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Doesn’t the “P” stand for Public in PSTN?
Jeff Pulver has reason to be concerned about the “sleeping giants”, if the recent action by AT&T/Cingular, Sprint and Qwest to block certain phone numbers of certain conference call providers is indicative of what they might do to Internet applications. These incumbents justify their actions by suggesting the conference call providers are essentially committing fraud…
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IP and Broadcast……
Brought to you by Telecom @ NAB S2 Data’s IPTV 2007 conference provided a global view of the IPTV market. The audience and the speakers consisted of an interesting mix of chip level companies, along with system integrators. There were some representatives from independent telcos, as well as at least one of their Engineering firms…
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Will We Ever Get an Answer on Universal Broadband?
There seems to be universal agreement that a robust broadband infrastructure will help to better educate our children, make for a more informed citizenry and ensure competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. I submit that broadband Internet and a way of using the broadband (some device) are necessary to ensure equality of opportunity for all of…
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Moody Blues Rock San Jose
The Moody Blues are all about the music. There is very little banter; just a progression of hits from the past 4 decades. With so many crowd favorites, the line-up doesn’t vary much from concert to concert – all the big ones are there, Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Ride My See Saw, Question,…
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MTA 2006 Annual Convention
Roger Bindl reports on the MTA 2006 Annual Convention. Sessions included Video on Demand (John Brown Vantage Point), Real Life Experiences, Hurdles for Deploying Switched Video (Jerry Weber Martin Group), A Successful IPTV Case Study (Robin Anderson DCT & Geoff Burke Calix), and the Keynote Speaker on Broadband (Michael Greeson Diffusion…
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But Everyone Loves A Parade:
One of the points of Viodi’s local content workshop is that creativity is not limited to certain locales, such as Hollywood and New York, or to the youth. To prove my point, I look no further than to my brother-in-law’s father, Ed Batinich. Ed, who is a spry 83 years young, exhibits the same sort…
