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In this week’s news, a PR Firm called Burson-Marsteller admitted they were hired by Facebook to smear Google’s Social Circle via an alleged whisper campaign claiming the service violated user privacy rights.  Both the PR Firm and Facebook later apologized for the action.  Tisk Tisk, bad Facebook. It is not clear whether any of this […]

Absolute Genius! When most kids are taught electricity in 3rd and 4th grade science lab experiments, they are introduced to concepts using unfamiliar electrical components.  Most of these things have never been touched and they seem foreign and complicated.  Like others, I believe that this causes a learning gap.  This gap has been completely obliterated

This from the FCC yesterday: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:March 21, 2011 Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission has released its latest reports on Internet access service connections and telephone subscribership in the U.S. Titled Internet Access Services and Local Telephone Competition, the two reports are based on data submitted by carriers every six months on

My recent post on the evolution of the telephone has raised much interest, but I am also seeing and predicting that the Central Office is undergoing and will undergo changes that are just as radical.  As I said in the prior post, these changes are difficult to envision and agree with at times, especially for

As Thanksgiving 2010 quickly approaches, we are reminded to give thanks for everything we have, no matter how small.  This requires that you look back and consider where you have been and what you have accomplished.  Understandably, the memories aren’t all that great in every case.  Nevertheless, in this mode I was considering the past

Many of you associated with CellStream already know that we have been busy over the past several months renovating our web presence by adding the CellStream Intranet site. I thought I would write a few lines about it so folks would know what has been going on, become aware of great new information available, and

Reluctantly, I am being forced to contemplate the notion that the telephone, as I have always know it in my lifetime, is not just evolving, but it is becoming and endangered species. Look at these numbers just released by the FCC as of December 31, 2009:    Overall, 47.9% of all telephone numbers were assigned

Monday, May 25th, 2009 As many of the CellStream faithful know, we are hugely dedicated to the Independent Telephone market, and have been since the founding of the company in 1998. We were recently invited and happily accepted an opportunity to speak at the Wisconsin State Telephone Association conference. A short video and interview was

This article was roginally published Monday, March 23, 2009.  Here is the link location of the original blog post. I have been messing rather seriously with virtualization recently. Specifically Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server products, as well as SUN’s Virtual Box. The good news is they all work pretty much as advertised, albeit

This article is directed at my many Independent Telephone/Rural Local Exchange company friends.  It is the details behind a story I often talk about at conferences and training sessions. One of the main challenges for the RLECs is to up the “take-rate” of broadband in their served area.  There are a number of barriers we

As those of you close to us know, we have been big fans of Microsoft’s SharePoint concept since initial release several years ago.  We have, in fact, recommended it to every small/medium business owner that will listen to us!  The entire CellStream back office became converted to this online database system.  Was it perfect –

Just a quick blog to complain about impolite travelers. What is your worst travel experience with an impolite traveler? Would love to hear some others comments and experiences below. As a frequent traveler, I have logged (literally) millions of frequent flier miles attaining lifetime status on several airlines. As air travel goes, there has been