Former Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who resigned from HP on September 22, 2006, was charged by California officials today. Four others were also charged including Kevin Hunsaker, the former HP director of ethics and the HP executive responsible for running the probe. In addition, Ronald DeLia of Security Outsourcing Solutions and two additional private detectives were also named.

So far Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd has not been named despite Dunn’s testimony in front of congress that Mark Hurd was responsible for the executive management of the operation and recent disclosures that Mark Hurd may have had knowledge about the investigation for many months.

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I’ve been using VOIP for about a month now at home. I used it at work in the office for several years and just considered it like any other phone system or PBX system. It was virtually the same, just a lot cheaper. I’ve done a number of business cases on the market and benefit and applications of VOIP, however these were always business cases with minimal hands on usage. Think analysis paralysis, you spend so much time thinking about it in the office sometimes and never any time actually doing it.

I setup a VOIP cordless phone in my home about a month ago and established a free skype account and the results are pretty amazing. Its easy to use, it sounds as good if not better than my cell phone, it doesn’t receive telemarketer phone calls like my home phone and IT’S FREE!

Did I mention that IT IS FREE!

It makes me consider why I need my cell phone. For about six years now, I’ve been using my cell phone as my primary phone for all of my calls business and personal. I probably get about 80% business calls and 20% personal.

Now, however I find myself asking why not use the VOIP phone for all the calls taken at my home office. I could reduce my minute package through my cellular provider and save $50 a month or more. Plus, I’m seeing a number of offers where VOIP phones on WiFi can be used in hotspots on college campuses and Starbucks and things. Its not a cellular replacement yet, but its getting closer.

If WiMax rolls out, look out cellular carriers, your days might be numbered and my bill might be getting even smaller!

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I’ve been using VOIP for about a month now at home. I used it at work in the office for several years and just considered it like any other phone system or PBX system. It was virtually the same, just a lot cheaper. I’ve done a number of business cases on the market and benefit and applications of VOIP, however these were always business cases with minimal hands on usage. Think analysis paralysis, you spend so much time thinking about it in the office sometimes and never any time actually doing it.

I setup a VOIP cordless phone in my home about a month ago and established a free skype account and the results are pretty amazing. Its easy to use, it sounds as good if not better than my cell phone, it doesn’t receive telemarketer phone calls like my home phone and IT’S FREE!

Did I mention that IT IS FREE!

It makes me consider why I need my cell phone. For about six years now, I’ve been using my cell phone as my primary phone for all of my calls business and personal. I probably get about 80% business calls and 20% personal.

Now, however I find myself asking why not use the VOIP phone for all the calls taken at my home office. I could reduce my minute package through my cellular provider and save $50 a month or more. Plus, I’m seeing a number of offers where VOIP phones on WiFi can be used in hotspots on college campuses and Starbucks and things. Its not a cellular replacement yet, but its getting closer.

If WiMax rolls out, look out cellular carriers, your days might be numbered and my bill might be getting even smaller!

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The internet bubble really started to swell back in the days when companies started to realize that they could monetize impressions.  A thousand page views and later impressions would generate a metric that advertisers could value and they would pay for that value.  This was an extrapolation similar to sending a person out to the interestate to count the number of cars that drive by a billboard ad, and then valuing the advertising signal that might be achieved for that location.

Internet advertisers rapidly found many different ways to push ads around the internet from pop ups to banner ads to drop downs and hover text.  Then Google launched Paid Per Click contextual advertising.  A google bot would read the content on a page and match the context of that content to an advertisers ad and put that ad via a little script box on the same page.  So if a person is reading an article about a Dell PC or a Vlassic Dill Pickle they will see an ad for a Dell PC or a Vlassic Dill Pickle respectively, and the two will not generally cross.  This means that if you are reading about a Dell, dude, you won’t get a pickle ad, and if you are reading about pickles, you won’t get a Dell ad.  (Now lemons might be a different issue . . .)

Podcasts are growing rapidly in cyberspace and this adds a dimension to the content.  Now content is not flat on a screen, but dynamic in a voice or a sound.  Many advertisers are working to drop sound adverts at the beginning, middle or end of these broadcasts like the banner ads of the past.  Many different firms are hoping to make this easy to do for the creative types.  One company, TalkShoe is even offering up a different version of the banner dropping model in a Podcast.  They are offering a model where people would be Paid To Talk. 

Under the Paid To Talk model a person would create a TalkCast (similar to a Podcast without the potential that Apple might litigate over the trademark for the word Pod, even though it might not be long before Apple tries to litigate over the trademark for the word Talk).  A TalkCast is basically like an internet talk shoe where a person records a conversation with someone else and Narrowcasts the show on the internet.  TalkCast then pays for every person that listens to the show.

Its probably not to futuristic for some advertising company to figure out a way to monetize thinking.  Before long we’ll have a business model where people are Paid to Think or Paid to Ponder, or Paid to Savor the Thought.  An entire industry could popl up around the concept of Lucrative Meditations.

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