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Squawk Box Preview – March 31

March 31, 2008

Today we’ll be talking about a news story that made the rounds last week about the evolution of news consumption. One of the prominent quotes in that story was from a college student who said: “if the news is that important, it will find me”. We’ll discuss what that means for the business of news, [...]

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March 28 Squawk Box Preview – Guest Rob Enderle

March 28, 2008

I feel pretty fortunate this morning to be hosting Enderle Group Principle Rob Enderle on the SquawkBox. His very provocatively titled blog posting Another Look at Microsoft/Yahoo: With Iraq as the example, is the Google War Smart? will be the topic. Needless to say, with a provocative opener like that, this promises to be a [...]

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Squawk Box March 27 – Guest Irv Shapiro of Ifbyphone

March 27, 2008

Our guest this morning was Irv Shapiro, CEO of Chicago based Ifbyphone.  Ifbyphone is a converged voice and web solutions company that made some big announcements at eComm a couple of weeks ago.  Irv told us a little about his company's vision for creating voice mashups, and then his offer to give away up to [...]

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Squawk Box March 26, Guests Jon Arnold and Marc Robins

March 26, 2008

We had another great SquawkBox this morning, with as many as 21 people on the line.  My guests were Jon Arnold of J Arnold and Associates, and Jon's colleague and business partner Marc Robins of Robins Group.  The focus of the call was two fold.  We talked about the conferences people have been attending in the last couple of weeks [...]

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Squawk Box March 14, hosted by David Spark

March 14, 2008

We had a very lively discussion today on the SquawkBox. Is twittering during a conference session considered rude? Will it put panel attendees and moderators more on their toes? We got a very lively discussion about the value of Twitter during live events and whether it's rude. But now conferences are putting their Twitter feeds [...]

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SquawkBox, March 13, 2008

March 13, 2008

This morning Sheryl Breuker and Ken Camp co-hosted our call with Fonolo (Pr.: PHONE-uh-low) CEO Shai Berger. Shai will be demonstrating Fonolo later today at the eComm2008 conference under way this week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.. Fonolo also announced a private beta program today and forecasted a commercial launch later [...]

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Squawk Box, March 14 preview

March 13, 2008

David Spark of the Spark Minute and Spark Media Solutions will sub-hosting for Alec Saunders tomorrow (Friday) on the SquawkBox. The call is tomorrow, Friday, March 14th at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern. Call lasts from 30-40 minutes. Tomorrow's guest: Patrick Kearney of the PJK Podcast and the VP of Technology and Platforms for Participant Productions [...]

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Squawk Box March 12 hosted by Tom McCarthy-Howe

March 13, 2008

This episode was live from the EComm show, listen to the podcast to get the highlights from EComm speakers!

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Squawk Box March 10 hosted by Jim Courtney

March 10, 2008

Post written by today's host Jim Courtney. Later this week I'll be attending eComm 2008 – a forum for discussing the future of communications enhanced services. Founder Lee Dryburgh calls it the "Trillion Dollar Industry Rethink. And they will be talking about how we can look for new communications enhanced business processes. Keynote speaker Jonathan [...]

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Squawk Box, February 20th

February 20, 2008

We start with a follow-on story from yesterday.  Verizon announced their flat rate voice pricing yesterday — $99 per month for unlimited calling in the US.  Not to be outdone, AT&T and T-mobile immediately announced similar plans.  And Helio, of course, has an unlimited voice and data plan in the markets where they operate.  All [...]

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