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TELECOM Digest Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:43:00 EST Volume 24 : Issue 532 Inside This Issue: Happy Thanksgiving Day! Personal Computers Enlisted to Fight AIDS (Reuters News Wire) Meet Jane Geek (Pallavi Gogoi) Microsoft Reports Isolated Xbox Glitches (Associated Press News Wire) Skype - H.323 or SIP (Lasse) WSJ Guide to the Blogs Insiders Read to Stay Current (Monty Solomon) GAIT vrs. GSM and Other Cell Phones (TELECOM Digest Editor) Re: Voicepulse Owns Your Number (Ken Abrams) Re: Voicepulse Owns Your Number (Michael D. Sullivan) Re: Showdown with USA Over Internet Control (nospam4me@mytrashmail.com) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Personal Computers Enlisted in AIDS Research Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:16:57 -0600 A new project in the fight against AIDS will tap into the unused power of individual and business computers to help research and identify drugs used to combat the HIV virus. An Internet-based initiative, called FightAIDSatHome, aims to enlist about 100,000 computer users to donate the use of their machines when they would otherwise be idle. Participants' machines can request data from a central server, process it and send back the results. The organizers hope to develop new chemical strategies to treat HIV-infected individuals, according to the San-Diego based Scripps Research Institute, which is behind the effort. By being able to tap into a vast reservoir of computer processing power, researchers will be able to approach problems more aggressively and quickly, Scripps said. It is the second research project using the network of computers, called the World Community grid, which is funded by IBM. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This seems to be a very useful project; I hope some readers will decide to help with it. There was a project going on (maybe still is?) where computers were enlisted during off-hours to listen to random radio static from outer space and attempt to find some intelligence in it all. Is that project still going on? This latest effort, to find some cure for AIDS seems to be worthwhile also. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Pallavi Gogoi <businessweek@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Meet Jane Geek Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:18:19 -0600 By Pallavi Gogoi Managers from Dell Inc.'s marketing and public relations staff flew from their Round Rock (Tex.) headquarters to New York earlier this year to meet with editors and sales reps at a dozen publications. Their mission wasn't too surprising: Get editors to print more about their computers, televisions, and pocketPCs. It was the choice of magazines that was unusual, including Oprah Winfrey's O at Home, Ladies' Home Journal, and CosmoGIRL -- not exactly publications on the company's regular radar screen, despite the obviously large number of women tapping keyboards in offices and cafes. In barely six months, though, Dell's laser printer, plasma TV, and notebook computer were featured as must-haves in gift guides in shelter magazines Real Simple and O at Home. And in August, CosmoGIRL gave Dell's 700m, 4-lb. notebook a "kiss of approval." Dell isn't the only consumer electronics giant to have slept through the alarm when it comes to realizing that women are as interested as men in personal computing and home entertainment. RadioShack and Best Buy recently begun to make big changes to their marketing plans, store designs, and products with women in mind. In an effort to avoid commodity status in crowded categories like TVs and PCs, they have dug deeper into customer's heads. Marketing executives noticed that women are much more involved in buying electronic gadgets but are completely underserved. Indeed this year, for the first time, women are expected to outspend men in the $122 billion market, according to the Consumer Electronics Assn. It didn't take long, once it tuned in, for Dell to register that women are its fastest-growing customer group and key to its growth strategy, especially as it branches out to TVs and MP3 players. Its own research in 2004 showed women made up half of its buyers and were as likely as men to prefer buying PCs online. So besides the women's magazines, Dell is running ads on women-centric cable-TV channels such as Oxygen and Lifetime Television. It also placed a Dell TV and laptop on the set of Martha Stewart's new NBC daytime show. Before that, says Bobbi Dangerfield, director of customer experience, "you wouldn't have seen any Dell ads on these women's channels." Blame the male geek culture at digital hardware marketers for ignoring women in the past. As recently as early 2003, Samsung Electronics tested its phones, TVs, and home theaters with all-male focus groups. Today, the company makes sure half its reviewers are women. The payoffs: Samsung designed its DuoCam -- the first two-lens digital camera and camcorder -- after women reported they liked to record "life events" both in photographs and video but didn't like to lug around two gadgets. The camera recently became lighter by 40%, again the result of female feedback. Chief Purchasing Officer Samsung has bested its rivals in design awards the past two years, an accomplishment that Peter Weedfald, senior vice-president for sales and marketing at Samsung Electronics America Inc., attributes to listening to women. "Have you ever heard a man say: 'I wish they would change the design and color of this product and make it easier to use?"' Demographics have a role to play in this shift. Women now head 33 million households, up from 21 million in 1980. Their buying power has grown, too. In the past three decades, men's median income has barely budged, up just 0.6%, while women's has soared 63% (though women still earn less than their male counterparts -- 78 cents for every dollar a man gets). And women need plenty of computing power given they are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, according to the Center for Women's Business Research. The digital home has also come to confer on women the role of chief purchasing officer of computing and entertainment gear. They're judging the user-friendliness of computers and wireless networks just as they would stoves and refrigerators. "Last week my 11-year-old came in and said she needed a JumpDrive to transfer digital files back and forth from school, and who buys it? My wife," says Paul Rand, chief development and innovation officer at communications firm Ketchum (NYSE:OMC - News), which led a standing-room-only marketing-to-women forum at the Consumer Electronics Show last February. Best Buy has caught on to the women's digital mind-set, too, launching its "Jill Initiative" to focus on what women want. "Jill," according to the retailer, is a time-pressured suburban mom who prefers shopping at Target Corp. because of its focus on style, over, say, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. In the past year, Best Buy relaunched 60 stores, changing their look with pastel colors rather than the chain's traditional dark-blue and yellow scheme to create a more soothing experience. Personal shopping advisers whisk mostly female shoppers around the stores, steering clear of tech jargon. "The language of bits and bytes is a thing of the past," says Ketchum's Rand. A Best Buy salesperson doesn't talk megapixels but instead asks if a digital camera is primarily for still photos or soccer games and if buyers plan to print their own photos. Remote Fix-It Women are far less likely than men to feign understanding of new technology, and thus they expect a high level of customer service. So Best Buy launched the Geek Squad service, whose men and women in white shirts and ties go so far as to offer home visits in a white-and-orange Volkswagen Beetle to fix, upgrade, and install hardware and software. Dell, meanwhile, last week rolled out Dell On Call, which allows its help desk to take over a computer remotely and fix it for customers who sign on. Perhaps consumer electronics marketers wouldn't have taken so long to appreciate women if they had a few more in their ranks. Dell, for one, laments that women are only a third of its management ranks. Last March it held a diversity summit with 30 other companies to form a strategy to attract more women as employees, not just customers. "It's important that our employees reflect our customer base," says Stephanie Mims, senior manager of global diversity at Dell. Some may view these efforts as pandering, the way auto makers in the 1950s tried pitching cars with matching handbags. But some see clear differences between the genders. RadioShack Chief Marketing Officer Don Carroll says women behave differently from their first step in the store, based on studying his in-store-motion cameras. "Men look left and right, identify their product, and head towards it, but women really shop the store before reaching their goal," says Carroll. He's changing lighting at the company's 5,000 outlets and making the stores less cluttered, a leading complaint among women and a move that will no doubt make it easier for men to shop as well. It's Mother, it seems, who knows best in the gadget aisle. Copyright 2005 BusinessWeek Online. All rights reserved. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance, Business Week Online. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Asociated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Microsoft Reports Isolated Xbox Glitches Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:19:17 -0600 Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it had received isolated reports of technical problems with its popular new Xbox 360 videogame system. Some owners complained that their systems were crashing during game play, sometimes with error messages popping up. On http://www.xbox-scene.com, a site dedicated to Xbox gaming, a member called jsgongwon reported that he could not finish the first lap of "Project Gotham Racing 3." "It's a few reports of consoles here and there not working properly," said Molly O'Donnell, a spokeswoman for Microsoft's Xbox division. "It's what you would expect with a consumer electronics instrument of this complexity .... par for the course." Gaming fanatics lined up for hours Monday to be among the first to purchase the next-generation system, which was in short supply despite its starting price tag of $299.99. Microsoft hopes to sell 2.5 million to 3 million of the new systems in the first 90 days. O'Donnell urged anyone with Xbox problems to call 1-800-4myXbox or go to http://www.xbox.com. If the problems can't be resolved immediately, Microsoft said it will pay to ship the console overnight to a repair center, overnight it back once it's fixed, or ship a replacement. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more Associated Press news reports, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html ------------------------------ Reply-To: Lasse <Lars.Kalsen@jubii.dk> From: Lasse <Lars.Kalsen@jubii.dk> Subject: Skype - H.323 or SIP Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:47:54 +0100 Organization: TDC Totalloesninger Hi all you gurus, Does anyone know if Skype is based on the H.323 protocol family -- or the more modern SIP protocol?. Lars Kalsen PS: You might also review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Vi leverer viden! Lars Kalsen IT-consultant, Cand. scient. & HD IT-gruppen Brorsonsvej 19 9490 Pandrup Lars.Kalsen@itgruppen.dk www.itgruppen.dk tel: fax: mobile: +45 96 73 01 02 +45 96 73 00 31 +45 40 15 66 02 Add me to your address book ... Want a signature like this? Greetings from Denmark! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:22:49 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: WSJ Guide to the Blogs Insiders Read to Stay Current What the In-Crowd Knows From Hollywood to Wall Street, Our Guide to the Blogs Insiders Read to Stay Current November 16, 2005; Page D1 (See Corrections & Amplifications item below.) The music industry has one, Wall Street bankers have several and even CPAs have come around. No self-respecting industry these days is without a must-read blog. Although they vary wildly on fine points like accuracy, they are now so widely read that it's assumed anybody in the business is up to speed on the latest postings. For outsiders, they are also a window into the inner workings, preoccupations and gossip of fields ranging from real estate to mergers and acquisitions. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB113210326581498377-hYdxWrJpCM7l9BnBsozDM5Qf__U_20061123,00.html ------------------------------ Subject: GAIT vrs. GSM and Other Cell Phones Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:43:52 EST From: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu (TELECOM Digest Editor) Some of you may recall last week here I made some inquiries about my original cell phone (Nokia 5165) and my new cell phone (Nokia 6010). My complaint was that (a) none of my accessories from the 5165 would fit on the 6010, and (b) when using the 5165 I generally got a stronger signal. I mentioned my complaints here, and John Levine suggested trying to purchase a Nokia 6340-i on E-Bay or wherever. I did get one on E-Bay for the grand total of $15.00 (fifteen dollars), in very good condition I might add. Not knowing that much about these things my next inquiry was about the SIM card. If I inserted the SIM card which came with the 6010 into the newer 6340-i would I need to report this to Cingular, or just use it as is? Everyone said it will work fine, no hassles, Cingular does not care what you use, etc. So when the E-Bay purchase showed up a couple days ago, first thing I tried were my various accessories, car kit, headphone, Cell Socket, etc. Everything fit togehter okay, and it all worked fine _with the exception of Cell Socket (6340-i fit in it okay but something was different about the pin outs so it would _not_ charge the 6340 nor allow the other main function of cell socket (use of regular phones around house in place of cellular). But not so bad, two out of three accessories worked fine. Then I tried making an actual _phone call_ on the 6340. By coincidence I guess I was within range of a GSM tower, the phone call worked fine, although the signal strength was much less than usual. Later in the day I went outside and it worked fine on a call there also, but again, very poor signal strength. Turned off the phone, went to bed, went outside today over in the direction of Walmart, the other side of town. Tried to make a call to get the cab driver to come pick me up to go back home. Tried several times; kept getting the little jingle and the message, "We do not recognize your cellular number, if this is an error or you are a new customer, please call us, etc. Got back home, called Cingular and asked them what was up. YES, they said, put the SIM card in your phone and it should work fine, but you should have called us to let us know and change your ESN, etc on our records, that is, if you want a _wider_ coverage area. Why? Well because, she said, what you have is a GAIT phone (which I think means [G]SM, {A]mps [I]teroperability [T]eam. For those phones, and considering the area you are in (mostly rural), you are still quite frequently going to get the 'older style' service. Instead of having a phone good for only one class of service or the other, the phone you bought is good for all kinds of service. She then launched into a discussion (and make a reference to a web site to look at yet!) to read about these GAIT phones. She discussed how this type of phone will 'seamlessly' go between 800-1900 and work 'wherever you are at'. I asked her, is this phone, the Nokia 6340-i that I got on E-Bay in essence then a 'world phone'? Well, not quite, she said, but it does insure that _anywhere_ you go in North America you will always get someone's tower, either Cingular or whoever. And she said it would work in many other countries as well, 'just not everywhere'. The map she referred me to on the net was for North America and it showed coverage _everywhere_ except a couple of tiny 'no coverage' areas in Idaho and British Columbia. She said the GAIT style of phone was intended to be a 'transitional' thing between GSM and AMPS. I said I must have scored pretty well, gettng an unlocked one for fifteen dollars. She agreed that was true. I mentioned that my old Nokia 5165 always got great signal strength, why not this new GAIT phone. She said to give her my ESN as well as my IME number and the phone's serial number. I did so, and presto, about a minute later my phone chirped at me and said in a screen message to 'recycle power'. I did so, and the signal strength shot up quite high and has been there since. She did mention that with 'regular' GSM I got wireless internet at no additional charge on minutes because they measured it by the kilobytes used rather than in minutes, but with GAIT it would cost me $3.99 per month _and_ the minutes of usage as well, but 'considering you have 5000 minutes of overnight usage, you could stay on internet all night long for the $3.99 per month.' I guess my question would be, are you familiar with this GAIT thing as a 'transitional' thing between GSM and other types of cell service and do you have any experience with it? PAT ------------------------------ From: Ken Abrams <k_abrams@[REMOVETHIS] sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: Voicepulse Owns Your Number Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:06:21 GMT Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote > So, our friend Jason put me in touch with Carolina Net. I've got > their phone installed and put in a request to report my NC number to > it. > Voicepulse says that they own the number. Apparently they have some > legalese that says they won't release it to another carrier. I went > to considerable trouble getting that number listed with Verizon's > directory assistance and I feel that number belongs to me. Just because you FEEL that way doesn't make it true! VOIP is, for the most part, not defined by law or regulation. It is not "real" phone service and it is not "real" internet service. It is an implementation of a technology that was never meant to be used for Public Switched Telephone service. It has been a virtual gold mine for those selling the (so called) service and a nightmare for anyone who expects "real" phone service. You have discovered yet another "glitch" with VOIP in that the regulations covering number portability for land-line and cellular phone companies don't (necessarily) apply to VOIP providers ... and they want to keep it that way because it would cost them multi-millions of dollars to participate, both in technology costs and administrative costs. Caveat Emptor. IMHO, you are kicking a dead horse. Rather than waste your time and energy fighting a loosing battle with Voicepluse, you need to "take a chill pill", do a realistic assessment of your needs and plan for something different. Take your lumps and move on. You should have asked about number portability BEFORE making all those other arrangements ... not AFTER. ------------------------------ From: Michael D. Sullivan <userid@camsul.example.invalid> Subject: Re: Voicepulse Owns Your Number Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:10:40 GMT Fred Atkinson wrote: > So, our friend Jason put me in touch with Carolina Net. I've got > their phone installed and put in a request to report my NC number to > it. > Voicepulse says that they own the number. Apparently they have some > legalese that says they won't release it to another carrier. I went > to considerable trouble getting that number listed with Verizon's > directory assistance and I feel that number belongs to me. > I've sent Voicepulse notice that I expect them to release my number. > They say they will not. In fact, they called me just a few minutes > ago and said that the porting request from Carolina Net would be > declined. > I'm looking for recourse and I'm not interested in hearing that there > is no recourse. Can anyone here make some suggestions as to most > effective avenue to pursue? Fred, you can file a complaint with the FCC electronically (online), by mail, by email, or by fax: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html . It can't hurt and it might just help. Michael D. Sullivan Bethesda, MD (USA) (Replace "example.invalid" with "com" in my address.) ------------------------------ From: nospam4me@mytrashmail.com Subject: Re: Showdown with USA Over Internet Control Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:42:20 UTC Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC So what would you have ICANN do about spam and other forms of anti-social net behavior? From what I see, about all ICANN has authority over is the DNS Roots and the top level domains. Herb Oxley From: address IS Valid. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: ICANN _does_ deal with the DNS Roots and the top level domains, but part of that dealing includes the fact that _all registrars_ must go through ICANN and are forced to require of all web sites that they sign a contract turning final control of their web sites over to ICANN. You, as a web site owner must agree that ICANN's word is final and that disputes are to be settled by an arbitrator ICANN chooses. If ICANN decides you are a cybersquatter (which is to say that you have taken a name for your web site which _they_ (ICANN, in their sole discretion) thinks would be better off assigned to someone else, they can -- and have -- taken it away and given it to the recipient of _their_ choice. Yes, you can demand arbitration and go to some expense to defend your right to the web site name, but it is a vain effort on your part. Either you as a web site owner, or the registrar, or some other person is required to pay a sum of money to ICANN for their 'administrative fees' for the priviledge of being allowed to have a web site (even though they at ICANN can take it back from you as they wish.) Nota Bene: their 'administrative fees' typically include a trans-global 'working vacation' in some esoteric spot two or three times per year. Earlier this year, for example, they held a conference in some remote area of Argentina. All of their staff packs up and goes to wherever this spot is. It wouldn't occur to them to have their 'working vacation' in the USA. Also, they are a bit (to say the least!) evasive about their plans for the net over the years past. In 1994 for example, they had a meeting at which Vint Cerf presided, in which he tslked with much pride about how the net would become a commercial endeavor. It was like a call-in conference; I called in as many netizens did, was pretty much ignored in the question/answer session, but finally I was able to get a word in edgewise, after Mr. Cerf had talked for 30-45 minutes about his visions for the 'new net' (the one that Vice-President Al Gore spoke so lovingly of [thus the fallacy several years ago that Al Gore had 'invented the internet']) and I asked Mr. Cerf "what about us little guys, who run not-for-profit web sites, mailing lists, etc? What is _our place_ on this new commercial internet you have planned?" Mr. Cerf thought about it for a minute or so, and his reply was "that is a good question, I do not know where or how you guys will fit into the picture." (click, and cut me off the phone.) I still remember, to this day, how evasive he was in answering me, given the elaborate answers he had for all the corporate interests who were present at that meeting, and the politicians, etc. I guess he still hasn't figured out where we fit in, or if we do at all. Since about 1995, after he had been given about a year or so to think on "where you guys will fit in" I wrote him off as a simple traitor to the rest of the net. _Yes_ he has done a lot in the history of the net. _Yes_ he is a very intelligent person, but he is still a traitor where most of the rest of us are concerned. Also, in the late 1990's, there was a period of a few years where ICANN was perpetually broke, out of cash money. Mr. Cerf somehow or another convinced his employer at that time -- MCI, itself a bunch of bums with its 'creative accounting' scandal a couple years ago, to 'loan' a substantial amount of money -- two or three million dollars -- to ICANN for one of their 'working vacations'. I do not think ICANN ever did pay it back, which I guess is neither here nor there, except that MCI had their eyes set on taking over the commercial aspects of the net for themselves at one time in those days, and they hired Vint Cerf to be their mouthpiece for that endeavor, giving him some sort of flaky title or another: vice-president of some esoteric function. He was there for several years, tapping MCI for money to give ICANN for their international vacations, etc, then shortly before MCI went belly up after that accounting scandal he left there and is now at Google in a highly placed position, more than likely to sodomize them from time to time on ICANN's behalf. So what do Google and the late MCI both have in common? Well they both lust after commercial control of the net and they both have (or had) Vint Cerf in their employ on account of his reputation, his intelligence, his history from the early years. But I digress: what would _I_ have them do? That was your question? Well, if ICANN is going to remain at least for the time being as the de-facto governor of the net (and again guys, puh-leeze do not start that whimpering about ICANN's role, no one is fooled any longer) then I would suggest that as soon as it is administratively convenient to do so, they begin amending their contracts which all of us have to sign firmly denouncing and repudiating spam/scam/phishing and all that stuff. Their contracts which we all have to sign now giving ICANN the ultimate authority and say-so or risk being taken to arbitration and sent afterward to burn in hell-fire can be amended or rewritten to deal with the problem of insect abatement. Let them push it off on the registrars if they wish; let the registrars in turn push it off on the large ISPs; just do it. Let's hear our governor -- if it wishes to remain our governor -- firmly renounce and repudiate all that stuff. If they try it and it fails, well that's another matter. But now we hear nothing from them except they are going on another vacation and need more money and that their monthly meeting minutes will be late getting up on their web site. Why do I feel Vint Cerf and Esther Dyson would never go along with this proposal? PAT] ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. 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