March 11, 2009
Coding Horror: Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun? - Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functio...
Vinny Carpenter's blog
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Vinny Carpenter
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March 10, 2009
BOONTON, N.J., March 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- In 2009, U.S. ethnic communities will spend $56.6 billion on telecommunications services, accounting for nearly one-third of all residential telecom expenditures, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. The larg...
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March 06, 2009
I have to say, with all due respect to other conference organizers that Lee Dryburgh and his band of advisors, led by the likes of Jon Arnold, Dan York, Brough Turner, Phil Wolff, Alan Duric and others really worked hard to make this year's eComm the best ever. When we ended after three days at six ...
VoIP Watch
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Andy Abramson
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Yesterday I spoke with an upcoming reporter named Jason Hahn from Northwestern Universities Journalism program at Medill, one of the nations better J-Schools. I have an open door policy for students, and even lecture from time to time as without my college experiences at Temple University, and lots ...
VoIP Watch
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Andy Abramson
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March 03, 2009
I was having a discussion yesterday with a fellow who’s been in the technology business quite a bit longer than myself. Though I wasn’t yet an accomplished “I.T. Guy” when he sold his first computer in 1983 (I was finishing the first grade), I do share a knowledge of the am...
Signal to Noise
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Ted Wallingford
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March 01, 2009
Back in January I crafted my Telco 2.0 scouting report. It included the people whom I felt were the some of the brightest minds in telco who were "available" in the "draft" because the were either not aligned with any one company or they were about to become "free agents" in the same way that colleg...
VoIP Watch
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Andy Abramson
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February 27, 2009
It was only a matter of time for carriers to make stink about the inclusion of Skype on the N97. I had first read about the issue via Simon Judge and was surprised it had even take this long to be a public complaint. Carriers will always hate things that compete with their bread and butter and whe...
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Jonathan Greene
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Two UK mobile operators are reportedly fuming at Nokia for including a mobile version of Skype on its N97 handset. Both Orange and O2 are so terrified that the popular VoIP service will siphon away profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make free calls that they are supposedly threatening not ...
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February 25, 2009
We're having a hard time figuring out how Vonage can justify pulling their "Visual Voicemail" scam on customers without even offering the option of a refund, but that's exactly what they're doing to Daniel. They quietly turned on the feature over a year ago. You'd think in a year of logging onto the...
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Chris Walters
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February 24, 2009
It’s that time of year again: tax time. As we all pay buku to our local CPAs to fill out forms we’re either too incompetent or too uninterested to fill out ourselves, we cringe at the idea of a federal tax audit and dread dealing with IRS agents on the phone: people who won’t giv...
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Ted Wallingford
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