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<title>Wal-Mart's Domain Name Battles</title>
<description><![CDATA[A recent decision by the WIPO Arbitration Center took the domain name walmartfacts.biz away from Jeff Milchen, a self-described Wal-Mart critic.&nbsp; The panel found that Milchen had &quot;registered the name in bad faith,&quot; a term that has specific meaning under ICANN's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).&nbsp; According to Evan Brown:In taking this &quot;totality of the circumstances&quot; approach, the panel considered four factors to find that the domain name was registered in bad faith. First, the respondent had not used the domain name to post content constituting fair use or any other legitimate purpose. Second, the respondent knew of Wal-Mart's trademark rights when he registered the domain name in January of 2005. Third, the respondent's &quot;admitted animus&quot; was an indication...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1336</link>
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<title>Ubuntu: Is the new Linux distro for you?</title>
<description><![CDATA[ I was talking to Doc Searls a few days ago and he told me about Ubuntu, a new Linux distro based on Debian.&nbsp; Ubuntu is the brainchild of Mark Shuttleworth, who probably best known as the guy who bought a ticket on Soyuz.&nbsp; Mark is from South Africa and made his money building and selling Thawte.&nbsp; Mark's also involved in the School Tool program, an open source school administration program. Ubuntu isn't aimed at the corporate market.&nbsp; Rather, its built for users without the support of an IT department.&nbsp; From the about page: Ubuntu is a free, open source operating system that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1294</link>
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<title>Why Comcast is chasing DNS outages</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you're not a Comcast customer, you're probably blissfully unaware of the problems that Comcast customers have been experiencing the last few weeks.&nbsp; If you are a Comcast customer, then like me, you've likely experienced serious downtime and you're probably wondering what's going on.&nbsp; I've heard a few things through the grapevine and what I've heard hasn't made me very comfortable.&nbsp; I speculated on my blog that Comcast was getting early warning signals of impending disaster several weeks ago and that they ignored them. &nbsp; What I've heard since is that Comcast essentially got caught with their pants down trying to support millions of customers on inadequate infrastructure.&nbsp; They've been getting hit with recurring distributed denial of service attacks to...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1279</link>
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<title>Tech reps to frustrated VoIP user: it's not my department</title>
<description><![CDATA[Associated Press business writer Seth Sutel has been having one heck of a problem getting service on his balky?VoIP connection.Sutel?writes that after his AT&amp;T CallVantage service went down recently, he reached for his cell and called up his ISP, Time Warner Cable. He asked them if his problem had anything to do with Internet service being down. But, he says, they told him &quot;If I liked they could schedule a service call five days later.&quot;But, ya see, Sutel depends on VoIP,and doesn't have a land line. Sutel says that he told TWC that he needed his Internet connection for VoIP,?but the service rep?&quot;had absolutely no idea&quot; what he was talking about.Our intrepid reporter then reached for his cell to call...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=352</link>
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<title>A critical look at Ubuntu or: What companies could learn about PR from open source</title>
<description><![CDATA[Matthew Thomas has posted a very critical look at Ubuntu on his weblog. Actually, he calls it &quot;My first 48 hours enduring Ubuntu 5.04,&quot; which follows his 48 hours enduring Mac OS X. Thomas is an interface designer, and he has plenty to say about the Ubuntu interface, some of which I can agree with, other things I find a bit silly. For example, this complaint about the dialog boxes for some programs: Dialogs themselves are not modal: they let you continue to use the parent window. This allows such nonsensical situations as a ?Save as JPEG? dialog for a Gimp image that no longer exists, and a Print dialog for a Web page that is no longer open or...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=236</link>
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<title>Who will have the most VoIP subs at the end of this year?</title>
<description><![CDATA[New post in Telephony Online has a leading broadband analyst predicting that at?before the year is out,?two VoIP-over-cable providers could have more subscribers than Vonage.?I think Time Warner and Cablevision can take the lead in VoIP from Vonage this year,? Teresa Mastrangelo, principal analyst with Broadbandtrends.com, tells Telephony Online's Carol Wilson. ?The cable companies are being very smart in making their VoIP look like traditional phone service so that customers don't have to make any extra effort to change services.?Wilson adds that Time Warner Cable is picking up 10,000 new VoIP subs a week, and that Cablevision - marketing VoIP under its Optimum Voice brand-?is signing 1,000 new VoIP users a day.Well, could be. Vonage has more than 600,000 subscribers,...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=348</link>
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<title>Open source journalism</title>
<description><![CDATA[No field has been transformed by open source as much as journalism.I'm referring both to open source as in free, and open source as in see the source code. The free Web challenges journalism business models as nothing has before. The industry is still reeling. Even when magazines were given away, it was in exchange for detailed information. Publishers bought lists of prospective readers, made their offer by mail, then demanded personal details for subscriptions. The data justified the ad rate.Some newspapers and magazines have been trying this on the Web. Only a few registration-required sites are profitable. Most sites with this business model are still losing money even as they continue to lose print readers and advertisers.Blogs challenge the...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=235</link>
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<title>Sharing enterprise software</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Baseline Magazine (still one of my favorite sources of information about enterprise computing) has an article discussing corporations that share homegrown software using the Avalanche Corporate Technology Cooperative. According to their Web site, Avalanche's mission is to provide: A gated community that enables our members to contribute, collaborate, and legally distribute intellectual property with other members. The Baseline article starts with an example of Jostens Jewelers using Best Buy's homegrown application integration software: &quot;CIOs like the idea of collaborating,&quot; says Jostens chief information officer Andrew Black, a founding member and original sponsor of the co-op. &quot;There's more to do out there than we have time to do by ourselves. If you're going to do Linux application servers and select...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1266</link>
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<title>Terrorists attack VoIP: Could it happen here?</title>
<description><![CDATA[There seems to be something in the makeup of security organizations and the people that head them: a pre-disposition to envision worse-case scenarios and warn about them. That way, if worst comes to worst, these security types can say they saw it coming. Shades of Orange Alerts and WMD assertions.An overabundance of caution or a CYA (Cover Your Anterior) exercise? Well, looks like we're seeing one again.Now, we have another security executive going off on a &quot;could happen&quot; rant. Quoted in Networking Pipeline, David Endler, head of the new Voice Over IP Security Alliance,  seems to be inferring some scary stuff: Because SIP and H.323 protocols have been shown to have security vulnerabilities, bad folks could cause mass casualties by launching cyberwarfare against VoIP-enabled police, fire...]]>
</description><link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=347</link>
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<title>VoIP hopeful Comcast and their customer 'service' problem</title>
<description><![CDATA[Fellow VoIP blogger Ted Wallingford has posted a tale of woe about the company I often refer to as &quot;Comcash.&quot;Seems as though Ted's problems started almost a year after he installed Packet8 VoIP on his Comcast broadband connection.Packet 8's VoIP started dropping packets like mad. He called Comcast, but the first-level tech said that since the VoIP service was not theirs, they could not offer any advice.He follows the by-the-book advice, reboots, and ewww, gross, packet loss rate reaches 40%. That for a technology where mid-single digit packet loss really reeks.Another first-level tech tells Ted he will have a supervisor call. Oh, there's so much more. Ted tells his own story better than I can. Before I send you to his post,...]]>
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