CASH IN with
Colotraq’s Referral
Program!
Play the
COLOTRAQ Referral
Program Game at the
Channel Partners
Expo, Booth
611, September
26–28, 2007 in
Secaucus, New
Jersey. MORE
INDUSTRY NEWS
US Backs Two-Tier
Internet
The US Justice
Department has said
that internet
service providers
should be allowed to
charge for priority
traffic. MORE
Long-Term Storm
Clouds Brewing over
AT&T, Verizon
Wireless
A series of events
are happening, or
about to happen,
that threaten the
business models of
big wireless
carriers such as
Verizon Wireless and
AT&T. MORE
Report: Phone
Lines Reach 4
Billion Worldwide
The U.N.’s
International
Telecommunications
Union estimates that
telephone service
has quadrupled in
the last 10 years to
4 billion lines
globally, including
1.27 billion fixed
lines and 2.68
billion mobile
accounts.
MORE
Comcast Cuts Off
Heavy Internet Users
The company has a
bandwidth limitation
that, if broken, can
result in a 2-month
suspension of
service. The
problem, according
to customer
complaints, is that
the telecom giant
refuses to reveal
how much downloading
is too much.
MORE
A New Old Idea
Telecommunications:
The idea of sending
information through
the air in the form
of flashes of light
is being given a
high-tech makeover.
MORE
Your Favorite Web
Services Are
a Long Way from
‘Five Nines’
Skype (eBay), Cisco,
Salesforce.com,
Yahoo, Google,
Netflix, Six Apart,
Craigslist, ZDNet
and other CNET site
— the list goes on
of sites that have
suffered more than a
few hours of
downtime downtime
for various
services.
MORE
SIDE TRAQS
Artificial Life
Likely in 3 to 10
Years
Experts expect an
announcement within
three to 10 years
from someone in the
now little-known
field of “wet
artificial life.”
MORE
Poll: Traders
Will Commit Felony
for Profit
Wall Street traders
don’t mind
committing the crime
— it's doing the
time that gives them
the willies.
MORE
It’s Arrived: The
Feminization of the
Net
Women aged 25–34
spend more time
online than men in
the same age group.
MORE
Ethical Practices
in China —
Outsourcing
Responsibility
Doesn’t Work
US companies have
rushed to blame
China for recent
product health
scares. But the
fault could lie with
their low-cost
outsourcing.
MORE
7 Stupid Thinking
Errors You Probably
Make
The brain isn’t a
flawless piece of
machinery. Although
it is powerful and
comes in an easy to
carry container, it
has it’s weaknesses.
A field in
psychology, which
studies these
errors, is known as
biases. Although you
can’t upgrade your
mental hardware,
noticing these
biases can clue you
into possible
mistakes.
MORE
Claims of
Antibacterial Soaps
Don’t Wash
Low level of a
germ-fighting
ingredient makes
cleansers no more
effective than
regular soap.
MORE
EVENTS CALENDAR
SEPTEMBER
ITEXPO
is the event with an
educational program
that teaches
enterprises, SMBs,
and Government
Agencies how to
select and deploy
IP-based voice,
video, fax, and
unified
communications.
September 10–12,
2007| Los Angeles,
California
MORE
WiMAX World
Conference & Expo
is the industry’s
largest and most
influential wireless
and mobile broadband
event, covering the
WiMAX market in the
USA, EMEA and Asia.
In 2007, WiMAX World
global events will
draw over 10,000
visitors, over 250
exhibitors and will
be endorsed by more
than 350 corporate,
media, analyst and
association sponsors
from all around the
globe.
September 25–27,
2007 | Chicago,
Illinois
MORE
Channel
Partners Conference
& Expo — If
you are looking for
new
revenue-generating
opportunities in
indirect sales
channels, The
Channel Partners
Conference & Expo
will put you on the
fast track.
Thousands of
executives. Hundreds
of companies. Dozens
of new ideas for
growing your channel
sales organization.
Three days of
continuous
networking in the
city that never
sleeps!
September 26–28,
2007 | Secaucus, New
Jersey
MORE
OCTOBER
Mobile Web
Americas
Experts agree that
the United States is
about to see the
same explosive
growth in mobile web
users as the UK and
Asia. Early adapters
to this technology
have a tremendous
advantage to
establish
themselves. Leaders
on the traditional
web will not
necessarily be the
leaders on the
mobile web. The
Mobile Web Americas
conference and expo
will bring together
industry
professionals from
around the world to
discuss how to
improve and
capitalize on the
mobile web.
October 2–4,
2007 | Orlando,
Florida
MORE
ISPCON Fall
2007 will
get real about your
business. Isn't it
time you increase
your subscribers?
Add value to your
service? Pump up
customer service?
Find an exit
strategy and sell
for top dollar?
Whatever your plans,
ISPCON will help you
GET REAL about them.
This is the
industry's only
forum where peers
learn from peers in
real one-on-one
discussion about
what works and what
doesn't.
October 16–18,
2007 | San Jose,
California
MORE
CTIA
WIRELESS IT &
Entertainment 2007
focuses on the
integration of
wireless data
technologies into
the enterprise
through vertical
business markets
such as healthcare,
government,
automotive, retail
etc. as well as the
explosive growth in
wireless
entertainment—encompassing
everything from
music downloads to
digital cameras to
interactive games.
CTIA WIRELESS IT &
Entertainment®
is the most
well-attended mobile
data convention in
the industry,
attracting more than
15,000 attendees,
300 exhibitors and
more than 600
members of the media
and analyst
communities.
October 23–25,
2007 | San
Francisco,
California
MORE
Data Center
Decisions Conference
brings
together the biggest
names in
virtualization,
design, DR and
executive to arm
attendees with the
info they need to
solve their data
center challenges.
October 22–23,
2007 | Chicago,
Illinois
MORE
NOVEMBER
IT
Infrastructure
Management
Conference & Expo
This year’s
event will offer an
all-new highly
valuable conference
program including
more than 45
sessions on topics
relating to emerging
technologies IT
leadership and
business integration
network optimization
technology
innovation security
governance and
compliance IT
service management
and ITIL — in order
to help you select
acquire deploy and
maintain your IT
infrastructure.
November 6–9,
2007 | Los Vegas,
Nevada
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