Archive for January, 2010
The Dot.OMG era is now just about at an end, and some of the lessons learned are focused on the execution of business plans and intelligent use of capital and operational expenses – while building business. The time is near, and technology-savvy job seekers will reap rewards if they are prepared for the next boom in business expansion.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, LA Life, Social Issues, Virtualization | 1 Comment
Tags: cloud computing, california, unemployment, jobs, data center consolidation, green technologies
As children of the 50s and 60s, growing up in the US, we had the constant fear of nuclear annihilation riding on our backs. The “Red Threat” resulted in the construction of nuclear fallout shelters, attack drills, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the “Domino Theory” warning of the advance of communism. Every American child was taught to fear, and hate, those who lived in foreign countries considered hostile to the US because of their ideologies and forms of government.
Filed under: Open Topics, Social Issues, citizen journalism | Leave a Comment
Tags: china, conflict, israel, Mongolia, perspective, russia, vietnam, war
In Hanoi the government is funding, with the help of international donors and lenders, ICT infrastructure that equals or exceeds standards in many US cities – without the drama. You cannot walk a sidewalk in Hanoi without seeing major development projects, and huge bundles of conduit being buried beneath the sidewalks and streets.
Filed under: International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Social Issues, citizen journalism | 3 Comments
Tags: education, hanoi, ict, mit, stanford, viet nam news, vietnam
Ideas. Ideas about technology, about business, about people, and about the world we live in. Beyond the technology, Scott is a guy who genuinely cares about people – an excellent role model for young entrepreneurs.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Energy, Entrepreneurs, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Social Issues, environment, startup business | Leave a Comment
Tags: communications, entrepreneur, environment, gtt, hawaii, network, ptc 2010, scott charter, wbs connect
Emerging technologies have always forced business decision-makers to decide if they will embrace a new technology as a first-mover, or if they will maintain their existing technologies. Each brings a risk – does the cost of maintaining existing technology result in higher maintenance and operational expenses, or does the cost of embracing and acquiring new technology put an unwarranted capital and process change burden on the organization?
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Tags: cloud computing, law of plentitude, nortel, plentitude, soft switch
CNN has people on the ground in Port Au Prince. They use high performance satellite phones and transmission equipment to bring a few shots from Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta to world viewers. That is what we expect from CNN. Then CNN begins the roll call of tweets from people within Haiti bringing real time news. Continuing with interviews using Skype with video direct from Haiti. And the innovative ideas on how to get the word out continue.
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Tags: anderson cooper, citizen journalism, cnn, haiti, social media, Social Networking, twitter
There is nothing more irritating or annoying to a professional soldier than to watch a movie and find technical errors. A haircut that is out of regulation, a misplaced ribbon or medal, errors in weapon nomenclature, or even unit designations and locations. A soldier knows within a millisecond when there is a technical error – and it dilutes even the best story line. Telecom and Internet industry-related professionals have the same emotion when terms, equipment, or architectures are mispresented in movies.
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Tags: internet, telecom, daemon, cryptonomicon, anatehm, daniel saurez, anathem, author
Bjarni Thorvardarson is a rare telecom visionary. He thinks on a level of telecoms at an intercontinental level, rather than a national or local level. Hibernia Atlantic is his current project, and with recent news the submarine and terrestrial cable system is now in the global media distribution business, he is shaking up the telecom community.
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Tags: bjarni thorvardarson, Ethernet, hibernia atlantic, internet, london, new york, peering, startup, telecom, telecommunications
For Huntsman it is all about your moral compass. You know what is right, and your moral compass will help you keep in the right direction. There is no excuse for a man (or woman) to do what is wrong – no excuse.
Filed under: Entrepreneurs, Social Issues, startup business | 5 Comments
Tags: ethics, glen beck, integrity, jon huntsman, morals
Have you heard the news? Unemployment is skyrocketing, companies are closing, there’s no investment money for startups, and the sky is falling, the sky is falling? Don’t I know, as the layoff frenzy hit my own home, that it is a scary economic place to take a swim… Sharks, really hungry sharks, circling with an eye to take every last cent you have been able to hide.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Consulting, Entrepreneurs, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, LA Life, Social Issues, Social Networking, Virtualization, environment, startup business | Leave a Comment
Tags: 2010, california, entrepreneur, europe, innovation, los angeles, silicon valley, spain, startup, unemployment
John Savageau’s Profile
John Savageau is a life long telecom and Internet geek, with a deep interest in the environment and all things green. Whether drilling into the technology of human communications, or describing a blue whale off Catalina Island, Savageau will try to present complex ideas in terms that are easily appreciated and understood.
John Savageau is President of Pacific-Tier Communications based in Honolulu, Hawaii
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