but with a modern bathroom, with hot and cold showers, English toilets and dressing space.
The castle belongs to the descendants of the original Vaghela Rajput conquerors, who ruled up to independence in 1947/8. The atmosphere is cheerful and friendly, and the feel of staying as a guest of the royal family has been retained.
You can also enjoy the real Indian cooking, with the best of Rajasthani and Gujarati cuisine adapted to individual tastes.
And if you want to learn Indian Cooking, you are a welcome guest in the kitchen!
So, if you are looking for a magic and unforgettable vacation, India is waiting for you!
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Termites: mors tua, vita mea…

July 2nd, 2007

I am fond of antique furniture, and I collected quite a good amount of nice pieces during my life.
One of them was a 19th century walnut desk on turned and reeded tapered legs and a tooled inset leather top, something you can find at a price ranging from $20.000 on.
You can imagine my despair when one terrible day, moving it, suddenly it fell on one side.
One of the legs’ end practically was disintegrated.
Literally eaten by termites, without me having the slightest idea that it could happen.
It cost me some money to repair it and to my dismay, you can see it!
Since then I cautiously look and inspect every piece of furniture, looking for the first sign of termites (which is usually a small and light powder on the floor)and of course taking care that they die before doing any damage.
If you want to know more about termites there is a good website where they discuss and explain about them.
How to kill termites before they kill your furniture (or your house, if you have a wooden one). This is really one of those cases: mors tua vita mea…

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The end of clear bubbles with a rainbow of colors in them…

July 2nd, 2007

“I get lots of letters from people in various corners of the nation who are hysterically disturbed by the continuing spectacle of suburban development. But instead of joining in their hand-wringing, I reply by stating my serene conviction that we are at the end of the cycle — and by that I mean the grand meta-cycle of the suburban project as a whole. It’s over. Whatever you see out there now is pretty much what we’re going to be stuck with. The remaining things under construction are the last twitchings of a dying organism.”

James Kunstler

The end of house bubbles comes with the end of cash, ready or borrowed.
When the expectations of economical growth are lowering and the certainty of a stale period is arising.
When the banks are sure they won’t get the money back and people are sure they won’t be able to keep their job.
Whe we will finally be obliged to open our eyes to see that there is nothing coming if you do not work for it, and there is no such a thing as a good, tasty, free lunch without cooking it…

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Asterisk 1.4 branch, what changes did it bring? Updated

July 2nd, 2007

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Asterisk 1.4 branch, what changes did it bring?

July 2nd, 2007

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What is what

July 2nd, 2007

“Just as the Internet has accelerated most incarnations of what we mean by the word “information,” so it has sped up what we mean when we employ the very term “encyclopedia.” For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past. But Wikipedia’s notion of the past has enlarged to include things that haven’t even stopped happening yet. Increasingly, it has become a go-to source not just for reference material but for real-time breaking news — to the point where, following the mass murder at Virginia Tech, one newspaper in Virginia praised Wikipedia as a crucial source of detailed information.”
NYTimes

This is another example of how the Internet flattens and mixes the various compartments in which we used to divide life.
Encyclopedia becomes Wikipedia and mixes with News.
News are not just what happened but what is happening and what will happen.
They include world news and local gossip, a terroristic attack in London and the queue for buying an iPhone.
It is no more what’s important, what the journalist thought important, it is what people want to see and hear.
It is what happens, not what is relevant to know.
In a few words, it is what makes audience and, of course, what makes cash…

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Where are news going?

July 2nd, 2007

News: the big brother of life.
Smile: you are on “web cam”!
The world is getting more and more a big village, where you are a part of the gossip.
If you queue to buy a phone, or if you witness a crime, or you just happen to be in that place at that time.
Being it New York or San Francisco or Milano, that doesn’t matter.
You have good chances to be on “web cam”.

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iPhone FAQ for all of us that got an iPhone or getting one!

July 2nd, 2007

FON routers thrown to a lake, literally

July 1st, 2007

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iPhone activation! Wait as long as you did in those long lines!!

July 1st, 2007

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Packet8 will do content dilivery for you!, With Yousendit

July 1st, 2007

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2007-06-29T18:16:00.000-07:00

Asterisk, Digium, GPLV3 and New Secret Appliance AA250

June 30th, 2007

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Oh, OK, my pre-iPhone opinion too….

June 29th, 2007

Seeing as every other mobile analyst & blogger has been pontificating about the iPhone, I might as well add my opinion as well.

1) Yes, it’s very cool
2) Apple seems to have done a great job getting AT&T to agree to its own private activation & application strategy
3) Apple fans will love obviously it
4) Fashionistas will love it for about 3.5 weeks and then move onto the next shiny thing
5) Nearly everyone who buys one will probably use a second device, probably a “boringphone”
6) The US mobile market may be galvanised by Apple’s “game-changing” approach
7) SMS will be a pain with the touchscreen
Success in Europe & Asia is dependent on iPhone v2 and v3
9) If it launches in current form in Europe, it stacks up badly feature-for-feature against its high-end peers (camera, no 3G or GPS etc)
10) Distribution in Europe is still up for grabs. Voda might make sense, given it’s professed desire for better PC/mobile integration - the iPhone looks classleading in that respect
11) It damn expensive, especially on a 2-year (!) contract
12) OK OK OK I was wrong when I guess that Apple wouldn’t put music in it. I’d thought they’d want to sell you a phone AND an musicplayer, but they’ve succumbed to the convergence hype…. (wrong move Steve - the future’s about lots of devices & multiplicity)

Bottom line: I’d say it’ll be a winner in the US, do OK in Europe - but that I’m waiting for Apple’s 2nd move to see if it’s actually got a real strategy rather than just a pretty product.

And me? I wouldn’t swap my main, personal, SonyEricsson K800i for an iPhone as I like the 3MP camera with a flash, and the ultra-quick UI. But I would use it as my 2nd/3rd/phone if it offered a better email/Internet experience (and maybe ‘content’ although personally I think video isn’t of use to me)

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gridtech: Google Desktop now runs on Linux!

June 29th, 2007

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OMTP handset VoIP settings requirements - pretty sensible

June 29th, 2007

The OMTP have issued their requirements document for VoIP settings on subsidised mobile phones. I talked through it the other day with them - in general, it seems to make a good amount of sense.

In general, I have sympathy with the notion that if a phone is subsidised, then within reason the company offering the subsidy has some authority to tell the user how they can use it. In a truly competitive market, the user should be able to choose between various subsidised-but restricted combinations, or standalone unsubsidised-but-flexible ones.

The general thrust of the OMTP’s recommendations is around those phones which are (a) subsidised, and (b) come with a pre-installed ‘native’ VoIP client.

Basically, if the phone comes with native VoIP, it should be able to have the operator’s own VoIP service settings installed and ‘locked’. It should also be unlockable after the contract expires, and critically, it should also be possible to load in 3rd party VoIP clients & settings, as long as they work alongside the operator’s.

At present, 3rd-party VoIP vendors have 2 main options:

Use the native VoIP app (which is usually well-integrated with phonebook, messaging etc) and use it with new settings and a new “upper layer” (eg Truphone)
Ignore the native VoIP app and do everything from scratch (eg Fring)

With OMTP’s stipulations, Option 1 becomes more difficult for a subsidised phone in-contract. That said, there’s nothing to stop the handset vendor pre-loading two identical VoIP clients, or having one added on a memory card or downloadable when connected to a PC. Then VoIP#1 can have operator settings locked, but VoIP#2 could be open to all.

Apple iPhone Day

June 29th, 2007

Today is the day Apple iPhone launches. Thousands queue up to buy. Ok, if you have enough market power, this is how you launch new products - be it the new Harry Potter or a gadget. You simply need the 5% idiots who want everything immediately and for any price to finance the remaining 95%.

The Apple iPhone is really looking nice, but will it succeed?

Michael Robertson from Gizmo and Sipphone has an interesting comparison of the 1-button Apple iPhone and the 51-button Nokia E61: Battle of the Buttons. Since I also have a Nokia E61, this is very interesting for me.

In most points the E61 is better, and I agree what he is saying about the major flaw of the E61: configuring and accessing a WiFi-hotspot is a pain … but if you have done it, it is fine.

And I also fully agree with his conclusion:

“…If your software needs are exactly what Steve Jobs and AT&T dictate and if you don’t mind AT&T’s hand in your wallet, then fine.”

We will see how this works in Europe.

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FTC kicks Net Neutrality in the chin But you can still savetheinternet!

June 29th, 2007

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SHDSL — Why Hasn’t It Replaced SDSL?

June 29th, 2007

Are you frustrated by the pace of connectivity improvements? For how many years has (small) business been stuck with SDSL for affordable connectivity?

SHDSL was supposed to supplant SDSL as of 2003 (or so) I thought, but I never see advertised speeds go beyond a 1.5 Mbps SDSL line… SHDSL goes to 2.3 Mbps and has other advantages over SDSL (longer loop lengths for given speeds, less interference with other data lines, 4-wire mode). I’m not that well educated on the topic, but I also had the impression there could be some cost savings.

Today T1’s are often delivered using this technology, but why not offer SHDSL from the customer to DSLAM like a normal dedicated DSL line…. and give customers the speed they want, distance depending???

Are ISPs just not ready to upgrade their DSLAM equipment, or don’t want to cannibalize their higher priced bonded T1 services?

You may not need the SLA of a real T1, but you’d sure love 2.3 Mbps up and down for let’s say $150/mo or so.

First…. you have to look at who is selling SDSL. Basically Covad and a few small CLECs. They bought non-standards-based SDSL long ago and they are still using the equipment.

Given the financial state of Covad I can see why they aren’t going around ripping out all their DSLAMs.

There may be some hope though, with the new Earthlink money they are upgrading DSLAMs to support LPV and ADSL2 in larger markets. I *think* that the new DSLAMs will also be offering new SDSL speeds as well, which probably means SHDSL (and finally the ability to hook a real router up to an SDSL line).

Most DS-1s today are delivered using either HDSL or HDSL2 on 1 or 2 pairs.

Your ILECs aren’t going to upgrade equipment necessarily because of the availability of a different technology. Even with existing technology many consumers and businesses are in a fight just to be able to get ADSL services.

Covad, XO, etc. that are selling SDSL services already may not upgrade given their investment in existing equipment…. and given the state of competition now for internet services.

With the price of service dropping to $12.99/mo and the uptake of those discounted services increasing, I wouldn’t want to be one of the other players and be making large capital expenditures for upgrades right now. I’d be worried about staying in business. People are price driven…..

Just my opinion though, take it for what it’s worth.

T-Mobile's Triple Threat

2007-06-27T18:01:00.001-07:00

The converged cellular-Wi-Fi service, HotSpot @Home, is going up against local phone businesses, VoIP service—and maybe even the iPhone! In the TV commercial for T-Mobile's long-awaited HotSpot @Home service, a wireless morph of cellular and Wi-Fi, a 20-something named Jimmy patters around the house in a bathrobe, soaking in the adoration of his friends: Sure, he was unpopular at school, but all that's changed now that he has converted his home into a Wi-Fi hotspot—and signed up for @Home, launched nationwide on June 27. It's a play for just the youthful audience T-Mobile USA (DT) needs to worry about with the arrival of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone slated to come just two days later through AT&T.

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Skype is shacking up with Toshiba

2007-06-27T17:51:00.001-07:00

Skype announced a deal that will see their internet calling software loaded as standard applications on select Toshiba notebooks.The software will be loaded onto four model lines of Toshiba computers that have built in webcams (Satellite X205, Tecra M8, Qosmio F45, and the Satellite A215 series), and will display a Skype logo on the case.

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2007-06-17T07:42:00.000-07:00

Asterisk New releases, 1.2.19 and 1.4.5 are ready for download!

June 17th, 2007

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The Asterisk Appliance is on it’s way! Book yours at Digium now!

June 16th, 2007

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PC Help Desk Service….Residential and Business IT Support Solutions

June 16th, 2007

You know it’s going to happen….it’s only a matter of time.

What is “it”?

Could be anything….the “blue screen of death”, a virus attack, software that won’t work right, server shutdown, network problems, patch install needs…you name “it” you’re bound to experience “it”.

Besides the problem itself you also face the anxiety and expense of getting “it” fixed. Waiting is not an option. You need the problem resolved NOW….residential or business your PC is an integral part of your day.

Well now you can relax. You don’t need an extra dose of high blood pressure medicine…. or to take out a loan.

What you need is a proactive/preventive maintenance and help desk service that takes care of your issues before they happen….for desktop, server, and software….and quickly fixes those that crop up out of the blue. You also deserve that service to fit your budget….not cost you an arm and a leg.

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The service covers such items as Anti-virus and Spyware software, scan, and removal….preventative maintenance, patch management, software and sript deployment, asset reporting, server availability checks, server monitoring, server pack updates, server health check and analysis, 24/7/365 live telephone support via their help desk, and much more.

Plus…..this service is being offered at the phenomenal price of $39.00 per month per PC with a one time set-up fee of $39. Compared to other services, this is an incredibly low price! Not to mention that this type of service is generally only available to the small business with at least 5 computers to support.

This type of service is perfect for professionals that depend on their computers. Accountants, lawyers, sales people, and just about anyone that uses their computer for work need the peace of mind Enhanced Communications INC will provide. No matter what size your business….1 person self-employed or large company….this service is a god send.

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OMTP IMS requirements - killing the “bearer agnostic” myth

June 14th, 2007

I got a chance to wade through the OMTP’s new IMS handset requirements document in full, on a flight yesterday. There’s some good stuff - and some less good stuff in there.

Finally, some standardisation for IMS handsets

June 13th, 2007

Almost exactly a year ago, I published a report on the severe problems involved in getting IMS-capable mobile phones to market. At the time, I’d been tracking the area for around 18 months - it was blindingly obvious that the 3GPP and other standards bodies had effectively abdicated all responsibility for actually making sure IMS actually worked on handsets in the hands of the user. Yes, the basic plumbing like SIP signalling was standardised. But there were dozens of companies trying to develop their own, proprietary software and UI frameworks for IMS, usually with a bunch of in-house applications.

2007-06-14T11:55:00.000-07:00

OMTP IMS requirements - killing the “bearer agnostic” myth

June 14th, 2007

I got a chance to wade through the OMTP’s new IMS handset requirements document in full, on a flight yesterday. There’s some good stuff - and some less good stuff in there.

Best of all is that it wants to make handset applications “bearer aware”. I’ve been banging on about this for as long as I can remember. The notion that advanced handset apps on highly-intelligent devices should be ignorant of what network is being used as transport is ludicrous.
I’ve argued passionately & at length about why applications should behave differently over cellular and over WiFi, for example, because of different bandwidths, latencies, contexts, ownership, cost, security and so on.

I know that some handset ecosystem participants (eg Symbian) are already up-to-speed on this, and that some operators (eg BT) have also been ahead of the curve. So it’s nice to see OMTP spell all this out in black and white as a standard requirement:

“IMS-1160 The UE MUST provide an API to allow an application to request the list of all available radio access technologies supported by the UE (e.g. WiFi, EDGE, UMTS, GPRS, etc)”

“IMS-1180 The UE MUST offer an API to allow an application to choose the bearer (from the list provided in IMS-1160) for a media connection subject to Bearer Policy.”

I’ve given a lot of thought to the possible use cases of this type of capability, and it should significantly improve user experience.

(Incidentally - the “less good” stuff in the document? How much time & money is going to be wasted on implementing & testing the useless PoC capabilities of future phones? Why couldn’t the OMTP have just killed that stone dead? Also… no mention of how to deal with multitasking-capable phones)

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Finally, some standardisation for IMS handsets

June 13th, 2007

The standards had been driven largely by network infrastructure people, who had simply assumed that phones would “naturally follow” and would have a user interfaces “defined by the market”. That might have been true in the early days of GSM, when handset software was confined to a dialler and phonebooks, but is woefully inadequate today, where phones OS, application and UI software runs to millions of lines of code, with a high % of the pain of any handset development project related to software integration and testing.

It was clearly a poor situation for most operators, handset OEMs and application/service developers, and has contributed to the dearth of serious IMS rollout in the mobile industry. What was supposed to be a cellular core IP technology has instead been adopted more quickly in the fixed-VoIP and even WiMAX sectors.

So yesterday’s announcement by the OMTP (a group of operators that try and harmonise handset user interface requirements) that they have finally published a requirements document for IMS-capable handsets is very welcome, but about 3 years overdue. To be fair to the OMTP, they recognise that the standardisation process has been lacking “In its current form the IMS proposition fails to sufficiently address these four key areas and falls short of the full end-to-end experience that is required”.

I haven’t had a chance to read the full spec yet, but I spoke to the OMTP recently and it certainly seems as though they’ve tackled some of the main deficiencies, although I suspect that there will need to be a couple of subsequent iterations before the IMS on-handset experience is truly integrated with all the other non-IMS functions of the phone.

As the organisation is specifically about phones, it also doesn’t address the issue of IMS application development and distribution. For me, one of the worst things about IMS is that it doesn’t support the type of broad innovation and ultrarapid, viral, cross-network uptake that drives the Internet / Web 2.0 world. A small startup in Santa Clara or Bangalore cannot develop a cool IMS app, “put it out there” in beta form, and have 10m people around the world download it and forward a link to their friends (irrespective of their operator) by next Wednesday.

Incidentally, for those readers new to the OMTP, you might be interested to check out the list of work items here. Especially the one innocuously called “Multipath Routing”, which is actually about controlling VoIP clients on handsets, and which includes the rather unambiguous objective to “ensure that terminal platforms have the capability to offer mobile operators the opportunity to uphold current business practise”. Supposedly, this will only apply to subsidised handsets though.

Lastly… a word of advice to OMTP. Rename yourself OMDP or OMHP (Device, or Handset). The word “terminal” ought to be expunged from the mobile industry - it’s exactly why things like IMS are in the troubled state we have here. People from the network side still routinely ignore the fact that millions of handsets with 200MHz-1GHz processors now constitute the overwhelming proportion of intelligence in the mobile ecosystem. “Terminal” comes from a centralised, 1970s mainframe/green-screen view of the world. Wake up and listen to Moore’s Law.

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Need A Cisco Router??

June 13th, 2007

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Think Big to become Big

June 12th, 2007

Web search has become one of the hottest markets on the Internet. Many companies are furiously developing advanced tools and techniques that will index the Web more effectively and so, they hope, draw visitors.
Google fields more than 150 million worldwide queries every day. When a visitor types a keyword into the search field, its Web servers send the request to an index server, which identifies Web pages containing words that match the query. Document servers with the matching pages deliver links to the visitor in less than half a second, according to Google’s site.
So what if you aim to reach the Top?
You have first to be in Google and the other few Search Engines that count, then to be in a very good position in them, let’s say among the firs thirty or a little more.
And if you think you cannot do it by yourself, it pays to find a goodwebsite optimization firm that can boost your webpage or blog.
Because to arrive there you not only need to do the right marketing, you also need the right website or blog or whatever.
That is called SEO, search engine optimization and means to create a site search engine friendly (besides of course being good).
ThinkBig will do it very fast and a much lower cost than all the competition.
How? With Corporate blogging, link building, business and social networking and strategic blog marketing techniques. this is the only way to reach the success you are working for.
This will also drive more website traffic creating new business opportunities for your organization.
They start with fully functional Web Design to create the right image for your company. Then comes the blog marketing which is the best way to reach your customers on a regular basis. This will allow the website ranking to rise very quickly.
The next step is using a database which stores the necessary web content that will be used to create a webpage “on the fly” when needed. They use web programmers to create the right applications for your corporation’s success.
One thing you shouldn’t under evaluate is having a reliable web hosting, which is what they offer at very good pricing.
Last and very important is the Optimization of your website, so that it reaches the first positions and is among the first to show up when possible customers look for your kind of products or services.
To all you add a very good support and you can really Think Big.

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Pornography

June 12th, 2007

Pornography has been forbidden on TV. The voyeurs can only see it encrypted. The Communications Authority has forbidden 24 hours on 24 “pornographic images that involve the description, the illustration or the visual and/or verbal representation of erotic subjects and of acts or activities that relate to the sexual sphere that are offensive to modesty”.
The intention is to defend the sense of modesty. That’s a good thing. But why start from sex? Basically Eros is natural and gives a certain satisfaction.
Agcom should extend its prohibition to subjects that are more harmful. To the great immodest people. To the convict politicians who are honoured guests on Anno Zero like Gianni De Michelis. Think of the child whose father has a fixed income, workman, office worker, at 1,200 Euro a month, watching that programme.
What will they think? What will they grow up to be? Will they straight away join the Socialist party to get their impunity?
The convicts remain in Parliament, in their prison of gold and silver. A TV appearance can destroy years of civic education for our children. If they want to show off, they’ll be doing it on a talk show that can only be seen directly in prisons.
Apart from the convicts our children can enjoy series of murders on the TV News in the early and the late parts of the evening. The description of bloody events is always accurate. For the assassins who are just starting out it’s a source of continual inspiration.
Human beings smothered, shot at, burned alive, knifed, tortured to death, hit repeatedly, buried alive. Often during dinner time, between a slice of pineapple and the ice cream. Then there’s the drink after the meal and the comment. Violence is worse than sex. Let’s encrypt it together with Andreotti.

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Immigration

June 12th, 2007

The word immigration is taboo. Something that you have to talk about in ‘politically correct’ ways to avoid being called a racist. By definition, the immigrant needs help and is trying to survive in Italy.

The Minister Ferrero has declared: ” … it’s necessary to propose an articulated strategy. First of all we must facilitate the legal entries to our country” and “in the continent of Africa there may be 30 million young people in the age group 18 to 25 who are ready to leave their homes and loved ones” and finally: “they are the ones who come to do the work that often the Italians no longer want to do .. today we have to understand that we have become a country of immigration”.

These declarations are irresponsible even though they are “electorally correct” for the party of the Minister Ferrero. Italy is still a country of emigration. At one time it was the farming community that emigrated, today it is the graduate community. Italy has a density of inhabitants in the territory among the highest in the world. In comparison, the United States is depopulated and Africa is a desert. It’s not true that Italians no longer want to do “certain jobs”. But what are these jobs?

The thousands of posts that I have received in the “modern slaves” section bear witness to the contrary. They describe a generation of Italians paid a few hundred Euro a month or unemployed. Young men and young women who would jump at the chance of doing “certain jobs” but in safe conditions and with a decent salary.

But the “certain jobs” are those of the tiny factories that import underpaid workers and then throw the social costs on to the community. That gives advantages to the small-time bosses, not to the Italian economy.
Ferrero talks about young men who want to emigrate to rich countries, not families.

But there are hundreds of millions of young people like that in the world. How many CPT {Centri di Permanenza Temporanea e Assistenza= Italy’s detention centres for foreigners} are needed to house them? Is the house of the Minister big enough? This demagogy is dangerous.

The migration flows must be handled at the origin. The most developed nations should put aside a part of their GDP, at least as much as they spend on arms, better if its in places of arms, to help poor countries. Distributing wealth throughout the world so as to avoid importing slaves and social instability.

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2007-06-05T18:28:00.000-07:00

Laptop rentals

June 6th, 2007

Is it better to own a laptop or to rent it?
Renting is without any doubts cheaper and if you do not use it every day it is much better to rent one than to buy it.
Because you can always have the latest model with laptop rentals and wherever you need it.
If you have meetings or shows far from your office, you do not need to carry it with you, just rent it where you need it.
If you think you need to rent one, you can search fro MacBook Pro rentals or Tablet PC rentals in the major cities of USA just visiting the website of Innovative Rentals.
But they do not only have laptops, They have every kind of technology products or services at the best price.
So, if you need to make a good impression on your next show, it pays to visit their website, because as they say “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”…

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Monthyon: Chateau of Jean-Claude Brialy-8

June 5th, 2007

Yes, when it comes to chateaux I am a “snob”.

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Monthyon: Cahateau of Jean-Claude Brialy-8

June 5th, 2007

Yes, when it comes to chateaux I am a “snob”.

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Orange “flat”rate looks a bit mountainous to me

June 5th, 2007

David Meyer at ZDnet has some interesting comments on Orange UK shooting itself in the foot with a supposed “flatrate” tariff at £8 / month which it’s capped at 30MB. Which is the same cap that T-Mobile offered about 15 months ago on Web’n'Walk - mostly over 2G devices at the time - for a broadly comparable price.

Funny, I could have sworn the intervening period has had several HSDPA launches, and much faster ramp-up of WCDMA, which vastly reduce the cost-per-MB to deliver Internet access.

30MB is fine for email & some very limited WAP & HTML browsing. I know, as I’ve got that pre-flatrate Web’n'Walk tariff and 2G device I use for that purpose. But it’s not useful for any decent usage of a decent browser on a decent phone with a decent connection - I got hit with substantial over-use charges when I swapped the SIM into a 3G Nokia with a good browser for a month.

I hate to think what the roaming charges are.

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Deltathree selected to power Intelsat’s VoIP services

June 5th, 2007

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USF on cable VoIP is good to go, court says so.

June 5th, 2007

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Network Integrator (VAR) Program - The Details

June 5th, 2007

We are looking for Value Added Resellers (VARs) who are looking for the ability to do real-time price and availability research for their clients, who are looking for one single point of contact for T1 services, and who want to be a recipient of network installation and equipment leads that we generate (both from retail marketing and business consulting). Conversely, we want to partner with you to so that we offer your VAR expertise, services and equipment leads for our T1 services. In basic terms, if you help us find T1 service customers, we will help find you equipment and service leads!

More information is available at: VAR Info

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Western quality at chinese price

June 5th, 2007

It is an open secret that buying at a good price means to be able to sell at a better price and selling at a better price means selling a lot.
That makes a good and profitable business and who wouldn’t like it?
So, if you plan to start a business, may be selling sun glasses (this IS the moment)
Wholesale Sunglasses is the right place to buy good stuff at a wonderful price.
And you do not even need to buy thousands of pieces, just one dozen per type and you can have a very good assortment investing a small sum.
CTSwholesalers.com offers many different types of Sunglasses of Name Brands like Gucci, Prada, Nike, Chanel and much more.
Till now to find so good pricing you HAD to go to China.
Well, now you find the Western quality at Chinese price.
Where can you sell them?
I would suggest eBay, or concerts, or Flea Markets or wherever you think you can find a good number of people.
Of course your own shop is not a bad idea.
You can offer the highest quality eyewear and the best products available on the market today at such a good price that you can win all competition!

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Apple bobs in stock market as iPhone release nears: Snapvoip

June 4th, 2007

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One thousand and one way to let your Blog work for you

June 4th, 2007

Out of one thousand and one way this, in my opinion, is one of the best.
It works this way:
1) You go to The News Room website.
2) Register
3) Now you can copy and share whatever news you want.
This is something great. Because you are actually authorized to copy content for your Blog!
Where is the catch? (Because THERE IS ALWAYS A CATCH, never forget!)
You will make the money via advertising share.
They will put advertisement on their content and this content will be shared in your blog.
CPM starts at $1.
So, what is the advantage?
You can put relevant, timely news on your site. In this way you can earn prizes including electronics, vacations, and cars when you participate.
I do not think I have to tell you how easy it is to copy and embed…who still doesn’t know HOW TO COPY?
In this case you have a FREE, (they even pay you) huge, choice.
They do not call it “copying” they call it “mashing”which in my opinion sounds much better (but in the end comes to the same result) the difference is that when you use the mash button to embed a news story or a news feed (with advertising) onto your website or blog you begin earning revenue…
In other words: you earn a share of the advertising revenue each time mashed news is viewed on your site.
Not only! You can also earn money when someone mashes content from your site and it is viewed on theirs. This will be around $0.15 CPM. So, from now on you can write: “Please copy my post!”
And if you are REALLY, REALLY good, you can even win prizes from digital cameras to a new car as part of their loyalty program!
This looks too good to be true ( but if you do not believe, you can try, it costs nothing)

2007-06-01T18:34:00.000-07:00

Directly contacted, indirectly charged.

June 2nd, 2007

PPP direct is the new, direct way to be sponsored and paid to blog.

It works this way:

“simply drop the appropriate HTML snippet into your blog template. Advertisers that come across your blog and love what you do can then click on the image in your blog and create an opportunity just for you.”

Since long they are talking about the Internet destroying the role and figure of the “middlemen”.
People can DIRECTLY contact the customers and avoid useless charges.
But Ted Murphy, the genius of the new kind of Internet Advertising, knows better.
He knows the way to let people directly contact the customers and STILL needing the middlemen.
Companies can directly sponsor blogs and bloggers they like and approve.

“We believe PayPerPost Direct is a great addition to the PayPerPost.com marketplace and is going to generate a wealth of fantastic high quality content out there, so why not get started today. “
In other words: we believe that the future is an advertiser directly contacting the marketing guy, so we’d better think before.
This is strategy and good forecast.
Besides, it is not a new model on the paid blogging advertisement, but it is undoubtely the cheaper.
10% charges (of which 5% are expenses), instead of 30% and more of other companies.
I do not know if you are a real genius, but I think money invested on you is well invested money, Ted.

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Wind, Water, Fire it doesn’t matter, as long as it works…

June 2nd, 2007

“Would the USA be a better place if we could run Wal-Mart and Las Vegas on wind power? I don’t think so. Would the public benefit from another hundred years of suburban living — and an economy based largely on creating ever more of it? All the Prozac in the universe would not avail to offset the diminishing returns of that bullshit.”
Jim Kunstler

Well, you could have an answer to this question from the millions working for Wal-Mart or managing and getting revenues from Las Vegas Casinos and the rest…
May be they would like to try with wind, or rain, or fire or whatever.
As you say, the right answer is: The Statu Quo.
The only right solution would be being able to create a parallel world where everybody can have the same or possibly more with something else whatever it is…
With a full stomach the world looks more shining…

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Mouse’s freedom

June 2nd, 2007

“The biggest innovation in the advertising industry during the last 70 years before digital was color TV,” says Ajaz Ahmed, chairman and co-founder of independent digital marketing agency AKQA. “The agency of the future will be half a software company and half an entertainment company because that’s the new landscape.”

WSJ

Since we assume the Web will be the major advertisement hosting of the future, the way it is delivered has to change.
On TV you catch the audience with content and mix it with commercials, and the audience is kind of passive.
On the Net the offer of content as “channels” is huge compared to TV because open to ALL (thanks to availability and price, competition is harder and monopoly, thanks God, almost impossible.(at least for now)
In this environment the customers have a big weapon: freedom of choice, and freedom of mouse.
Difficult to catch them in the usual way.
Advertisement HAS to be the Entertainment, something almost like subliminal ad.
Advertisement HAS to be the subject and an alluring subject too.
Advertisement has to catch and keep, at least enough to show and talk about.

But once you caught your audience your power is going to be 1000 times greater than on TV.
In one move you present, you show, you convince and YOU SELL.
Thanks to interactivity of course.
Harder to reach, but mostly gratifying…

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Spice up your Skype talk with fix8

June 2nd, 2007

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FCC is Seeking Comment on Enhanced 911

June 2nd, 2007

2007-06-01T13:56:00.001-07:00

Ideas create new ideas and new ideas make the world going on…

June 1st, 2007

Could a blogger not be interested in Encyclocenter?
I very much doubt it.
An Encyclopedia is the place where you can find the world in articles.
If you click on Writing you will be able to read everything about The Grolier Club.
This, for example is my favorite.
I am very fond of graphic arts and this club’s objective is “the literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books.”
The founder, Jean Grolier is a Renaissance Collector.
Could an Italian not be interested in him?
But this website is the collection of articles about almost everything, from Auto and trucks to Food, Humor, Religion, Women and Men, everything you can be interested in…

And if you lack ideas for your posts, this is a real treasure…

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In the fight among sellers the one who earns is the buyer

June 1st, 2007

There has never been a moment in which it is so unavoidable to use a credit card.
How can you buy online without one?
Or how can you carry with you as much cash as you would like to spend?
And there has never been a better moment to apply for a credit card.
Because there is a big fight to get customers and, of course, the winner is the one with the best offer.
So, the only thing you have to do is spending some time looking for the best bargain.
Mint Credit Cards offer a card with an attractive introductory offer and have recently lowered their typical APR.
How does it sound 0% interest credit card?
They say their credit card lets you SAVE, SAVE and SAVE.
Save on purchases.(0%)
Save on balance transfer. (2.5% fee)
Bonus offer on balance transfers after the 1th of August 2008
Typical 14.9% APR

Besides you can enjoy: 24 hours customer service, you can manage your account online, shop safely online with Mint secure, you can even get up to 56 days interest free on purchase.
Well, if you are looking for a good bargain, I think you can stop here.

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June 1st, 2007

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Vonage’s New Campaign

June 1st, 2007

It just keeps getting better. Vonage customers recently received the following email from the company.

Dear Vonage Customer:

Vonage invites you to be among the first to join a new grassroots campaign aimed at preserving your right to choose your phone service. We’re launching a national movement – Free to Compete – because we believe marketplace competition is good, and we want consumers to have a choice. To learn the facts and find out how you can help preserve competition and your right to choose your phone service, please visit FreeToCompete.com.

Since the day we opened our doors, our mission has been to provide consumers with an alternative to the services offered by entrenched landline phone providers. In our five short years, we’ve gone head-to-head with many of these industry giants, and amassed 2.4 million customer lines with our innovative technology, cool features and value pricing.

You may have heard that Verizon® is suing us over patents they say we violated. Verizon has pursued litigation against Vonage in an effort to achieve in court what it cannot achieve in the marketplace. The suit could result in limiting competition and consumers’ freedom to choose a communications provider, which could ultimately drive up the cost of phone service. Vonage will continue fighting this attempt to limit your choice, while ensuring that you continue to receive the reliable, quality service you’ve come to expect.

As our customers, you are the most passionate and effective spokespeople we have. Let your voice be heard by visiting FreeToCompete.com where you can:

1. Send an email to Verizon telling them you support Vonage
as they defend your right to a better phone service
2. Sign our Petition
3. Learn the facts of the case
4. Spread the word

We hope you’ll join us in taking up this important challenge by visiting FreeToCompete.com. Together, let’s move the battle for free competition and choice in the phone industry out of the courts and back into the marketplace!

And thank you for choosing Vonage.

Regards,

Jeffrey Citron
Chairman, Interim CEO and Chief Strategist

“Send an email to Verizon telling them you support Vonage as they defend your right to a better phone service.”

There’s an oxymoron if ever I heard one. the only reason they have any customers is because they are cheap, certainly not because they provide better service. When they realize they will have to pay the piper like the real phone companies they squeal like pigs.

I’m no big fan of Verizon, but I’m certain that they are enjoying this desperate and distasteful tactic by Vonage. For a company to invite it’s customer base to directly participate in it’s legal quarrels, regardless of who is right or wrong, is what I would characterize as bashing your competitors. Vonage needs to keep this in their conference rooms and in the courtroom, and far away from their customers.

I havent seen too many Vonage commercials since this came to light either. I wonder if it is court ordered not to run commercials…

That certainly would make sense. If there is the strong possibility they may go under they shouldn’t be allowed to take any more than they already have down with them.

Personally I suggest current Vonage customers…and ANYONE looking for a Vonage type service….consider other options.

Here’s 2 I highly recommend:

Packet 8

SunRocket

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+353 Irish ENUM Registry opens today

June 1st, 2007

Some things may take a while, some may take even longer. At March 22, 2006 (14 month ago) I posted: Irish-Austrian Consortium Provides ENUM Services in Ireland.

The Irish Commision for Communication Regulation (ComReg) announced today officially that an Irish-Austrian Consortium wins competition for the provision of ENUM services in Ireland.

December 19, 2006 I wondered what was going on and see, instantly they re-acted and immediately afterwards ENUM went into commercial service in Ireland:

IENUM, the Irish ENUM Registry opened service today. Some snippets from the news:

IENUM Limited, a 70% subsidiary of the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), today announced the availability of user ENUM (Electronic Numbering) services for telephone number holders in Ireland.

Ireland is now the seventh country to announce the availability of ENUM services. IENUM Limited was selected as the Tier 1 ENUM registry following the first international commercial tender process. The IEDR’s partner in the IENUM consortium is Internet Privatstiftung Austria (IPA), the Austrian organisation which operates the .at domain name and provided the first commercial ENUM registry service in the world.

ENUM domains can now be registered at www.my-enum.ie for Geographic telephone numbers (eg 01 or 045 etc), Mobile phone numbers, ‘076′ Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) numbers, and ‘0700′ Personal Number Service numbers. The cost of an ENUM domain is 1 euro per month plus a validation fee, currently 25 euro payable on first registration, and 5 euro on revalidation.
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ComReg’s Chairperson, Mike Byrne, said: ComReg is encouraged to see the emergence of ENUM as a full commercial service in Ireland today. ENUM has the potential to be a key enabler of advanced IP-based services. ComReg has been to the fore in encouraging the development of ENUM in Ireland and we are pleased to welcome the opening of IENUM’s service which we see as an innovative and potentially valuable new communications facility for Irish consumers.

BTW, next week I will be chairing the ENUM and VoIP Peering Forum 2007 in Berlin, and Mike Byrne will speak about ENUM from a Regulators Perspective. The two day conference will feature also other very interesting speakers:

Carsten Schiefner (DT, RIPE and Denic), Andrzej Bartosiewicz (NASK), John Horrocks (ETSI), Kim Fullbrook (O2 UK, GSMA), Robert Schischka (enum.at), Thomas de Haan (Ministry of Economic Affairs, NL), Chan-Ki Park (NIDA, Korea), Rodrigue Ullens (Voxbone), Xavier Casajoana (VozTelecom), Wilhelm Wimmreuter, Pieter Nooren (TNO, NL), Tony Holmes (BT, ENUM UK, ETSI), Ondrej Filip (CZ.NIC) and last, but not least Richard Shockey (Neustar, IETF ENUM).

On Monday afternoon, Adrian Georguescu (AG Projects) will lead a half-day interactive workshop on sucessfull business model for ENUM.

I will report about this event end of next week.

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2007-05-30T11:45:00.000-07:00

BT Fusion and Orange Unik

May 31st, 2007

Some interesting facts & figures from this morning’s UMA webcast done jointly by Kineto & Orange.

France Telecom has an installed base of 4.8m LiveBox gateways (mostly in France), and has >140k Unik subscriptions & has sold >200k phones (also mostly in France). Current run rate sounds like around 25k phones a month.

Have to say I’m surprised by the statistic that 15-20% of calls involve a handover - much higher than I’d have anticipated, although there’s a possibility of self-selection here: I imagine the proposition is much more attractive to people who use their phones at home a lot. It could also be they’ve tuned the LiveBox WiFi to a smaller range & so there’s some occasional accidental handovers to the macro network.

By contrast BT is reported to have (still) only around 40k Fusion users, although it’s a bit opaque about whether that’s acccounts or phones. It has an installed base of “more than 1m” Home Hubs (I think it also said the same thing at end-2006, so I’d guess the number is a fair bit more by now).

Interestingly, although BT is being castigated for its slow growth, it looks like the penetration of dual-mode into homes with operator-provided gateways is broadly similar -around 3-4% (ie 140k against 4m LiveBox in markets where Unik has launched).

I’ve been saying for a while that UMA-based dualmode is only really an option when sold in conjunction with an operator’s home gateway, in order to minimise costs of support & complexity of configuration, as well as enabling better QoS. It will be interesting to see if T-Mobile’s promised full launch in the US will work around this and run over anyone’s box/connection - as well as whether it incurs the wrath of Net Neutrality issues for running it’s mobile service “across someone else’s broadband”.

One other thing occurred to me - I think that the French aren’t quite as voracious as the British in demanding the latest, most expensive, flashiest phones (ideally subsidised down to £zero). This could mean that Orange has had an easier time than BT in pushing the early unsexy, low-end UMA phones. Unik also has more attractive pricing, reflecting France’s hugely competitive voice marketplace, and can offer free on-net calls to other Orange mobiles (incurring no net interconnect costs obviously), which BT cannot match in the UK.

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Imagine

May 31st, 2007

“Imagine that when you shopped online for a digital camera, you could see whether anyone you knew already owned it and ask them what they thought. Imagine that when you searched for a concert ticket you could learn if friends were headed to the same show.

Or that you knew which sites - or what news stories - people you trust found useful and which they disliked. Or maybe you could find out where all your friends and relatives are, right now (at least those who want to be found).”

Fortune

I just imagine how this would be misused…

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The very next future of advertising

May 31st, 2007

If video is indeed the most important type of user generated content today, and we have entered the monetization phase of the new web, then the gold rush fever surrounding video ads is not a surprise. But what is the right way of doing this?

The right way is going to be whoever manages to deliver ads in a format that does not annoy consumers. A repeat of what Google did with text ads, but in video, is going unlock huge advertising spending and shift even more of it online. Will this be Google or some other company? We do not know yet, but Google has already spent a whooping $1.65B on YouTube, so it will fight this battle hard. In this post we look at what different companies are doing today and consider the ingredients of a successful solution, using AdWords as a model.
Read/Write Web

And the very next future of advertising company is the one man marketing.
And the very next future of middleman in the advertising world is something PayPerPost like.

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P2P the new kind of distribution

May 31st, 2007

Hollywood produces the content and P2P is the new kind of distribution.
The kind people like most: the FREE kind.
The more bandwidth and broadband available, the more the distribution changes hands.
But how long will it last?
As long as there is no other way to produce content.
A good alternative is YouTube or YouTubes like.
People begin to take to liking this new way of producing content and we are getting better.
I do not talk of the value, I talk of the quality.
The value of course reflects the cultural level of the audience, but in that they are not so much different from the paid content.
A mass market product cannot be a high level product.
If you have to please the majority, than you have to reflect the needs of the majority.
And people usually do not like education, that is something boring and difficult to understand.
People are lazy and getting lazier every day.
Once our grandmothers cooked for days and today cooking is putting something in the microwave.
Once they did a lot of manual work, now we have a lot of machines working as manuals.
Once they walked and today we drive.
It is not that once they were better, they just had less.
The problem is that with this lack of physical exercise you would expect an increase of brain exercise.
Nothing of that kind.
Lazy in the body, lazy in the spirit.
We have come to the easy and free society.
But one day WE ALL will have to pay the bill.

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New worm in Skype Chat!

May 31st, 2007

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Language is the way to a culture.

May 31st, 2007

What about learning Italian?
What about being able to know one of the oldest culture of the World?
What about living in the wonderful and active city of Milano?
What about a full immersion in History?
All this and much more is what the italian courses in Italy will offer.
Italian is not an easy language, and to learn to speak it the correct way (perfection is something it’s difficult to find even among Italians)you need good and trained teachers.
This is what you will find in the Accademia di Milano.
All their language courses fit the Common European Framework, the Council of Europe guidelines. The classes are small with an average of six students, to maximize proficiency.
The Accademia di Italiano is one of the best italian language schools in Italy .
So, if you plan to follow italian language courses in Italy you will hardly find a better place.

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Building tomorrow’s world…

May 31st, 2007

“We are at the early stage of building tomorrow’s world. All I can do is talk vision right now - “

Everybody, always once in his life is “at the early stage to build tomorrow’s world”.
Being it doing something good and innovative or something the opposite.
That is our fate, unless we decide to survive doing nothing, which is not even possible…
Where does the bread come from?

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Surfing the Net you can fish a date with a Celebrity

May 31st, 2007

Yes, a date with a HOT Hollywood celeb.
What do you have to do to give it a try?
Go to Free videos at GoFish.com

Submit one or more videos.
Each celebrity will give users 3 calls-to-actions to guide their video submissions in hopes of scoring the date. The more videos you submit, the better your chances are of winning.
How to win?
The problem is NOT knowing what it takes to win, Mirelly Taylor (yes the one who has appeared on movies such as Kiss Me Again and Serving Sara and television shows including “Las Vegas”, “Punk’d”, and “Numb3rs”) clearly says how her date should be.
The problem is ACTUALLY being the way SHE wants.
Something close to Mr. Perfection.
The bad thing is that few men are so perfect, the good thing is that it is enough to pretend to be that way.
The moment she will realize you are not, it will be too late.
You will already be on the dreamed of, looked for, sought of, DATE.
So, what you have to do:
1) Collect some good ideas about a video or more.
2) You can easily get them looking at other people’s work. That is what I usually do anyhow.
3) Make the video as best as you can or nearly to.
4) Go to the website and submit it.
5) Beginning to hope.

Honestly you do not have many chances.
She IS beautiful, interesting, famous.
The goal is shared by many (and, let’s be honest, may be better than you).
But you are there to live out LOUD, to try it HARD, to make it YOUR WAY.
By the way, who cares if you do not win?
In principle the nice part of it all is DREAMING.
Seduce a Celeb will run on GoFish.com over the next 14 weeks ( You have enough time to create something good).

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Jajah get the T-mobile deal

May 30th, 2007

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Internet Neutrality

May 30th, 2007

“Despite the urge to hold providers accountable for such activities, the ISP community has been remarkably
successful in maintaining a position of neutrality, the digital successor, in spirit and often in fact, to
the common carrier phone company.

Adopting this approach has required strict adherence to a cardinal rule often referred to as “network
neutrality.” This principle holds that ISPs transport bits of data without discrimination, preference, or
regard for content.

The network neutrality principle has served ISPs, internet firms and internet users well. It has enabled
ISPs to plausibly argue that they function much like common carriers and therefore should be exempt from
liability for the content that passes through their systems.”

The neutrality was more a way to get more customers than a way of seeing the Internet.
And now, when the customers are there and they contributed to make the Internet a global power as it is, they see the convenience in discriminating the users in base of the use they do of the broadband lines.
But they easily forget that the number makes the revenue and if the customer won’t find the content he is looking for, the Internet will stop to have the appeal it has now, including the cheap calls.

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voipniche backpack

2007-05-30T07:38:00.000-07:00

Are you going to get a new car?

May 29th, 2007

Do you need a new or used car?
We are so spoiled now a days, with the Internet, we can do anything we have to, without the need to move from home.
You just click, look for the right website, pay with your credit card and all you have to do is waiting that somebody delivers.
You can really buy everything (also what you do not need, but this is another subject…)
If you need a new or used car, but you haven’t decided yet, because you need some help, Autotropolis is the right website.
They not only help you to find the right type for your needs (or your likings) they also tell you where you can find it.
First they suggest you the type and model with the Vehicle Selector Aid, then they tell you what the right price should be.
And I guess they must have very good deals, because they actually encourage you to request a car quote from a local dealership.
They WILL tell you what the TIP (true Internet price) is.
You also have the chance to know everything you want about the car you choose, in the Automotive Community, in the Car Forums, in the Car Price Alert Blogs.
And if you want you can also find the list of the top ten most requested cars.
Last and not unimportant, you can find a Dealership Locator
, integrated with Google Maps. You’ll have the list of all the dealerships in the USA, besides rates and reviews on local car dealers.
For the moment the locator is just for new cars.
But you can find dealers with new and also used cars.

Well, if you need a new car, this is really a good chance to easily find what you are looking for at the best price!

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Bollywood iPod size

May 29th, 2007

Bollywood is the name given to the Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India.
It is considered to be the largest in the world in terms of number of films produced, and maybe also the number of tickets sold.
The movies are usually musicals, they are called after the famous mixed spice, Masala. How could Bollywood not be in a website YouTube like?
Aapkavideo is where you can mostly find Bollywood like videos.
It is fully free.
Free to upload and free to download.
Now you can be a movie viewer, a movie star and a movie producer.
What you need is a little bit of Skill, a little bit of brain and of course a little bit of time.
Of course you also have the freedom to choose the subject you prefer, including cricket and places of interest.
To invite people to use it they even have a contest for the most popular videos uploaded and couldn’t be the prize something else than a free iPod?

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Skype will CO-Brand VoSKY, Skype to PBX gateway for businesses

May 29th, 2007

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Who pays?

May 29th, 2007

“BusinessWeek: How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google (GOOG), MSN, Vonage, and others?

Whitacre: How do you think they’re going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain’t going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there’s going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they’re using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?

The Internet can’t be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! (YHOO) or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes [for] free is nuts! “

Well, things are not as seen sometimes.
The cable companies or Internet Providers own or lease the broadband lines and MAKE A (HUGE) PROFIT leasing them to customers.

It is not YAHOO GOOGLE and so using the pipes for FREE it is the customers USING the pipes they PAY FOR…

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We have come a long way, Mr. Backup

A few days of VOIPNICHE

2007-05-28T13:35:00.000-07:00

VoIP: the right business in the wrong hands

May 28th, 2007

Remember: VoIP the Zero billion Euros business?

Sometimes offering the right thing in the wrong way, can produce unsuccessful results.

That is going to happen if the companies who deliver it do not understand the real customers’ needs and the power of this new technology.

They have the wrong approach to it.
They see VoIP as a cheap replacement of the actual telephone service.
They hope in the blooming business of offering something similar for less.
Usually the cheap product means a widespread market.
But it is hardly like that in the specific case of VoIP.
The expensive parts of the telephone service are the international and intercontinental calls.
But those are not usually the need of the mass; the usual people mostly call locally.
This is even more valid for a country like Europe, which is not even a Union like the USA, since its many languages and nations.
We are still not a real Union.

The users of international and intercontinental calls are usually companies, but for them quality and services are still more important than cost in itself.
If VoIP fails to provide what the actual telephone service does, then most of them will just use it as a second line, the “cheap one”.

But VoIP in its own nature is something that not only can offer a very cheap alternative in the case of telephony, but a huge number of services that the usual telephony lines cannot.
That is because its particular structure, see :

http://www.worldonip.com/endtoend.htm

and the fact that we have a “stupid line” and “smart devices” at both ends.

Using VoIP is using a computer directly connected to a phone line, that acts as a computer and a communication center in the same time.
You do not have to dial numbers, you just click on a name on your outlook list and you are immediately connected. You can have conference calls, you can send pictures, you can have video conferences you can do all what your computer can do.

This is the Power of VoIP

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Nature and Spirit

May 28th, 2007

The Lotus Path Workshops

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Wi-FI, Wi not?

May 28th, 2007

Content, content, content.

This is the heart, the brain, the blood and the Internet is the vessels.

Without blood there is no need for veins, without veins there is no humanity, without humanity the world would be different (I still have doubts if better, but this is my humble opinion).

Narrow vessels mean bad circulation as much as narrowband Internet means narrowband future.

Broadband will allow better communications, better downloading, faster streaming and spreading of content.
The next need is broadband at low cost.

DSL doesn’t allow more than a certain limit, Fiber Optic is getting too expensive, especially in rural or semi rural zones.
Wi-FI is the natural evolution of the actual technology and the actual way of living.
Without considering the ubiquity of Wi-Fi that by itself would relegate to oblivion the wired world.

Wasn’t the portable phone the biggest success by far?
I do not want to enter in discussion if it was a good thing or not, also that could be my humble opinion.
The fact is that it was a winner and Wi-Fi is its natural follower.
You need more, the telephone line cannot deliver, let’s look for something else.

Wi-Fi, Wi not?

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xMax revisited - a Qualcomm employee is critical

May 28th, 2007

A month ago I put up a brief post on a company called xG Technology, which generated rather more entertainment and vitriolic comments than I’d anticipated. It’s funny how I can regularly criticise UMA technology or metro-WiFi & still have cordial relationships with Kineto and assorted WiFi mesh vendors and hotspot providers (and their investors), but a relatively off-the-cuff post (which wasn’t even that negative by my standards) could generate a call for me to be “strung up”.

Since then, I’ve had few interesting emails and conversations about xMax. Last night I also had a blog comment added to an old post of mine, referring to a rather searing critique of xMax and one of its underlying patents, from a guy called Phil Karn who works for Qualcomm and who seems to enjoy taking shots at things that seem “to good to be true” - from timeshare sales pitches, through to “free energy” machines. See www.ka9q.net/xmax.html and www.ka9q.net/tristate.html . I’d actually been told about these articles a week ago or so by a 3rd party from the investment community, but didn’t have time to write up a full post or moderate the inevitable stream of comment spam I’m going to get.

Now Mr Karn’s writing style is pretty abrasive about both xG and it’s main technology guy Joe Bobier. I’m not a huge fan of attacking people rather than organisations, but nevertheless, it’s an interesting read. I don’t know enough about either the finer details of RF modulation or information theory to critique his critique, but nothing jumps out at me as being obviously wrong - as far as I can see there’s no major public debate about things like Shannon-Hartley theorem, for example. On the other hand, he does work for Qualcomm and his ka9q site is also accessible directly via http://people.qualcomm.com/karn so there will understandably be people who’ll shout “but he would say that, wouldn’t he? Qualcomm’s scared” so caveat lector.

Anyway, it’s an interesting diversion while the world waits with baited breath to hear what Telefonica Mexico makes of xG’s products in its ongoing trial. Some observers think this might happen soon, but I can’t imagine any service provider making snap judgements, in just a couple of months, about a strategic technology shift without exhaustive & lengthy large-scale trials. On the other hand as it’s billed as a “joint venture” rather than a conventional supplier relationship, it could be that Telefonica is just providing cell sites, masts or backhaul infrastructure as its part of the deal, perhaps letting xG bear more of the financial risks about the radio side and sales/marketing of devices and retail services. Given the early stage of the technology, I could envisage some sort of vendor-financing arrangement being more palatable to CFOs.

I’ve also spoken to the CTO of another operator who’s skeptical but keeping an open mind and watching brief on xMax “If it’s true, then I can’t afford to ignore it”, although he’s wary of the way the technology is being marketed and is also working on WiMAX in any case. No additional news from pioneering xMax customer, Florida ISP Far Reach on their ongoing deployment, either.

Now, some housekeeping notes:

I’m expecting some hatemail on this, just for giving Karn’s views an airing. I guess my old friend Mr Anonymous, who so graciously dispensed his wisdom on my last post, may return. I suspect he is one of the regular bullish posters on this board, who have also been shooting at Karn’s analysis and who specialise in burning heretics, rather than engaging in debate. I think my erstwhile interlocutor is quite possibly the one with the handle “marcsanpedro”, as the syntax & language & style of multiple consecutive posts is similar, plus he refers to me in one instance. If so, I can quite understand why he doesn’t like Google as a research tool. And if he’s who I think he is, he also randomly phoned me last year asking my opinion about xG.

Anyway, I’ve got a busy week ahead, so I’m going to be ruthless with deleting comments from the more rabid xG fans that are offensive rather than factual, as I don’t have time to debate endlessly. It also looks like Blogger now has a “lock comment thread” facility for individual posts, although I hope I won’t have to use it.

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If you call a phone a “computer”, do you regulate differently?

May 27th, 2007

I was just reading through some document about VoIP regulation, and noticed that in some countries like Canada, the regulators make a distinction between ordinary telephony and “computer to computer” Internet telephony:

“The CRTC will not be regulating private computer -to-computer voice services over the Internet or peer-to-peer (P2P) as these do not connect to the public telephone network which is consistent with previous CRTC decisions not to regulate retail Internet services”

So, if we take Nokia’s current N-series branding at face value and refer to an advanced mobile device as a “multimedia computer”, this presumably has some interesting implications for regulation of mobile VoIP…..

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Billion routers to distributed by VCOMM

May 27th, 2007

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2007-05-21T07:00:00.000-07:00

$18 Million awarded to General Dynamics :snapvoip

May 20th, 2007

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Cell phone goes Social Networking, Your GPS enabled Cell Phone!

May 20th, 2007

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Skype Games Channel :snapvoip

May 20th, 2007

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Mobile JaJAH for your cell phone

May 19th, 2007

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Femtocells and enterprise?

May 18th, 2007

I’ve just seen some marketing from another research company that suggests that enterprises will use femtocells quite widely, in the context of FMC.

I’m unconvinced that this is likely until at least 2010, if not 2012 or beyond.

Experience with picocells suggests that enterprises are wary of having operators’ equipment installed on their office LAN, especially if it has to tunnel its traffic out through a firewall. Operators are equally unhappy to have their base stations beyond their control on someone else’s network. There may be regulatory issues here too. In theory, they could be installed on a virtual LAN using the building’s spare cabling - but this still has the problem of manageability and ownership for the operator, as certain components like patch panels and fibre risers will be shared-use.

Instead, picos are often installed on completely physically separate cabling & infrastructure. Which is not inexpensive. Given that femtos cover fewer users / less range than picos, it seems to make the problem worse, not better. Distributed antenna systems may be easier, especially as they can be used for multiple operators’ networks, while picos/femtos can only be used for one carrier, and are therefore useless for visitors, or where enterprises do not want to be locked into longterm deals with a specific single operator.

Also a bunch of other issues emerge:

Channels - integrating femtos with PBX channels & system integrators will need years of recruitment, training & certification
Value chain - lots of new “moving parts” will need to be brought into the ecosystem, such as RF design houses capable of dealing with cellular inbuilding coverage
Software will be needed that can recognise a group of femtos as being part of the same “zone” - perhaps 30 on one site, 20 on another, and 2 in each of 100 branch office sites. Not that difficult, but to my knowledge nobody’s done it yet
Integration with IP-PBXs, and ways of dealing with legacy systems and migration. Another huge task.

And then of course there’s the small fact that even simple, single-femto consumer deployments have yet to be developed fully, let alone rolled out.

Of course, dual-mode enterprise WiFi/cellular isn’t that easy either. But it is “here and now” (albeit belatedly), and by the time all the issues above get fixed, it should be pretty mature. So in other words femto-based solutions will have to work well with that, as well.

The ultimate solution is some sort of mega-hybrid, embracing cellular, dual-mode, WiFi-only, DECT, IP centrex, outsourcing where appropriate, mobile PBX extensions, fixed hard phones, PC softphones, indoor cellular coverage with picos/femtos and DAS…. and having customers that understand it, enterprise applications that integrate nicely with all the devices, and channels that can sell the right solution. Now I think about it, maybe 5 years is optimistic…..

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2006-05-19T07:22:00.000-07:00

Mobile JaJAH for your cell phone

May 19th, 2007

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Femtocells and enterprise?

May 18th, 2007

I’ve just seen some marketing from another research company that suggests that enterprises will use femtocells quite widely, in the context of FMC.

I’m unconvinced that this is likely until at least 2010, if not 2012 or beyond.

Also a bunch of other issues emerge:

Channels - integrating femtos with PBX channels & system integrators will need years of recruitment, training & certification
Value chain - lots of new “moving parts” will need to be brought into the ecosystem, such as RF design houses capable of dealing with cellular inbuilding coverage
Software will be needed that can recognise a group of femtos as being part of the same “zone” - perhaps 30 on one site, 20 on another, and 2 in each of 100 branch office sites. Not that difficult, but to my knowledge nobody’s done it yet
Integration with IP-PBXs, and ways of dealing with legacy systems and migration. Another huge task.

And then of course there’s the small fact that even simple, single-femto consumer deployments have yet to be developed fully, let alone rolled out.

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The new Era of Everything

May 18th, 2007

“What it really represents, I say, is not just the further collapse of newspapers’ hold on classifieds but the crumbling of classifieds as a form of advertising itself. The monsters are huddling together for warmth. With better search, we’ll be able to find each other, buyer and seller, without having to go to a centralized marketplace.

It won’t be long before we see classifieds coming up in Google searches. In some ways, we do now. Search for new homes in Tampa and you’ll see ads next to that map. “

Jeff Jarvis

Finally they are beginning to discover the full potential of the Internet, better, they are beginning to use it.
What does social networking really mean?
It means you are there, in this big network, as you probably were yesterday too.
The new fact is that they are beginning to find you, better, they are beginning to find new ways to display you or, if you like they are beginning to discover new ways so that you can easily display yourself, if you want, if you are able to, if you invest what you have to.
And that means money or talent or time.
In this way it is much more democratic than the usual printed way.
There either you had money enough or you were out.
Here you need money or brain.
And sometimes brain is better than money…
I very much like that!

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They will talk a lot about this in the near future

May 18th, 2007

Today’s announcement that Google is changing its search to integrate video, photos, text, and news with results that used to list just text on web pages is, I think, more significant than it at first seems.

Now you have to figure out how to put some Google helium into your videos and photos and news headlines — all of which can now appear on the blessed search-result page.

And you also have to figure out what people get when they click on those things: where are your brand, your ads, your links? If you distribute your stuff onto more sites out there — if your video becomes a hit on YouTube and on bloggers’ embeds — does that get it higher on Google? What does this do to destination and portal strategies?

Big media people should be reaching for the gin tonight.
Jeff Jarvis

What’s the near future of websites and blogs?
If you want to still be there beware: you must have Videos and use YouTube and work a lot more or invest a lot more.
That is the fight going on.
Do you want to be upthere? Well just begin the competiton and let the best win!

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SMB Hosted VoIP Phone Service is lead by packet8 virtual office

May 18th, 2007

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How Much Bandwidth Is Chewed Up By VoIP??

May 18th, 2007

Let’s talk turkey for a moment (or Vonage if you want to throw a pun into the discussion ha ha.).

The age old question (OK recent topic of concern) among VoIP users and those whose bandwidth is used to make those calls is……how much bandwidth does VoIP use?

Well Virginia….that’s an interesting question. Any discussion may illicit potentially tense reactions. So let’s try and shed some light on the subject….in a practical fashion.

Bandwidth isn’t measured like it was a garden hose of water. ON and OFF, measuring it’s usage. It can be read that way, but it isn’t actually looked at that way. Not by most providers anyway. (Unless of course they are trying to rationalize prices to the FCC).

For instance; as a business you may have numerous DS3/OC circuits that you pay for each month. A DS3 for instance rounded off is 45mb of pipe. Now, you pay the same thing for that circuit each month whether you put 1 voip line on it, or an entire network with hundreds of computers and such.

Same with your VoIP. You pay the same amount on an unlimited calling plan whether you make 1 phone call or 1000 calls. To try and measure actual Mega or Terabytes of data as a means of determining cost is pure rationalization.

Ma’Bell, Level 3, or any other backbone has “X” amount of bandwidth that they can use simultaneously. Some of that bandwidth is dedicated, some isn’t. Some are using ATM so it can better utilize the bandwidth among inconsistant users, while there are also other flavors like Frame and TDM.

The point is, while some providers and backbone and backhaul carriers might charge a metered circuit, most sell fixed amounts of bandwidth. That’s why your ISP has little statements like; “UP TO 1.5MB” or “Speeds may Vary”. Just because voip has started making a presence, doesn’t mean that ISP’s have had to automatically start buying more bandwidth from the backbone.

If they tell you that, they are full of ……it. When DSL and cable broadband are sold to you, the max bandwidth that you are buying is formulated into their pricing and bandwidth demands.

For what it’s worth, more bandwidth was probably used, until recently, on streaming audio/video, torrent, MP3 downloads, distributed computing, etc. If your service provider gets too saturated, they will offer more bandwidth at a higher price, which is what they will use to buy from the backbone/backhaul providers.

However when you have 10 people that are using the bandwidth (for VoIP) that would supply 50-100 average (internet using) joes….. not only is that causing more congestion at that junction box, but you are also causing the provider to buy more bandwidth.

You know as well as I do they will not make another tier! They will just raise the prices on the ones already established. How many average people max out their connections on a regular basis?

Anyway, the VoIP companies for the longest time have been getting pretty much a free ride on the PSTN and the ISPs…. plus were not subject to the same taxes MaBell is. So…. you can see why there is so much tension about bandwidth?

If you’d like help find just the right VoIP based solution….covering all the bandwidth in’s and out’s…..I suggest you take advantage of the free consulting services offered at: Business VoIP

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What a web page should look like

May 17th, 2007

What should a webpage look like?
I hate flash since the early days in which it appeared on the Internet.
Those were the days when most people had lousy connections and the ADSL was something belonging to the future.
Now the ADSL is something widespread (in the big cities) and broadband a word whose meaning everybody knows, and flash is something most webmasters have abandoned, at least for the “useful” websites, the sites where you go to look and buy something.
I like websites that follow a certain pattern: the pattern I am used to.
It makes it easier to find at once what I am looking for.
And this is something too many webmasters ignore.
People like easy and fast and usual websites.
People dislike waiting and having to look for and search for and ask for.
People are getting lazy because they are spoiled, and they are spoiled because sellers want to sell and one of the ways to easily sell is pleasing the buyer.
As simple as that.
You’re busy trying to sell a service or a product or an idea to lazy people in a hurry.
Lazy as in not willing to read the instructions, follow the manual, do all the steps, invest the time in the research. Lazy as in willing to buy the first choice that’s ‘good enough’ as opposed to finding the best choice.
Lazy, in a hurry, and in search of better are often contradictory ideas. Doesn’t matter. We don’t have to like it, we just have to acknowledge it.
So, what kind of miracle do the customers expect from a webmaster?
That he makes a website where you can search in a hurry and find the best.
So, they do not want flash, they do not like too many pictures or too many choices.
They like few clear buttons and a clear presentation.
This is what we have.
This is what it costs and this is where you can buy and pay and this is when you will receive it.
Do you need something special?
Well, there is a search window (and the search window is usually on the top of the page), just write what you are looking for and I will bring you there.

The colors must be nice and not disturbing.
Blue or beige or pale gray and the written words in black or dark grey, on a white backgroung please, so that my eyes will read it in an easier way…
PMC Telecom has just redisigned their website where they list BT Phones.
I guess it reflects what I am talking about.
First: the page is not too crowded.
Second: It is easy to navigate and displays all the informations a customer is looking for, in a fast and clear way.
Third: the search window is where I expect it to be, as the menu on the left.
I immeditely know what they have and I do not have to read for hours about things I am not interested in.
Fourth: there are all the required informations, including how to pay…
There is even a free telephone number on the Top.

Of course in every market, there’s a subset of geeks and nerds that are neither lazy nor in a hurry. Well this website is ALSO for them.

Yes this is a sponsored post , but I really mean what I said.

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voipniche is multiplying!

May 17th, 2007

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voipniche is multiplying! voipniche.blogspot.com, voipniche.iblogs.com

May 17th, 2007

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Will mobile social networking drive churn rates up?

May 17th, 2007

There’s a huge amount of interest in mobilising the various social networking services - MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and so on. Operators are partnering left, right and centre.

But I wonder…. do people have more loyalty to their mobile operator, or to their preferred social networking brands? I think it’s the latter, because of the impact of the rest of the user’s social group. I can make a unilateral, personal, decision to switch from O2 to Vodafone. But I’m not going to be able to convince my entire social network to switch from Facebook to MySpace.

So, I’m more likely to switch operators to get my choice of Web 2.0 brand. Which sounds good on the face of it, but ignores an important factor:

Social networks’ coolness varies over time. People switch allegiance from Bebo to MySpace or whatever is more “exclusive”. People belong to multiple networks. It’s a bit like real-life social scenes - the bars & restaurants that are ultrahot this month, are full of Z-list celebrities next month, and full of clueless tourists the month after that. The A-list has moved on. And from an online mobile/social networking point of view, these A-listers are the ‘hubs’, the most popular people. Their friends follow them.

So just because MySpace is popular right now, doesn’t mean it will be next year when a mobile operator’s contracts come up for renewal. People may desert their current operator in droves if their coolest friends are now using a service which partners with another carrier. In other words, the risk of mobile social networking is that it might induce “group churn”.

(Caveat: this is a very metropolitan/London-centric view of socialising, where there is sufficient fluidity in networks of friends - or openings of cool new bars & restaurants - to make us fickle. In smaller towns people have more fixed friendships, and go to the same local pub all their life, so for these cases loyalty may be more easily achieved)

Spyware: the new frontier of cheating

2005-05-15T12:16:00.000-07:00

The spyware allows to track a computer’s Web browsing behavior in order to deliver targeted advertisements to that computer. Thus, if a computer with spyware visits music-related Internet sites, the spyware sends a signal of the computer user’s activity back to the spyware installers which then target the computer with advertisements from music-oriented companies that paid for access to the computer through spyware.
Somebody claimed access to 12 million computers in the United States and gained national media attention (and criticism) for having obtained such access.
http://voipniche.com/voip/spyware-the-new-frontier-of-cheating.html

voipnich days work

2004-05-23T07:33:00.000-07:00

Next Revolutionary Mobile TV

May 22nd, 2007

Now you can be sure you’ll never run out of videos to watch.
Whenever and wherever you are.
Remember those long and boring trips on a train or a bus? Or those waiting hours sitting in a queue without anything to do?
Well, if you are lucky to own a Video iPod you can convert any kind of videos and DVD movies, family videos, recorded TV shows, into iPod format, put it into iTune library and sync with your iPod and watch it whenever you feel like to.
How?
You do not need to be a computer expert, just download the DVD to iPod Video converter, the right software and with a few clicks of the mouse the trick is done.
The PQ DVD to iPod video converter software runs on PC (Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP). (No Mac OS version has been planed yet) A standard DVD-ROM drive is required to rip/transfer DVD to iPod movie. iTunes software is required to copy/sync iPod movies.
This software supports high quality 640×480 H.264 and MPEG4 video, that means you can connect your iPod video to your TV and have the same picture quality as from the original DVD.
You can have a free trial and for $39,95 you can convert as many videos as you like.
This is a little, big step towards moving into mobile Tv, Movies or whatever you want…

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Customer Relationship Software: the lifeblood of any company

May 22nd, 2007

What is one of the most important reason for the success of any company?
Quality.
Quality in the products they sell and quality in the services they give.
And the customer relationship is the secret to success.
Good quality relationship with your customers means also time and people committed to it.
So, how to lower the efforts and increase the efficiency?
With a good crm software.
Let your computer work for you in a most efficient way.
The AIMpromote software ( a web based CRM software) has a quite low cost of implementation, without any set up fees, and you can even integrate your system with your website with no charge.

It is also the best way to increase sales and control up to the smallest detail your market place and the performance of your products.
Besides you can be always in touch with the support staff for any question or problem.
They offer the email contact, a toll-free number and a forum where you can post your questions and feedback and be sure to get a fast answer.
You can begin at once, signing up for a 14 days trial!

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Is Municipal Wi-Fi Dying??

May 22nd, 2007

There’s been lots of news articles recently about citywide Muni-WiFi projects….especially after Earthlink decided to pause and reassess the money-making potential of their citywide Wi-Fi projects.

There’s also been an increase in gloom and doom reports out of major tech outlets as cities realize Wi-Fi isn’t magic pixie dust and comes with inherent coverage issues.

Of course the majority of the nation’s largest projects haven’t even been completed yet, and while early subscriber numbers aren’t stunning …. cities are finding significant benefits on the municipal and emergency services side. Mostly ….everyone in the whole market is in a wait-and-see mode watching whether Muni-WiFi can really be proven.

What many are finding is that there’s no free lunch. These systems cost money to build and operate and maintain and upgrade. That money has to come from somewhere. Some comes from ads (but ad revenues depend on users reading them), some from subscribers, and if those 2 can’t cover the cost - they must shut down or get money from the taxpayers.

Unfortunately, the option of shutdown or taxpayer subsidy looks like it may become the default position of many of these systems because they can’t draw enough users to make ad supported and subscriber supported systems pay for themselves.

The time has now arrived where the builders of these systems have learned that making these systems pay for themselves is a very risky option. They will now only go forward with a taxpayer backed option as part of the package. We will now see how many local politicians will continue to push muni-wifi systems when the voters start learning it is going to result in tax increases.

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Credit Cards Guide

May 21st, 2007

It doesn’t look like money, it doesn’t smell like money, it doesn’t feel like spending money, but it’s money.
That is what sometimes people forget. And use them too much, even when they shouldn’t.
If it is too easy to get credit, then some people can overdo.
But could we live without credit cards?
Certainly not.

“INTERNET MARKETPLACE REVENUES SWELL TO OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS”
Could it without credit cards?
I do not think so.
More and more our purchases are on the Internet, more and more we cannot live without our credit cards.
But in the meantime we need to make them safer and ourselves more responsible.
So what is the best choice among the huge offers of credit cards?

You can begin reading the Credit Card Guide and, as they say: compare, choose and APPLY.
What to choose?
If you are the type that tends to exceed, because, as I said, a card doesn’t look like cash, you can opt for a Prepaid Credit Card.
When the credit is finished, then you realize how much you spent and decide if you want to go on or to stop.
I like this type of card, also because it gives me a certain kind of feeling of safety against thieves.
At least I know they are going to steal just the amount that actually is on it and do not have access to my account.
Or you can prefer a 0% credit cards.
That is good if you are looking for a “free” credit.
At least a temporary “free” credit, that is for an introductory period before the standard apr is applied.
There is something more than just a credit card guide.
You can read interesting articles, for example How To Avoid Paying Those Pesky Credit And Debit Card Fees .
This is something I found very useful. We usually spend and then find out we could have avoided a part of the fees when it is too late.
It pays to know before…
Or may be you are interested in Credit Cards Insurance ?

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Breast Augmentation

May 21st, 2007

I read some time ago: 78% of the person you love is water.
So we love mostly water.
But where the water is, that can make a huge difference.
Especially for a woman.(but also for men)
What about taking some away from the belly and the hips, which is what they call liposuction and fill the breast, what they call
breast augmentation?
Once just the celebrities could afford it, but now a days, it is not that expensive any more and if you choose the right place you do not have to fear that it could be dangerous to your health.

For example at Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, they have trained staff and surgical facilities that ensure the highest level of safety.
So what about Los Angeles breast augmentation or Beverly Hills liposuction?
It is much cheaper than what you think and they even offer some kind of financing.
They have relationships with several leading finance organizations. These groups can provide cash to pay for all or part of your procedure at Los Angeles plastic surgery center.
You can check the monthly fee you will have to pay for every kind of surgery and decide if you really feel like having a “new you” with the right proportion.
For example a breast augmentation in Los Angeles would cost you as low as $159 per month!

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Credit cards and SCAM

May 21st, 2007

Credit Cards are even better than cash.
They are easy to carry and easy to use.
But there are a lot of buts.
First you easily can get carried out.
It doesn’t look like money, it doesn’t smell like money, it doesn’t feel like spending money, but it’s money.

That is what sometimes people forget. And use them too much, even when they shouldn’t.

Second, are they sure?
Certainly not. Everyday more and more we read about credit cards’ fraud.
And thieves are getting everyday smarter.
One of the latest SCAM consists in calling for example a VISA ownwer, presenting themselves as Security and Fraud Department at VISA, reporting a fraud on your card and asking the security number. What the scammers want is the 3-digit PIN number on the back of the card. Don’t give it to them. Instead, tell them you’ll call VISA or Master card directly for verification of their conversation.
The real VISA will never ask for anything on the card as they already know the information since they issued the card! If you give the scammers your 3 Digit PIN Number, you think you’re receiving a credit.
However, by the time you get your statement you’ll see charges for purchases you didn’t make, and by then it’s almost to late and/or more difficult to actually file a fraud report.
Banks and credit card companies have long warned consumers against providing personal information to unknown callers (or Websites). Con artists are often able to obtain partial information about a potential victim’s account, then contact the person masquerading as a company representative to “verify” the account by requesting additional details as in the above case, the three-digit security code. But they might just as well ask for other pertinent details, for example, they may provide the last four digits of your account number (which typically show up on
sales receipts, etc.) and request the other 12 digits to “confirm” it.
Or they may already be in possession of your full account number and request the expiration date of the card, or your billing address. Any of these individual bits of information may be just what the scammerneeds to “fill in the blanks” and gain full access to your account, so beware.

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