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Three Quick Thoughts on the Economy
Fiscal Cliff (or whatever dreaded scenario that Congress is creating to profit from personally) is just one more emergency to keep the American public in check panic mode. Meanwhile, Congress got a raise. This brings me to point 2: the...
The $14 Billion Dollar Announcement
While I don't agree with everything that Bruce writes here about AT&T's $14 Billion network spend in the next 3 years, there were a few take aways.The big one is that the ILEC's have been getting rate hikes for years...
It's All Just Shifting
"Ovum, in a latest research report, has warned that OTT VoIP will cost the global telecoms industry $479 billion in lost cumulative revenues by 2020, which represents 6.9 percent of cumulative total voice revenues," according to reports. Notice that it...
The New Job Marketplace
Jobvite has a slide deck about the future of work. Bigger companies are not creating the same amount of jobs - or the same kind of jobs. Technology replaced a lot of workers, even some salespeople.The 3 C's - Consolidation,...
Union Reacts to AT&T Layoffs
Not my usual topic, but I thought I would point out the following, from Rebuild the Dream:"AT&T recently announced the "surplus" of 740 union AT&T jobs despite their revenues soaring to $126.7 billion and a CEO that made over $27...
Privacy versus Security
“Concerned about privacy? Maybe you should be concerned about the economy instead. That was the subtext of a keynote speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, at a technology conference in the heart of Europe.” [Benton] Not to get...
The Whole Content System
Yes the whole content system is a mess. Newspapers, magazines, book publishing, music, movies and now TV - all are old school content business models that are in a state of upheaval. Unfortunately, the people in charge of these content...
Why I Was Going to Run for Congress
This is kind of a political rant, so fair warning and I apologize if I offend you in advance. Voter Suppression, media green zones like in Baghdad (and here), indefinite detention of Americans by military, the revolving door between lobbyists and government, SOPA, Congressional insider trading, shorting...
Letter to EMS Financial Customers
From: EMS Financial Services [mailto:admin@emsfinancialservices.com]Sent: December-03-11 6:17 PM Dear EMS Customers and Friends,You are undoubtedly aware of the difficult situation EMS finds itself in. However you may or may not be aware that a forensic examination of EMS accounts has...
Some Have Reached The Peak
I had a conversation yesterday with a friend from UHC. She mentioned that VISA is worried about its profitability on just the $0.24 federal max per debit card transaction. Here's the problem the American economy faces: We Peaked Already. Period.Globally, America is...
Business is Still Happening
Despite all the bad news, bad politics, financial collapse and more, at the end of the quarter business is still getting done. People are still buying stuff.For example, Juliana Kenny reports that Yahoo still hit earnings expectations even with firing their CEO.“The...
Unemployment and the Digital Divide
In this article in TechCrunch, you will read an interesting look at how Silicon Valley and the march of technology are causing a Digital Divide.Every online sale takes away from brick-and-mortar business just as Wal-mart has run over mom-and-pop stores,...
Verizon Got a Bailout?!
The Washington Post and the Business Insider report that Verizon took federal bail-out money two weeks after CEO Ivan said No Bailout for me! ...
ROA and Moore
A new metric for Wall Street is Return on Assets. A company spends money on infrastructure, equipment, etc. (Assets) to produce goods or deliver service. Recently, I have been reading where the return on assets is decreasing sharply (and has...
So We Have These Mergers
So we have all these mergers taking place, then I’m reading Consulting magazine to find a book review about John Hagel’s The Power of Pull. We are in an era of declining ROA from Big Business, so they have to...
The Era of Freelancers
Locally, I help organize BarCamp Tampa Bay, the UN-Conference for creatives, geeks, and techies. We gather for 2 days to share, engage, learn and network. We have had over 60 sessions both years. There will be more this year.This year...
What is the FCC Trying to Say?
The Buzz this week is the FCC's "Third Option" for some form of regulation of the Internet.This is FCC Commissioner Michael Copps' statement about the Third Option."Frankly, I would have preferred plain and simple Title II reclassification through a declaratory...
A Message from the Fellows
I attended the University of Tampa Fellows Forum this morning. Verizon was the presenting sponsor so I got to listen to Michelle Robinson, President, Southeast Region, Verizon, gush about how wonderful VZ is. Point of order, Michhelle. You said that...
UGC for AT&T
AT&T has a strange website up called AT&T Investing in America. Adweek has an article about the campaign around the website. The website invites Americans to share their inspiring stories. "As a member of corporate America, we share in the...
Acredo Lays Off Staff
This morning on Twitter, it was announced that Hosted VoIP company, Acredo, had laid off all its staff. Acredo is the second Hosted PBX player in Orlando to axe its staff in the past few weeks. VOX also laid off...
Biz Travel Trends Are Annoying
USA Today has the latest business travel trends. While it looks like prices are dropping, in fact, it's only the base airfare ticket price that is dropping. With all ancillary fees airlines add, you are likely paying more for your...
Two Big Problems in DC
Arnold Schwarzenegger was on ABC's Sunday morning news with George. he had the best analogy I have heard: As a patient, when the oncology team diagnoses you with cancer, you want a unified solution, not a bunch of doctors arguing...
Reignmaker Smashed by Standford
Stanford International Bank is the other Madoff. While Madoff burned people to the tune of $50B in his Ponzi Scheme, Stanford wiped out $8B in its investors money. In its wake, it has erased the credit line of Reignmaker Communications....
VAR's Optimistic
"Nearly one-third of VARs (value added resellers like Cisco certified IT shops) are planning to grow their businesses in excess of 15 percent in 2009", according to CRN.The most interesting quote was not about the importance of Managing Cash Flow...
Broadband Stimulus Bill details
More Broadband Stimulus Bill (and here at TMC) info from Stephen Ronan on the CyberTelecom listserv. (probably in response to the volume of comments from Tom Keatings blog!)Can anyone provide a pointer to the bill at issue?text of billHouse Draft...
