Commentary: IM makers shrug at FCC ruling

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Microsoft commentary slams EU ruling

Microsoft commentary slams EU ruling 04/21/2004 09:09 PM
The software giant releases a position paper insisting that the European Union's antitrust sanctions amount to "new law" that could hurt others in the technology industry

RealNetworks Talks to PC Makers After EU
Ruling (Reuters)

RealNetworks Talks to PC Makers After EU
Ruling (Reuters) 04/11/2004 03:46 PM
Reuters - RealNetworks said on Wednesday it had held exploratory talks with computer makers about the impact of a landmark ruling by the European Commission that could help boost the adoption of its media player.

Stocks Shrug Off Intel Dread

Stocks Shrug Off Intel Dread 07/14/2004 11:43 AM
TheStreet.com Jul 14 2004 4:00PM GMT

Gas Prices Soar, Angelenos Shrug

Gas Prices Soar, Angelenos Shrug 04/09/2004 10:29 PM
The average price of regular gas in California has shot up 50 cents a gallon since the first of the year, but Angelenos have not responded by parking their cars.

Microsoft Launches Tablet PC; Will
Consumers Shrug?

Microsoft Launches Tablet PC; Will
Consumers Shrug? 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
After several years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on development, Microsoft has launched its Windows XP Tablet PC platform. The company claims Tablet PCs will help revolutionize computing by allowing users to enter and manipulate data with a pen-like stylus.

Developers Shrug Off Longhorn Delay
Rumors

Developers Shrug Off Longhorn Delay
Rumors 01/22/2004 11:42 AM
Thanks Stephen "Last October, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates unveiled an early technical preview of Longhorn -- the planned next-generation Windows operating system -- to attendees at the Redmond, Washington-based company's Professional Developers Conference. Jim Allchin, group vice president of the Platforms Group at Microsoft, previewed Avalon, the graphics subsystem behind Longhorn's new presentation technologies; WinFS, Longhorn's storage subsystem; and Indigo, the basis for the pending operating system's communications technologies. Companies already developing in Microsoft's .NET environment are well positioned to take advantage of Longhorn's advances, Allchin told the thousands of developers gathered at the event. "

Boston Ex-Cardinal's Rome Flock Shrug
Off His Past (Reuters)

Boston Ex-Cardinal's Rome Flock Shrug
Off His Past (Reuters) 08/05/2004 09:01 AM
Reuters - Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign as archbishop of Boston over a sexual abuse scandal, held his first public mass on Thursday since taking up a prestigious new post in the Italian Church.

"commentary"

"commentary" 02/10/2004 04:15 PM

War commentary

War commentary 03/19/2003 10:26 PM

Paolo Valdemarin: "After September 11 the US were leading the largest coalition of countries ever seen. Now, whatever the US administration is saying, they are going to a war alone." Actually the British are fighting with the US.

Lance Knobel: "I'd like to have seen an alternative to war, but that would have meant an international commitment to intrusive inspections, backed by the threat of force. In the light of French and Russian vacillation, it's very unclear whether that could have worked."

Megnut: "I'm uncomfortable with the idea of America unilaterally removing someone from power. And I am very disturbed by the approach the American government has taken to achieve its goals."

Karlin Lillington: "The Bush administration has been utterly hopeless and inept in creating a coalition abroad, in showing leadership overseas, in working towards consensus."

Commentary: Hop on the bus?

Commentary: Hop on the bus? 07/09/2004 08:46 AM
An enterprise service bus can help companies meet basic integration requirements, but there are limits to what a commercial ESB product can do without custom-developed extensions.

Commentary

Commentary 08/14/2004 10:41 PM
"World War IV: How it started, what it means, and why we have to win." .. In Praise of the Bush Doctrine .. rather long, hawkish article .. the neocons urge .. Commentary

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"enough commentary from others "

"enough commentary from others " 10/31/2003 03:55 AM

Commentary: Who's first with Web
services?

Commentary: Who's first with Web
services? 05/14/2004 09:10 AM
CNET May 14 2004 1:48PM GMT

Commentary - The UN and the Jews

Commentary - The UN and the Jews 02/18/2004 05:11 AM
"What that something is has become too clear to deny: over the past several decades, the UN has fashioned itself into perhaps the foremost global platform for anti-Semitism." .. full Commentary article .. Anne Bayefsky

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Commentary: Don't bet more than you can
lose

Commentary: Don't bet more than you can
lose 07/28/2004 12:51 AM
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Commentary: HP gets organic

Commentary: HP gets organic 12/09/2003 02:35 PM
In a consolidating IT industry, Hewlett-Packard is charting a path toward the Adaptive Enterprise, its name for a new set of IT and business capabilities that has captured the industry's attention.

AEI - News & Commentary

AEI - News & Commentary 02/14/2004 06:37 PM
AEI - News & Commentary - An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World .. Charles Krauthammer .. Democratic Realism .. writes .. on

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Commentary: The business end of SP2

Commentary: The business end of SP2 08/09/2004 12:54 PM
For enterprises, mass deployment of the Windows XP service pack isn't a practical reality. Companies should treat SP2 as a full-fledged operating system upgrade.

Commentary: Nader

Commentary: Nader 08/10/2004 05:47 PM
Free Internet Press Aug 10 2004 10:21PM GMT

Commentary: Baghdad Bug Out

Commentary: Baghdad Bug Out 07/01/2004 05:15 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 1 2004 9:35AM GMT

Commentary: Hot spots not that hot yet

Commentary: Hot spots not that hot yet 01/17/2004 10:56 PM

interesting commentary

interesting commentary 01/05/2004 01:10 AM
ceded the protections .. WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ? .. Sasha Castel

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Commentary: Spammers must pay

Commentary: Spammers must pay 12/16/2003 11:19 AM
CNET Dec 16 2003 10:49AM ET

"more sage commentary"

"more sage commentary" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Commentary: Photography's Next
Revolution

Commentary: Photography's Next
Revolution 04/16/2004 02:26 PM
Forbes Apr 16 2004 7:08PM GMT

Gmail Commentary and Responses

Gmail Commentary and Responses 04/16/2004 11:44 PM

Commentary: Is the RIAA out of the
ballgame?

Commentary: Is the RIAA out of the
ballgame? 12/22/2003 10:10 AM
ZDNet Dec 22 2003 9:08AM ET

Commentary: MPEG-4 is Dead

Commentary: MPEG-4 is Dead 04/25/2004 08:19 AM
Given the adoption of Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 by the DVD Forum, there's increasing reason to believe, to paraphrase an old Southern expression, that the MPEG-4 dog just won't hunt. It hasn't yet and probably never will, at least in any serious commercial way.

Commentary: Will JTC overshadow Eclipse?

Commentary: Will JTC overshadow Eclipse? 01/09/2004 09:54 PM

Keep Voting Ponderous (NPR commentary)

Keep Voting Ponderous (NPR commentary) 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
Here's the next-to-final draft of a commentary that ran on NPR's All Things Considered on Monday. You can listen to it here. I'm double worried about electronic voting machines. First there's the problem that lots of people have noted with the new machines. Instead of marking a box with a pen, you touch the screen to put an electronic mark in an electronic box. Very convenient and results are tabulated instantly, but suppose there's a bug in the computer, or suppose someone hacks into them. How would we even know that the software is miscounting the votes? The most...

Commentary - Writing on the Brain

Commentary - Writing on the Brain 04/19/2004 03:12 PM
Incompetence, contempt, lunacy—once you have these in place, you are set to go .. Commentary .. more»

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Commentary: How a kernel gives Linux
some pop

Commentary: How a kernel gives Linux
some pop 12/18/2003 05:01 PM

Commentary: New products, renewed AOL?

Commentary: New products, renewed AOL? 12/12/2003 11:37 AM
Its new 9.0 software, AOL Latino and kids' services demonstrate that America Online listens to its users--and will compete strongly against MSN and Yahoo.

Commentary - VDH: Iraq’s Future - and
Ours

Commentary - VDH: Iraq’s Future - and
Ours 01/04/2004 03:56 AM

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Commentary: Net gain for Juniper

Commentary: Net gain for Juniper 02/10/2004 06:39 PM
With its planned purchase of NetScreen, Juniper vaults into the security market and squares off credibly with Cisco for combined networking and security deals.

Commentary: Can't live without fonts

Commentary: Can't live without fonts 02/12/2004 02:02 PM
CNET Feb 12 2004 6:46PM GMT

Commentary: Name your hosting price

Commentary: Name your hosting price 01/26/2004 06:31 PM

Commentary: Chocolates and Wi-Fi on your
pillow

Commentary: Chocolates and Wi-Fi on your
pillow 02/12/2004 10:12 PM

"this interesting commentary on the
Democrats"

"this interesting commentary on the
Democrats" 12/16/2003 08:48 PM

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RepeatSeat Answers Call for Phone
Ticketing (Reuters)

RepeatSeat Answers Call for Phone
Ticketing (Reuters) 04/09/2004 09:18 PM
Reuters - Can you hear me now? RepeatSeat hopes so, as it introduces cell-phone tickets to U.S. event-goers this year.

Cell Phone Company Allows Call Limits
(AP)

Cell Phone Company Allows Call Limits
(AP) 05/17/2004 07:30 AM
AP - How would you like to curb your gabby teen's mobile chats or your employee's cell calls about fantasy football? Boston Communications Group Inc. might have something for you.

Cell Phone Company Allows Call Limits

Cell Phone Company Allows Call Limits 05/17/2004 08:51 AM
AP via Daily Press May 17 2004 1:29PM GMT

Cell Phone Co. Allowing Call Limits (AP)

Cell Phone Co. Allowing Call Limits (AP) 05/14/2004 10:36 AM
AP - How would you like to curb your gabby teen's mobile chats or your employee's cell calls about fantasy football?

Cell phone co. allowing call limits

Cell phone co. allowing call limits 05/15/2004 11:15 PM
Boston Globe May 16 2004 3:36AM GMT

Vicious PC Assassin SE

Vicious PC Assassin SE 12/12/2003 01:57 PM
CNET Dec 12 2003 12:49PM ET

CellWireless.com Offers Low
International Call Cell Phone Rates

CellWireless.com Offers Low
International Call Cell Phone Rates 02/01/2005 08:48 PM
Network marketing and home business opportunities in the telecommunications industry are also available. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Complaints Abound over Cell Phone
Service

Complaints Abound over Cell Phone
Service 06/07/2004 03:41 PM
Your cell phone company knows you hate it. Mobile phone service was the second-lowest ranked industry—beating only cable providers among the 40 rated—in the University of Michigan's newest customer satisfaction index.

Complaints Over Cell Phone Service
Abound

Complaints Over Cell Phone Service
Abound 06/04/2004 07:11 PM
AP via Newsday Jun 4 2004 11:01PM GMT

Complaints Over Cell Phone Service
Abound (AP)

Complaints Over Cell Phone Service
Abound (AP) 06/04/2004 03:55 PM
AP - Your cell phone company knows you hate it.

Answering Call for Phone Tickets

Answering Call for Phone Tickets 04/12/2004 04:56 AM
An Alberta company will set up shop in the United States using wireless technology to allow customers to log on to a venue's website with their mobile phones to book tickets for impromptu events.

Pride Communication Services, #1
Reseller of Krusell Leather Cell Phone
Cases, to Begin Selling Identity-Theft
Conscious Horizontic Plus Cell Phone
Case in April

Pride Communication Services, #1
Reseller of Krusell Leather Cell Phone
Cases, to Begin Selling Identity-Theft
Conscious Horizontic Plus Cell Phone
Case in April 03/29/2005 04:34 AM
To Better Accommodate the Needs of Today’s Identity Theft Conscious Cell Phone Users, Pride Communication Services (PCS), a Subsidiary Franchise of KaseIT and the Largest Reseller of KRUSELL Leather Cases, Announced Today that it Would Begin Selling the Horizontic Plus Cell Phone Case, KRUSELL’s Newest Offering, In its Online Store in April. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

New Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead System
Empowers Partners to Ensure Clients
Charged Only for Successful Call Leads

New Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead System
Empowers Partners to Ensure Clients
Charged Only for Successful Call Leads 03/17/2005 03:01 AM
Developer of ZiffTalk and Click4Advisor ‘click-for-talk’ platforms launches ZiffLeads, first independent Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead platform, to target partners who want to offer online advertisers, local and national, a more Flexible and Reliable Phone Call Lead generation and measurement product. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls

Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls 08/16/2004 05:48 PM
Iowa phone company plans to block cell phone call in a dispute with wireless carriers. The Iowa Utilities Board has prevented the plan for now.

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine
which competing label is better: "Cell
Phone" or "Mobile Phone"?

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine
which competing label is better: "Cell
Phone" or "Mobile Phone"? 04/28/2004 11:39 AM

On the SIGIA-L mailing list, Stephanie Berger recently asked: "My cohorts are not sure whether to use "cell phone" or "mobile phone". Any evidence that one is better than the other, or one is used more often than the other?"

This is a good example of the kind of labeling questions information architects face all the time. The answer to these labeling questions will depend on the target audience (a better label for whom?), on business requirements (maybe the business want to promote one term over the other) and on the context in which the label will be used.

I'll discuss the conversation that followed here and afterwards point to some useful tools for if you have a labeling question yourself.

Andres Sulleiro: "Without any empirical data I will go with my own opinion. [...] A quick survey of the phone carriers seems to suggest that "wireless" (as in "wireless phone", "wireless customer") is most common among US carriers, though you see some references to "mobile" as well. T-mobile, a European company, uses "mobile" which is more common in Europe as well as being the name of the carrier."

Method: check what other websites call it.

Jason Cho: "I think "cell" is more widespread in the US as Andrés noted. "Call my mobile" can sound pretentious to Yankee ears. But I would think everyone understands the term "mobile" on a business card."

Method: personal experience.

Peter Van Dijck (and others): "Google for "cell phone" (including quotes): 6,230,000, Google for "mobile phone": 6,360,000. Looks like a tie, assuming your audience is similar. Just pick one and make sure your search engine knows both terms."
Christina Wodtke: "Y ahoo for cell phone : 16,800,000, yahoo for mobile phone: 21,200,000. What does this really tell you? you'd have to know who each engine indexes, how much of the web, etc.. better to use a magic 8 ball. ;-)"

Method: check popularity of the terms on the web.

Peter Van Dijck: "My next step would be to find out what people search for on your site,
or if not available, on the web (assuming that's more or less your audience). Google adwords can help."

Method: Find out what people (preferably your target audience) search for.

Dave: "I like "mobile" for the reason that Christina stated (forward compatibility); USers and non-USers will equally understand it. Also, it is more interoperable w/ most of the vCard based addressbook programs out there. I don't know any that are using "cell" or "cellphone" ... I also like the clear and easy two word approach of "mobile phone" ... I'm always wanting to say "cellphone" where "cell phone" is really the more correct version. "cell" though just doesn't feel like a real word b/c the "cell" doesn't fit a meaning to me. I know what it means if I am forced to think about it, but it really doesn't mean anything to me at all."

Method: personal experience, check what software programs use.

Christina Wodtke: "> As can Ove rture's keyword tool (couldn't find URL straight away).

You also might consider some adaptation of the freelisting technique on a subset of your target. E.G., a write in survey: what portable electronics do you own, then analyze for use of "cell phone" and mobile phone".

Method: freelisting technique.

Eric Reiss: "Having worked closely with several telecommunications companies, including Tellabs (US), Nortel (Canada), ADVA (Germany), and NetTest (Denmark), this discussion is one I've heard before. Europeans generally don't recognize the term "cell phone." North Americans seem to accept both "cell" and "mobile." ATT insists on promoting the term "wireless." In most instances, we've agreed on the word "mobile" since it is understood by the widest audience. Nortel, for instance, used "cell" almost exclusively until the late 90s, but now leans toward "mobile." I think there is a trend here."

Method: ask the subject matter experts.

Pabini Gabriel-Petit: "There's also Wordtracker.
[...]
In this vein, you might try just walking up to people, holding up your cell/mobile phone, and asking them what they call it."

Method: Analyze what people search for.

Method: Find out what labels your users use.

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine which competing label is better.

So, as a review, here are some of the methods used to determine which label is better.

1. What do you think?
Method: personal experience/insights.

2. What do your users think?
Method: freelisting technique.
Method: Find out what labels your users use: show them the item you're trying to label and ask them what it is. (You could build an online tool for this).
Method: Find out what people (preferably your target audience) search for / check popularity of the terms on the web. Ove rture's keyword tool. Google adwords. Wordtracker. Google and Yahoo both list how often a term is used on the web (use quotes around your terms!).

3. What do the experts think?
Method: ask the subject matter experts.
Method: check what other websites/software call it.

Gotcha's: be careful when using these techniques. You are looking for a label that works for your audience and your business requirements. Most of these techniques use audiences that may be very different from yours, and most are indicative only (ie: they're not hard science). Use your judgement.

FreeHeadset.org launches program to
promote wireless phone safety by giving
away free cell phone headsets.

FreeHeadset.org launches program to
promote wireless phone safety by giving
away free cell phone headsets. 07/26/2004 02:22 AM
New laws that mandate the use of cell phone headsets have recently passed in several states. In response, FreeHeadset.org has developed a program to provide wireless phone users with a free cell phone headset. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone
Calls

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone
Calls 04/11/2005 08:07 PM
user survey reported

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InformationWeek > Poll Rejects
In-Flight Cell-Phone Use > Survey
Says: No Yakking On Planes > April 8,
2005

InformationWeek > Poll Rejects
In-Flight Cell-Phone Use > Survey
Says: No Yakking On Planes > April 8,
2005 04/11/2005 03:49 AM
Survey Says: No Yakking On Planes .. most people find this offensive

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Falling for Amgen

Falling for Amgen 07/12/2004 12:30 PM
Ahead of its second-quarter earnings release, Amgen looks good.

Amgen EPS Misses by 2 Cents

Amgen EPS Misses by 2 Cents 01/22/2004 07:33 PM
TheStreet.com Jan 22 2004 11:40PM GMT

Call from anywhere on your cell and
access Internet, too

Call from anywhere on your cell and
access Internet, too 07/25/2004 07:21 AM
The Province Jul 25 2004 11:22AM GMT

Amgen In Same Spot Microsoft Was Three
Years Ago

Amgen In Same Spot Microsoft Was Three
Years Ago 04/15/2005 12:27 PM
Forbes Apr 15 2005 4:58PM GMT

Call The Hague! Make room in Milosevic's
cell!

Call The Hague! Make room in Milosevic's
cell! 11/19/2003 11:37 PM
Per le speaks (the truth)! International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal. I can't decide if this is really stupid or really shrewd. And can legal action be taken?

Brazil Scientists Call on Congress to
Allow Stem Cell Research

Brazil Scientists Call on Congress to
Allow Stem Cell Research 07/21/2004 02:31 PM
Technology Review Jul 21 2004 6:37PM GMT

You could have a 3G cell phone already

You could have a 3G cell phone already 04/11/2005 03:55 AM
Jakarta Post Apr 11 2005 5:22AM GMT

A Cell Phone in Every Pot

A Cell Phone in Every Pot 12/09/2003 02:39 AM

Ce ll Phones Sales Skyrocket

"The worldwide market for cell phones is outstripping even the most enthusiastic predictions from the beginning of the year, as consumers continue to snap up handsets at a dizzying rate, according to research released Monday by Gartner.

Handset vendors sold 132.8 million units in the third quarter of this year, up 22 percent from last year's third-quarter shipments of 108.8 million units, says Ben Wood, an analyst with Gartner based in London. Gartner calculated the figures using the number of units sold to end users, rather than units shipped into the channel.

'The total market is on fire,' he says. 'We had predicted about 470 million units for the year, but it's going to be about 500 million this year.'

Mature cell phone markets such as western Europe and the U.S. are going through a replacement cycle, as consumers with older black-and-white phones are trading them in for new models with color screens and cameras , Wood says.

'We're getting to a point where a mobile phone is as much about fashion as anything,' he says." [PCWorld.com]

It won't be much longer before purchasing a mobile phone will be as much about utility (staying connected to the internet) as anything.

Cell Phone Zen

Cell Phone Zen 08/16/2004 02:27 PM
My phone sucks ass! The voicemail has never worked properly since day 1. At least once a week I have...

Internet, cell phones call Krakow's
youth to streets for tribute to pope
(AFP)

Internet, cell phones call Krakow's
youth to streets for tribute to pope
(AFP) 04/04/2005 06:41 PM
AFP - More than 150,000 young people marched through the streets of Krakow in an impromptu tribute, organised with the aid of modern technology, to Pope John Paul II.

Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You

Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You 12/21/2003 03:43 AM
PollGuy writes "I had never heard until this article in the New York Times (sacrifice of first born required) about services that let regular people track the ...

Your Old Cell Phone = Cash!

Your Old Cell Phone = Cash! 05/25/2004 02:37 PM

We've all been there. You upgrade from one cellular service plan to another and your carrier says "Sorry... your old phone won't work with your new plan... you need a new phone." At CellForCash.com, our mission is to help consumers and businesses capture the value of their unused cell phones. Your old cell phone may be useless to you but of great use in a different market or even in a different country. We want to be the missing link in a broken supply chain.

Commentary: IM makers shrug at FCC ruling

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