Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 02/18/2009
Do something to change the world and you will make a difference. That was more or less the message that I heard from Steve Farberat NTCA’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Expo in Long Beach. CA last week. It was somewhat timely when, a few days later, a friend described how he is trying to change…
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Images from NTCA and Long Beach
The following is a brief slide show of some of the images from NTCA’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Convention. Especially interesting to me, are the images of the tropical islands off Long Beach. Any Viodi View reader wishing to guess what occurs on these isles, please comment below.
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In Memoriam: John P. Messmer
John Messmer had a passion for engineering. A Cal Tech graduate and someone 13 years my senior, I looked up to John. Messmer was never interested in money or material things. His passions were books and electronic device design. His seemingly contradictory anti-establishment and conservative viewpoints definitely provided me with a more nuanced view of…
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Back to the Future – Software as a Service & Managed Services
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a popular Web 2.0 buzzword. It struck me at NTCA’s panel, Software as a Service: Creating New Revenue Channels, that Independent Telcos have been providing a sort of Software as a Service, really a Managed Service since their inception. Independent Telcos are starting to add on Software as a…
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Viodi View – 02/07/2009
The Super Bowl is the ultimate social networking facilitator. This year the actual content (i.e. the game) made for good water-cooler talk. Of course, as written before, the Super Bowl is as much about the ads as it is football and a big part of the post-game buzz was discussions of the various commercials. Ironically,…