links for 2007-08-31
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how to import Address Data into Google Earth
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Among individuals who use the internet at home, 70% have a broadband
connection while 23% use dialup.
Archive for August, 2007
links for 2007-08-30
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IKANO Communications makes the Inc. 5000 list
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IKANO link is broken.
links for 2007-08-27
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I am curious how much of this wall is established because the business is in Utah. Would a similar venture in Silicon Valley perform glowingly where Utah would result in mediocre results?
links for 2007-08-24
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Looks intresting. Doug has a good story related to this book while on the plane.
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Doug has made some vast improvements to his site. Much easier to read with less clutter.
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to continue to enjoy the site that sent you here. FireFox users can use Internet Explorer, Opera or Netscape (in IE mode) to access it. FireFox users also have the option of using the IE Tab plug-in which uses the IE rendering engine to display pages, but
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My Idol!
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The Valley once was a new machine. It changed the world. It may do so yet again. But the machine has no soul anymore.
Where did the soul go?
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Did you know you can add local business listings and events such as sales, in store classes, celebrity appearances, and grand openings to Zvents (http://www.zvents.com) for free?
Team B Summary of Work
Week 2 Assignment
Monday, Day 7: Learning Team – Prepare a solution to the following problem from the text: Chapter 10: # P10-3A.
Week 2 Discussion
Learning Teams: Begin working on the assignment, Ratio Analysis Memo and Presentation, which is due in Week Five. Your solutions should be submitted to the Assignments Forum on Thursday, Day 3, of Week 5.
1) Use the Virtual Organization link on the page to access the Virtual Organizations. Select one of the Virtual Organizations as the basis for this assignment. Be sure to obtain instructor approval of your selected organization before beginning this assignment.
2) Use the information contained in your selected organization’s balance sheet and income statement to calculate the following ratios:
a) Liquidity ratios
i) Current ratio
ii) Acid-test (quick) ratio
iii) Receivables turnover
iv) Inventory turnover
b) Profitability ratios
i) Asset turnover
ii) Profit margin
iii) Return on assets
iv) Return on common stockholders’ equity
c) Solvency ratios
i) Debt to total assets
ii) Times interest earned
3) Be sure to show your calculations for each ratio.
4) Then, prepare a horizontal and vertical analysis for the balance sheet and the income statement.
5) Prepare a 350-750-word memo to the CEO of your selected organization in which you discuss your findings from your ratio calculations and your horizontal and vertical analysis. In your memo, address the following items:
a) Discuss what the liquidity, profitability, and solvency ratios tell you about the financial position of the company
b) Identify which users would be interested in each type of ratio.
c) Explain what the collected data tells you about the performance and position of the company.
6) Prepare 8 – 10 Microsoft® Power Point® slides with speaker notes illustrating your financial analysis of your selected organization.
7) Be sure to properly cite the source(s) of the data that you used to calculate your ratios and the horizontal and vertical analysis in your paper. If you used an electronic source, include the URL. If you used a printed source, please attach a copy of the data to your paper.
Week 3 Assignment
Monday, Day 7: Learning Team – Prepare a solution to the following problem from the text: Chapter 10: # P10-3A.
Week 3 Discussion
Learning Teams: Corporate Characteristics Proposal – Due in Week #4
Your team has been hired as consultants for a start-up business venture. As part of your analysis of this new business venture, prepare a 1,050-1,750-word proposal to the CEO in which you discuss the following items:
1. Describe the different forms of business organizations that could be selected as the basis for the business.
2. The characteristics of a corporation.
3. The different types of stocks and corresponding characteristics, which a corporation could issue.
4. The advantages and disadvantages to the corporate form of doing business.
Be sure to properly cite any references used in your paper.
Week 4 Assignment
Monday, Day 7: Learning Team – Corporate Characteristics Proposal.
Week 4 Discussion
None in Syllabus
Week 5 Assignment
Thursday, Day 3: Learning Team – Submit the team solution to the Ratio Analysis Memo and Presentation and Learning Team Peer Evaluation.
Week 5 Discussion
None in Syllabus
links for 2007-08-23
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Of course this is Pac West that is causing this outage. There will be addational consolidations in the future. Many customers who are currenly using Grand Central will need to change thier numbers when future changes are made. Why argue with a good mar
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Pac-West will be owned by an affiliate of Columbia Ventures
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When it exits from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Central Valley-based Pac-West Telecommunications Inc. will go private
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LOS ANGELES-Hines REIT acquires the office building and telecommunications switching center from an affiliate of the Carlyle Group
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Verizon Communications, CRG West, Savvis/Level 3, Global Crossing, Qwest Communications and Pac-West.
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Our team’s sustained focus on customer service and network reliability has earned the support of customers and I am grateful for the support of both
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AT&T Wireless employee e-mails us saying the company’s phone stores have been pulling signs this month that state the provider has the “fewest dropped calls” of any provider, since apparently, well, it’s not actually true. I have had trouble with ATT’s n
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that a lawsuit against AT&T can proceed as a class-action case. This is a great move on the part of the court and will send waves through the ATT administration. There is clearly a president which has b
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wrong. If Comcast sends RST packets to both ends of the connection (and why wouldn’t they?), it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re dropping them, it matters that the other guy isn’t.
links for 2007-08-22
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Interesting list of corporate citizens. Interestingly I don’t see and telecommunication service providers represented on the list. Where is ATT, Verizon, Qwest, Bell Canada, Telus, and Level3?
Hot off the press from IKANO
DSLExtreme is expanding their service into Bakersfield, CA.
Salt Lake City, UT, August 16th, 2007 — IKANO Communications Inc., a provider of private-label, wholesale, and retail Internet services, has announced that DSLExtreme, California’s leading Internet service provider and a division of IKANO, has expanded its consumer broadband coverage into Bakersfield, California. DSLExtreme’s growth into Bakersfield is the first step of planned expansion into California’s central valley. DSLExtreme’s IP network currently reaches consumers within the greater Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and San Diego metro areas in both AT&T and Verizon footprints. As the second largest wholesale DSL service provider for both AT&T and Verizon, DSLExtreme also provides broadband service in all major metropolitan areas of the U.S. through exclusive reseller agreements. High-speed Internet packages start as low as $12.95 and offer speeds from 768Kbps to 6.0 Mbps.
Though its shared services IP platform, IKANO offers Internet access, email, and hosting services to over 500,000 customers in the United States and Canada. “Our DSLExtreme service expansion into Bakersfield enables us to offer a competitive product for small businesses and consumers seeking high value Internet services at low costs. Through our strategic telco relationships, IKANO is uniquely positioned to offer savings to loyal customers within our network,” said George Naspo, CEO of parent company IKANO Communications. He added, “DSLExtreme has developed one of the best connected networks in California that includes extensive public and private peering to ensure the highest quality of service and low latency.”
DSLExtreme offers a no hassle, pre-configured high speed modem, network firewall protection, email with spam and virus protection, and local technical support. Upgraded email offerings for small businesses, including hosted Exchange™ with Blackberry™ capable wireless synchronization, are also offered. “With the rise in popularity of consumer generated video, Internet telephony, social networking, and other broadband intensive services, high speed data networks like DSLExtreme’s are invaluable,” said George Mitsopoulos, VP Operations. “Providing services with the personal touch of a local ISP, while maintaining lower pricing associated with nationwide providers, is critical.” More information on DSLExtreme’s Bakersfield offering can be viewed at www.dslextreme.com or by calling the 24 hour customer service line at (866) 243-8638.
About IKANO Communications, Inc.
IKANO Communications was founded over 10 years ago as a regional Internet service provider in the Intermountain West and since then has flourished to become the industry leader in private-label, wholesale, and retail Internet services. IKANO leverages its IP platform to provide outstanding services at highly competitive prices. The company’s rapid growth and excellence in the field have resulted in IKANO’s ranking in the Inc. 500, Technology Fast 500, Inner City 100, Utah 100, and Call Center of the Year. IKANO is backed by a number of leading industry investors, including Insight Venture Partners. Companies interested in learning more about IKANO should contact info@ikano.com, or call 877.492.0121. For more information, visit www.ikano.com.
About DSLExtreme.
DSLExtreme is the largest private DSL provider in California and is a leading provider of high-speed and traditional Internet services. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Los Angeles, DSLExtreme offers a suite of online products and services for consumer and business customers throughout the United States. Services include DSL and dial-up Internet access, email, Web hosting and data circuits, with superior quality connectivity and minimal drop-off. The DSLExtreme network serves tens of thousands of clients in over twenty-one major metropolitan areas across the country. For more information, visit www.dslextreme.com.
Just Released from New Edge Networks
New Edge Builds MPLS Network for National Telecom Consulting Firm
VANCOUVER, Wash. – (Aug. 21, 2007) – New Edge Networks said it has completed installation of an MPLS network for TOTLCOM Inc., an independent telecom consulting firm that resells hardware and communications services from most major communications providers through an agency affiliation with American Broadband Services.
TOTLCOM’s four-site MPLS network, short for Multi Protocol Label Switching, displaces a point-to-point wide area network used to link the company’s headquarters in Watsonville, Calif., with each of its remote service and sales locations in Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto, Calif.
Elimination of the private point-to-point connections, which are priced based on distance, allowed TOTLCOM to migrate to new technology while slashing its monthly telecommunications costs. The MPLS network was installed within six weeks.
“Building a network for a firm that specializes in advising and offering multi-site networks to small and medium sized businesses is the ultimate vote of confidence any carrier can receive,” said Greg Griffiths, vice president of marketing for New Edge Networks. “Clearly, they can be selective in choosing the company that can maximize value for them or their clients. We value the long-standing business relationship with TOTLCOM and American Broadband Services.”
With MPLS, any remote location can communicate with any other site on the network without funneling all traffic through the headquarters locations, thus eliminating single points of failure. MPLS also allows businesses to prioritize their data traffic.
“If we are going to sell MPLS networks, we have to use one for our own business. This was the number-one reason for migrating to MPLS,” said Sam Bishop, president of TOTLCOM and founder of the Technology Assurance Group (TAG). TOTLCOM is affiliated with master agent American Broadband Services, based in Fresno, Calif. Both companies are members of TAG, a national buying collective for more than 120 telecom agents and interconnect companies.
“New Edge Networks’ MPLS product is very cost competitive,” Bishop said. “From what we have discovered and learned over time, New Edge has a more robust MPLS environment than some of the biggest providers, particularly in the tier two and tier three markets that we play in.
“MPLS brought us dispatching reliability and timely gathering and dissemination of data,” Bishop said. “Data traffic prioritization is super critical. The number one thing we protect over our network is our voice traffic. This takes priority over everything else; then it is database access, remote desktop, and at the bottom of the heap is Internet access.”
New Edge Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc., (NASDAQ: ELNK) offers up to five classes of service on its MPLS networks. New Edge Networks honors class of service across a customer’s entire network, from customer location to customer location. Customers decide how they prioritize their business applications.
About TOTLCOM
TOTLCOM is one of largest telecommunications companies serving Central and Northern California. It offers small and medium business a wide range of communications technology solutions including hosted VoIP, VoIP PBX, Hybrid VoIP, network infrastructure, connectivity and more. Based in Watsonville, Calif., TOTLCOM also maintains offices in Modesto, Fresno and Sacramento, Calif. TOTLCOM has strategic partnership relationships with manufacturers and service companies, positioning itself as a one stop business communications shop. The company’s website is www.totlcom.com
About New Edge Networks
New Edge Networks, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK). New Edge Networks builds and manages private networks for businesses and communications providers. Through its nationwide backbone network with almost 900 switches and Internet routers, New Edge Networks uses any blend of network and access technologies (MPLS, frame relay, ATM, xDSL, cable, wireless, and satellite) for providing high-speed connections at any business address in the United States. Network options include any combination of access, network management functions, and on-site installation services. For more information visit www.newedgenetworks.com or call 1-360-693-9009.
Sal Cinquegrani
1-360-906-9723
1-847-420-1750 (cell)
Telecom expert secretly plotting to change the world one phone bill at a time