June
28, 2003
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- Tech
Talk Guests
- Adil
Rajput
- Program
Director, Stratford
Graduate School
- MBA
in Finance and Doctorate
in Computer Science
- Over
a decade of experience in the IT and telecommunication industry
- Chief
Technology Officer, HiTech Dimensions
- Work
focuses on offshore development
- Management
consulting and seminars in IT
- Industry
expert in web technologies
- Contact
Adil Rajput
- Omir
Hasan
- Faculty,
Stratford University
- Production
Manager, Rewards Plus
- Five
years of experience in leading development of high end solutions
and their deployment
- Contact
Omair Hasan
- ITAA
Report on IT Career Trends
- Status
of the IT industry in the US
- Statistics
on the job market
- Skills
that will be in demand for the near future
- Off
shore development.
- The
major players in the industry and DC area
- Sun,
Oracle and Microsoft
- Middleware
and its affect on Enterprise
wide software development
- .NET
versus J2EE debate
- Certification
versus Academic degrees
- What
makes the professional more marketable
- What
kind of certifications are out there
- What
role should be played by the academics
- Where
is the industry heading
- Do
Not Call Registry Opened This Week
- The
National Do Not Call Registry is open for business
- The
Federal Government created the national registry to make it easier
and more efficient for you to stop getting telemarketing sales calls
you don't want.
- Log
onto the http://donotcall.gov
to register you phone number now
- Phone
registration (1-888-382-1222) will open to the entire nation on
July 7.
- Registration
is free.
- States
will begin enforcing the National Do Not Call Registry on Oct.
1, 2003
- Defense
Department Will Require Ipv6 in 2008
- Telcos
Duke it out in Iraq
- Tecore
Wireless Systems (www.tecore.com),
a private company in Columbia, Maryland,
said it would lay the groundwork for phone companies to offer wireless
in Iraq.
- Tecore
sells cellular infrastructure and software to carriers in Afghanistan,
the United Arab Emirates
and other parts of the Middle East. It plans
to begin building a distribution center in Iraq
by the end of summer, the company said.
- U.S.
government awarded WorldCom a $45 million contract to build a cell
network in Iraq
- Pentagon
also gave Motorola a $10 to $25 million contract -- depending on
options the company exercises -- to install radio communications
for security forces in Baghdad.
- Iraq
has never had a cell-phone system, but analysts say it would be
easy and cheap to install.
- ICANN
Relinquishes Power Under Pressure
- Country
domains now under the control of each country instead of under the
control of ICANN
- Great
Britain
controls uk;
France
controls fr; etc.
- After
an all-night session on Wednesday night, the Country Code Names
Supporting Organization (ccNSO) was finally formed
- ICANN
under new president/CEO Paul Twomey behaved pragmatically and conceded
all control save over IANA and global interoperability
- Almost
Dead: NT Support
- Microsoft's
telephone support for the seven year-old system will end this month.
- In
addition, from July 1 onward there will be no new hotfixes for workstation
versions of NT 4.
- Remaining
(die-hard) NT 4 users will have to make do with basic online self-help
support until the official expiry date of the product on June
30 2004.
- Most
corporations have gone to Windows 2000 already and skipped XP.
- Cell
Phone Number Portability (Update)
- Verizon
Wireless Chief Executive Denny Strigl said Tuesday that unlike rivals,
Verizon won't collect monthly or one-time fees from subscribers
who want to keep their original telephone number after switching
carriers.
- This
is a real about face for Verizon after their stinger court defeat.
Kudo to the leadership
- Now
the other telcos should follow suit and not charge
- Representatives
for AT&T Wireless, Nextel Communications and Sprint PCS said
their companies have no plans to stop collecting LNP (Local Number
Portability) fees.
- AT&T
is $1.75 per month
- Nextel
is $1.55 per month
- Sprint
will begin collecting an unspecified LNP fee in July
- Verizon
now believes the implementation costs work out to about 15 cents
per customer per month, small enough for the carriers to try to
absorb…especially if they have reciprocal agreements.
- MS
Worker Software Racket
- A
Microsoft worker has been charged with stealing $17 million of software
from Microsoft's internal store in the second case of its type in
recent months
- Richard
Gregg, 43, and a Windows program coordinator, has pleaded not guilty
to 62 counts of mail and computer fraud, Gregg, who denies the charges,
has been released on bail.
- From
January to October 2002, Gregg allegedly ordered 5,436 copies of
software such as Windows XP, SQL Server, Exchange and Office with
retail prices over $17 million which he subsequently resold.
- Stratford
News
- Corporate
Training Launch at Stratford
- Grad
Program Detail (EBM and Telecommunications)
- Next
start August 4th
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