From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu Jun 10 00:57:04 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i5A4v3004122; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:57:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:57:04 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406100457.i5A4v3004122@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #284 TELECOM Digest Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:57:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 284 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Verizon Wireless Extends Commanding Lead in Downloadable (Monty Solomon) Bell Canada, Microsoft Test Broadband TV (Monty Solomon) Nikon and TiVo Partner to Extend the Excitement of Digital (Monty Solomon) Cingular Patches Customer Security Glitches (Monty Solomon) Re: Memories of Illinois Bell in Better Times (Ray Normandeau) Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam (Paul Vader) Re: Cell Phone With Timer? (Joseph) Re: Public Copy Cost Unchanged (Herb Stein) Dock-N-Talk -- Anyone Use This??? (Alex) Clearing the Way for Widespread Residential VoIP (VOIP News) Help File For Email Information Service (TELECOM Digest Editor) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:38:37 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Verizon Wireless Extends Commanding Lead in Downloadable Applications 70 Million Applications Downloaded, More Than 500 Unique Applications Available SAN DIEGO and BEDMINSTER, N.J., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- From the BREW Developers Conference in San Diego, Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless provider, announced today that total downloads on its Get It Now service have reached more than 70 million since its national launch in September 2002, up from a total of 8.5 million at last year's Conference. Get It Now currently contains a library of 520 applications, including games, productivity tools, information services, ringtones, wallpapers and more. The number of applications has grown dramatically, up from 115 applications at last year's BREW Developers Conference. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41877461 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:10:45 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Bell Canada, Microsoft test broadband TV TORONTO, June 9 (Reuters) - Bell Canada has teamed up with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) to run trials on delivering television service over a broadband Internet connection, but no launch date has been set for the service, the BCE Inc. (TSE:BCE) unit said on Wednesday. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41879068 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:44:24 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Nikon and TiVo Partner to Extend the Excitement of Digital Photos Nikon and TiVo Partner to Extend the Excitement of Digital Photography Into the Living Room Professional Photography from Nikon's Portfolio of Award Winning Artist's Delivered to TiVo Series2 Subscribers With Home Network MELVILLE, N.Y., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nikon (http://www.nikonusa.com), the world leader in photography, today announced a partnership with TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), to deliver professional photography images from world-renowned artists to all TiVo(R) Series2(TM) subscribers connected to a home network. Beginning today, TiVo Series2 subscribers can view images from Nikon's "Legends behind the Lens" through the home media features. The first in a series of artist's highlighted by Nikon will be Joe McNally, the award-winning photojournalist known for his incredible versatility, technical mastery and use of creative lighting to capture interesting and engaging photographs. Additionally, TiVo Series2 subscribers who buy a Nikon Coolpix digital camera this Fall will have an instant connection to TiVo home media features through Nikon's PictureProject(TM) Software. This new application will make it simple for anyone to easily publish their albums to their Home Theater or TV through TiVo. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41880967 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:46:42 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Cingular Patches Customer Security Glitches NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless, which is set to become the biggest U.S. mobile service when it buys AT&T Wireless (NYSE:AWE) this year, said on Wednesday it was fixing security problems that exposed customer account details and could potentially have resulted in fraudulent credit card use. The glitches related to Internet and telephone services that let Cingular customers see their account balances and pay their phone bills by simply keying in their ZIP codes and telephone numbers, the company said. Cingular, a venture of BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS) and SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), said it would change the services after the bugs were first revealed by a report on technology news Web site ZDNet.com on Tuesday. Cingular's future partner, AT&T Wireless, recently lost customers after its reputation was hurt by technical problems. Spokesman Tony Carter said Cingular changed the Internet payment service on Tuesday and expected to get rid of a similar telephone-based service by Wednesday night. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41883554 ------------------------------ From: rayta@msn.com (Ray Normandeau) Subject: Re: Memories of Illinois Bell in Better Times Date: 9 Jun 2004 12:39:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com J Kelly wrote in message news:: > I believe Sirloin Stockade is (was) a chain. I remember there being > one across from my hotel when I was workign out of town about 6 years > ago. If I recall correctly it was in Sioux City, Iowa. I often eat > at an Old Country Buffet in Waterloo, Iowa. Not bad food, not cheap, > but not too bad, my kids are young enough that they can eat for a buck > or so, which helps. Wife and I love Old Country Buffet. On bus tours we had eaten at a couple. Picked up a brochure and saw www listed. Found one in Staten Island and one on Long Island. We don't drive, so if a friend with car heads out to go shopping on Long Island we offer to treat him to lunch at OCB. There food is not overly salty or sugared unexceptedly, excpet for one recent taste of taco filling. You can get sugar-free desserts as we should be eating, but usually pick the ones with sugar. Lunch is quite reasonable although there are cheaper Indian food buffets on NYC. ------------------------------ From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) Subject: Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:50:40 -0000 Organization: Inline Software Creations > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So what you are saying is that the > thing which VP Gore promoted, getting money into the net through various > companies instead of just the universities as it had been wound up > also bringing us most of the abuses we are now seeing these days. PAT] Duh? * * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something like corkscrews. ------------------------------ From: Joseph Subject: Re: Cell Phone With Timer? Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:25:26 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.NONOcom On 9 Jun 2004 06:03:16 -0700, qjohnny2000@yahoo.com (John Qyindi) wrote: > Is there any cell phone that you can program to turn on at a certain > time or at least not be in silent mode at a certain time ... I'm only > suppose to get calls from work between certain hours but people ignore > this so I want to program it in ... Problem is I only get calls halfway > through the night when I'm sleeping so obviously can't turn on the > ringer or turn on the phone then. I don't know of any that will turn on or off at a pre-determined time. However, many phones have timed "profiles" which is a feature I use if I'm somewhere and don't want to be disturbed but want my phone to become "normal" again at a certain time. To do that all I have to do is when the meeting starts access profiles on my phone and instruct the phone to go into whatever mode I want during that period. I can choose any of the profiles that I have configured on my phone such as vibrate only or silent and that timed profile will run out when I have preconfigured the phone to go back to "normal" profile. I have a Nokia 6310i, but I believe this timed profile feature is available on other phones from Nokia and other mobile phone manufacturers. remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply ------------------------------ From: Herb Stein Subject: Re: Public Copy Cost Unchanged Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:42:55 -0500 wrote in message news:telecom23.283.8@telecom-digest.org: > In a message dated Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:56:13 -0400, Barry Margolin < > barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes: >> Pat suggested that the towns may be subsidizing this, but lots of >> convenience stores, as well as chains like Staples and UPS Store, >> offer self-serve copying. I don't think they're still a dime, but >> they're not much more expensive either. >> Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu >> Arlington, MA > Oklahoma County Public Libraries have been charging 15 cents as > long as I can remember. > UPS Stores still charge a dime, unless they've gone up in the > last few weeks. So does the self-service copying machine in > Albertson's. > Kinko's, I believe, has gone up to 7 or 8 cents. > Wes Leatherock > wesrock@aol.com The local OfficeMax (St. Louis), self-service, is 7 cents single sided B/W and 14 cents double sided. Herb Stein herb@herbstein.com ------------------------------ From: alex@totallynerd.com (Alex) Subject: Dock-N-Talk -- Anyone Use This??? Date: 9 Jun 2004 14:36:16 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi all, I've been with SBC for my home phone since moving 18 months ago, and it seems to go down for some reason every 2-3 months due to problems on the phone company's end. Anyway, I'm seriously considering dropping my land line and moving to only cell phone, but I hate talking on my little Motorola V60 while at home. I ran across the Dock N Talk device, and I was wondering if anyone's using it? ANy problems or issues?? What about capabilities with the Motorola V60i? It looks like an awesome product if it does all they say it can - http://www.phonelabs.com/prd05.asp - but I often wonder if it CAN do all this, why isn't it at Best Buy, Circuit City, or the major electronic vendors. I've only found it at smaller web stores ... which sometimes makes me leery of a product's quality. Anyway, I'd love some comments on this product before spending $150 for it. Thanks and take care, Alex [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think they make the same thing in a different model for the Nokia 5100/6100 series phones which is the cellular phone I use. They work okay, and allow me to use any 'regular' style phone if that's more convenient. The $150 price tag sounds about right. The trouble with all those devices is there are such a huge variety of cellular phones out there, and new ones coming out all the time. If a company was going to make them for every style of handset on the market, they would go broke, since each style of handset has slightly different software and logic in it. I've suggested that the manufacturer make one standard 'Dock and Talk' device then use short little ribbon connectors to accomodate different style phones, etc, but I was told then they would also need different pin outs on the ribbon connectors. I would suggest if you are considering dropping SBC (as I have done) that you consider VOIP instead since it can also be wired around your entire house if you follow Jack Decker's instructions for same. Most folks these days cannot really afford to keep SBC, but they can use Vonage or some other VOIP easily enough. Use VOIP your main phone service around your house and then your cellphone as backup. PAT] ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:57:20 -0400 Subject: Clearing the Way for Widespread Residential VoIP Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com Comment: In one respect this article could be seen as a shameless promotional piece for Netrake's session controllers. However, it does provide some insights into the challenges of setting up a residential VoIP service. Just keep in mind as you read this that to some degree, it might be considered a form of advertising. http://www.convergedigest.com/blueprint/ttp04/z3netrake1.asp?ID=137&ctgy=3 by Micaela Giuhat, AVP Product Management Netrake VoIP will explode into widespread deployment across North American this year, changing the way telephone calls are made and received more radically than any technology that's been put into place in the last 100 years. At the same time, VoIP will bring cost efficiencies for carriers and new services and conveniences for consumers. The new technology will eventually dominate what has been and promises to continue to be for many years to come. This is thanks to the embedded infrastructure of existing telecommunications carriers a lucrative $80 billion annual voice services market. Because RBOCs and ILECs have a vested interest in maintaining existing infrastructure for switched telephony services, it's unlikely that VoIP will transform the way the phone industry runs overnight. It is, however, likely that VoIP's attractiveness for both carriers and consumers will drive large-scale residential deployments starting this year. In fact, it's already happening. Service providers like Vonage, Packet8 and Net2Phone are riding on broadband networks. Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) like Verizon and its brethren all have announced plans for VoIP migration in the near term. Interexchange Carriers (IXCs) like AT&T, Sprint and MCI are eyeing or entering the space. And, of course, cable operators are standing by to bring in their own versions of voice services running on their broadband networks. Even fixed broadband wireless providers and their cousins in the wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) space are eyeing voice services over IP networks. In short, while small in comparison to the existing telecommunications infrastructure, the residential VoIP audience will be a huge change compared to any competing voice technology that has happened in the last century. Let's first concede that VoIP technology is, to put it in technical terms, fully baked. After some initial start-up kinks, transmitting voice over broadband IP has become commonplace in the transport space, with carriers and service providers packetizing voice into data and carrying it across IP networks internationally to avoid the costs and difficulties of using the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and to give end users lower charges primarily for long distance calls. Full story at: http://www.convergedigest.com/blueprint/ttp04/z3netrake1.asp?ID=137&ctgy=3 How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Help File for Email Information Service Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 23:00:00 CST Some people have asked to see this recently. The Telecom-Archives Email Service ================================== [Last modified -- January 8, 1997] The Telecom Archives Email Service is a simple program to allow files to be fetched by email. It understands a small set of commands, which basically cause files to be sent in mail messages to an email address specified in the message (this does not have to be the sender of the message). Messages are sent to the Telecom Archives Email Service by emailing them to: archives@telecom-digest.org The subject does not matter. The message sent to the server should consist of a set of commands, one per line. Each command begins with a keyword, which should be all in the same case, though this can be either upper or lower case. The first command must be a REPLY command: the server will use this to determine the end of any introductory material and the start of the actual commands. Commands ======== The commands understood by the server are as follows. Some commands take a single argument, which is separated from the command name by a space. All other text on the command line is ignored. An exception to this is when the commands SEARCH or SUBMIT are used; see notes below. Commands can be upper/lower case, no difference, *but arguments which follow are case sensitive.* ==> And REPLY *always* comes first. <== AREACODE (no longer in service 6/2004) This command takes as its argument any one or more telephone area codes. An email message comes back to you giving the geographic location of the area code(s) entered. An example of a query sent to the archives would be AREACODE 312. BYE Another way to end your session; also see END and QUIT. CARRIER (no longer in service 6/2004) This command takes as its argument a three digit code such as 288. An email message comes back to you telling you what long distance carrier is assigned to 10xxx where x is the three digit code. Only one entry can be given at a time. Use this command repeatedly with additional three digit codes if more than one is being sought. DIRECTORY This is equivilent to 'info directory' (see below) and will get you in return mail a complete directory listing of all files in the Archives. Also see the INDEX command notes below. END (also BYE or QUIT) The remainder of the message will be ignored by the email service. This should be used to prevent signatures from being interpreted. FIND See the SEARCH command. This is an alternate to SEARCH for the purpose of searching the indexes to back issues of the Digest. GET See the SEND command. This is an alternate to SEND for the purpose of having archives files emailed to you. GLOSSARY This command takes as its argument an abbreviation, acronym or common phrase used in telecommunications. The argument is then examined against several of the acronym files available in the archives (/glossaries/acronyms), and results are reported back in email to you. If there is an abbreviation you don't know or a phrase you are unfamiliar with, this may help you. Just use the letters, not the dots (.) between them, i.e. MFJ - not M.F.J. HELP Sends this file. This is equivalent to "info help". HUMAN This should be used to obtain help; processing of your message will stop and the entire message will be sent to a human being. On the lines following this command, you may type in free-form whatever message or question you wish to relay. Your message will be for- warded to ptownson@telecom-digest.org INDEX Sends the list of all files in the Telecom Archives. This is equiv- alent to "info index". This searches recursively through all the sub-directories as well as the root telecom-archives directory. If you prefer a Unix style 'ls -lLRF' long listing of the archives, try 'info directory'. INFO This command takes an argument and causes files to be sent in reply, like the SEND command, but these files are about TELECOM Digest and the Archives itself, such as a list of all files in the database, and a list of what has changed in the last week. Unlike the SEND command, the argument is lowercased before use. If you include a argument, you get that file. If you just say 'info' and do not include an argument, then you get an index of available info files about TELECOM Digest and other things. PASSWORD This command takes an argument, consisting of the name of a "file group", a slash, and then a password; for example: "private/pswd". If the password is correct for that file group, then the files in the file group, and the index file for it, become available for request. Until the password is correctly specified, the file group is not available. Files for a file group all have names including the group name; for example, all files in the file group "private" have names beginning ".private/" (note the dot). The index for the group can be fetched with the command "info index.private" once the password requirement has been met. WARNING - accessing files with a password that has not been obtained in a legitimate manner may be an offense under the law. Access to restricted file sets other than via a legitimately obtained password is expressly forbidden. PUT This command allows you to send files to the Archives. It is included for compatibility with FTP. See the SUBMIT command shown below for instructions on its use. QUIT Also see BYE and END. This command ends the session. REPLY This takes an argument, which is the email address to which all replies should be sent. This *must* be the first command; the ser- ver uses it to determine the start of the commands to be executed. This may also occur elsewhere within the message; replies to subse- quent commands will be sent to the new address. SEARCH (or FIND) This command allows searching the indexes of back issues of TELECOM Digest. Indexes of author names and subject titles are available in one file for the years 1989 through 1991 and second file for the years 1992-1994, and a third for 1995-1997. For the convenience of FTP users, the files are split because of the huge size; for Email Service users, the files are all checked in the process of returning search results. The command will send back a list of all the lines in the author and subject indexes which match the "pattern" specified after the search command. In this pattern, certain characters have a special meaning; these are defined by the "grep" command on massis.lcs.mit.edu -- the computer providing the Telecom Archives Email Information Service -- but normally include: . matches any one character .* matches any sequence of characters a* matches zero or more "a"s [123] matches a single 1, 2, or 3 [0-9] matches a digit [0-9]* matches zero or more digits \. matches a dot Case of letters is ignored during searches. For example: "SEARCH [0-9]" will list every subject containing a digit. "SEARCH Ohio Bell" will list every subject containing "Ohio Bell", or "Ohio bell", etc. "SEARCH Ohio.*bell" will list every line containing "ohio" followed by "bell" somewhere on the same line. What you will get back is a listing of the articles in which your search string appeared as a subject or an author name. For more detailed help in using the SEARCH command, request the file 'search-hints', i.e. 'info search-hints'. Users who are very knowledgeable about the 'grep' command will recognize this as excerpts from the grep manual pages. It is also recommended you request 'back-issues' (info back-issues) to learn how to interpret the data returned by SEARCH, and use that data when ordering the full file referenced in the results. SEND (or GET) This takes an argument, which is the name of a file or set of files to be requested. All files in the Archives database whose name includes the argument will be sent in reply. Thus, if the archives included a package consisting of five files: software.dndlib.01 software.dndlib.02 software.dndlib.03 software.dndlib.04 software.dndlib.README then the whole package can be retrieved with the command: SEND software.dndlib whilst just part 3 can be retrieved with the command: SEND software.dndlib.03 It is legal, though not necessarily useful, to use commands like: SEND ware. SEND dli Take care to be specific enough that you do not get back a large number of files in which you have no interest; but if you want more than one file with the same common beginning name, you can use the abbreviated formats shown above. For compatibility with ftp, we allow the use of GET as an alternate to SEND. If the file is 60000 bytes or larger, the SEND command will automatically split it into parts, and then mail each part separately. Each part will begin with a marker line giving the part number and the number of lines in the part, and end with a marker line. You can set the acceptable file size larger if your email can accomodate larger files by using SPLITUNIT. See below for an explanation of the SPLITUNIT command. NOTE: The Email Service will limit you to five files per day/ request, although larger files may be mailed in several parts. We are required by MIT to avoid clogging/overloading their mail system. Chronic violators will be banned entirely! SENDPACK This command is identical to the SEND command, except that the files will be uuencoded and split into parts. This should be used for files which are marked as containing non-printable characters. Most files in our archives are textfiles; this command would be rarely used. You do need it for binary and executable files however. See note above on limits. You may request two sendpack mailings per day. Additional requests will be declined. SPLITUNIT An argument in the range 60000 through 999999 is required to use this. This command allows you to set the maximum size acceptable for the mail- ing of large files. For example, the various files with back issues of the Telecom Digest are so large that they must be broken into parts for mailing purposes; otherwise many users would be unable to receive them via email. The default size is 60,000 bytes, which is also the minimum. You can set this higher -- all the way to 999,999 bytes if desired -- if your mail system can handle files that large. By doing this, you don't have to put so many smaller files back together again as they arrive. For the largest of the back issues files -- over a million bytes -- setting SPLITUNIT to its maximum size will give you the convenience of having the file arrive in just two parts, rather than perhaps 50-75 parts as would be done with smaller splits. Consult the postmaster at your site if you are uncertain of the maximum size of email which can be received successfully. SUBMIT (or PUT) You can submit new files to the Telecom Archives with this command to the Email Service. This command takes an argument, which is a flag used to indicate the end of the file. For example, if the command "SUBMIT EOF" is used, the file is all the text following until a line consisting only of "EOF" (with no spaces). After that line, following lines should consist of a message to be sent to the administrator, and ending with a line consisting only of three dashes ("---"), again with no spaces. For example: SUBMIT End/of/text This is a two line file to be added to the infoserver. It contains only two lines. End/of/text Dear archivist, this isn't very important. --- # This is the next command A single request may contain several submissions. Submitted files are held in a private area for review before they are made avail- able for request by others. The server will send you a receipt for your file so you know it got here safely. Remember uuencoding and other requirements for transmission of binary files or executables as needed. Below the EOF, be sure to advise the *name* of the file, what it is about (or does), etc. For compatibility with ftp, we allow the use of PUT as an alternate to SUBMIT. >> If this command fails the remainder of your request is ignored. << TEST This command requires no argument. It simply returns to you a very short text file entitled 'test' so you can detirmine that your email and the Telecom Archives Information server are compatible. VERBOSE A description of the effect of each command will be sent back to you. You'll get a letter back showing what I thought you were trying to say or asking for. ---------------- Acknowlegements: This email server was constructed by our friend Clive Feather in England , to whom my grateful thanks are extended! Some features and modifications were constructed by myself. 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