October 2008

CONTENTS

INDUSTRY NEWS

SIDE TRAQS

EVENTS

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

JANUARY

COLOTRAQ Announces Groundbreaking Telecom Expense Audit Service
Operational efficiency and cost reduction will be key to survival in the current economic climate. Telecom budgets for voice, wireless, hosting, bandwidth and network services represent significant savings opportunities. COLOTRAQ’s telecom expense audit promises to double those savings and can deliver the service from start to finish without any contract or obligation. MORE

The IT Role in the Mortgage Meltdown
The essence of the recent credit meltdown is simple: American banks are forced by law to value their mortgage portfolios at what others will pay for them, but because they also face minimal book equity percentage rules, a drop in the third party market for mortgage derivatives can force a bank into technical bankruptcy — and because that triggers a range of creditor protection measures which effectively shut down the bank’s day to day operations, financial institutions participating in inter-bank transfers with banks rumored to be headed for trouble either refuse to lend or raise their overnight rates and either way push their partners over the brink into insolvency. MORE

Gartner: Financial Meltdown May Mean Hiring Freezes, Staffing Cuts for IT
Deepening economic gloom prompts consulting firm to reduce its IT spending forecast for ’09 . . . MORE

Telecom Planning in a Time of Turmoil
It’s gotten pretty hard to miss the financial news lately: September was the worst month for stocks in years, and October looks to surpass it. Despite the U.S. government's massive $800-billion bailout, the U.S. economy is still roiling, and Europe’s is doing even worse. With all this gloom and doom abounding, if you’re a telecom manager you may be wondering about how all this will affect you — and what decisions you can make to ensure your company’s safe over the long haul. MORE

Virtualization Leads Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009
List ranks virtualization as No. 1 because of its capability to disrupt the data center market. MORE

SIDE TRAQS

Data Theft: What Really Accounts for It?
Compuware surveyed 1,112 “IT practitioners” and found that only 1 percent of data losses could be attributed to hackers. MORE

Consumer Behavior Study Confirms Cause-Related Marketing Can Exponentially Increase Sales
As the term “cause-related marketing” reaches its 25th anniversary and a sea of pink ribbons washes over the U.S. this month, a new consumer behavior study confirms that cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, in one case as much as 74 percent, resulting in millions of dollars in potential revenue for brands. MORE

Ithaca Aims To Be America’s First “Podcar” City
The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some. To Jacob Roberts, podcars or PRTs, for personal rapid transit represent an important component in the here-and-now of transportation. MORE

Free WiFi? That’s So 22nd Century
The FCC gave a nod to free WiFi on Friday, but it could be a very long time before this mythical free broadband network actually materializes — and to some extent, wireless carriers may be to blame for delaying the auction process. MORE

Blogging for Dollars: How Do Bloggers Make Money?
Professional bloggers face pressure to produce quantity over quality Last week, the blog search engine, Technorati, released its 2008 State of the Blogosphere report with the slightly menacing promise to “deliver even deeper insights into the blogging mind.” Bloggers create 900,000 blog posts a day worldwide, and some of them are actually making money. MORE

Internet Will Run Out of IP Addresses by 2010
The “father of the internet” has warned that the web is running out of addresses and users need to act now to change to a new system. Vint Cerf, the man who helped invent the system and one of the world's leading computer scientists, said that the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other. MORE

12 Year Old Boy Invents New Type of Solar Cell
Now here’s a story that makes me feel profoundly unaccomplished: a 12 year old boy in Beaverton, Oregon recently developed a new type of 3D solar cell that makes other solar cells look inefficient by comparison. MORE

EVENTS CALENDAR
 

NOVEMBER

IMS & SDP 08 creates an opportunity for carriers, vendors, cable operators, application developers and content providers to compare and contrast all the available solutions in one comprehensive and incisive conference.
November 5–6, 2008 | Reno, NV MORE
 

ISPCON is THE Internet industry event. A conference and trade show for wired and wireless ISPs, CLECs, webhosts, VoIP providers and other Internet-based business professionals. The entire industry comes to build and develop for the future at ISPCON.
November 11–13, 2008 | San Jose, CA MORE
 

DECEMBER

At Defense Network Centric Operations 2008, you will walk away with new insights on the most successful programs and technologies being implemented across the defense agencies. No other training conference provides you with the same level of targeted and in-depth presentations on the issues that you and your peers have identified as today’s most pressing obstacles facing net-centric operations.
December 12–13, 2008 | Arlington, VA MOREbr>

JANUARY

PTC is the #1 Asia-Pacific international conference for telecommunications and ICT professionals. Hard-hitting informative sessions will ensure that you are prepared to leverage new partnerships and remain competitive in an ever-changing marketplace.
January 18–21, 2009 | Honolulu, HA MORE
 

BICSI conferences and workshops draw a diverse group of decision-makers from across the country and around the world who are actively seeking the latest cabling solutions available in the market today.
January 18–21, 2009 | Orlando, FL MORE
 

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