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"Desiderata"
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and 
lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

"Desiderata" - Max Ehrmann

By Ben Blanchard Tue Oct 24, 2006  6:29 AM ET

"For more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," WWF Director-General James Leape said, launching the WWF's 2006 Living Planet Report.

"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us," Leape, an American, said in Beijing.

People in the United Arab Emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the United States, Finland and Canada, the report said.

Australia was also living well beyond its means.

The average Australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the United States and Canada, but ahead of the United Kingdom, Russia, China and Japan.

"If the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in Australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said Greg Bourne, WWF-Australia chief executive officer.

Everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.

"As countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said Leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at Beijing's prestigous Tsinghua University.

"It is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.

The report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.

In the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.

"On current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.

"People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources."

RISING POPULATION

"Humanity's footprint has more than tripled between 1961 and 2003," it said. Consumption has outpaced a surge in the world's population, to 6.5 billion from 3 billion in 1960. U.N. projections show a surge to 9 billion people around 2050.

It said that the footprint from use of fossil fuels, whose heat-trapping emissions are widely blamed for pushing up world temperatures, was the fastest-growing cause of strain.

Leape said China, home to a fifth of the world's population and whose economy is booming, was making the right move in pledging to reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent over the next five years.

"Much will depend on the decisions made by China, India and other rapidly developing countries," he added.

The WWF report also said that an index tracking 1,300 vetebrate species -- birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals -- showed that populations had fallen for most by about 30 percent because of factors including a loss of habitats to farms.

Among species most under pressure included the swordfish and the South African Cape vulture. Those bucking the trend included rising populations of the Javan rhinoceros and the northern hairy-nosed wombat in Australia.

The Power of Your Voice Persona

In the speech applications world, “persona” means the tone, words and personality associated with an application’s recorded voice. The equivalent of “look and feel” in visual design, a voice persona is central to how customers perceive your brand when they interact with your call center’s speech-enabled self-service solution.
Create the right persona and you can dramatically increase customer acceptance and the effectiveness of your speech IVR solution. Expect gains in key customer satisfaction, cost reduction and sales metrics.

So how do you make a voice persona that works?
Not everyone does this well, so you have a chance to gain a powerful advantage with customers. To give your speech IVR a distinctive and attractive persona, keep these steps in mind:

• Know what your brand stands for. Are you all about leading-edge technology? Are you the friendly brand? Home of discounts? Remember: be true, unique and excellent.
  
•  Identify your audience. There is no “one size fits all” persona. Support personas should be different from sales personas, for example. You want to understand your customers and segments.
  
• Test your personas. The design of a “voice user interface,” including a persona, benefits greatly from fine-tuning. You can quickly learn what customers like and what works best.

Press Release

Source: Funambol

Funambol and OpenMoko Partner to Make World's
First Integrated Open Source Mobile Communications Platform a Reality
Tuesday November 7, 2006   1:44 pm ET Funambol to Deliver Push Email and Mobile Applications on
OpenMoko's Open Source Mobile Communications Platform

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ --
Funambol, the mobile open source software company,
today announced it has been chosen to power mobile applications
 for OpenMoko, the world's first integrated open mobile
communications platform. Funambol is the recognized
leading open source mobile software for delivering
mobile applications and services such as mobile email. The announcement of the OpenMoko mobile communications
platform coincides with the unveiling of FIC's Neo1973 smartphone, which utilizes the full OpenMoko platform. OpenMoko aims to deliver a completely open, mobile communications platform by working with a community of open source developers. The project will give mobile developers a fully open source software stack from the operating system to middleware, applications and protocols. Users will get a high quality smartphone that they can easily customize by installing only the applications they desire, eliminating the need to upgrade their device every 12-18 months.

"The largest mobile open source project in the world has just joined with the largest open design manufacturer in the world to deliver on the promise of a fully open mobile phone for the mass market. We're looking forward to working with OpenMoko and the folks from FIC on this trailblazing project," said Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol. "The time for high quality open smartphones to deliver user-demanded applications is upon us. FIC's Neo1973 will accelerate opportunities for carriers to increase profits by effectively delivering on consumer demand for mobile applications and services on mobile handsets."

The Funambol software will allow OpenMoko-based phones to wirelessly synchronize mobile applications and content, starting with PIM (contacts, calendars, etc.) and push email delivery, to synchronization of photos, video, ringtones, music and more. Funambol is based on the open standard SyncML and provides a platform that delivers mobile applications and data regardless of operating system or development environment.

"For the first time, the mobile ecosystem will be as open as the PC, and mobile applications equally as diverse and more easily accessible," said Sean Moss-Pultz, initiator of OpenMoko and Product Manager of FIC's Mobile Communication Business Unit. "Ringtones are already a multi-billion dollar market. We think downloading mobile applications on an open platform will be even bigger."

"With any mobile phone, the application platform is critical because it directly impacts its quality, cost and ease-of-use. We chose Funambol because it is the most widely used mobile open source project in the world," said David Huang, COO of FIC. "By partnering with Funambol to provide the synchronization engine for OpenMoko, developers will flock to the project and ultimately, users will receive what they have been demanding from their mobile phones."

Since Funambol's preview release earlier this year, the number of Funambol software downloads has more than doubled to 700,000, reflecting pent-up demand for mass market mobile applications. The open source software is being downloaded by a burgeoning community of developers who are testing it on a wide range of mobile devices all over the world. Mobile operators around the world are deploying the Funambol Carrier Edition in their networks. It is the natural application platform for OpenMoko since it helps carriers reach the largely untapped market for consumer push email.

About Funambol

Funambol is the mobile open source company. Funambol's Mobile Application Server offers "push" email, multimaster PIM synchronization, and management facilities for mobile devices. Funambol (formerly known as Sync4j) is an open source development platform for mobile applications that has been downloaded more than any other wireless middleware product -- more than 700,000 times. The commercial version has been deployed at wireless carriers, Fortune 100 enterprises, hardware OEMs/ODMs and ISVs including customers such as Computer Associates. Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, California with a development center in Italy. See www.funambol.com.

    Editorial Contacts
    Jennifer Cloer                           Mike Maney
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Sanyo: MM-5600, MM-7400 and MM-8300

LG: MM-535

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1. Select MEDIA PLAYER from the main menu on your Sprint PCS phone.
2. Select the "Movies & Shorts" category.
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4. Using the keys on your phone, follow the prompts to preview and purchase access to the mSpot Movies.

mSpot Movies will now appear in the MY CHANNELS section of your Media Player menu.

 

Sprint Movies is available on the following Sprint PCS handsets:

Samsung: A790, A800, A880, A940, A920, A900, A960, A980

Sanyo: 7400, 5600, 8300, 9000, 7500

LG: 535, 550

From your non-multimedia phone, here's how you can get sprint Movies:

1. Select APPLICATIONS from the main menu on your Sprint PCS phone.
2. Select the "Music, Entertainment, Astrology, Comics" category.
3. Select the "Entertainment" category.
4. Select "Movies, TV, Celebs" and follow the easy prompts to preview and purchase SPrint Movies.
   

Sprint Movies will now appear in MY CHANNELS or APPLICATIONS section in your Sprint PCS main menu.

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 Great movie project Example
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 According to http://www.accustreamresearch.com
Report:
Music Videos Most-Viewed Streaming Media in 2004

 Music videos accounted for the largest share of the
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MOBILETRAX  EXPO
Want to learn about  mobile computing and communications devices?
Learn from J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D.
Principal, MobileTrax
He says..PAN to LAN to MAN to WAN

"The acronyms here are defined as follows:PAN = Persona Area Networking – covers short ranges of a few feet with different PAN technologies providing little to tremendous amounts of throughput. 

• LAN = Local Area Networking – covers from a few feet up to around 300 feet or 100 meters with throughput starting at a few megabits per second up to hundreds of megabits per second.
• MAN = Metropolitan Area Networking – covers from a half a mile up to 5 miles, typically meshed together to form larger areas with significant throughput. 
• WAN = Wide Area Networking – covers a few thousand feet up to 10-15 miles with less throughput than a MAN but still adequate for most data communications.

Generally speaking, the different area networking standards can be utilized over different but overlapping distances.  And, different wireless technologies have a range of throughput capabilities from a low rate of few bits a second to others that go all the way up to many megabits a second.  Of course, higher throughput technologies generally take more bandwidth, much like a highway that has more lanes to provide more throughput of vehicles traveling on the road. 

I put together the following diagram to help show where all the technologies fit when plotted on the two most important variables: range vs. throughput.

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CMP  Xchange expo

The VARs Networking Event

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rule:
He who pays the gold, makes the rules.

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Best Software / Development Research Sites
Devchannel
Linux
Slashdot
LinuxGram
NewsForge
OSDN
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SlashCode Blogger

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A great place to learn about blogging is

The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup

Part One of the Weblog Industry Report by John Hiler

Upon reflection, there are actually two distinct types of software that have a claim to the word "weblog": Weblog Publishing: This software lets users generate and publish static webpages that aren't personalized for each user, a cheap way to serve a lot of pages.  Blogger and Movable Type both fall in this category. Weblog Community: This software automatically generates personalized dynamic webpages on the fly, which works better for community features like comments and moderation.  Slash, pMachine, and LiveJournal fall into this category.

Audio + Picture + Text Blog
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Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

Video Lab 3.0 DVD Rom

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Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?