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TELECOM Digest Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:55:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 488 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Kaboodle Makes Sharing Book Marks Easier (Eric Auchard) Microsoft to Start Online Book Searches (Allison Linn) Google Gives Peek at Classified Ad Service (Michael Liedtke) Bell System / Western Electric Apparatus Help Needed (Michael Muderick) Panasonic 96 Port / Isoetic Questions (Michael Muderick) Do We go Overboard for Halloween? (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com) TDC Buyout Maneuvering Heats Up (USTelecom dailyLead) Re: More on San Francisco and Oakland Numbering (Joseph) Re: Remote Call Forwarding Question (Mark Roberts) Alger Hiss [was: Re: Privacy Worries? Don't Print in Color] (Mark Crispin) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. 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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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Auchard <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Kaboodle Makes Sharing Web Bookmarks Easier Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:01:25 -0500 By Eric Auchard Web page bookmarks that help surfers return to useful Internet sites are undergoing a transformation as new tools emerge for users to categorize and share favorite sites automatically with others. For, while Web surfing remains the essential gesture of our age, jumping from site to site is a broken way of keeping track of information. On Wednesday, Silicon Valley start-up Kaboodle Inc. will offer a novel way for Web surfers facing information overload to keep a running record of useful sites and extract key details for personal use or to share with like-minded users. Kaboodle (http://www.kaboodle.com/) -- short for "whole kit and caboodle," a collection of lots of objects -- allows users to create Web pages to manage personal research, do comparison shopping, make wish lists or plan travel. "The process is pretty clunky of trying to look at a whole bunch of information by going from site to site," said Manish Chandra, Kaboodle's founder and CEO. "Each Kaboodle page represents a custom search result you have created," he said. Kaboodle joins a host of rivals in an area known variously as collaborative search, social tagging or social bookmarking, where people point out interesting sites and help put the information found on them into meaningful categories. The shared search craze recently reached a pinnacle on Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ , a site that has struck a chord with users keen to know where others are surfing on the Web. Other examples include diversified Internet companies such as Yahoo, with its MyWeb service, MyJeeves from IAC's AskJeeves and newer players such as Wink and JetEye. "There are so many alternatives, my head is spinning," Forrester analyst Charlene Li said. "Kaboodle works by offering really simple social bookmarks." Every time a user clicks to save a Web page, Kaboodle software studies the page to extract a headline, short summary, and the body of text or images -- and creates a summary page. These summary pages can then become links for each personal reference or be shared with other users. The page can also be annotated by the user or other readers to add additional information. They can also be rated for usefulness. The user controls which summary pages become public or stay private. Kaboodle can work entirely as a personal tool. The social aspect of sharing searches with others is just a side benefit. The company employs 12 people and has attracted $1.5 million in investment. It was only incorporated in January, but the technology underpinning it was developed over the prior year, said Keiron McMammon, co-founder and chief architect. "The technology learns in the background," McMammon said. "The system continues to get smarter and smarter over time." He said the Web information extraction technology is based on theoretical work by Rajeev Motwani and Ashish Gupta. Motwani is a Stanford University professor and co-author of the academic paper on Web search "pagerank" technology first published by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Gupta co-founded Junglee, a data-integration software company that was acquired by Amazon.com, also in 1998. Both are investors in Kaboodle, Chandra said. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Allison Linn <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Microsoft to Start Online Book Searches Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:02:49 -0500 By ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer Microsoft Corp. is diving into the business of offering online searches of books and other writings, and says its approach aims to avoid the legal tussles met by rival Google Inc. The Redmond-based software giant said Tuesday that it will sidestep hot-button copyright issues for now by initially focusing mainly on books, academic materials and other publications that are in the public domain. Microsoft plans to initially work with an industry organization called the Open Content Alliance to let users search about 150,000 pieces of published material. A test version of the product is promised for next year. The alliance, whose participants also include top Internet portal Yahoo Inc. , is working to make books and other offline content available online without raising the ire of publishers and authors. Danielle Tiedt, a general manager of search content acquisition with Microsoft's MSN online unit, said the company also is working with publishers and libraries on ways to eventually make more copyright material available for online searches. She said Microsoft is looking at several options, including models where users would be charged to access the content. Microsoft said it has no plans right now to have targeted ads located in the search results, but the company cautioned that it was still working out the details of its business model. "I think about the 150,000 books as a test," Tiedt said. Rival Google has taken a markedly different approach, with plans to index millions of copyright books from three major university libraries -- Harvard, Stanford and Michigan -- unless the copyright holder notifies the company which volumes should be excluded. The Association of American Publishers, representing five publishers, and The Authors Guild, which includes about 8,000 writers, have both sued the search engine giant over the plans. Google has defended the effort as necessary to its goal of helping people find information -- and insists that its scanning effort is protected under fair use law because of restrictions placed on how much of any single book could be read. Responding to Microsoft's plans to offer its own book search, Google said in a statement that it "welcomes efforts to make information accessible to the world." Tiedt said Microsoft is coming at book search from a different angle in part because the software maker itself is so often the target of copyright infringement. Pirated versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system are widely available in developing countries for only a few dollars. Microsoft's approach has the potential to backfire, however, if Google ends up having more content available or begins offering ways to search content for free while Microsoft pursues a model that requires people to pay for it. Microsoft acknowledges it is far behind Google. Tiedt said she expects it will take years -- and require a substantial investment -- to solidify the MSN product, working out all the complex issues around searching through books and other materials online. "This is not a money-maker for the company," Tiedt said. "This is very much a strategic bet for search overall." The effort marks Microsoft's latest effort to play catch-up with Google on various search technologies ranging from basic Internet search to localized queries But Google remains by the search leader by far, accounting for 45.1 percent of all U.S. Internet searches in September, according to Nielsen/Net Ratings. Microsoft's MSN Search ranked third, accounting for 11.7 percent of U.S. searches during the same period. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more news reports from Associated Press, go to one of these sources: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html (or) http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html (or) http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/internet-news.html ------------------------------ From: Michael Liedtke <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Google Gives Peek at Classified Ad Service Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:04:29 -0500 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer Google Inc. has unintentionally provided a sneak peek at what appears to be a looming expansion into classified advertising -- a free service that might antagonize some of the Internet search engine's biggest customers, including online auctioneer eBay Inc. Screen shots of the experimental service, dubbed "Google Base," appeared on several Web sites Tuesday shortly after the legions of people who dissect the online search engine leader's every move discovered a link to a page inviting people to list things like a used car for sale, a party planning service and current events. Google confirmed the development of the service a few hours after taking down the link. "We are testing new ways for content owners to easily send their content to Google," the Mountain View, Calif.-based company said in a statement. "We're continually exploring new opportunities to expand our offerings, but we don't have anything to announce at this time." By offering a forum that would enable people to sell goods and services without paying for the advertising, Google might hurt eBay -- a major buyer of the online ads that account for most of Google's profits. EBay depends on the fees that it receives for helping to sell all kinds of products and services, including items that might be listed for free on Google Base. The San Jose, Calif.-based company also owns a 25 percent stake in Craigslist, a popular site that offers free classified ads in more than 100 cities. Google also has confirmed it's working on an online payment service, but CEO Eric Schmidt has said the service won't compete with eBay-owned PayPal. Another free online classified ad service also would pose another financial threat to newspapers, which already have been squeezed in the cities where Craigslist provides free listings. If a free Google listing service materializes, it could change the way many Web sites view the online search engine leader. Through most of its seven-year existence, Google has depicted itself as a vehicle for delivering people to other destinations that contained a desired piece of information or product. But during the past 18 months, Google has increasingly been adding more content and services that are turning its Web site into more of portal -- a sort of one-stop shop for information and commerce. "As soon as you start competing with some of the people that you are indexing, it creates a completely different dynamic," said Craig Donato, chief executive of Oodle.com, a search engine that pools listings from dozens of classified advertising sites. "Google can get away with a lot of stuff, but (Google Base) would certainly give people pause," he said. Google's diversification has coincided with tougher competition from Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN -- two longtime portals that have been trying to build better search engines. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:04:18 -0400 From: Michael Muderick <michael.muderick@verizon.net> Subject: BELL SYSTEM/Western Electric Apparatus Help? I have a couple of Western Electric/Bell System/ATT apparatus units. 30AM. One has an RN1J82 number. I think they are part of paging adapters; one is labeled EMERGENCY AUDIO. I'd be happy to email a picture if someone can help me identify what they are, and perhaps send me a BSP. I have a bunch of BSP manuals, but don't have a number and haven't been able to find it. Can anyone assist? Michael@muderick.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:15:42 -0400 From: Michael Muderick <michael.muderick@verizon.net> Subject: Panasonic 96 Port Question? Isoetic Question? Anyone Interested? I just picked up 2 used systems taken out of service and have some questions -- maybe someone can help. PanasonicVB43060 96 port system with following cards: 2-L-TRK 4-D-EC 3-A-KC 1-MFR 1-CBL(S) There is one board (it has PB1190AJ on the rear) across the top on the left but no board on the right, although there is a slot for one. Is there a board missing, or is that an option slot? ISOETIC EZ-1/18 WITH EXPANSION ASSEMBLY 3-80500 phones 2-80100 phones 3-Gray 83500 phones 1-80700 phone Looking to liquidate -- Can anyone suggest who might be interested in this equipment? Thanks in advance. michael@muderick.com ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: Do We Go Overboard for Halloween? Date: 26 Oct 2005 12:02:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com A society communications question: I've noticed that Halloween seems to have grown substantially in importance as a holiday. Years ago it was one night -- -kids went around and collected candy, maybe a few adults had a costume party. But in more recent years it seems to rival Christmas as a major holiday. TV networks produce multiple Halloween-themed shows, run horror movies throughout the month. There are many elaborate parties for adults and kids. Costumes and events (public haunted houses) have grown very elaborate. It seems society has gone way overboard on this, particularly the entertainment media. There are a few subgroups in society that make a very big deal about Halloween, but I really doubt they can influence the rest of us so much. Thoughts? [public replies please] [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I suspect Lisa is correct. Here in Independence, our annual Neewollah Festival has grown from a single day in the 1920's ('Neewollah' is Halloween spelled backward) when it was observed on October 31 as a way to keep children out of mischief by organizing events for them, to today, an Octoberfest thing which goes on the last *two weeks* of October; this year from October 19 through October 29 (or early morning on October 30, I guess), and there is more mischief all this week around town (mostly much drinking and rowdy behavior) than the kids or anyone else would have thought possible in the 1920-30's era. To see what all the excitement is about, check out http://www.neewollah.com . With tons of quite _overpriced_ food from a variety of street vendors, parades, carnivals, a large and extravagent costume party affair at Independence Country Club on Saturday night for the more formal crowd and plenty of liquid refreshment at every tavern in town for the less formal participants, this is the week which is sometimes known as 'the Mardis Gras' of southeast Kansas. Police have already geared up for the overflow crowds here all this week. The 8000-citizen popu- lation of our town about triples or quadruples during Neewollah. My cats get so nervous and uptight all this week with the mobs of people roaming aound past my house; I seldom let the cats go outside at night anyway, and never during Neewollah. They are likely get scared and run off. Yes Lisa, I would definitly say too much is made of 'Devils Night' each year. At least we do not have trouble like Detroit has most years, with buildings set on fire, etc. On Halloween itself, I will sit inside in the dark with my shades drawn and not answer the door at all. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:21:33 EDT From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: TDC Buyout Maneuvering Heats Up USTelecom dailyLead October 26, 2005 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/wTcsatagCviGttffCH TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * TDC buyout maneuvering heats up BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * EarthLink, SK Telecom name MVNO venture "Helio" * Comcast's VC unit invests in wireless broadband company * China's mobile subscriber tally nears 400M * Cisco to help Gulf Coast schools * Report predicts surge in cord cutting * News from TELECOM '05 * Sprint Nextel, Tellabs, Lucent report earnings USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Disney CEO to Talk Content in Keynote at TelecomNEXT * Starz, Hearst-Argyle, Cox, SBC Executives Take Center Stage at TELECOM '05 TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * Sports content important in wireless carriers' plans REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Nuvio may sue over E911 deadline * Groups challenge CALEA expansion Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/wTcsatagCviGttffCH ------------------------------ From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: More on San Francisco and Oakland Numbering Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:24:06 -0700 Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:17:16 EDT, Wesrock@aol.com wrote: > I lived in a small place that had terminal-per-line SxS. Terminal per > line means that the line is designated by a number; an additional > number is required to desginate the party and the number is listed in > the directory that way without any hyphens or other distinctions. I lived for a time in Whitefield, Maine which was served by the North Whitefield CO (207-FIieldstone 7 later 207-549 when EAS to Augusta, Maine was added.) The original machine that was installed was a #356 SXS machine. The difference between a #356 SXS and a #355 is that a #356 SXS machine was installed as TPL i.e. terminal per line so FIeldstone 7-2391 to 2390 were individual lines with the tip and ring side of the line had five possible ringing cadences with the possibility that if it was required you could have 10-party service. Each person on the line by their directory number you would know what their ringing cadence was. This provided a real problem if there was a disconnection on the line for providing any sort of intercept. IIRC there was only one "specialized" intercept machine that had to be used if a line was disconnected or changed for any reason. The #355 SXS machine on the other hand was a terminal per station machine so a party (if you had a party line) could be anywhere in any bank of numbers in that CO. Later the CO was rebuilt and new selectors/connectors were added adding terminal per station capability and all parties in that CO were changed to new numbers. This facilitated easier switching of people from 8 party service to two party and private lines. Eventually of course the SXS machine (installed ~1952) to be replaced with some sort of digital machine (I'm guessing either a 5E or DMS.) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A friend of mine who lived in Lafayette, Indiana in the 1950-60's had no working phone service (the line had been cut off) but he said he was still able to recieve calls even if not make them. If you called his number, the phone would ring once, you picked up the receiver, listened through the 'not in service' intercept message, then went ahead and talked to the caller anyway. PAT] ------------------------------ From: markrobt@myrealbox.com (Mark Roberts) Subject: Re: Remote Call Forwarding Question Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:20:15 -0000 Organization: 1.94 meters Wesrock@aol.com <Wesrock@aol.com> had written: > Foreign exchange service existed long before World War II, and > probably decades before that. Also long before the inception of 800 > numbers. > Remote Call Forwarding makes it less expensive, particularly with > the way toll rates have been falling, but it's hardly new. I think there is a key difference between FX service and Remote Call Forwarding, which is that FX service is a two-way service while remote call-forwarding was for incoming calls only. My first job was at a radio station in Warrenton, Mo. We also had FX lines for O'Fallon and Troy. Not only could our O'Fallon (plus St. Peters) and Troy (plus Moscow Mills) listeners call us with a local seven-digit call, we could call those communities by just picking up those lines and dialing the local number. The lines were on different buttons on our standard Continental (ITT) multi-line phones. Just looking at the KWRE web site, it appears that the O'Fallon FX line has been replaced by a Foristell FX line (which makes much more sense) but the Troy FX line is still in place. The numbers have changed due to requirements of Missouri's Metropolitan Calling Area plans, and there is also an 800 toll-free number, but looks like the FX numbers are still there! Mark Roberts | "A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, Oakland, Cal.| but rather by touching both at once." NO HTML MAIL | -- Blaise Pascal Permission to archive this article in any form is hereby explicitly denied. ------------------------------ From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> Subject: Alger Hiss [was: Re: Privacy Worries? Don't Print in color] Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:33:35 -0700 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > Today, general agreement is that Hiss was indeed guilty of perjury. It's more than "general agreement"; it's been conclusively proven. Hiss was a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, and worked with the GRU (Soviet military intelligence, now Russian military intelligence) from 1935. This has been corroborated in recent years with releases from Soviet archives and formerly classified US documents. The entire reason that there ever was a debate about Hiss' guilt was that most of the evidence against him was classified until the 1990s. Belief in the innocence of Hiss and the Rosenbergs were enduring liberal myths from the early Cold War years; but mainstream liberals now admit that on this point they were wrong. Conservatives have their own bitter pill to swallow. The excesses of Senator McCarthy were a blessing in disguise to the very real Communist conspiracy. In my opinion, McCarthy caused much greater harm to the US than Hiss ever did. Time has washed away the effects of Hiss's treason; we're still suffering from the damage caused by McCarthy. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Senator McCarthy ... now there was a real class act. This Republican Senator from Wisconsin had his very own television show; in 1949-50 the United States Senate televised the 'McCarthy Committee Hearings' direct from Old Joe's office. Joe McCarthy seemed to have a running battle with three groups of people: the Communists, the US Army, and the gay community. Joe was convinced that 'the government is full of homosexuals working for it.' And most, if not all the gay people were also Communists, don't you know ... and McCarthy went on that tangent for several months, all day long, on television. He was forever pulling scraps of paper out of his desk at the hearings, and he would claim, "I have here a list of known homosexuals and communist sympathizers working for the US Government." No one ever got to see the list of same he would pull out of his desk drawer, but he would subpoena these alleged gay guys to give testimony before his congressional committee day after day, and question them under oath if they were (or knew of any) 'communists' or 'homosexuals' working for the government. All those poor guys were so frightened and scared as McCarthy would grill them over and over. Most produced at least a few names of fellow employees or friends. Oddly, or maybe not so odd, those who confessed or told on their buddies never lost their jobs; only the ones who 'took the Fifth Amendment' and would neither admit the allegations nor snitch on their buddies got McCarthy furious enough to demand they resign their employment. All the TV stations (we only had four in Chicago at the time) carried his hearings live in their entirety each day, usually from about 9 AM until mid-afternoon most days, with breaks for his (and the other Congress critter's) lunch each day and any Quorum Calls which happened to arise when they were expected to go to the Chamber and vote on something or another. When they broke for their lunch each weekday, Channel 9 WGN-TV would put on 30 or 45 minutes of Bozo Circus or some old movie until it was time to restart the committee hearings in the afternoon. I think that nonsense went on for three or four months. Nothing on TV all day except for Joe McCarthy and his stupid congressional hearings. We could always count on Joe adjourning the hearing each day about 3:30 PM central time (4:30 eastern) when he would always keep looking at his watch and figiting in his seat. You see, part of Joe McCarthy's 'research' into the 'problem' of gay guys working for the government was go cruise all the gay bars once they opened each day; he and his good friend J. Edgar Hoover and Hoover's lifetime companion, Clyde Whats-His-Name (Tolson I think?) . All three as closety as could be, all with their little lists hidden in their desk drawers of all the 'known homosexuals and communists' in the government. And the hearings would resume the next morning on national television. Thanks for reminding me of that creep, Mark. PAT] ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. 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