---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180515032515.GA13984@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 23:25:15 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Mt. Airy NC: Centurylink has widespread internet outage By Bill Colvard Several thousand customers of Centurylink internet have been without service since Sunday. According to a Centurylink customer service representative who declined to give her full name, service had been out for more than 24 hours as of 3 p.m. Monday, and was due to go back online by 5 p.m. https://www.mtairynews.com/news/61522/centurylink-has-widespread-internet-outage -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <7DBDD370-B703-468C-8C24-3D69D12C2B34@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 00:48:28 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: People can't put their phones down, and it's ruining museums People can't put their phones down, and it's ruining museums Phones are meant to foster interaction. But what about the actual people in the room? https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/people-cant-put-their-phones-down-and-its-ruining-museums/2018/05/07/8eed71c2-4fac-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <f520574b-ea76-445d-b539-2d5871ac1015@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 12:59:32 -0700 (PDT) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Don't Skype Me: How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against a Beloved Brand On Friday, May 11, 2018 at 10:36:55 AM UTC-4, Monty Solomon wrote: > Don't Skype Me: How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against a Beloved Brand > > Since buying the internet phone service in 2011, Microsoft has signed > up corporations like GE and alienated long-time Skypers. > > By Dina Bass and Nate Lanxon > > It's relatively easy these days to find critics of Skype, the popular > online calling service that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for $8.5 > billion. Former devotees routinely gripe on social media that the > software has become too difficult to use. On the Apple App store and > Google Play store, negative reviews of the smartphone app are piling > up, citing everything from poor call quality to gluttonous battery > demand. > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/don-t-skype-me-how-microsoft-turned-consumers-against-a-beloved-brand Historical references: The Bell System invested a substantial amount of money to develop and perfect Picturephone service, but in its day, it never caught on. LIFE July 3 1964 https://books.google.com/books?id=nEEEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA97&dq=picturephone&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Popular science June 1968 https://books.google.com/books?id=mykDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA46&dq=picturephone&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q&f=false Popular science March 1971 https://books.google.com/books?id=ogAAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA65&dq=picturephone&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 15 May 2018