---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180216211257.GA18922@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:12:58 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink's DeLozier Quashes Unsavory Level 3 Integration Rumors by James Anderson SAN FRANCISCO - CenturyLink promised master-agency partners Friday that the company's integration with Level 3 Communications will not disrupt the partner experience. John DeLozier, vice president of strategic partners and alliances, addressed rumors that CenturyLink partners will have to adopt new rules of engagement and potentially lose accounts to direct sales. https://www.channelpartnersonline.com/2018/02/09/centurylinks-delozier-quashes-unsavory-level-3-integration-rumors/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <598B10A5-A105-409E-A727-F0A6713D9C68@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:35:56 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Car Navigation Systems Plot a Course Forward Against Phone Apps Car Navigation Systems Plot a Course Forward Against Phone Apps In-dash navigation systems aren't as nimble as their smartphone counterparts. But as cars get more complicated, built-in could mean better. How do you get someone to pay hundreds of dollars for an inferior product, when most people already have a better one in their pocket? That's the problem facing carmakers trying to sell built-in navigation systems when superior alternatives such as Apple's Maps, Google Maps and Waze are available for free to anyone with a smartphone - which is almost everybody. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/business/car-navigation-systems-apps.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <D1288D2C-0760-4D99-8C37-A0C118ABEBE9@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:07:07 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: How to Break Up With Your Phone How to Break Up With Your Phone By Catherine Price Nine ways to have a healthier relationship with your phone. The moment I realized I needed to break up with my phone came just over two years ago. I had recently had a baby and was feeding her in a darkened room as she cuddled on my lap. It was an intimate, tender moment - except for one detail. She was gazing at me ... and I was on eBay, scrolling through listings for Victorian-era doorknobs. I'm not going to try to explain this particular personal passion. The point is that a good 15 minutes had probably passed before I finally caught sight of my daughter looking at me, her tiny face illuminated by my phone's blue light. I saw the scene as it would have looked to an outsider - her focused on me, me focused on my phone - and my heart sank. This was not the way I wanted things to be. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/well/phone-cellphone-addiction-time.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 17 Feb 2018