Businesses warm to converged networks

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Businesses ignorant of benefits of using
converged comms networks

Businesses ignorant of benefits of using
converged comms networks 05/10/2004 09:55 PM
Computer Weekly May 11 2004 1:54AM GMT

Converged networks find increasing
favour

Converged networks find increasing
favour 06/02/2004 08:24 AM
Separate voice and data so last century

Q&A: Nortel CEO Frank Dunn on VoIP,
converged networks

Q&A: Nortel CEO Frank Dunn on VoIP,
converged networks 02/19/2004 06:17 PM
Nortel Networks' CEO discussed the future of multimedia converged networks and why CEOs need to stop delegating strategic thinking about networks to their CIOs.

As security concerns ease, businesses
warm to Wi-Fi

As security concerns ease, businesses
warm to Wi-Fi 11/07/2003 07:40 AM
Many large companies have stayed on the wireless-networking sidelines, but new intrusion defenses are opening the door to an increase in corporate Wi-Fi spending.

ShoreGroup Announces the Release of
CaseSentry 3.0 and “Raises the Bar” on
Managing Global Converged Networks

ShoreGroup Announces the Release of
CaseSentry 3.0 and “Raises the Bar” on
Managing Global Converged Networks 06/22/2005 02:31 AM
ShoreGroup introduces its new CaseSentry Release 3.0, providing corporations with comprehensive management for Cisco IP Communications, business applications and service levels from a single platform. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

U.S. Graphic Design Businesses Bill $5.8
Billion in 2004; New Study Profiles
Industry’s 16,000+ Businesses, and
80,000 Freelancers, and $400+ Million in
Annual Capital Purchases

U.S. Graphic Design Businesses Bill $5.8
Billion in 2004; New Study Profiles
Industry’s 16,000+ Businesses, and
80,000 Freelancers, and $400+ Million in
Annual Capital Purchases 09/27/2004 02:32 AM
The $5.8 billion graphic design industry has over 16,000 individual businesses (each averaging about four employees), as well as 80,000 freelancers, and spends more than $400 million annually on capital goods, according to a new study to be published by Strategies for Management, Inc. Entitled “The U.S. Graphic Design Business 2004-2009,” the report will provide an accurate snapshot of the current state of the U.S. graphic design business, and offer forecasts about its future changes and growth. Slated for completion by October 2004, the study is a “must have” research tool for any firm selling to the graphic design community; Strategies for Management, is now soliciting “early bird discount” sponsors. [PRWEB Sep 27, 2004]

How the Mac and AT&T Breakup
Ultimately Converged

How the Mac and AT&T Breakup
Ultimately Converged 01/07/2004 03:16 PM
They were seemingly unconnected events, two decades ago this month: the launch of the Apple Macintosh computer and the formal breakup of communications giant AT&T. As it turned out, they were Big Bangs in universes that have ended up converging -- computing and communications -- and their impact still reverberates today.

Do People Want Converged Devices?

Do People Want Converged Devices? 01/05/2005 06:10 PM
A new report has come out (and I swear we've seen similar ones in the past) claiming that people don't want converged mobile phones and PDAs, as there are fears that converged devices do everything badly and/or that they start to include useless/pointless features. Of course, part of the problem is that the survey is asking people if they want "converged devices," and not about what they'd do with a converged device. The thing is, if given the option of doing what a real converged device let people do, many people would go for that option. It's not about the device, but the applications of that device.

Selling Converged Devices for Education

Selling Converged Devices for Education 09/20/2004 12:47 AM

Mobile Learning Attracts High School Students

"Starting this month, high school students preparing for the college entrance exam will be able to use personal gadgets to study instead of textbooks on the bus or subway....

The mobility-specific educational services will start on Sept. 22, when Iriver, the sales unit of local MP3 maker ReignCom, releases the PMP-100 in stores.

Koreaedu will offer lessons from 12 top lecturers for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), and students can download them free of charge with a PMP-100....

The gadget is an all-in-one handheld device, which allows users to view full-motion video, listen to MP3 music, record voice messages in real time, view still images and play games.

'With our new services, students will be able to study via seamless video lectures. Afterwards, we plan to continue to make reaches in the m-learning market,' Koreaedu president Yoo Doo-sun said." [The Korea Times, via Smart Mobs]

Hack your Xbox, get illegally converged

Hack your Xbox, get illegally converged 12/15/2003 11:36 AM
Why buy an expensive "media center" PC with lots of DRM that restrict how you can use your own music and movies, when you can hack a cheap Xbox to do the same thing?

"It's a convenience thing," said Phil, whose hacking hobbies discourage him from divulging his full name. "All of my movies are organized into categories, and it's very easy to navigate through the menus to find exactly what I want to watch. I have a PC in the basement of my house which stores all of my music and movies, and the Xbox makes it extremely convenient to use them."

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368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern &
Southern California Last Week, According
to California Businesses For Sale's
www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities,
Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises
Sales

368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern &
Southern California Last Week, According
to California Businesses For Sale's
www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities,
Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises
Sales 07/21/2004 02:45 AM
368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern & Southern California Last Week, According To California Businesses For Sale's www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities, Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises Sales. These businesses were sold by business owners, business brokers, & real estate agents for the week of July 12, 2004 thru July 18, 2004. [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

Cisco and IBM launch initiative for
converged systems

Cisco and IBM launch initiative for
converged systems 05/19/2004 08:42 PM

The Converged Corporate Wireless Phone
Unveiled

The Converged Corporate Wireless Phone
Unveiled 07/27/2004 04:47 PM
Internet.com Jul 27 2004 8:21PM GMT

Boingo and Kyocera Team for Converged
Handset

Boingo and Kyocera Team for Converged
Handset 03/14/2005 05:46 PM
Boingo and Kyocera said they'll work together on a combined cellular and Wi-Fi handset: The device will enable seamless roaming between cellular networks and hotspots. The idea is to support both voice and data services that can continue operating while a user is moving from the range of a cellular network into a hotspot. The phones will integrate Boingo's roaming software for connectivity and authentication to hotspots. Such an integrated device will make it much easier for customers to use voice or other services over Wi-Fi if only because the Boingo application will help with hotspot login and authentication. The press release also is touting the benefit such a combined device will offer to users of higher bandwidth cellular applications, such as streaming video, because such services will operate better over the higher speed Wi-Fi networks. The key to this announcement, however, will be seeing cellular operators choose to sell the resulting device. Most of the combined cellular/Wi-Fi handsets that operators have said they'll be selling so far purposely don't support voice on the Wi-Fi component. Some operators have discussed combined cellular/Wi-Fi PDAs, which would allow users to download a voice over IP client and use it over Wi-Fi but the service wouldn't be integrated with the cellular network. Most cellular operators aren't promoting the use of voice over Wi-Fi, even though most also say that voice over Wi-Fi is no threat to their cellular businesses. Boingo also said that it, along with Kyocera, have joined BridgePort Networks' MobileIgnite Alliance. BridgePort describes the alliance as a group of companies "committed to standards-based, interoperability" of mobile voice over IP convergence solutions. In reality though, MobileIgnite pushes the use of BridgePort's solutions to support the integration of cellular and Wi-Fi networks. While the end result makes more sense than UMA because BridgePort's solution takes the most advantage of the efficiencies available by carrying voice over broadband IP networks, the last time I talked to BridgePort the solution required cellular operators to integrate BridgePort's products into their networks. While possible, I think that BridgePort may fight an uphill battle to convince many cellular operators to deploy a solution that offloads traffic from their networks onto hotspots that are potentially owned by another operator....

Nortel to Offer Converged CDMA, WLAN
Products

Nortel to Offer Converged CDMA, WLAN
Products 03/17/2005 03:44 AM
Nortel said it will offer a converged CDMA and WLAN platform: The offering means that CDMA operators can deploy WLANs to deliver higher-bandwidth at a lower cost. This type of offering will make a lot of sense once more combined Wi-Fi and cellular devices become available. Cellular operators most likely won't be interested in converged solutions that require them to offload traffic from their cellular networks onto WLANs owned by someone else. But it makes sense for them to offload cellular traffic onto WLANs they own and this type of offering from Nortel should make it easier for operators to efficiently deploy both types of networks. The platform supports seamless roaming between the two types of networks....

SBC, AT&T merger presents full menu of
converged services

SBC, AT&T merger presents full menu of
converged services 02/05/2005 09:40 PM
SBC Communications? acquisition of AT&T last week signals a new era for telecommunications -- one in which IT managers can expect converged communications services from what will be the largest company of its kind in the United States

Cisco's converged network vision has
bandwidth for next 20 years

Cisco's converged network vision has
bandwidth for next 20 years 05/31/2004 09:54 PM
Computer Weekly Jun 1 2004 1:28AM GMT

Avaya, Extreme to jointly deliver
converged IP products

Avaya, Extreme to jointly deliver
converged IP products 11/04/2003 06:01 PM
As part of the deal, Avaya will resell Extreme Networks' data networking products.

Converged Solutions Firm Breaks Stealth
in Dallas

Converged Solutions Firm Breaks Stealth
in Dallas 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Converged Network Solutions (CNS) (http://www.convergedns.com), a convergence and IMS focused professional services company, has been unveiled by Incucomm, a business incubator. Matthew Bowers is the President of CNS. The company will focus on strategy development, technology evaluation, product customization, installation and integration, and interoperability testing for convergence and IMS driven systems. [PRWEB May 30, 2005]

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research 12/22/2004 01:46 AM
Pervasive networks—a ubiquitous “fabric” of computing, information, entertainment, and telemetry capability tied together by high-speed wired and wireless networks—are emerging from a flurry of new communication technologies now being used in home and office networks. Though communications carriers do not offer this type of continuous communication as a service today, the piece parts are already in place. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

NCS Delivers Converged IP Network
Appliances for Easy Management of Real
Time IP Voice and Video Applications

NCS Delivers Converged IP Network
Appliances for Easy Management of Real
Time IP Voice and Video Applications 06/10/2004 03:01 AM
NCS Technologies Inc., a leader in Internet appliance, server, PC and notebook manufacturing, announced today that it has developed two new appliances for a new ISV partner, a leader in IP telephony and IP Video solutions. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

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Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs

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Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs 06/01/2004 05:45 AM
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Warm reception

Warm reception 05/06/2004 12:17 AM
USA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT

Warm cowpies

Warm cowpies 03/27/2005 05:31 AM

« Viking ship scroll in Stockholm. »

It's Easter weekend and the weather has been fabulously warm and living up to the holiday's origin of being a celebration of spring before it was appropriated by the various organised religions [I remain ever puzzled why the faithful rarely wonder why all the major holidays coincide with equinoxes or solstices]. I've not been out to enjoy it as much as I might have liked as I've been busy cleaning the house, doing laundry and making kulitsa and pasha which are traditional Easter artery clogging delicacies. :) I've been wanting to make mämmi myself for the past two years but haven't yet. The HS had an article this past about a Tu nisian guy founded the Suomen Mämmiseura last year. I've definitely got to go see the mämmi eating championships next year.

Naturally the founder of Suomen Mämmiseura was also the jury chairman at the World Mämmi-Eating Championships held last weekend in a shopping mall in Toijala, a town between Hämeenlinna and Tampere.

Toijala is also incidentally home to "the world's largest mämmi factory", as you may learn if you see the product in the Finnish shops this week. Annual consumption runs to about 2 million kilos and the Toijala plant turns out around 3.5 million packets of the dessert to stores and kitchens.   

There were two competition categories: the "Camping" series and the "Salon" series. In each case the competitors had to eat two decilitres of mämmi in a manner that appealed to the panel of judges.

"In a civilised fashion!" stresses Ladarsi.

And if there is a book only about salmiakki, surely there is room for a book about mämmi. :) The HS also had an article about a mämmi making course along with a recipe that doesn't include molassas since it is considered 'cheating' to sweeten it that way. I'll try it next year....maybe. :)

This becomes mämmi

Ancient traditional delicacy was made in steaming pots helped by oven brooms

by Anna Paljakka of the Helsingin Sanomat

Greetings from a mämmi course!

The ten litre cast iron pot has never, as far as it is known, been used for anything else than cooking mämmi.

As soon as a dash of boiling water has been poured to the (bottom of the) pot, and on top of that has been sprinkled rye flour and malt, the sweet and heady smell of mämmi spreads into the room. However, work of several hours, spread over two days, awaits. The women of old didn't let themselves off easily, not in mämmi making.

We are in a traditional house at the Karjaa Folklore Society, called Antkärrgården. The participants of the mämmi course are from Swedish speaking areas, and "memma" has belonged to their lives starting from childhood.

A wood-burning oven and and two pots are being used. Two baking ovens are being preheated for the next day's bake.

Over the past weekend, birch bark pans were made with bark that was pulled from birches felled last June. It would have been wise to twist the bark into pans at that time for reasons that will become obvious later.

Can it be true that so little is needed for mämmi? Water, flour, malt, a little bit of salt, dried Seville orange peel, maybe a little bit of fresh orange peel.

"Yes, but it requires work. There is no rushing in mämmi making.", reminds the instructor of the mämmi course, a domestic science teacher, Hagar Johnsson.

The pots are stirred vigorously. "It may simmer but not boil, not even bubble," Johnsson keeps reminding us. Hot water is added carefully and once in a while a small amount of malt and flour is added, which gets swallowed by the brown, hot goo.

After three hours cooking it is time to cover the pots and leave to sweeten overnight. "Only a cheater uses syrup for mämmi.", Johnsson reminds us.

The next morning the pots are still hot, as they should be. Sweetening requires a temperature of about 50 degrees Celsisus, in which the carbohydrates are refined into sugars, Johnsson teaches us.

And stirring continues again. Now the mämmi has to boil properly to thicken.

Then the pots are lifted with iron hooks out to the stairs to cool. Now begins the insane whipping of the mämmi mass, as if exorcizing evil spirits. The idea is to get as much air as possible into the mämmi.

When the pots stop steaming, they are lifted into the snow and the whipping in high strokes goes on and on.

Inside the kitchen it looks like a witch's kitchen. The ovens are swept with a broom which has a tuft of coniferous branches at the end of a stick, much like the brooms of the Easter witches.

The best oven temperature for the success of mämmi is 180 degrees Celsius. Then one can still put one's hand into the oven and the bark pans do not burn.

They do not burn, and the bark that has been drying since the last summer is severely tested, even though the pans have been moistened. Some of the pans break, and the precious mämmi falls to the bottom of the oven. The slightly too hot oven is partly to blame.

After a couple hours of slow baking the mämmi pans are covered with foil. The afterbake is important.

Mämmi is easy to freeze. When fresh it keeps like bread.

The Norwegian Ann Lise Lövli Nilsen has also arrived at the Karjaa mämmi course. She is interested in seeing how the famous mämmi that looks like dung, but apparently tastes delicious, is made.

Lövli Nilsen is told one of the innumerable mämmi jokes, the one where a Finnish Swede named Varma Koskitar received a packet from home. The customs needed only to peek at the box and read the name of the recipient. Everything was fine: the packet said "varma koskitar" ("warm cowpats" in Swedish).

There have been attempts to make mämmi more enticing for strangers by comparing it with dark beer. The ingredients and the taste are the same.

Did you know?

Hefty traditional food

Mämmi is thought of as western Finland invention, but a sweetened grain porridge already existed in Persia.

The ancient mämmi porridge has all the properties of a catholic fasting food. It is a nutritious, tasty morsel, and is eaten especially on Good Friday, when even firemaking was forbidden at one time.

From western Finland the sweet and sour mämmi spread eastwards. The oldest literary mentions on mämmi have been found in the doctoral thesis of Daniel Juslenius, the professor from the Academy of Turku, "Aboa Vetus et nova", during the early 1700s. The Finnish-Latin-Swedish dictionary of Juslenius from 1745 mentions a Finnish delicacy, the mämmi porridge, made out of rye.

A biblical connection has also been found: the children of Israel left the slavery in Egyt so quickly that they had to grab unleavened bread dough. The Jews celebrate Passover to remember that but, in the far north, the place of unleavened bread has been replaced by a traditional food, the nutritious mämmi.

Basic Mämmi

Makes: about 6 pans

• 5 liters water
• 500g malt
• 1.5kg rye flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons powdered Seville orange peel
• (zest of 2 orange peels)

1. Add to 1 liter of boiling water, 1dl rye flour and 1 dl of malt. Stir well and be careful not to boil the mixture. Add flour and malt only once an hour. Stir again.
2. Cover the pot and leave on the stove or in a warm place for about 12 hours to allow the mixture to sweeten.
3. Add salt, Seville orange zest and, if you like, the zest of 2 orange peels. Bring to a boil and allow it to thicken.
4. Take the pot from the stove and, while cooling the mixture, whip the mämmi.
5. Fill the mämmi boxes half-full.
6. Bake at 180C (electric oven works well) for 1.5-2 hours.
7. Cover the boxes well with baking paper or foil for the afterbake.
8. Serve mämmi with milk or half&half. Taste and add sugar on top if it needs it.

Keeps you warm in winter

Keeps you warm in winter 07/14/2004 10:40 PM
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Has your last wax or razor encounter left you a little too exposed for the nude beaches of SXM? Are you getting on in years and finding that thinning hair leaves you a bit embarrassed? Why not try a merkin! Great for both females AND males!

Warm boot

Warm boot 09/18/2004 07:20 AM
TechTree Sep 18 2004 11:45AM GMT

Microsoft Getting Warm and Fuzzy?

Microsoft Getting Warm and Fuzzy? 04/13/2004 02:20 PM
A $440 million settlement with InterTrust is the latest of the recent payouts for the Redmond bad boy.

McDonald's Stays Warm

McDonald's Stays Warm 06/07/2004 12:09 PM
The fast-food giant's same-store sales don't disappoint in May.

IT directors warm to outsourcing

IT directors warm to outsourcing 12/10/2003 05:49 AM
vnunet.com Dec 10 2003 5:11AM ET

Warm welcome for Abbas in Gaza

Warm welcome for Abbas in Gaza 01/01/2005 02:55 PM
Mahmoud Abbas, the front-runner in the vote for a new Palestinian president, gets a rousing welcome in Gaza.

Behavior: A Warm Welcome to the World

Behavior: A Warm Welcome to the World 04/12/2004 06:07 PM
Kangaroo care, a technique for soothing premature babies with skin-to-skin contact, can help calm babies born at full term as well.

Warm Fuzzies From Nicor

Warm Fuzzies From Nicor 02/10/2004 06:46 PM
Even subpar results from a toll bridge can look pretty good.

Warm Wind Off the Ocean

Warm Wind Off the Ocean 02/15/2004 08:58 PM
You could go to Australia for the warmth or the wine, or for the light or for love; and all of these would be good reasons. But the real reason is to sit near the ocean and feel its tropic wind warm on your cheeks, which is entirely beyond price. Herewith some news and colour...

Oil price down on warm US weather

Oil price down on warm US weather 01/03/2005 10:11 AM
The price of crude oil falls by more than a dollar in New York, as mild weather in northern US states eases demand for heating oil.

Warm 'n Toasty Meerkat

Warm 'n Toasty Meerkat 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
People periodically send me pictures of Meerkats due to my hand in O'Reilly's Meerkat Open Wire Service. Here's a Meerkat warming itself in the glow of a heat lamp.

Sweater Town about to warm up

Sweater Town about to warm up 01/03/2005 03:07 AM
Chicagotribune.com - Fri Dec 31, 12:56 pm GMT

Happiness is a warm puppy

Happiness is a warm puppy 04/19/2005 09:17 AM

Sleeping with Bo

Mizuka took this awhile ago. Just found it on my camera.

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Madrasas Slowly Warm to Computers

Madrasas Slowly Warm to Computers 04/26/2004 04:53 AM
Religious schools called madrasas have a reputation as incubators of Muslim militants. Fighting that image, many Pakistani madrasas have installed PCs, but most refuse to teach science or math. Manu Joseph reports from Lahore, Pakistan.

Neither Warm Mud Nor Hot Sauce Can Cure
This Cold

Neither Warm Mud Nor Hot Sauce Can Cure
This Cold 01/27/2004 12:37 PM
As a drippy-nosed city endured its 13th consecutive day of freezing-or-below temperatures Monday, signs of delirium were multiplying.
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