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Date: 8 Feb 2011 02:37:00 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Phone booths
Message-ID: <20110208023700.19538.qmail@joyce.lan>
>Now I think it is nice that the city went extra lengths to protect the
>police officiers from the inclement weather, but my real question is
>where do you get a phone booth these days and how much does it cost??
I see a nice one on eBay for $200 minimum bid, $400 buy it now, you
pick it up in Minnesota.
Speaking of protecting officers from inclement weather, I hope
everyone is familiar with the world's smallest police station in
Cararabelle FL:
http://www.carrabellepolice.com/
It's real, I've been there and seen it.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 02:00:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Video conferencing phone booth
Message-ID: <iiq84p$c1g$1@reader1.panix.com>
In <iiphj0$635$1@panix2.panix.com> kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>> I just want to sit down and begin seeing and talking to some people
>>on the opposite coast, for about an hour, right now, without having
>>to fly there, and without having to install and learn still another
>>Mac app (especially when networking is involved).
>Twenty years ago there were a lot of places where you could do this. Many
>business incubators, PBS stations and the like had small conference rooms
>equipped with the Tandberg teleconferencing systems. The organization I
>work for had one of them at each one of its sites.
Kinkos, as in the copying and business service chain,
offered video conferencing between many of their
storefronts into the late 1990s. A friend and I queried
their rates which were in the hundreds per hour, and
decided against it...
--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:34:43 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: In-app purchases in iPad, iPhone, iPod kids' games touch off parental firestorm
Message-ID: <p0624088ec9768618575b@[10.0.1.2]>
In-app purchases in iPad, iPhone, iPod kids' games touch off parental firestorm
By Cecilia Kang
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 7, 2011; 10:34 PM
Over the winter break from school, 8-year-old Madison worked to dress
up her simple mushroom home on the iPhone game Smurfs' Village. In
doing so, she also amassed a $1,400 bill from Apple.
The Rockville second-grader didn't realize the Smurfberries she was
buying on the popular game by Capcom Interactive were real purchases,
much like buying a pair of shoes from Zappos or movie tickets from
Fandango. After all, lots of children's games require virtual
payments of pretend coins, treasure chests and gold to advance to
levels.
But like a growing number of parents, Madison's mom, Stephanie Kay,
was shocked to find very real charges from iTunes show up in her
e-mail box days later.
...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020706073.html
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:45:34 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: iPad & The Daily, AOL-HuffPo: Reading the Media-News Future
Message-ID: <p0624088fc976882bd3e5@[10.0.1.2]>
http://www.onpointradio.org
Monday, February 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM EST
Kevin Kelly and Jeff Jarvis analyze the latest shifts in the digital
media landscape.
There's been news all over the news biz lately.
Today, word that AOL will buy the Huffington Post for $315 million.
Last week, everybody talking about Rupert Murdoch's new all-iPad
newspaper - if we can still say "newspaper." It's called The Daily.
Two weeks ago, The Daily didn't exist. One year ago, the Huffington
Post had never seen a profit and was known as a bunch of bloggers.
Now, it's AOL's hot new news vehicle.
The news business has struggled mightily in the digital age, and
shrunk. Is it now finding its way?
-Tom Ashbrook
Guests:
Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired magazine. His new
book is "What Technology Wants."
Jeff Jarvis, associate professor and director of the Interactive
Program at the City University of New York School of Journalism. His
most recent book is "What Would Google Do?" He writes a column on new
media for The Guardian and blogs at Buzzmachine.
Listen
http://www.onpointradio.org
http://wbur-wm.streamguys.com/wburod/2011/02/onpoint_0207_2.wma
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:49:42 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dies
Message-ID: <p06240891c976899d2aa6@[10.0.1.2]>
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/02/08/computer_pioneer_ken_olsen_dies/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/02/ken_olsen_cofou.html
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:55:01 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Who's the Boss, You or Your Gadget?
Message-ID: <p06240895c9768af37abc@[10.0.1.2]>
Who's the Boss, You or Your Gadget?
By MICKEY MEECE
February 5, 2011
GIVEN the widespread adoption of smartphones, text messaging, video
calling and social media, today's professionals mean it when they
brag about staying connected to work 24/7.
Technology allowed Karen Riley-Grant, a manager at Levi Strauss in
San Francisco, to take care of some business with her New York
publicist while she was in labor in the hospital last November. "I
had time on my hands," she says, and "full strength on my phone -
five bars."
It once enabled Craig Wilson, an executive at Avaya in Toronto, to
take his children to a Linkin Park concert and be able to duck out to
finish a task for a client in Australia, he says, "without disruption
to my family commitment or my work commitment."
And it recently gave Perry Blacher, chief executive of the social
investing firm Covestor, a way to participate in a board
teleconference while attending a christening celebration at a pub in
England.
But all of this amped-up productivity comes with a growing sense of
unease. Too often, people find themselves with little time to
concentrate and reflect on their work. Or to be truly present with
their friends and family.
There's a palpable sense "that home has invaded work and work has
invaded home and the boundary is likely never to be restored," says
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet and
American Life Project. "The new gadgetry," he adds, "has really put
this issue into much clearer focus."
The phenomenon started with the rise of BlackBerrys and has
snowballed with the use of more smartphones, social media and tablet
computers. Employees are using their smartphones and other devices to
connect with corporate e-mail, applications and data wherever they
happen to be - whether at home, on the go or even on vacation.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/business/06limits.html
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:20:39 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Gladwell, Google, Twitter & Egypt: Social Media's Revolutionary Mystery
Message-ID: <p062408a9c977c673b23e@[10.0.1.2]>
Gladwell, Google, Twitter & Egypt: Social Media's Revolutionary Mystery
Posted by John Wihbey on Friday, February 4, 2011
Here's an intriguing subplot lost amid all the press coverage on
Egypt and the Middle East this week.
...
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/02/04/twitter-gladwell-egypt-google-2
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:44:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Telephone humor on TV
Message-ID: <3143f5f4-bc43-44f0-938c-6710aa5a4edb@e21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>
Two recent bits on television had telephone humor:
1) On Jay Leno of 2/4/11, a comedian parodied phone mail and
collection agency calls. I can't do justice to him, but it was
something like this:
"The phone rings late Friday night as you're getting ready to go
out. It's a cute friendly girl on the phone:
'Hi Tyrone! Whatcha doing?' [real friendly enthusiastic girl's
voice]
'Getting ready to go out.'
'Whatcha wearing?'
'I got this new shirt and pants.'
'Did you get them at Macy's?'
'Yes I did.'
'Well, fool, you didn't pay for them yet! When you gonna send in the
money?"
2) On Raising Hope of 2/9/11, son is making an important telephone
call where he wants to leave a good impression. He gets the person's
voice mail. He leaves a message and then realizes it's terrible. He
tries to delete it, but realizes the delete won't work from the rotary
phone he's using. He complains to his parents "why are we still in
the 1970s?"
His father comes over and says, "I can handle that." The father
makes a whistling sound like a Touch Tone key*. But the voice mail
thinks it's a different number, not delete.
Then the mother comes over and plays a flute note and the message is
deleted.
The rest of the scene is him trying to leave a sensible message.
He's interupted by his confused grandmother picking up the extension.
*In real life that would be impossible since Touch Tone signals
consist of two tones, deliberately designed that way so that accident
tones wouldn't disrupt making a call. Now if two people whistled
their correct portions of the desired tone. . .
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:53:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Phone booths
Message-ID: <cc0adf1f-8c78-4277-8fa8-6ef888e1fec5@d28g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 7, 7:26 pm, Eric Tappert <e.tappert.spam...@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> Now I think it is nice that the city went extra lengths to protect the
> police officiers from the inclement weather, but my real question is
> where do you get a phone booth these days and how much does it cost??
Here and there there are still a few of the alumnium style outdoor
phone booths still in service. Also, in a few buildings there are
still the classic wooden kind, complete with the little seat and
table, light, and vent fan.
Should you see any get your pictures now because property owners
sooner or later question whether these phones are worth the carrying
charges and they disappear.
As to acquiring one, I suspect the phone company has some in storage,
along with lots of pay phone sets.
There is an electric company power substation near me and it has an
old phone booth in it. The red panels where it said "TELEPHONE" were
painted over but the paint is peeling revealing the inscription.
P.S. I previously reported the Pa Tpk had some phone booths near
Interchanges. I went up to take a closer look and the booths were
empty. The Verizon sign was painted out to solid blank and the phones
were removed. Also, while the booths were intended to serve
motorists, I found it very hazardous driving over and parking to get
close to them. I suspect they date from a time when there was less
traffic through the interchanges.
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