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INDUSTRY NEWS
COLOTRAQ’s CEO Named President of New Telecom Industry
Trade Association
COLOTRAQ CEO, Dany Bouchedid, has been
elected president of the newly formed Technology Channel
Association (TCA). TCA’s mission is to promote the telecom
industry's indirect sales channel, which comprises a
significant and growing portion of the industry’s revenues.
Seeking to represent the broad interests of all those who
have a stake in the continued success of the indirect sales
channel, TCA will recruit both independent sales agents and
vendors for its membership. MORE
Forrester Slices 2009 IT Spending Projection
IT spending got a dose of
good-news-bad-news Tuesday, with Forrester Research nearly
doubling its projections for increased U.S. spending this
year and virtually slicing growth for next year. MORE
Wall Street’s Meltdown and the
Potential Technology Hit
Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall
Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy,
Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging
from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the
technology industry is removed from this carnage it will
still feel considerable ripples — some tech giants sooner
than later. MORE
U.S. Bounds Ahead on Broadband Proliferation
But it still has a long way to go.
Though the U.S. still trails other parts of the world in
deployment of high-speed broadband, all is not lost.
According to the latest State of the Internet report from
content delivery player Akamai, the nation’s broadband
penetration is on the rise. MORE
Execs Lack Budgets to Green Data Centers
Although CIOs and senior IT executives
overwhelmingly believe that a green data center will become
mission-critical, many lack the “green” to go green,
according to a recent survey by Voltaire Ltd. Nearly 90
percent of executives surveyed said they believe that
greening their data centers will be crucial to meeting their
companies’ business objectives in 2009, and 57 percent said
they believe going green gives them a competitive advantage.
Yet, 76 percent do not have a committed budget for a
greening policy. The survey queried CIOs, CTOs and senior IT
executives who attended the 2008 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
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Google Search Finds Seafaring Solution
Google may take its battle for global
domination to the high seas with the launch of its own
“computer navy.” The company is considering deploying the
supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search
engines on barges anchored up to seven miles offshore.
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SIDE TRAQS
Email Becomes a Dangerous Distraction
Checking email can be as addictive as
gambling, say experts. MORE
Six-Year-Old News Story Causes
United Airlines Stock to Plummet — UPDATE
Google Placed Wrong Date on Story
A worker at a Miami investment advisory
firm called Income Securities Advisor, which publishes news
alerts that get distributed through the Bloomberg News
Service, did a Google search on bankruptcies this morning
and got back search results that included a six-year-old
story published in the South Florida Sun Sentinel about the
2002 bankruptcy filing by United Airlines. MORE
Why Adam Gets More Spam than Eve
Email addresses that begin with letters
towards the end of the alphabet receive less spam than those
starting with letters towards the end, says Richard Clayton
at the University of Cambridge. MORE
Sen. to Carriers: Why Do Text Messages Cost $1,300 per
Meg?
Did you see CrunchGear on AT&T’s text
charges? (I found it via Ars) It seems at 20 cents per
message, AT&T is charging $1,310.72 per megabyte at those
rates. The rising rates for texting prompted Sen. Herb Kohl
(D-Wisc.) to write a letter to the cell companies requesting
information on the reasons why and wherefore. MORE
In Wake of Economic Meltdown, Congress Considers Green
Recovery
While Monday’s meltdown of Lehman
Brothers and Merrill Lynch poses dire consequences for the
economy as a whole, it raises a particular question mark for
the burgeoning green economy. MORE
Will the Internet Evolve into a Lifeform?
Some think that sentience could emerge
from any sufficiently complicated system. By the way, you're
reading this on a massively-crosslinked network built from
millions of routers, allowing any of a billion individual
units to access, modify and reply to the others. Interested?
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EVENTS CALENDAR
SEPTEMBER
WiMAX World 2008 Conference
and Expo is the world’s largest wireless and mobile
broadband event focusing solely on WiMAX. Over 8,500
attendees and 180+ exhibitors participated in 2007. Now
entering its fifth year, the event successfully draws a
highly qualified, global senior-level business and
technology audience.
September 30–October 3, 2008 | Chicago, IL
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OCTOBER
COMPTEL PLUS is the
premier tech trade show to showcase your company’s products
and services, network with senior executives and leading
industry officials, and participate in business-critical
panel discussions on the latest financial and policy issues
shaping the communications marketplace. See why previous
attendees rate the networking and educational opportunities
available at COMPTEL PLUS as the best in the industry.
October 5–8, 2008 | Orlando, FL MORE
OSP EXPO — The
Broadband Deployment Marketplace delivers solutions,
products, and technologies for broadband network deployment
of today and tomorrow. OSP EXPO will bring together OSP
professionals from the ILEC, CLEC, and IOC communities
serving the converging telecom industry.
October 21–23, 2008 | Baltimore, MD MORE
NOVEMBER
ISPCON is THE
Internet industry event. A conference and tradeshow 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
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