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Over on Jeff Pulver’s blog, guest columnist and Pulver-cohort Daniel Berninger calls for an HD upgrade in the near-mythical communications “hotline” between the White House and Moscow, as well as other dedicated diplomatic communications channels around the globe. Originally set up during the scary days of the Cold War, the original teletype service has been upgraded [...] My Verizon landline went dead on Monday. I filed a trouble ticket on Monday evening. At that time I was told that “the latest someone would be out to look at my line would be Monday, July 13, but if there’s someone free earlier, we’ll call you…” Seven days for a tech to come out seems [...] Tech and social media pundit Jeff Pulver is penciled in to make a trip to Washington D.C. on Tuesday, July 14, to promote the cause of HD Communications. An agenda for the trip to the nation’s capital is still being finalized, but Pulver is expected to host a social media breakfast centered around HD Communications and [...] What can the Obama Administration do for HD Communications? A look back at what Vice President Al Gore did before he won his Nobel Prize provides some clues. Back in 1994, Al was the point many for “Reinventing Government” As a part of his mission, he put a “date certain” marker down for all of the [...] Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman nominee Julius Genachowski got the typical Capital Hill posturing lectures today at his confirmation hearing, but appears to be on track to be confirmed with Senate Commerce Committee leadership homing for a confirmation vote before July 4. Democratic Senators seemed to be more on point to delivery lectures more appropriate for [...] As I clean out my in-box of bits and pieces this week, Cox and Global Crossing are two different companies that have indicated they doing to do something with HD Communications and HD Voice. The bigger questions are “When?” and “How?” A Cox spokesperson said the company was looking into HD Voice, but at this point [...] You almost get the impression that Qwest has a death wish. It wants to sell off a business it is making money with — its long-haul network — while continuing to hold onto all of its (steadily declining) landline business. What is wrong with this picture? Since everyone knows Qwest is a wounded duck with its [...] FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has been nominated for a second term by President Barak Obama. Now maybe the Republicans can stop stalling and start voting to approve him and FCC Chairman nominee Julius Genachowski already. According to reports floating around since Genachowski was nominated, the Republican leadership and/or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) didn’t want to [...] Verizon Business has rolled out its “cloud-based” Computing as a Service (CaaS, not to be confused with SaaS) solution today. Targeted to large enterprise customers, it isn’t likely to make a lot of waves at Amazon. CaaS is being sharply aimed at business and government customers who want on-demand and surge computing resources. It is available [...] Deutsche Telekom (DT) has said it won’t ban VoIP on its mobile networks in Germany, but customers will have to pay extra for the service. Can’t wait to see this get taking to the EU. DT T-Mobile customers in Germany will shell out a surcharge starting at 9.95 euros per month to use VoIP services; the [...] |
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