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Simplify, simplify, simplify . . .

Posted on December 14, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

Simplify computers, but not with Skype

Remember the little “peanut men” of clip-art, circa 1995? It was a simpler time. Telephones were telephones, computers were computers, and unless you were The Computer Answer Guy, ne’er did the twain meet.

You want that time back, don’t you?

Yesterday’s post about bandwidth speeds being too difficult to qualify sent me on a trip down memory lane. Pinpointing how fast your downloads are running really can be hard, there are no “Any” Keys, and in general, computers are too hard to use. ... READ MORE of Simplify, simplify, simplify . . . at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (674 words, 1 image, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Influency

Verizon Has Made My Head—And Likely YOUR Wallet—Hurt. A LOT

Posted on June 13, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Your phone calls just became free. So did your text messages. Sounds great, right?

Guess again. If you’re a Verizon Wireless customer, your prices, under the guise of Verizon Wireless making plans that are theoretically less expensive, just went up. WAY up. If we hadn’t already christened The Verizon Wireless Customer Service Wall of Shame for them, this sleight of hand would have been enough to earn Big Red that honor.

... READ MORE of Verizon Has Made My Head—And Likely YOUR Wallet—Hurt. A LOT at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (501 words, 2 images, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

“Business Change” vs. “Business as Usual” with Verizon 4G

Posted on December 3, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

This weekend, Verizon is turning on their fast new mobile telecommunications network. Early testing shows Verizon’s 4G LTE network to be incredibly fast (although 4G is expensive—there’s no “unlimited” option).

Not a big deal, and honestly not much of a story in itself. But this week I got to thinking about Verizon and business change . . . and politics . . . when I got involved in a discussion about the 4G LTE roll-out here. In fact, it seems I said something worth hearing; my comments on Verizon and politics have started spreading to other places that you wouldn’t expect to find them. ... READ MORE of “Business Change” vs. “Business as Usual” with Verizon 4G at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (640 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Free Wi-Fi (Almost) Everywhere? FON is The Real Deal

Posted on November 30, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

I have Internet connectivity everywhere I go. I use my Smartphone as a modem to get my Netbook on-line. No comment as to whether this is allowed by my wireless phone provider; there are legitimate ways to do it, and others that are … let’s just call it “questionable”.

I’ve told you about problems with Free Wi-Fi at Panera Bread. By now you know that Starbucks is not only giving away Wi-Fi, but also giving away content. But even with companies like those making your search for a Wi-Fi signal as easy as they can, there are limits. Wouldn’t it be great if Wi-Fi was everywhere? ... READ MORE of Free Wi-Fi (Almost) Everywhere? FON is The Real Deal at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Development, Media

4G The Demise of Flat-Rate Data? Puck No!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

Just when the telecommunications giants thought they had flat-rate data plans headed out the door, here comes The Puck.

If you look at the oh-so-slick website home of The Puck (3/22/2012: well, Puck no, again … The Puck is dead, and Clearwire has replaced it with a handful of other 4G devices they call CLEAR Spots) you’ll notice that it’s not available everywhere just yet. In fact, this little thing isn’t going to make any difference in the plans that the AT&T ‘s and Verizon ‘s of the world make—yet. But The Puck is a great example of how one company’s business change plans can derail another’s, even when the new guy is way smaller than the company they’re attacking. ... READ MORE of 4G The Demise of Flat-Rate Data? Puck No! at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (329 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Verizon / Google Net Neutrality: The REAL Business Change

Posted on August 10, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

So now that Verizon and Google have proven themselves to be liars, the FCC is out of the Internet regulation business, and you still have to plan for business change, what should your next move be?

None. It doesn’t matter. Move on.

OK, so it isn’t as simple as that, but it’s close. Last week, when I told you about the Google / Verizon Collusion on Net Neutrality Pact, the most important point I made was this: Verizon and Google, working from a place that the rest of us can only dream about, are essentially making law. Oh sure, the FCC will eventually get around to writing the “official” version of how things work, but by attacking the issue preemptively, Google and Verizon have set up a showdown designed to ensure that the ultimate outcome is in their favor. ... READ MORE of Verizon / Google Net Neutrality: The REAL Business Change at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Kiss Flat-Rate Data Goodbye: Here Come the 4G Phones

Posted on May 28, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

It’s almost here. 4G cell phone networks and the way-faster data transfer speeds that come with them are about to get switched on. Now, your Smartphone will feel . . . even smarter.

And Verizon will be making you pay for that.

Presumably all carriers will be doing the same, so Verizon only deserves credit for opening the floodgates. But Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam is on record: fixed-cost all-you-can-eat data plans will be going away for 4G SmartPhone users. ... READ MORE of Kiss Flat-Rate Data Goodbye: Here Come the 4G Phones at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (238 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Net Neutrality Resurfaces: FCC Will Re-Regulate Data

Posted on May 6, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Once upon a time, I spent a few years working for Verizon. It was an amazing and eye-opening professional experience for me, and although I ultimately came back to the world of small business development I learned quite a bit during my time working for one of the world’s largest companies. ... READ MORE of Net Neutrality Resurfaces: FCC Will Re-Regulate Data at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Development

Data, Privacy, The Law, And A Mess You Can’t Clean Up

Posted on April 15, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 21 Comments

I’m all for privacy.

To be honest, privacy is a relatively new phenomenon sociologically and absent issues like identity theft and stealing from other simply by having their private data and knowing how to misuse it privacy shouldn’t really be that big a deal; just don’t do anything you’re ashamed of. But in the Internet / electronic age there’s a need to protect information. Privacy matters.

But as anyone who knows anything about the technological practicalities of privacy will tell you, there’s really no such thing; data systems will always get breached, and the best path to privacy isn’t about technology so much as knowing how technology you create will get used, and by whom. ... READ MORE of Data, Privacy, The Law, And A Mess You Can’t Clean Up at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

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Business Change: US Government Mandates How Bandwidth Providers Work

Posted on September 21, 2009 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

And so it Begins. Or Ends. Or Begins to End . . .

Does the company from which you get your internet access have the right to decide what you get or how fast certain things get to you? Maybe. In the USA, though, that right may be about to come to an end.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, an FCC proposal limiting the way that your favorite bit purveyor moves your information gets outlined. Business Change, indeed! Now, the way your stuff gets to you might become set in stone. ... READ MORE of Business Change: US Government Mandates How Bandwidth Providers Work at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (280 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

IBM Running Skype ?

Posted on August 17, 2007 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

I remember back in the day when setting up a computer network was . . . well honestly, if was pretty difficult. Most networks used coaxial cables (we’re talking “the dawn of ethernet” timeframe), and rather than all the computers connecting through hubs or switches they ran in a big circle or along a straight line.

This meant that if one computer in the network went down, the whole thing went down. Literally.

The joke in those days was “imagine if IBM ran the phone network . . . every time a new phone was installed, everyone who already had one would need to reboot”. ... READ MORE of IBM Running Skype ? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (339 words, 1 image, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

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“Federal Subscriber Line Charge”

Posted on August 16, 2007 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 13 Comments

[Updated February 16, 2010]

Two-and-a-half years later, with much traffic still flowing here and to our parent PC-VIP, I’ve decided to update this post:

When Judge Herbert Greene broke up the phone company back in 1984, he set a business change in motion that was supposed to be useful and helpful to consumers. In fact, it was; we no longer pay $.25 per minute for long distance, and AT&T had no incentive to change that before competition was created. Thank you, Judge Greene. ... READ MORE of “Federal Subscriber Line Charge” at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

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