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Blackberry 8800

February 17, 2007

I just hate the thumbwheel on Blackberrys and I am thrilled the company has seen its way to the future of technology where a trackball becomes the browsing “pointer” of choice. After all, browsing with a thumbwheel is perhaps the stupidest idea ever invented in tech – ranking right up there with Sony deciding not to support the MP3 format in their players and subsequently ceding the entire music player market to Apple.

Posted in Technology, Wireless

Wikipedia Dead Links

February 17, 2007

Russell Shaw raises an interesting point about a problem with Wikipedia being the fact that links expire. I know someone who words for a rival publisher and this company makes an encyclopedia as well. This person’s job is to scan for dead links and links that turn into porn sites. Apparently this is a bigger problem than most people realize. I suppose Wikipedia links will eventually be found to lead to porn sites as well. When this happens we will see scores of articles about the free encyclopedia’s credibility. Probably just a matter of time.

Posted in Technology

FCC Still not Happy with Cable Companies

February 16, 2007

Comcast is raising rates as you can see from this article. More interesting is this quote from the article: "One conclusion that is easy to reach is that this market is in desperate need of competition," FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said at the time. Looking at the telecom industry many think the FCC is in the pockets of the ILECs and is allowing consolidation at the expense of thousands of CLECs and other competitive players. I wonder if the FCC just has blinders on and is just looking to build the most powerful cable competitors possible.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, Technology, Video, VoIP

Mitel Presence Tour

February 15, 2007

Today I will be flying to California to speak tomorrow at a conference hosted by Mitel. The name of the tour – I kid you not is the Presence Tour 2007. I will be discussing Unified Communications among other topics. Here is all the info you need to know. It will take place tomorrow in Costa Mesa at the Westin South Coast Plaza. I will be a speaker and am apparently substituting for Sir Terry Matthews – which is a great honor.

Posted in Call Center, Conferencing, Microsoft, SIP, Technology, Unified Communications, VoIP

Findnearby.net

February 15, 2007

I happened upon a blog entry from Marc Robins this am discussing the website mashup findnearby.net. I have been a big fan of mashups of the years and this is probably one of the most useful ones out there. The site allows you to enter a product you are looking for as well as a zip code and a search radius in miles. It then checks Wal-Mart, craigslist, Amazon and eBay for your product. I tried it a few times and it seems to work acceptably well. To be better it needs more retailer participation. Still, this is the type of service that can save your rear when you need a product ASAP and want many options. As Marc says, when this thing adds click to call functionality it will be even better.

Posted in Technology

iPhone, AT&T U-verse, Blackberry and Hosted Communications

February 14, 2007

Edgar Bronfman Jr. a record company exec speaking at CTIA is right on when he says the interface on cell phones can use drastic improvement. On average, Bronfman said, it can take a person 20 clicks to buy a ringtone, depending on the carrier network the consumer is using. He also complained about the fact that ringtones, full-track songs, music videos and album art are all sold in separate virtual stores. I believe Apple has and will continue to change the mobile phone industry and if the industry doesn’t get its act together soon, Apple will steamroll it. Somehow Apple does everything design-wise better than any other company.

Posted in Broadband, Consumer Electronics, IP Communications, IPTV, Microsoft, Technology, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Future TMC Employee

February 13, 2007

Ralph Musgrove stopped by TMC today and presented Dave Rodriguez a present for baby Alex Rodriguez. Dave seemed thrilled about the present but wasn’t sure he wanted to subject a family member to working here.

Posted in Technology

iPods, Blackberrys Banned

February 7, 2007

Today the government banned the automobile arguing that by doing so hundreds of thousands of lives would be saved. The logical argument presented by our leaders was that the government needs to protect citizens from themselves. Could you imagine if such a thing were true? There would be panic in the streets and the stock market would tank. People wouldn’t be able to get to work, enjoy themselves by driving away on vacations.

Posted in Consumer Electronics, Technology, Wireless

TMCnet Mobile

February 2, 2007

If you are looking for the best communications and technology news on the go be sure to check out TMCnet Mobile which will display very well on most mobile devices. The service is in alpha at the moment but seems pretty stable based on my brief experience. Any web browser can see this page by the way. Check it out now if you like. One thing it does that I consider great about this new service but others may not like is that it allows you access to parts of TMCnet that are formatted for the mobile device. In other words if a link exists in an article that is not formatted for the mobile device you can still get there. This is great depending ion your web device. What is very frustrating to me about other sites is that when you click on a link in an article that is not formatted for a mobile device you get redirected to a page that is a mobile home page.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, Google, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Microsoft, Open Source, Personal, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Security, Skype, Speech Technologies, Technology, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Vista Analog Hole

February 2, 2007

George Ou over at ZDNet a past speaker at ITEXPO has some great analysis of a Vista security hole that is basically a backdoor left open by the new operating system’s ability to recognize spoken commands. Microsoft is downplaying the need to worry about this flaw but Ou thinks the company should make some changes to make the OS safer. Although a hacker would have to be sophisticated to exploit this hole there does seem to be a real possibility that a hacker could take control of your computer by using this exploit. If you happen to hear sound coming out of your computer – something similar to a voice speaking – you may just have a problem. For more check out George’s great article.

Posted in Microsoft, Security, Speech Technologies, Technology

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