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TELECOM Digest Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:05:00 EST Volume 26 : Issue 13
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
What's in a Name?: That Which We Call an iPhone by Any Other Name (Solomon)
Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld (Monty Solomon)
How Apple kept its iPhone Secrets (Monty Solomon)
The Future of Apple (Monty Solomon)
Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone (Monty Solomon)
BlackJack Beats Out Palm 750, but iPhone May Well Top Both (Monty Solomon)
Using Your DVR From Afar (Monty Solomon)
Making Voice Mail More Like Email (Monty Solomon)
The Ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions (Monty Solomon)
Nine Ways Apple, Inc. Just Changed Landscape of Consumer (Monty Solomon)
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
AT&T Sets Cingular Rebranding in Motion (USTelecom dailyLead)
Telecom Update #562, January 12, 2007 (John Riddell)
Re: Article: T1 Connections Provide Unparalleled Data Transfer (John L)
Re: Article: T1 Connections Provide Unparalleled Data Transfer (T)
Re: Bill Gates Unveils Windows Home Server at the 2007 Int (Gary Breuckman)
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:13:22 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: What's in a Name?: That Which We Call an iPhone by Any Other Name
What's in a Name?: That which we call an iPhone by any other name
would sound as sweet.
by Robert X. Cringely
There are a couple glaring mysteries surrounding Apple's new iPhone,
announced this week at Macworld -- the name and the Internet
connection speed. I'll get to Google in a moment, but first I'd like
to cover these two points about the iPhone.
If you've been in a coma the last several days, you may not have heard
about Apple's iPhone, which is a combination mobile phone, iPod, and
Internet access device. It isn't in the strictest sense a Personal
Digital Assistant or PDA, both because its Internet-orientation and
whole Web 2.0-iness makes being a PDA passe, and because John
Sculley invented that term. Steve Jobs, since he detests anything
related to Sculley, who cast Jobs out of Apple back in 1985, will
never make a PDA.
The iPhone is cool; the iPhone is neat; the iPhone is weird in a
couple of ways. You know it isn't even close to being the most
expensive mobile phone on the market, for all the grousing I've read
about the price. My Nokia N.93, which was technically not available
yet in the U.S. until recently, but could be freely found in the
United States of eBay, costs substantially more at around $800.
What's weird about the iPhone is, first, its name, since iPhone is a
registered trademark of Cisco Systems, which sells a variety of
products under that brand. Apple has been negotiating with Cisco
about licensing the iPhone name, so they can hardly claim ignorance
of the trademark, yet this week they announced the product without
such a license and of course Cisco filed a lawsuit in response. As
the trademark holder, Cisco had no choice, because to not file suit
would have been to not defend the trademark, perhaps making it more
vulnerable to poaching by Apple.
What makes these trademark shenanigans all the more peculiar is that
at the same MacWorld show this week Apple introduced another product
called Apple TV, which it first demonstrated last year under the name
iTV. (Just as an aside, one reader pointed out, "Look at the Mac
Mini, the Apple TV, and the new AirPort extreme, all the same size
and Bob's version of Apple's multimedia PC is stacking up, for less
than $1,000.") Well, it turned out that Elgato Systems makes a
product called EyeTV (pronounced "iTV" obviously), which is a line of
Macintosh video capture devices -- some with tuners -- so Apple
backed off and changed the product name to Apple TV.
So Apple changed its marketing, diluting its whole "iThis" and "iThat"
naming strategy in deference to Elgato, a company they could buy with
a weekend's earnings from the iTunes Store, but chose to go toe-to-toe
with Cisco, a company that's bigger, richer, and just as mean as Apple
any day. If an iTV can become an Apple TV, why can't an iPhone become
an Apple Phone?
I think it will.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070111_001476.html
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:27:51 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld
Most of Tinseltown won't buy into the Apple chief's digital vision
until he ponies up more money and gets more serious about protecting
content
by Ronald Grover
By all accounts, Steve Jobs gave a socko performance, delivered with
his usual charm and controversial style, Jan. 9 at Apple's (AAPL)
annual Macworld gathering. Apple TV, which Jobs says has licked the
problem of linking your TV to content downloaded from the Internet,
was introduced as thousands cheered in San Francisco's Moscone
Center. Among the faithful were some tech companies, Walt Disney Co.
(DIS) Chief Executive Robert Iger, and a smattering of TV executives.
Most of the rest of Hollywood was conspicuously absent. Only four
months back, when Iger announced that Jack Sparrow and the rest of
Disney's movie characters could be downloaded to Apple's video iPod,
it looked like Jobs was on his way toward taming the beast called
Hollywood. A prototype of Apple TV, then code-named iTV, would soon
link to the iPod and ship movies from Steve's world to our TVs-or so
the whiskered one led us to believe.
But no other Hollywood studio has yet joined Disney in giving Jobs
their most precious commodity: new-to-the-home-market movies, which
continue to be the studios' hottest sellers in the still-robust
$32-billion-a-year DVD market. To be fair, Jobs & Co. did manage to
lure a second studio, when Paramount Pictures announced it was
joining the iPod brigade. The Viacom (VIA) unit, eager to overcome
its image as a digital Neanderthal, said it would license to Apple
100 or so of its older movies. You want Breakfast at Tiffany's and
Mean Girls, you can get them. But try to get Dreamgirls when it comes
out on video in a few months, or Shrek 3, which Paramount will
release this summer for DreamWorks Animation (DWA).
http://businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jan2007/db20070112_399642.htm
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:17:17 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: How Apple Kept Its iPhone Secrets
Bogus prototypes, bullying the press, stifling pillow talk -- all to
keep iPhone under wraps. Fortune's Peter Lewis goes inside one of the
year's biggest tech launches.
By Peter H. Lewis, Fortune senior editor
January 10 2007: 7:00 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- One of the most astonishing things about
the new Apple iPhone, introduced yesterday by Steve Jobs at the
annual Macworld trade show, is how Apple (Charts) managed to keep it
a secret for nearly two-and-a-half years of development while working
with partners like Cingular, Yahoo (Charts) and Google (Charts).
The iPhone, which won't be available in the United States until June,
represents a close development partnership with America's largest
wireless phone company (Cingular, now a part of AT&T (Charts), has 58
million subscribers), the world's largest e-mail service (Yahoo has a
quarter-billion subscribers worldwide), and the world's dominant
search company. Although speculation was rampant before the
introduction that Apple would introduce a phone with iPod capabilities,
actual details of the device were scarce. Even some senior Apple
managers whispered during the keynote that they were seeing the iPhone
for the first time, along with the 4,000 other Apple followers who
crammed the Moscone meeting center here. Indeed, Apple's emphasis on
secrecy may have influenced Apple's choice of Cingular to be the
exclusive provider for iPhone service in the United States.
Apple, legendary for the ferocity with which it safeguards new product
announcements, had extraordinary challenges in keeping the iPhone
under wraps for 30 months. Besides involving Cingular, Google and
Yahoo, not to mention the unnamed Asian manufacturer, the project
touched nearly every department within Apple itself, Jobs said, more
so than in any previous Apple creation.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/10/commentary/lewis_fortune_iphone.fortune/
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:03:46 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: The Future of Apple
With the iPhone, Apple TV, and a name change, Jobs & Co. are setting
a new course for the outfit once known only for its computers
by Arik Hesseldahl
SPECIAL REPORT
January 10, 2007, 12:00AM EST
If there was anything on the minds of higher-ups at wireless handset
manufacturers on Jan. 9, it was very likely what to take for a
headache -- a pounding one caused by a new competitor, the company
formerly known as Apple Computer (AAPL).
In unveiling a device called the iPhone-the subject of rumors and
speculation for years-Apple also officially changed its name, dropping
the "Computer" that had been part of the moniker since the computer
maker was founded in 1976. At the same time, the newly incarnated
Apple stormed into new markets, turning the biggest names in cell
phones-Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT), Research In Motion (RIMM), and
Samsung-into overnight competitors.
The new name and device represent Apple's strategic shift away from
its origins as a personal computing company that has at points
struggled both to survive and to set the computing world's agenda.
The shift was enabled by the five-year-old iPod line of digital media
products, which have produced enormous sales and profit growth,
propelled Apple into the forefront of the digital media age, and now
leave it poised to set the wireless phone industry on its ear. "This
is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years," Apple
CEO Steve Jobs told the capacity crowd at the MacWorld Expo trade show
in San Francisco. "Every once in a while a new product comes around
that changes everything."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070110_535914.htm
SPECIAL REPORT
The Apple Economy
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20070108theappleec.htm
* Apple's iFuture Depends on Partners
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070108_349212.htm
* Apple's Chinese Supply Lines
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070108_583738.htm
* Apple's Wireless Effect
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070108_255246.htm
* Companies Embrace the Mac-Slowly
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070108_880656.htm
* Apple Sets the Design Standard
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2007/id20070108_046657.htm?chan=tc&chan=technology_the+apple+economy
* Getting to the Core of Apple's Influence
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/01/0107_apple_design/index_01.htm
* Apple's Cinema HD Display Has Star Power
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070110_011023.htm
* iPhone and Apple TV Unleashed
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/01/0109_apple/index_01.htm
* Interactive S&P Stock Report: Apple
http://search.businessweek.com/interactiveStock.jsp?ticker=069064171149228001074054013117180117010254186085
* The Future of Apple
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070110_535914.htm
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:08:30 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone
By DAVID POGUE
Today, I had meetings with Steve Jobs and then Phil Schiller, Apple's
director of worldwide marketing. I basically played with the iPhone
the entire hour.
Here are some of the things you can't tell without actually handling
and using the iPhone:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/some-hands-on-time-with-the-iphone/
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:10:21 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: BlackJack Beats Out Palm 750, but iPhone May Well Top Both
BY WALTER S. MOSSBERG
When Apple rocked the cellphone world Tuesday by unveiling its
radical and gorgeous new iPhone, it was bad news for Palm Inc., whose
Treo smart phones will be severely challenged by the new iPhone when
it goes on sale in June.
I attended the iPhone launch event, and was able to use one for a
little while. That's too brief an encounter to allow me to write a
proper review. But I can say that it has the largest and most
beautiful screen I've ever seen on a cellphone, even though it's
incredibly thin. It felt great in my hand. It has a brilliant new user
interface; the handsomest email program and Web browser I've ever seen
on a phone; a full-blown iPod music and video player built in; and
even a cool new voicemail system.
The iPhone has some potential downsides -- it doesn't use a physical
keyboard, instead relying on a virtual keyboard on the screen, which
may put off heavy email users. It runs on the relatively slow EDGE
cellular data network, though that flaw is partly offset by the fact
that it can also use speedy Wi-Fi wireless networking. And, with a
$499 base price, it's expensive.
Still, the iPhone made my relatively new Treo 700p seem primitive in
many respects when I compared them side by side. And the Apple product
isn't Palm's only problem.
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20070111.html
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:14:21 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Using Your DVR From Afar
BY KATHERINE BOEHRET
The whole point of using a digital video recorder is convenience.
Rather than arranging your schedule around television shows, you watch
what you want when it's best for you. But you may be running out the
door for a weeklong trip, forgetting to plot out which shows will air
while you're gone. Or you might learn of a new series or show while at
work, unable to get home in time to record it.
This week, I was reminded of how setting my TiVo digital video
recorder to record programs can be done more conveniently: through
remote online access. I did so using two methods: TiVo Inc.'s own Web
service, TiVo Central Online at www.Tivo.com, and Sling Media Inc.'s
downloadable SlingPlayer software program, which works when Slingbox
hardware is attached to your television. Other remote recording
solutions also are available using computer-based programs.
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20070110.html
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:15:35 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Making Voice Mail More Like Email
BY KATHERINE BOEHRET
Despite spam and other problems, email is highly useful and
effective. You can quickly send and receive messages, delete or
forward them, and save them for reading at a later time. A glance at
your inbox can tell you a lot about each message, including its
subject, sender and the time it was received.
But voice mail lags behind in key ways. A voice mail still doesn't
tell you the caller's name or reason for calling unless you listen to
at least part of it. You usually can't reply to a voice mail with a
message of your own, as with email; instead, you must call the person
back. And you can't easily jump from the most recent voice mail to the
10th without listening to every message in between.
Still, voice mail has its place. A phone call is much more personal
than an email, and lets you use vocal inflection to express your
point, whereas email expressions can sometimes be misinterpreted. And
it's often easier and faster to speak your message than to type it
out.
This week, I tested Pinger, a free messaging service that tries to
make voice mail more usable by emphasizing its strengths and making it
a little more like email, or like a cellphone text message. This new
service comes from Pinger Inc, a Silicon Valley-based company started
by former Palm Inc. employees.
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20070103.html
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:33:26 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: The Ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions
David Pogue
Wow. Predictably, the torrent -- and I do mean torrent -- of iPhone
commentary from the citizens of the Web is practically outflooding
spam this week. Most of it comes from people whose shirt fronts are
practically drenched in drool. Plenty is negative and bitter.
Another huge category is iPhone questions. Never mind that many of
these questions either (a) have been answered by Apple, either on its
elaborate, interactive Web site or the free video of Steve Jobs's
speech, or (b) come from people who fantasize about fitting the
iPhone into their own particular wish lists.
(My favorite sarcastic comment, which was a response to these
responses, which were in response to my last blog entry: "Yeah, yeah,
yeah, but can you use it underwater? And can you recharge it using
solar power? And does it have an optical scanner that detects your
eyeball movements so that you merely have to look at a name in your
contacts list and blink in order to choose and call him? Apple, you
have a long way to go.")
Anyway, here it is: the ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions
list, complete with answers.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/the-ultimate-iphone-frequently-asked-questions/
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:44:48 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Nine Ways Apple, Inc. Just Changed the Landscape of Consumer
Nine ways Apple, Inc. just changed the landscape of consumer electronics
Steve Jobs heralded yesterday's Macworld keynote address with the
words, "We are going to make some history today." While the
introduction of Apple TV and the multifunction iPhone certainly are a
new direction for Apple, we believe that Apple's marketing muscle will
have a big effect on the rest of the consumer electronics and telecom
industries will be just as profound. Just how is that? Here are nine
effects we see:
http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/2007/01/nine-ways-apple-inc-just-changed
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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update - January 12, 2007
From: communicationsdirect_daily <communicationsdirect@communicationsdirectcom>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:40:13 EST
********************************
PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update
For January 12, 2007
********************************
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for
Business Execution
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22053?11228
Does it seem you've formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your
firm still can't get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation
for business execution -- an IT infrastructure and digitized business
processes to automate your company's core capabilities. In
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for
Business ...
Turkcell Achieves 14% Y/Y Subscriber Growth in 2006
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22052?11228
Turkcell announced a 14% increase in its overall customer base to
31.8 million in Turkey at the end of 2006, from 27.9 million
subscribers in the same period last year. Of the current total
subscriber base, 5.8 million were post-paid subscribers and the
remainder -- 26.0 million-were prepaid ...
AT&T to Phase Out Cingular Brand from Next Week
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22047?11228
Following the completion of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, AT&T has
announced that it is to begin phasing out the Cingular Wireless
brand from next week, beginning with adverts showing both the
Cingular and AT&T logo with the Cingular logo being phased out
over a period of months. Significance: The AT&T Wireless brand
...
U.N. Telecom Agency Not Seeking to Control Future of Internet
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/22045?11228
GENEVA -- The United Nations will not try to take the lead in
determining the future of the Internet, the head of the
U.N. telecoms agency said Friday. Hamadoun Toure, a Malian who
was elected as director-general of the International
Telecommunications Union in November, said the agency would be
just one of many organizations ...
Microsoft, Verizon Aren't Playing Games
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/22042?11228
LAS VEGAS -- Consumer Electronics Show (CES) -- Here at CES, companies
such as Verizon Communications Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are
making it clear that gaming can't be taken lightly in the world
of next-gen communications services. Microsoft puts the X in
IPTV Microsoft shocked the world here Sunday when it ...
Mobile-TV Pricing: How It's Working
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22039?11228
After a somewhat lackluster start, mobile TV is generating
greater interest in the world of communications. However, the
first wave of such services has presented a number of challenges
to mass-market adoption. First, before TV enthusiasts can watch
live sport or news broadcasts on their mobile phones, they have
to sift through a ...
Sprint Powers-Up Pricing Plans
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22036?11228
Sprint Nextel is hoping to entice customers with new plans that
will enable them to extend their unlimited evening talk
hours. The carrier is rolling out Sprint Power Pack pricing
plans, designed for both individuals and families. The Power
Packs are designed to give customers access to unlimited nights
and weekends at 7 p.m. ...
Alvarion Heads Downmarket
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22034?11228
The news that Alvarion Ltd. has formed a joint venture with
a Taiwanese partner to build end-user devices brings the
development of WiMax networks to a new phase, according to
executives on both sides of the deal. Tel Aviv-based
Alvarion says it will partner with Accton Technology Corp. of
Taipei to build high ...
Voice Support Key for WiMAX
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/22032?11228
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Regardless of whether voice is directly
marketed and supported by their WiMAX service provider, the
majority of WiMAX subscribers will use their broadband connection
for at least some of their voice communications within the next
several years, reports In-Stat. At the end of 2006, In-Stat
estimates that there ...
Your feedback on our e-letter is always welcome. Send email to:
CommunicationsDirect Editor <telecom_direct_editor@us.pwc.com>
Copyright (C) 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:21:52 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: AT&T Sets Cingular Rebranding in Motion
USTelecom dailyLead
January 12, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fWakfDtusXjMAGCibuddSXMm
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* AT&T sets Cingular rebranding in motion
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Verizon turns on FiOS TV in New Jersey
* Embarq: Access line numbers better than expected
* Samsung: iPhone to create high-end demand
* Sprint Nextel still exclusive with "24"
* Verizon Business ups service ante
* Google in talks with CBS, report says
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Digital convergence officially arrives
* Wireless in Asia: A look ahead
VOIP DOWNLOAD
* BT's VoIP-customer numbers hit 1 million
* Skype says data rates hinder its VoIP service on mobiles
EDITOR'S NOTE
* SmartBrief will not be published on Monday
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fWakfDtusXjMAGCibuddSXMm
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From: John Riddell <jriddell@angustel.ca>
Subject: Telecom Update #562, January 12, 2007
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:22:07 -0800
Here is the Telecom Update issue #562 for this week:
http://www.angustel.ca/update/up.html
I was unable to properly convert the HTML version into text, sorry.
PAT
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From: johnl@iecc.com (John L)
Subject: Re: Article: T1 Connections Provide Unparalleled Data Transfer Speeds
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:30:53 UTC
Organization: Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
>> For most business seeking high speed internet access for data transfer
>> applications ... a T1 connection is the solution of choice over DSL.
>> This article explains why ... and how.
> This article fails to point out the vastly more expensive rates for
> T1.
Since he's clearly trying to sell T1's, that's hardly surprising.
> T1 gives you total privacy and 24/7 capacity. If you don't need both
> of those things, almost anything other than T1 is a better deal.
I have a T1. It provides symmetric bandwidth and considerably lower
latency than DSL or cable. My T1 provides 1.5Mb each way with about
3ms delay. It's not hard to find a cable connection that can download
that fast or faster, but I've never seen cable or ADSL with that
upload speed.
Of course, if we lived in Japan we'd have 100Mb both ways for about
$10/mo, so a more reasonable question is why we can't get that here.
R's,
John
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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Article: T1 Connections Provide Unparalleled Data Transfer
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:36:26 -0500
In article <telecom26.12.5@telecom-digest.org>, Sam@coldmail.com says:
> That article is so biased and incompete to defy comprehension.
> My cable broadband is faster than that 1970s' T-1 balony.
> Now, let's talk t-3 at reasonable rates. (not about to happen, is it)
I don't know. In my office we have a 10mpbs connection via Cox to the
OSHEAN cloud and it's about $1,200 a month. Verizon wanted $700 a month
for a DS1 which was 1/9th the Cox setup.
As for T3's, going rate around here is about $3K a month which for
45mpbs isn't bad.
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From: Gary Breuckman <puma@catbox.com>
Subject: Re: Bill Gates Unveils Windows Home Server at the 2007 International
Reply-To: puma@catbox.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:37:44 GMT
Organization: tds.net
> 1. Find a beat up old PC that used to run Windows 98.
> 2. Buy a SATA card and two SATA 160GB HD's for under $250
> 3. Install in system obtained in step 1
> 4. Download Debian Sarge (Or Centos if your tastes run Red Hat)
> 5. If Debian, apt-get install samba
> 6. Setup your Samba shares.
I'm not sure you would even need a server anymore, look into the many
small NAS (Network Assisted Storage) boxes out there now. Use the
box, hard drives, and connect to the network.
For example, Netgear has the SC-101 for about $120, the box takes one
or two IDE hard drives, it can mirror the drives, combine them into
one large drive, or just use one drive. The drives can be partitioned
if you want, partitions can be shared with the network and password
protected if you like.
-- Gary Breuckman
------------------------------
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@cac.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: NY Times Plans Major Job Cutback
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:49:04 -0800
Organization: University of Washington
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Reuters News Wire wrote:
> The New York Times, like many other newspaper publishers, is trying to
> cut costs as advertising revenue and circulation decline as a result of
> more readers moving to the Internet and other media to get their news.
I would claim that a more important factor is that many long-time
subscribers (such as myself) grew weary of being spoon fed ideological
pablum and dropped our subscriptions en masse. Jayson Blair is a
symptom of a much more far-reaching problem at the Grey Lady (and
other once-reputable newspapers).
It's convenient to blame the Internet and other alternative media; it
avoids having to take a hard self-examination.
All newspapers have an editorial viewpoint; that is the purpose of the
editorial page. However, when the newspaper taints its hard news
reporting with that viewpoint, particularly when it reaches the
extreme of inventing quotes and incidents to match, then it ceases to
anything more than a propaganda organ.
The Times was once the paper that both dogmatic rightist and equally
dogmatic leftist read to get the hard facts, even as both vehemently
disagreed with the editorial. The Times had "all the news that's fit
to print", even when that news was inconvenient for its editorial
viewpoint; and it was respected and trusted for that.
Sadly, that has not been the case for many years.
The Times has fallen quite low, little better than the tabloids. It
will take a good deal of work to bring it back. I see little sign of
that happening.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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