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Paying for what you use

Oil is still flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and the World Cup is underway in South Africa but those stories were pushed off the front pages for a while to make room for the really big news. Of course, I’m referring to AT&T’s announcement that new customers will no

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Digital children are now anywhere adults

This past Wednesday was my son’s 20th birthday. His first two decades of life have been remarkably different than mine were. I grew-up analog, he grew-up digital. To appreciate and understand my son and his friends, I relied on the baby boomer’s essential field guides for understanding the Net Generation;

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Mother's Day no longer matters

Yannick Noah was the last Frenchman to win the French Open men’s singles title. That was in 1983. This past summer, that long streak was in jeopardy as Parisian Gaël Monfils advanced to the quarterfinals. His opponent at Roland Garros would be the great Roger Federer on the afternoon of

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Smartphones raise the importance of business analytics

There was a time, not all that long ago, when telecom executives could understand all the major technology trends expected to impact the business over the next few years. For example, if you wanted to know why packet switching was more efficient for data traffic than circuit switching, you talked

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An Update on the Netflix Prize

Chris Volinsky, Director of Statistical Research at AT&T Labs delivered the keynote address to the communications industry track at the 2008 SAS Global Forum. At that time I wrote a blog entry about Chris's hobby, competing for the $1,000,000 Netflix Prize.  The Netflix prize is an example of using mass collaboration. 

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Netflix prize winner to deliver SAS Global Forum keynote

Chris Volinsky, the director of statistical research at AT&T Labs, will deliver the keynote address for the communications industry track at SAS Global Forum in San Antonio. In addition to his expertise in advanced analytics for telecommunications, Chris is a member of a team of researchers that provided the best