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- Finding High Tech Talent - What’s Missing and NOT Matching?
Finding technical talent is big business. Monster World Wide (MNST), best known for its Monster.com service has a market cap of $5.9 billion and yearly revenues of $1.1 billion. CareerBuilder, who was 1/5 the size of Monster in 2002, recently overtook Monster in quarterly revenue. There are also thousands of executive search firms, the top 10 [...]
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:46:59 +0000
- National Video Franchise [check], Whats Next for Telecom and Video?
If there is one thing that telephone companies have done successfully over their history it has been their ability to lobby. Take the most recent squabble over these local video franchises which provide a kind of right of passage to offer video services to communities. Over the past year telecom has flexed its political lobbying muscle [...]
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:07:38 +0000
- The Maid Who Really Cleaned Up
Having a maid can have a status symbol feel to it. In a job negotiation with a past employeer there was going to be a corporate apartment included in the agreement as well as a maid service because the apartment was going to be occasionally shared with out of town employees who were visiting the company’s headquarters. The [...]
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:14:47 +0000
- Friends Never Forgotten – A living memory of Kevin
My first introduction of Kevin came in preschool. We were the oldest kids in the class, nearly a year older than the youngest and for the most part 6 or more months older than the balance of the class. We prided ourselves on building large castles out of cardboard brick blocks with walls taller than [...]
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:35:16 +0000
- Armed Robbery - The one that got away
Working at a gas station in a large city exposes you to a wide variety of people. Some people you see frequent enough to know their cigarette brand before they need to remind you, some are so friendly that they hang around for hours because they you are like their bar tender (locked behind a counter [...]
Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:37:59 +0000
- Bigfoot Scare – How to twist a childhood curiosity
If you have read about Bigfoot, or what the Indians call Sasquatch, the older you get the less likely you would believe in it. However, if you read about such a creature with childhood curiosity such readings (especially if there is a remote chance it could be true) brings about a very strong conviction. This [...]
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:07:09 +0000
- Who is winning the market for IPTV chipsets?
Research completed on which IPTV Set Top Boxes (STB)s use various IPTV chipsets has uncovered evidence that the race is much closer than what some of the more vocal chipset vendors in this space have claimed. After researching more than 60 different IPTV Set Top Box (STB) manufacturers and over 15 different chipset vendors, Focus [...]
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:02:18 +0000
- Jury Duty - What to Expect
Having never lived anyplace long enough to be selected, my luck finally ran out this spring so rather than call the day a total loss here is an interesting story about what you can expect when they find you! Jury duty is what everyone dreads having to do. It could be a just one short day [...]
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:23:01 +0000
- PON - Need for smarter passive optical termination
As last mile connections to the home become 100% fiber a need exists in fiber termination (transceivers) to maintain this bottleneck free fast-lane on into the home. However, while fiber is becoming the physical medium of choice for last mile connectivity, the dominate home networking physical media is still somewhat up for grabs. Physical medium networking options [...]
Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:50:09 +0000
- IPTV versus proprietary TV System - Similar?
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) can be described as a system for encoding, transmitting, receiving and displaying a video stream on a Television where all transmission takes place over Internet Protocol (IP) packets and IP networks. Estimates by Parks Associates have IPTV achieving 60 million subscribers globally by the year 2011. While IPTV has some tremendous advantages over proprietary [...]
Mon, 28 May 2007 17:55:10 +0000
- Online Data Storage - Cheaper Alternatives
Although the price per GB of data storage is dropping, online data storage service vendors like Data Backup Solutions, eSureIT, EVault and IBackup have thus far found a way to charge a premium for their services over and above what the going rate for data storage on the Internet. This premium is based on what [...]
Sun, 27 May 2007 21:38:48 +0000
- MSN Music - No Response
Have you purchased music from the Microsoft first music service (MSN Music) that came bundled with WMP10? If you have, make doubly sure that you have backed up all your music licenses. When WMP10 was alive and well and you lost a license for a song purchased on MSN Music, you could recover it gracefully online. However, Microsoft’s new [...]
Sun, 27 May 2007 02:29:34 +0000
- Jacobs Rimell Mass Device Configuration
At the recent NCTA in Las Vegas, Jacobs Rimell of UK announced the offering of a QuickStart SIP UE for mass device configuration and provisioning. QuickStart SIP UE addresses the needs of network service providers who are faced the need to configure and provision a rapidly growing spectrum of SIP devices in their networks. QuickStart software provides an easier [...]
Fri, 18 May 2007 03:39:33 +0000
- CD-Text Support (or the lack there of)
CD-Text is the ability to store each song’s title and artist on the CD allowing players capable of reading CD-Text to comprehend this information and to display something other than track 1, 2, 3, etc. with no artist information. Having just completed a rather exhaustive effort to implement CD-Text for use in burning music CDs for [...]
Fri, 18 May 2007 02:16:54 +0000
- Self-Defining Devices
In big demand these days is software to configure mass numbers of devices on a network. Service providers are calling on their vendors to build them management systems to help them configure large numbers of devices quickly and painlessly. Only device manufacturers didn’t have “bulk configuration” in mind when they set about building advanced functionality [...]
Fri, 18 May 2007 00:51:41 +0000
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