Communications Blog Watch, week of March 19

This is a collection of interesting communication-technology items from the blogosphere. This week: Goodbye IM, hello phone; Tello tanks - t'anks, Tello; Apple and Cisco versus Microsoft in TV land; Toronto's digital discrepancies.Goodbye IM, hello phoneMARCH 18 - Tech reporter-turned blogging guru Mark Evans is turning his back on certain personal communication technologies: "No more extended email exchanges, no more IM flurries. Instead, I'm going to pick up the phone (or click on a Skype contact) and call someone. Why? It's mostly because I find email and IM exchanges lack substance."http://markevanstech.com/2007/03/18/getting-off-the-e-mailim-bandwagon/Tello tanks - t'anks, TelloMARCH 17 - It's hard to say if Iotum founder Alec Saunders is lamenting or cheering the demise of Tello, a company whose product would have competed with Iotum's presence engine. Still, he provides links to interesting comments about the presence game.http://saunderslog.com/Apple and Cisco versus Microsoft in TV landMARCH 22 - Following the long-awaited introduction of Apple Inc.'s Apple TV home media hub, telecom analyst Jon Arnold wonders if the computer company might find a natural comrade in former foe Cisco Systems Inc. "It's enough that these companies have a common enemy - Microsoft - and for very different reasons - the home computer market for Apple, and the enterprise communications market for Cisco. Together, they can mount a pretty formidable counterforce, especially in the battle for the digital home." Coupled with the two firms' cozy entente over the iPhone name last month, it might indeed herald a new partnership.http://blogs.pulver.com/jarnold/Toronto's digital discrepanciesMARCH 23 - After the City of Toronto announced it would forge ties between its digital media industry and that of San Francisco, telecom consultant Mark Goldberg wonders how the Canadian municipality will balance this new interest with past choices - namely Toronto Hydro Telecom's wireless network and the city's battles with the CRTC to charge other carriers for building networks. Goldberg's opinion: "There is no need to spend taxpayer dollars on city-owned telecom networks. The city would be better off with a declaration that it will no longer fight carriers looking to invest and it will get out of the way of service providers that want to improve fibre access to their customers."http://mhgoldberg.com/blog/The so-what of SOAMARCH 23 - Nortel CTO John Roese is looking for a few good opinions: where does your company stand in terms of SOA and Web services deployment? What, you don't know how those terms apply to the network? Follow Roese's links to the definitions, and bone up on the facts. These two application-oriented concepts are starting to inform the way networks are being built.http://blogs.nortel.com/johnroese/2007/03/23/so-ahh-â¦-where-are-you-at-in-terms-of-deployment/

Communications Blog Watch, week of March 19

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