Thursday, October 25, 2007

Free passes to Interop / Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

by alec on October 25, 2007

Suzanne Bowen has a couple of free passes to Interop / Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on November 5 through 8. If interested, she can be reached at +1 850 375 9276, by email at suzanne@supertec.com, and on Facebook as Suzanne Bowen.

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IP Convergence TV Portal launches

by alec on October 25, 2007

My friend Jon Arnold dropped me a note yesterday about his new project, the IP Convergence TV portal. Jon's the editor for this portal, which is a non-profit initiative that Comverse has put together. A group of charter sponsors including Intel, AudiCodes, Tilgin, BEA, Blueslice and others contribute in-kind by providing content about all the various aspects of IP convergence – IPTV, Triple Play, FMC, etc.

Check it out. You'll see some familiar faces, including folks like Tom Howe.

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Crazy for Facebook

October 25, 2007

There's a fun dialog going on between Jeff Pulver, Moshe Maeir, and Shel Israel over Facebook adoption in Israel. It's sprinting towards 100K users. As Jeff notes, that's a little more than 1% of the total population. Since October 14th, when Jeff spoke at VON Israel, it's grown from 70,000 to 97,000, which is remarkable since [...]

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Verizon to share customers' personal information

October 25, 2007

Alarm bells are being raised south of the 49th parallel over plans by Verizon to share subscribers' CPNI records with third parties. CPNI, or customer proprietary network information, comprises users’ calling records and includes the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and time spent on each call, among other data. CPNI is therefore the key to delivering [...]

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