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"All Things Digital" Is Must Reading

June 22, 2006

Great must reading in the Wall Street Journal's Technology special report on "All Things Digital" from earlier this week.

Coverage is from "D4: All Things Digital -- The Wall Street Journal Executive Conference," hosted by Walt Mossberg (left) and Kara Swisher (right). Conference was held May 30-June 1.

Interviews, for example, with Bill Gates on Vista, MySpace and his competition; Robert Iger (Walt Disney Co.) on the future of entertainment; and director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Men in Black) on why the Internet is bad for movies.

Let me know if you agree with these folks ...

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Can you hear me now? Ringtones Age Discrimination

June 12, 2006

Interesting story from ABC News about a ringtone that only young people can hear:

Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class — and many teachers can't even hear the ring.

Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults. With it, high schoolers can receive text message alerts on their cell phones without the teacher knowing.

As people age, many develop what's known as aging ear — a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds.

While an interesting phenomenon on the aging ear and taking advantage of it - ever hear of "vibrate" mode? Although, some phones vibrate loudly which the teacher can probably pick up.

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GlobalComm failure - Will Hooters Girls Help?

June 8, 2006

Rich Tehrani has always been one to call it like he sees it and he certainly has a keen eye to say whether a show is going to be successful simply by examining the first day of exhibit hall traffic. He should have a keen eye - both Rich and Nadji Tehrani have been in the tradeshow biz for over 25 years. You don't have successful tradeshows (such as ITEXPO) if you don't have good instincts. Well, Rich was the first to blog about GlobalComm's apparent failure after the show's opening day.

Posted in ITEXPO, News

Ask.com gets into blog search

June 5, 2006

Ask.com introduced Blog & Feed Search, a new web search designed for searching blog posts, finding feeds and news published to the "blogosphere," while leveraging Ask.com search technology and subscription data. I did a search on "voip blog" as well as "gadget blog" and this blog was listed as the #1 RSS feed. Sweet!

I can also see my blog posts from within Ask.com. When I roll the binoculars icon over one of the search results I can see a preview of the site without leaving the page.

Posted in MovableType, News, Reviews

WWE On-Demand

June 5, 2006

Looks like the WWE is going to soon allow you "pay on-demand" (pay-per-view) access to over 75,000 hours of wrestling programs. Could a full-time "Wrestling Classic Channel" be far behind? Hey, ESPN has ESPN Classic, so why not a Wrestling Classic channel? Relatedly, I hope the FCC gets its act together on ala carte channel purchasing.

WWE also purchased libraries dating back to the 1950's from WCW, ECW, AWA, WCCW, CWF, CSW, OVW, and SMW.

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GlobalComm Party like it's 1999

June 5, 2006

TMC is hosting a party at GlobalComm, the third such party hosted by TMC at GlobalComm (formerly Supercomm). According to Rich Tehrani, "it will now be an IMS party co-sponsored by the IMS Forum –formerly the IPCC. It will also be sponsored by TMC's new IMS Magazine and IMS Expo. The entire IMS market will be represented." I'm sure lots of VoIP players will be attending, so will be a great chance to meet important people in the industry in an informal setting.

Alas, I won't be there, but I'm not important in the VoIP industry anyway, right?

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Free Conferencing Recording

June 5, 2006

Last week, my boss asked MIS and me about being able to record his calls from his cell phone since he was doing an important interview. How ironic that just a few days later, Free Conferencing Corp. was announcing their plans for free recording capabilities that would work from his cellphone or any phone for that matter.

If you go to www.freeconferencecall.com you can check out what they claim is the "industry’s first FREE conference recording service." Callers can utilize the in-conference recording option for:

• Free unlimited dial-in playback
• File download
• Web streaming
• RSS and podcast conversion
• 24/7 availability

FreeConferenceCall.com does not require a teleconference connection charge. Users simply call a dial-in number to participate in a teleconference. It's too bad they don't publish a SIP address to avoid even the toll charges using VoIP.

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Microsoft Buying eBay?

May 31, 2006

When you've got as much money in the bank as Microsoft, anything is possible, but I've got to stop and think about today's rumor of Microsoft buying eBay.

On one hand, what does this mean; on the other hand, why not?

Is this a covert move by Microsoft to get its hands on Skype?

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Webinar on Business Benchmarks and Processes

May 31, 2006

TMC has been at the forefront of customer relationship management (CRM) for over 30 years. TMC started Telemarketing Magazine (now Customer Interaction Solutions), the very first magazine focused on call centers and CRM. In 1996, TMC launched CTI Magazine which focused on the convergence of computers and the telephone. CTI Magazine was the precursor to the ultimate convergence of voice and data, which resulted in TMC launching Internet Telephony Magazine in late 1997.

Posted in Call Center and CRM, News

Fark.com links to my story on T-Mobile blocking VoIP and IM

May 25, 2006

Fark.com's tech page shows a story link to my 3-week old post on T-Mobile banning VoIP and IM. While I'm flattered to be on Fark.com's website, which I myself visit from time-to-time, why link to a three-week old story? Sheesh. C'mon, step it up. News cycles move fast around here. How bout linking to my in-dept Plantronics headset review or some of my Vonage IPO posts? Just kidding. Fark.com is a good site which relies on user submitted links, similar to Digg.com.

Actually, the T-Mobile banning VoIP and IM is a story worth linking to even 3 weeks later. It hasn't gotten nearly the amount of press & attention it deserves.

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