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tHAWT Episode #103: Aussies Love Their Lamb

In this episode of tHAWT we are back to our more usual session of two or three of us over a Skype call. This week we have Paul, Mark, and myself. As usual we discussed various items that came up in the telecom world this week, indicated by the links below. Read More...

Making an Offer

We primarily created this blog, the wiki, and the podcasts for our past and current students. The goal was to create a resource they could use to continue to build on the knowledge and skills they develop in our classes. At the end of each class, we tell Read More...

Are CIOs Gaining Influence, or Losing It?

We have been saying that there are no IT projects any longer, merely solutions that address a business challenge that have an IT component, for some time now. There is also no doubt that IT must now demonstrate the business value to the leadership of Read More...

Just @#$% it! What are they saying?

Normally, we would include something like this in the newsletter, but we're about to send it out to everyone, so we'll opt to place it on the blog. It's amazing how a little sexual innuendo advertising video can enable visibility for IT sales. Read More...

Found Time

You know, I have no particularly riveting articles to point anyone to today. I just have a thought about something called found time and how it relates to learning. Many of the students I teach tend to partition their professional time into two broad Read More...

Oh No! Another Blackberry Outage

For the second time in five months, eight million users in 110 countries, served by 270 carriers, were unable to get email delivered to their Blackberries due to an apparent "software glitch." Were you one of them? (Phone and text messaging Read More...

tHAWT Episode #64: Gobbled by Google

This episode is another Friday the 13th episode and between Michel, Paul and I we certainly had enough incidents during the day to have us start believing in superstitions. Paul was even talking about St Swithin's Day which I think is why he was fixed Read More...

The Day For EHR Reckoning May Finally Be Upon Us

There are several news items that caught my eye in the past week or so that I just have to report on. Mostly because I seem to such a proponent of the marriage of healthcare and technology. I'm going to China for three weeks in October, and I am in Read More...

You *CAN* Make a Lot of Money From Blogging

On Wednesday, May 23, it was announced in the New York Times and Reuters that CBS was buying the video blog site, Wallstrip . Founder Howard Lindzon commented about the aquisition on his blog on the previous Monday. I've been a fan of Wallstrip since Read More...

The joy of the acronym

In our business we spend a lot of time taking complex subjects and making them understood by the participants in our session. Much of what we do is take jargon and translate it into something normal people can relate to. In this slideshow presented by Read More...

tHAWT Episode #52: Is it All About Advertising and Content?

In the first anniversary episode , Dave and Paul return to some items that have been in the news for the past several months. The role of advertising and content in wired and wireless networks are explored. What will services will people receive in the Read More...

tHAWT Episode #51 Sell Phones?

In this episode , Mark and Trevor kick of the discussion with the not so good news on the plight of Vonage, and someone else who is not having a good day, Joseph Nacchio. The topic of discussion then moves on to many things mobile, including Time Warner Read More...

tHAWT Episode #49 A Big Week for Some

In this episode. Mark and Trevor kick off the conversation about the announcement of the Networx contract "winners", which makes it a very big week for some. Other items discussed include Verizon Business 40Gbps ultra long haul optical expansion, Read More...

If at first you dont succeed

This one caught my eye after our various discussions we have had on storage, backups and disaster recovery. The Alaska Department of Revenue ended up with a significant loss of data when a computer technician reformatted a disk which had participants Read More...

Another Definitive Collection of the Electronic Age - AT&T's Archives

Remember what it was like to climb up those rickety stairs to your grandparents attic (or down in to the basement). That old musty smell. What was lurking there? Would there be any really cool old stuff? Well, locked away in Warren, New Jersey warehouse, Read More...
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