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Coming off a record-making Patch Tuesday in February, Microsoft announces a lighter load of bulletins and advisories targeting client operating systems, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.
If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won't and individuals don't have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference.
VMware is making experimental projects available to developers through a new "VMware Labs" Web site.
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* How do I reset a CP-7940 or CP-7960 to factory default?
This will describe how to Reset the Cisco CP-7940 and CP-7960 IP Phones to the Factory Default. This procedure assumes that you do not know the unlock password as there is another procedure for resetting a phone if you do know the unlock password.
* How do I unlock a Cisco CP-7960 running SIP software?
In SIP releases 4.2 and later, an Unlock Config item displays in the phone settings menu. When you select Unlock Config, you are prompted to enter a phone password. When the correct password is entered, the configuration is unlocked and the settings can be changed. When the Network Configuration or SIP Configuration menus display, the lock icon in the upper-right corner of the LCD indicates an unlocked state. The unlocked symbol indicates that you can modify the network and SIP configuration settings.The phone automatically relocks the configuration.
I have 3 extensions (201, 202 & 203).
201 is X-Lite on my mac, 202 is siphon on my iPhone and 203 goes to a D-Link DVG-1120s which has a Philips voip433 connected to it.
When I call 201 -> 202, or 202 -> 201, or 203 -> 201/202 it all works. But when I want to call to extension 203 it doesn’t work. So I can call from 203 but not to 203.
Outbound calls go to an IVR, option 1 goes to call group 600 which is 201, 202 and 203. 201 and 202 ring, but not 203.
201, 202 and 203 have the same SIP settings. Even tried logging in as 201 using the D-link, but get the same problem but then for extension 201.
SALT LAKE CITY—-Famous Dave’s Utah Barbeque recently selected Telesphere , a Phoenix-based managed telecommunications and Internet services provider, to provide fully hosted voice and data services to their Salt Lake City call center.
It looks like Amazon may be dropping Sprint Nextel as the primary wireless service provider for its Kindle e-reader device. Its new international Kindle, which can download e-books in the U.S. and more than 100 other countries, is powered by AT&T. While Sprint continues to support and sell Kindle DX, that device, which features a larger display, is $230 more expensive than the international Kindle and, thus, is likely to enjoy lower sales. And some analysts believe the DX may soon be phased out.
That's bad news for Sprint, and great news for AT&T, Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett writes in today's note. He figures the Kindle will drive 1 million Kindle users to AT&T -- net subscriber additions that Sprint will lose out on. Moffett estimates that Sprint makes about $5 per each subscriber addition and $2 per every e-book downloaded onto Kindle over its networks. That's not very much, but still; Sprint, which has been bleeding subscribers for months, need every additional customer it can get. I've not heard back from Sprint or Amazon.com yet.
Recently, I wrote a story about the return of risk-taking to the U.S. technology sector. The story included M&A data that was current through Sep. 23. Well, I just got a hold of the numbers for the entire month, and they are impressive. All told, in Sep. 2009 there were 365 tech deals worldwide worth a total of $27.2 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. That is the most amount of tech deals since December 2007, when there were $27.3 billion worth of deals.
It may take a while longer to surpass the next biggest month in tech M&A, which was October 2007, when there were $37.7 billion worth of tech deals. But with big tech companies such as Cisco Systems on an acquisition rampage, we may get there sooner than we think. In the first two weeks of October, Cisco has already announced two deals worth $5.9 billion.
Here's a spreadsheet with data from Thomson Reuters showing the last 20 months of tech M&A activity.
The squabble between AT&T and Google over Google Voice and call blocking is descending into a familiar Old Economy pattern: Competitors trying to game the regulatory system for their own advantage. Let's hope the Federal Communications Commission, on whose doorstep this mess has landed, can keep its focus on the broader issues.
In its latest salvo, AT&T has fired off another letter (PDF) to the FCC's Wireline Bureau pointing out that by blocking calls to certain rural telephone exchanges, Google is stopping Google Voice users not only from calling free teleconferencing services and sex chats, but many other destinations including a Benedictine convent and a tribal community college.
ATandT tells the Federal Communications Commission that Google Voice blocks calls to health clinics, congressmen, and nuns. The telephone carrier alleges Google Voice does enable PSTN-to-PSTN calls, so regardless of how Google Voice is ultimately classified, the Commission has ample jurisdiction to order Google to stop blocking. Despite the efforts of Google and its supporters to obfuscate this issue, Google's call blocking is directly related to network neutrality, ATandT claims. Google shrugs its broad shoulders. -
Google Voice blocks calls from not only sex lines and
free conference calling schemes, but from health clinics, congressmen a convent of Benedictine
nuns, according a new letter from AT amp;T to the Federal Communications
Commission Oct. 14.
Google Voice is the search engine's phon...
The history of the dispute over carriers blocking calls to some rural phone exchanges to avoid high fees is somewhat more tangled that what I described in an earlier post.
AT&T spokesman Michael Balmoris points out that, contrary to the assertion of Google's Richard Whitt, AT&T never requested FCC authority to block calls. It did briefly block calls to some exchanges and, when ordered to resume placing them, sent a request to the FCC that it investigate "traffic-pumping" by rural carriers. The FCC opened a regulatory proceeding in October, 2007, but has taken no action.
What do Google Voice, AT&T, sex chat lines, and New Deal efforts to provide rural telephone service have do do with each other? Quite a bit, it turns out; the seemingly unrelated issues of sex chat and rural phone service lie at the heart of the dispute between Google and AT&T. The real problem is an antiquated system of telecom regulation that, alas, is not likely to get fixed anytime soon.
To recap the recent action, AT&T complained in a letter to the FCC that Google Voice, Google's call management service, failed to complete calls to certain rural telephone exchanges. The complaint prompted a letter of inquiry from the FCC to Google. In the meantime, Richard Whit, Google's top telecom lobbyist, admitted in a blog post that Google did block some calls, but pointed out that AT&T has sought permission to block calls to the same exchanges.
AT T is now allowing iPhone users to place VOIP calls over its wireless network, instead of just Wi-Fi. Will the move jam up an already busy network and force Apple and Google to play nice? - AT amp;Ts Oct. 5 policy reversal offers something of a Catch-22.
While VOIP (voice over IP) applications on the iPhone were previously only possible over Wi-Fi, AT amp;T announced it had taken steps to enable VOIP applications on the iPhone to run on its wireless network.
iPhone is an...
In a reversal of its previous network management policy, AT T decides to stop blocking VOIP calls on the iPhone that bypass AT T's own voice service. The decision opens the door for the Skype iPhone application, which AT T previously provided connectivity only over Wi-Fi. - AT amp;T changed its network policy Oct. 6 to permit VOIP iPhone applications most notably Skype that bypass AT amp;T's own voice service. Previously, the Skype Internet phone service for the iPhone was limited to Wi-Fi connectivity.
The decision does not enable the Google Voice service application...
AT T sent a letter to the FCC protesting Google's blocking of telephone calls from consumers that use its Google Voice service to call phone numbers with inflated access charges in certain rural areas. By blocking these calls, Google reduces its access expenses, giving it an advantage phone carriers are prevented from enjoying and thus skewering the competition principles in U.S. network neutrality laws, AT T claims. Google argued that Google Voice must not be accorded the same treatment as services from phone carriers. - AT amp;T Sept. 25 sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission
protesting Google's blocking
of telephone calls from consumers who use its Google Voice service to call phone
numbers with inflated access charges in certain rural areas.
AT amp;T argued that by blocking these calls, Googl...
On Sept. 10, consultant iSuppli released a report that claims that, based on feverish and expensive improvements AT&T is making to its network, there's reason to believe that Apple will renew its contract to deliver the iPhone to AT&T in the U.S. exclusively. iSuppli believes the current contract will expire in mid-2010.
However, iSuppli believes that Apple may start selling non-iPhone devices to other carriers, like Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless may, perhaps, get a much-rumored Apple tablet, according to iSuppli.
If that's the case, here's one tricky issue that Apple and AT&T will have to resolve: How do you define what is, and isn't an iPhone? Distinctions between different types of mobile devices are becoming increasingly blurry. Many smartphones nowadays look like small tablets. Some netbooks can be called a Mobile Internet Device (MID).
It seems to me there's potential for an Apple tablet -- if it does come out -- to compete with the iPhone head to head. After all, most tablets nowadays can also do calling. Would AT&T really allow and welcome such competition? Because it needs the iPhone to grow, the carrier may not have a choice.
AT&T said that multimedia messaging would be available on the iPhone this summer. The company has just admitted the its going to miss the deadline, but only by four days. In a notice on its Web site, AT&T says that a software update enabling MMS will be pushed to iPhones (3G and 3GS models) on Sept. 25. The company had announced earlier that there would be no additional charge (beyond existing messaging fees) for MMS service.
Apple promised both iPhone MMS service and tethering (which lets you use your phone as a modem for a PC on a 3G network)back in January. Most carriers around the world have implemented MMS and many also offering tethering, but AT&T has lagged.
And it looks like we'll have to wait a while longer for tethering. An AT&T spokesman says there is no date yet for the feature, which is available now--at an additional monthly fee--for other devices such as BlackBerrys.
