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Here were the two comments which I placed in the bad category:
Apparently Siris agrees as evidenced by a quote covered in my colleague Paula Bernier's earlier article:
The industry is transitioning to a hybrid on-premise[s] and cloud-based unified communications environment," noted Dan Moloney, Siris executive partner. "We believe that as an independent private company,
Polycom would be best positioned to continue its heritage as a best-in-class communications solutions provider to more than 400,000 companies and institutions, channel partners, and the evolving unified communications ecosystem.
In addition, the synergies between Polycom and other Siris portfolio companies are worth delving into. In late 2015 Siris picked up collaboration and cloud UC player PGI for a billion dollars. One quarter later, they picked up Xura which itself is made up of Comverse and Acision – companies which are very strong in the communications service provider markets – voicemail and SMS respectively.
I covered Comverse in August of 2013 and February of 2014 – in general both meetings centered on the company helping carriers transform with the times or evolve. I've met frequently with Acision as well in the past – covering their SMS technology and evolution into a next-gen solution to help carriers compete with OTT. In addition, here is a video with CMO JF Sullivan on their WebRTC strategy going back to 2014.
Siris then has a strong portfolio of companies in the UC space for enterprise as well as service provider. In the case of PGI – much of the solution is cloud-based already while Xura is helping with the transition.
So we have enterprise and carrier innovation coming from the top down and the bottom up. Eventually, many of these solutions will overlap. Certainly they are heading in similar directions and may benefit from the same parent umbrella. It is unclear how closely these companies will work together but it's worth contemplating how they could be of greater value as a single entity to a larger buyer who wants to have a dominant position in these spaces.
In a way, GENBAND has similar assets but they also have Kandy which is similar to Twilio (they think Kandy is even better). Nexmo would have rounded out the Siris portfolio but Vonage picked them up recently instead. I imagine Twilio may be too expensive at the moment to contemplate acquiring.
Siris has put together a great arsenal of patents, companies and solutions. We can't wait to see what their next moves are.
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At this point though sheer momentum is working against both Yahoo and Twitter and they need to shake things up dramatically to become more relevant.
Behavioral Targeting
Why isn't Yahoo the best at returning ROI for advertisers? It should be as it has just so much information about its users. Years back I wrote about how Google's purchase of DoubleClick would put the search leader in a better position in terms of analytics but I never imagined Yahoo wouldn't be a powerhouse in this area. The company needs to improve and quickly.
Through three channel-based companies they purchased, they now 600,000 business seats as compared to 1.9 million on the residential side. Clark touted the fact that his company has better financial stability than most of the others in the space. I am sure some might disagree but regardless, the Vonage name has a tremendous legacy associated with it… The company not only help launched the consumer VoIP space, its aggressive marketing helped a multibillion dollar IP communications market come to life. Back in 2003 when the fortunes of the communication market weren't looking that good, Vonage ads showed there was a company which believed they could sell an OTT service to consumers – bypassing telcos. Immediately, the cable companies and CSPs responded by investing in competitive services and IP communications in general.
Frankly I'm surprised it took the company this long but they had the resources to not only enter the market but quickly dominate it.
They have 212 POPs and can deliver service in a proprietary fashion for SMBs and for the enterprise they have Broadsoft as well as the Transera contact center solution I recently described. In addition, they can provide LiveOps or InContact solutions. They can also provide IaaS, virtual desktops, hosted MS Exchange and hosted Skype for Business.
A big differentiator is SmartWAN – real-time packet optimization which is similar to those provided by standalone SD-WAN companies such as CloudGenix. He explained customers are trading in their T1s for a few consumer broadband services and in the process they get better quality as well as auto-failover. Their cloud-level SmartWAN solution includes a customer premise device (CPE) which allows Vonage to track MOS scores as well as jitter.
What may surprise you is the fact they have customers with tens of thousands of seats. If you have strong memories of Vonage of the home phone company, you realize they have really grown up.
Some of their differentiators are QoS everywhere – over SmartWAN as well as MPLS. They also have their proprietary Zeus service delivery solution which allows you to track new installs, commissions, moves/ads/changes and more – from various devices. He likens it to a SFA solution coupled with MS Project. Vonage President Alan Masarek told our very own Erik Linask about this in September of last year.
There is also tight integration with Google For Work, Office 365 and Salesforce allowing single-sign-on support.
In one case, a customers had 21 VARs and 19 phone vendors supporting their disparate solutions and Vonage was able to wrap it all up into a single solution with "one throat to choke" a term vendors typically don't like but is quite descriptive. The best part may be there was no capital outlay to make all of this happen and there are economies of scale not realized with disparate solutions.
If you follow the company, you know you also get a great app – it has presence, chat and a conference bridge. I got a good demo of how it works. The future? Expect to see them grow in various vertical spaces as well as in Asia and Europe.
Vonage has really grown up. They were late the business space but are now full speed ahead becoming a major global phone company.]]>
For NTT, The combined companies will offer expanded BPO capabilities with a focus on the healthcare and insurance markets.
Other benefits of the acquisition will include an increased infrastructure platform footprint, with Dell's U.S., U.K. and Australian data centers joining NTT's 230 global facilities. The companies will also offer expanded technology resources for providing next-gen application and business process services with the goal of aiding clients as they use IT to improve business performance and outcomes.
"There are few acquisition targets in our market that provide this type of unique opportunity to increase our competitiveness and the depth of our market offerings," said John McCain, CEO of NTT DATA. McCain led the acquisition and will take responsibility for directing the combined businesses and offerings. "Dell Services is a very well-run business and we believe its employee base, long-standing client relationships, and the mix of long term and project-based work will enhance our portfolio."
I recently interviewed Robert Westervelt (pictured), VP and General Manager, Indirect Global Solutions for NTT DATA and he told me the company has signed 15 major partners and is now focusing on the sub-agent space.
The company has an amazingly wide array of products to offer and even Rob marveled at the fact the company was $105 billion in size and didn't have a channel. Something they have now remedied. You may recall, Kevin Goodman (see video below) described the company's massive innovation center as well as the vast array of products the company has. In addition, he went on to explain the company's laser focus on the channel and data center space.
Rob also emphasized some of the differences the company brings to the table – such an early jump into NFV – allowing services such as firewalls to live in the cloud instead of being truck-rolled in numerous locations. In addition, the company has become a security powerhouse and a new OpenStack-based enterprise cloud offering is coming to Japan and the US very soon.
I started this post with a mention of timing – you see, Dell Services is mostly Perot Systems which was founded by Ross Perot – the businessman turned presidential candidate. Many people compare Donald Trump to Ross Perot – there are so many parallels. So although Perot and Trump's presidential aspirations have little to do with data centers and NFV, its interesting to see how the political news of the day can sometimes overlap with what's happening in the world of M&A and technology. Is this all a coincidence? You tell me – but I think it may be worth pointing out the CEO of NTT DATA is named John McCain… Wow, I'm getting goosebumps.
Want to dig deeper? Here is a past interview from 2011 that TMC conducted with NTT Communications]]>
The news of the day, though, is the company has a new CEO, Bill Crank, a man with tremendous telecom experience – in M&A and business development. He is at the helm of this organization that was once a division of Intel – then spun out to later become a public company through an acquisition to later become a private company owned by Novacap.
I spoke with Bill for a while to learn where the company is headed. Here is a recap:
Much of the proprietary hardware they once made, has moved to software and the cloud which means for the most part, they make the software powering next-gen networks.
The specific product likes consist of:
Basically – they are moving to software and still supporting the legacy products which make sense as their partners still sell these boards and other solutions.
You know, I've been one of the biggest proponents of NFV – the move to software by carrier equipment providers. I've pushed hard on the concept of software telco – the idea that carriers will over time rely on "off the shelf" computers and software rather than proprietary hardware to run their networks. Bill shares this vision and explains this is a big part of the reason he came to the company.
He expects to continue investing in R&D and even upping the spend. The company's next-gen solutions are now in 50 labs – many are in testing and will soon announce deployment. Moreover, Dialogic has partnered with Mavenir, Ericsson and others who in some cases are competitors on other product lines. This coopetition is best described as working with partners to fill holes in your product portfolio in order to keep customers happy.
The biggest challenge, according to him, is the confusion in the market as the pace of change keeps speeding up. Consider that carriers can choose from hardware, software and cloud, and as the transition has taken place, a host of new vendors and options have presented themselves, making it more challenging to determine what to buy. Throw in competition from OTT, social, WebRTC, mobile and other newer technologies and you can see it is a tough time to make a decision which could cost millions of dollars and lock in your direction for years to come.
From the outside, looking in, its not just Bill who gives me confidence that the company has a story worth believing in. The ever-talented Jim Machi has been onboard for well over a decade and has done an amazing job navigating through turbulent waters and business transformation during that time. Tim Moynihan rejoined some time back, and is another major telecom talent. Finally, there is Alan Percy who joined from AudioCodes – someone who is well-respected and has one of the best set of relationships in the market.
In short, there is something special going on at this company, and if you think of Dialogic as the old board company from the eighties and not the new software company powering next-gen networks around the globe, you are missing out on one of the best kept secrets in the communications space.]]>
I couldn't help but think of this as I met with Acision yesterday. Some years back I was in their corporate offices in Texas where they told me the threat from advertising based tech models to SMS was unsustainable. Basically their argument was that a carrier wouldn't be able to replace the subscription revenue with ads as the advertising market wasn't big enough to replace the dollars that came in from sending texts.
This was before app stores – there was no iMessage, WhatsApp, etc. At the time, they had a point.
The app store indeed changed everything and this company relying on SMSC and MMSC sales was facing a situation where their customers were seeing the revenue to fund these purchases eroding.
In response, the company replaced the management team and came up with a dynamic plan to capitalize on their strengths and enter new markets to ensure they respond intelligently to creative destruction brought on by Silicon Valley.
By integrating flexibility to the SMSCs they produce, carriers can now add on modules to their Message Controller or MCO. These modules can help carriers reduce revenue leakage through things like grey root detection which is lost revenue from intercarrier agreements designed to undercut direct carrier billing relationships. They also have spam and fraud fighting solutions which are selling well. Moreover they are helping carriers migrate to an IP world via SMS over IP based SMSCs.
Another area of growth for the company is consumer services – in one case in Mexico, 8.5 billion messages per month are stuck in the system due to lack of credit. By allowing a carrier to turn on collect SMS, the acceptance rate can be between 32-40%...In one case resulting in a quarter of a billion dollars in found revenue. Acision also facilitates SMS gifting as well as SMS-based loans for their carrier customers.
Value added services is a great way to keep carriers sticky while generating more revenue. Carriers can turn on white and black lists and allow the auto forwarding of messages. Another service which is in trials is the blocking of data to phones when a user is driving. Only when the car is stopped and not at a traffic light does the system release the messages. Currently there is a joint pilot of this program between the second largest carrier in the US and an insurance company I am told.
If you have been following TMC's WebRTC Expo or WebRTC World products, you know the company has become a big player in WebRTC as well. This is part of the company's Rich Enterprise Services initiative. This initiative also includes the ability to send premium message, secure encrypted texts from point-to-point to ensure the contents aren't tampered with or monitored.
The company's purchase of Crocodile is how they got into WebRTC in fact and now the company holds hackathons… The most recent winner of their contest was an app called Yoroshiku which is what J.F. Sullivan CMO & EVP of Products refers to as Tinder meets Rosetta Stone – a service which allows you to connect visually with other people who speak a language you want to learn.
Finally, the company's fuseMe app allows carriers to take on WhatsApp and others through an solution which is part news delivery service and part collaboration and social tool. It allows multiple people to be on a video calkl but I am told over WiFi, 14 is as many as you want to connect with to keep the quality acceptable.
Operators for their part can get involved with the app/service in exchange for a revenue share agreement on things like in-app and in-game purchases.
Enterprise customers have jumped on the fuseMe app bandwagon as well using it for things like video banking between tellers and customers. It is infinitely flexible based on what I am told.
In short, creative destruction of markets have turned Acision into an innovation machine of sorts, evolving in its core markets and expanding into rapidly growing ones where they can use the technology which competes with them as a Trojan horse to sell more services.]]>
Talari Networks is all about revolutionizing WAN economics or in less marketing speak, they are disrupting the MPLS monopoly. Wait, I am still talking in marketing terms. Let's try again. Talari Networks allows companies to use the networks they have already such as cable and DSL to bypass the need for individual high-quality and expensive connections such as MPLS. They basically benefit from the arbitrage between traditional broadband and MPLS for companies with at least three locations looking to spend a little money to save a lot.
Buying the company's boxes can set you back as little as four-thousand dollars for each one but can provide a rapid ROI while also boosting QoS. By monitoring the network continuously, decisions can be made on the fly to allocate various connections to the traffic which makes the most sense. Web surfing can be low priority while voice and video can rise to the top of the heap. In all, a very slick solution. I found it interesting that Talari found DSL and cable can outperform MPLS in some cases.
Kevin Gavin has been the company spokesperson for ShoreTel for many years and I met with him at Talari, his "new" company. He says he sees lots of similarities to the PBX market when he joined ShoreTel in the early days.
One other point worth noting – for the same spend, VARs can now sell more equipment at the expense of service providers.
Polycom is a huge video and voice player but over the last few years a number of cloud-based startups have been gunning for them. Expect the company to continue fighting back with a slew of new services and business models. I had a long talk with Jim Kruger and Maurizio Capuzzo at the company about how they are spending more on R&D and will also focus on getting higher levels of user utilization of products already in the field. Finally, they think WebRTC will be good for business as more video will be used as a result. Expect to see Polycom in 2015 positioned as the collaboration company focusing on voice, video and content as a service.
Airtight Networks is an important company – as it is likely involved in providing the WiFi in the stores and banks you use but you may not have heard of them. I'm impressed with their solutions which add security to WiFi – either guest or internal. Their wireless intrusion prevention system can overlay on other hardware from companies like Aruba. They also have standalone boxes and cloud-based solutions.
By working with them you can ensure you don't have to manually deal with WiFi AP security configuration at all your locations. I spoke with Ksenia Coffman and Hermant Chasker who told me organizations with over 100 locations really can't rely on manual security solutions. In fact, companies with certain transaction volume have to pass audits by credit card companies and government compliance such as HIPAA and PCI are other areas where Airtight can assist. Typically, the branch manager of an Airtight customer takes the device out of the box and plugs in the Ethernet cable and is all set. There is an instructional video as well to help out.
In our meeting they told me about a thief that robbed a store and was found because the system was able to pull up the MAC address of the suspect's smartphone. Having said that, there is a wall between the analytics and security sides of the solutions. Analytics keeps a hash of the MAC address while security keeps the MAC address. This allows customers to remain anonymous but still, a store can tell how many people visit a location each day, week etc. They can further use the analytics to measure the impact of an ad campaign on new customer foot traffic. They can also use it to determine if a menu is turning off potential diners. For instance, if many people spend a few minutes at the front of the store looking at the menu but then leave, it could be a sign that the bacon flavored ice cream craze may have come to an end.
Another idea one of the company's customers had which I thought was smart was to provide free WiFi to customers in exchange for a tweet mention or FaceBook like.
A few months back the company released the C-65 (pictured)which brings intrusion detection to the world of IoT and 802.11ac.
Imagine Communications may be one of the more disruptive companies that doesn't get talked about enough. Communications carriers are becoming software telcos powered by SDN and NFV running on OTS computers in part to take on WhatsApp/Facebook and other OTT competitors. But the video distribution market is behind this curve. Charlie Vogt who has been a frequent ITEXPO keynote speaker in fact left GENBAND some time back to head Imagine as CEO. In a meeting with him at NAB he seemed to be confidently executing on his strategic vision.
The video industry is changing rapidly thanks to time-shifting, on-demand and mobile devices. This in-turn affects the whole broadcast chain. The typical broadcast studio has lots of big iron with blinking lights – roughly analogous to mainframes or perhaps carrier class switches – a Class 4/5 perhaps is more like it. While the cable companies have moved to standardized IT and SDN, these companies haven't made the change.
Imagine thinks the market needs to move to virtualized networks, software defined architecture; networks and workflows which would allow the players to move a lot faster. Moreover, the end-game is all IP multiscreen, multiplatform distribution. Or, succinctly, sort-of what telecom went through a decade-and-a-half ago.
The company has put together a staggering list of acquisitions and spin-offs – too voluminous to go into here. The goal is to build a major company which provides all the needs of video production and distribution companies. They say they want to be open and encourage interoperability – which is good news because they are a much larger player in this market than GENBAND was competing with Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei and others.
Going forward, we can expect Imagine Communications to help the video industry transition to SDN, virtualization, OTS hardware, open source and more. It will be interesting to see how this market changes… Also, how long it takes to fully transition, who the new entrants will be, what sorts of new consolidation ideas will take hold and much more. Stay tuned.
Mavatar Technologies Inc is a mobile commerce engine which ties into many different back-end ecommerce sites. Moreover it takes into account discounts by enabling you to get a final price quickly. It further lets you compare products via a quick button press. This is great because it works across stores. In the "detail compare" mode you get to factor in shipping, tax, etc. Mobile shopping is taking off and Mavatar is positioned well. I spoke with Susan Akbarpour about the company many months back and at the time it seemed like it was on fire. I'm surprised they haven't generated more buzz lately. This is especially true around the holidays where mobile shopping is all the rage. Download it free for yourself (iOS) to try it. It seems very useful.]]>
At the time, companies were far more siloed… A database company was a database company. What Oracle was able to do under the vision and leadership of Larry Ellison is nothing short of staggering. They changed the way software companies operated.
Instead of partnering with other software companies, they acquired and acquired and acquired.
They showed a single-function database company could go from one small segment of the market to owning not only much of the software space but with the Sun acquisition, they showed they could sell hardware successfully as well.
Now Oracle is in just about any business you can think of from marketing automation to cloud to session border control.
Oracle isn't perfect – it is very big which means it is tough for them to move quickly. But what they have shown is they can acquire a massive number of companies and integrate them better than just about any company out there – they have been even more successful at M&A than Cisco which is saying something.
To use a sailing analogy which I think is apt, Oracle has had a lot of wind in its sails thanks to the competitive environment. As the number two software company to Microsoft for much of the time, Oracle seemed to get away with a lot of mergers that might have otherwise been deemed anticompetitive. In other words, there was tremendous benefit to living in the shadow of Microsoft. Especially when it seemed they virtually acquired the entire CRM space in the late nineties and beyond.
Larry Ellison showed companies that they could expand in an almost limitless way and in the process keep customers happy and make employees and shareholders wealthy. He is a man of vision and should get more credit for what he has done. I wish him well in his new role as CTO and executive chairman of the board.]]>
David Walsh, CEO takes the stage, talks about the importance of being a financially stable company, winning, being competitive and investing in new technology such as OTT VoIP and WebRTC ahead of time to be ready when the time comes to deploy. Moreover, he talked about how the growth in mobile devices may help pay off the US national debt.
See the full article here.
Mark Pugerude with GENBAND talks past and future in his presentation - he began by talking about the predictions from past years and followed up with what is happening today. Trends like SDN, NFV, cloud and others are now being embodied by the product releases the company is putting out.
See the full article here.
BG Kumar, chief product officer at GENBAND, took the stage at Perspectives14 today to talk about the importance of NFV and SDN to GENBAND and the fact that there is tremendous growth in these spaces. Moreover, the importance of the user experience was discussed by the company's Chief Product Officer BG Kumar.
See full article here.
BT's Innovative MVNO Strategy with SON & Wi-Fi Support detailed onstage by Clive Selley CEO of BT who went on to discuss how his company has built a next-gen network which noirmalizes traffic allowing other carriers and enterprises to more easily communicate. Moreover, he went on to explain the innovative MVNO, hybrid femtocell, WiFi strategy the company is rolling out to compete effectively ina cost-effective manner with other wireless players in the UK.
See full article here.
Kyle Malady with Verizon says NFV and fiber are the future for the carrier - making an early joke that after taking control of the company by paying of Vodafone, he wouldn't mind if people in the audience would make a call on their Verizon phones and just leave the phone on during the presentation to help pay off the debt. The audience found it funny, and this joke was followed by an honest perspective on the company's future from his perspective.
In short, the market has spoken and they don't want wireline service over copper (I am probably overstating this a bit) - they are happy with wireless and fiber. Moreover, the company is looking for ways to migrate customers to the latest services. Finally, they have new products to help customers who are concerned about operating fiber equipment when the power goes out since copper is powered and lit glass is not. The company's solution is a box powered by D batteries which can power equipment for a period of time.
Finally there was talk of the importance of NFV as well as the implementation challenges which need to be dealt with such as determining who to call when something is broken.
See the full article here.
Day 2, June 11th
Big day today - I speak on a WebRTC panel in about an hour so I am backstage getting a microphone and the typical prep talk you get at events. GENBAND decided to have smoke machines this year adding an interesting effect to the event. I feel like I am at a blended Michael Jackson Thriller/Tech event. Funny, just as I wrote that a couple of dancers went onstage to get the audience amped up. Conferences after all are now as much entertainment as education. BTW, I am backstage where everything is basically backwards - which explains the video.
I'll be linking to more articles throughout the day to keep you posted on anything you may have missed.
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TMC's Paula Bernier covers David Walsh, CEO of GENBAND's focus on the fish problem which he explains the the challenge companies have to deal with in today's rapidly evolving tech market. It's a good read as it has implications for investors as well as carriers looking to invest in rapidly evolving telecom equipment.
Next up was the topic of GENBAND fring Enabling OTT for Carriers as Roy Timor-Rousso, GENBAND fring CEO, took to the stage to talk about all the ways a carrier could utilize VoIP and specifically OTT to target specific groups with special plans. For example a call-home plan for immigrants allowing special rates to their home country using their regular telephone line or device. Fring was one of the first VoIP solutions for the iPhone and I remember testing it when it first came out. More recently they focused on helping service providers and even more recently the company was purchased by GENBAND and is now integrated with the rest of the company's portfolio. Here is the full artticle I wrote about this topic.
One of the more exciing pirces of news at the event this week was Kandy and the evolution of the platform as a service which allows service providers like telcos to expose their network resources using APIs, SDKs, and Quick Starts so developers can more easily leverage them to bring real-time communications to their applications.
In a way this new offering is similar to hosted service providers which provide open APIs but in this case it is an ecosystem play - for now anyway. The idea here is allowing developers access to the GENBAND platform so they can provide services to carrier customers. Carriers for their part are looking for help to develop new apps and developers are looking for new markets ready for their apps and services. Paula Bernier has more in a comprehensive article on Kandy.
Ericsson Tells Its NFV, SDN story which includes the Ericsson Cloud Manager, a product that became generally available in the second half of 2013 and is now at version 2.0. Ericsson Cloud Manager is used to orchestrate the NFV environment. It does orchestration across virtual machines, leverages OpenStack APIs, has a built-in services catalog that can be used to build VM workloads, and it can control certain aspects of scale in scale out, among other capabilities.
Ericsson developed much of this solution organically, building it specifically to address carrier NFV and SDN deployments, explained White. That's different from some orchestration solutions that are now targeting NFV and SDN, but were actually designed initially for IT environments, he said, adding that most IT applications are stateless, but Ericsson's solution is stateful and also leverages the company's assets in the OSS expertise. See the full details.
Bringing to bear the IT and other solutions initially developed by Samsung SDS for the company's internal use, as well as assets from the other divisions at Samsung, the company is just in the formative stages of its effort to create connected health solutions, Rhew explained to RealTimeCommunications. At this point, said Rhew, who joined Samsung a year ago, the company is working with hospitals and partners to understand what needs to be developed in terms of devices, applications, interfaces, analytics, tools to integrate into electronic health records, and feedback loops. Catch all the exciting details here.
Big data of course is a hot trend these days and it seems its application will be most successful in areas like marketing automation where massive amounts of information about prospects and customers exist. Oracle's Eloqua acquisition was made with these concepts in mind. The company says their solutions will help "modern marketers." They further discuss how they tie this division into their business analytics and big data capabilities.
Video below shows how Eloqua ties into the Oracle's marketing strategy
Speaking of big data and analytics, IBM is not going to let this market opportunity get away from them. Armonk has built an incredible consulting organization over the past decade plus and they are smart enough to see big trends on the horizon and capitalize on them. This explains their $100 million additional investment into ad consulting.
This makes sense based on what IBM's comments from last year. In an interview, Carl Ford of Crossfire Media spoke with Blair Reeves (pictured below) of IBM who said the following:
Companies should spend less time on advertising and worrying about various channels and instead focus more on putting customers at the center of their business. He went on to explain that everything is part of big data – there is so much data going out there not only on the marketing side but related to how people are buying and selling he said. Another interesting point was this coupled with social information can be used by companies to serve their customers better.
Perhaps the most compelling part of the interview was a reference to "digital Darwinism" where the companies that move and adapt quickly making smarter investments and moves with their customer base will win over those stuck in the past.
IBM's consulting business already employs 5,000 and will add another 1,000 to help companies in the area of data analytics and more. According to the Wall Street Journal:
The group recently worked with a large consumer product goods company to help them figure out which two major movie stars they could use as brand ambassadors in their marketing campaign. IBM used its software to mine social media and other sources such the client's customer data to determine which of the celebrities had the most influence with its customers.
Madison Avenue is getting used to the competition. Over the past few years, Accenture and Deloitte, which both compete with IBM in management consulting have also beefed up their marketing capabilities. At the same time tech companies such as Salesforce, Adobe and Oracle Corp. have also jumped into the fray with many of them building out technology platforms –with the help of expensive acquisitions–that can help companies manage their marketing efforts across different media and channels using technology.
Marketing will continue to rely less on guess-work and more on quantifiable data. Moreover, there will be many companies who get this transition wrong as they focus on leads but forget about their brand. It is a common error actually; many marketing people consider the number of leads they receive as a more important metric than how their brand is perceived.
In other words, if a company focuses its time mostly on leads and not on branding, it may end up spinning its wheels because many of the leads won't consider their company when they make a purchase.
Big data can be extremely useful in helping companies determine brand preferences but in my experience many small to mid-sized companies don't even consider doing such surveys because they have a laser focus on leads.
The bottom line is analytics and big data will continue to drastically transform marketing and marketing will continue to eat sales… This market will continue to remain very competitive and over time, even the small to medium companies will learn how to analyze all the data that matters. Companies that understand how to holistically evaluate their marketing spend and make correct decisions based on this knowledge will be far-better equipped for what IBM calls digital Darwinism.
See also from TMC's Content Boost division: CEOs Look toward CMOs to Forge Brand Strategy]]>
And having Barry on board carries a great deal of importance. He not only was a VP/GM at Nortel when the company was doing well, he also spent 11 years at Cisco, most recently as SVP & GM UC & VoIP. There was much speculation regarding where he would go after leaving Cisco a few months back.
By categorizing customers into groups, the cloud-based Altocloud solution makes suggestions on which agent would be best to talk with a specific customer at the time they place a call. It's worth mentioning such calls can be initiated via phone or through WebRTC via an app or the web. Moreover, the solution allows you to track user activity so when they engage with the contact center, the agent knows the journey they took on the website or app to get there.
While the customer is waiting to be connected to a live agent, they can see a personalized ad or video which explains something specific to them like why their roaming charges have increased.
Perhaps there is nothing more frustrating than having to explain a situation over and over to an agent in a call center. In fact I recently had an experience with a travel website who confirmed a seat on a flight only to learn later that the seat placement was a "suggestion" and not a "confirmation." This caused a few frustrating discussions with the call center agents and at each juncture, I had to start over.
I will likely not use this service again.
Barry sees Altocloud tackling the next major convergence opportunity. We have seen the merging of the voice and data space. The UC space helped converge the desktop and phone and now the intersection of marketing automation and communications is next he explained.
And what he says makes sense. For example, today, if a caller comes into your call center that is scored as likely to purchase something based on your marketing automation software, how do you prioritize the call? You likely can't. This is why O'Sullivan repeated a few times, "The middle is white space," referring to the opportunity which lies in tying these two areas together.
Moreover, their analytics engine looks to see what actions were taken as a result of their suggestions… Did you click on the video to get more information? When an agent gave you a recommendation based on the system's suggestions, did you take it?
The Alticloud solution is certainly a winner for companies that deploy it. In addition, it's great for consumers who will benefit from better service – thankfully not having to start over, whenever a new agent takes the phone.
One last comment worth making is I perhaps have never seen an acquisition candidate so perfectly positioned - assuming the company is even moderately successful. The marketing automation and communications companies will likely look to grow their organizations into the space in the middle so Avaya, Cisco and Marketo are a few to watch. In the end, it seems to me that Oracle followed by Salesforce are the best acquisition candidates. Time will tell but you read it here first.
In the meantime, here are some graphics that show how the solution works (click each for a larger version):
In this example, a customer has an accident and is able to upload photos and initiate a call with a live agent.
The live agent then able to see the photos, the caller, the reason for the call, the GPS information and more.
In this case, a customer on the web initiates a call about auto insurance after visiting a page relating to home insurance.
The agent is prompted to ask about home insurance thanks to the search history of the caller.
Consumers Union thinks if the merger happens, prices will increase and service will suffer. Peter Radizeski who I consider to be a foremost expert on telecom and M&A hates the deal saying it is terrible for consumers according to his blog on TMCnet. Specifically he says:
"The transaction will generate approximately $1.5 billion in operating efficiencies." IN THEORY! The only operating efficiency will be the reduction in personnel. So even more layoffs in the telecom space. Awesome!
The FCC's sole job is to protect the consumer. This is not a pro-consumer move.
We already have enough too-big-to-fail companies with massive debt and flat markets. Think about that: massive debt and flat markets.
"No one woke up this morning wishing their cable company was bigger or had more control over what they could watch or download," said Craig Aaron, CEO of Free Press, a consumer advocacy group, in a statement. "Americans already hate dealing with the cable guy--and both these giant companies regularly rank among the worst of the worst in consumer surveys. But this deal would be the cable guy on steroids--pumped up, unstoppable and grasping for your wallet."
Another TMCnet writer Tracey Schelmetic pens a piece titled Comcast Can Afford to Buy Time Warner But Not To Improve Its Awful Customer Service? Tracey by the way once got a letter from Warren Buffet with glowing compliments about her writings on customer service so I would take what she says seriously.
Tara Seals authors a somewhat neutral piece about the merger for TMCnet – here are the salient points of concern:
"If Comcast takes over Time Warner Cable, it would wield unprecedented gatekeeper power in several important markets," noted Public Knowledge.
The combined company would also have outsized influence when it comes to negotiating network peering arrangements, especially in light of online video traffic, so it would affect the cost of carrying that traffic for others, certainly a competitive advantage.
"An enlarged Comcast would be the bully in the schoolyard, able to dictate terms to content creators, Internet companies, other communications networks that must interconnect with it, and distributors who must access its content," Free Press added.
Then there's the fact that Comcast already owns NBCUniversal—still a concern, some maintain, even if the regulatory controls in place after that mega-merger are extended to the TWC footprint.
"This merger will…give it control over more than half of the triple-play services that combine TV, phone and Internet service," Free Press said. "Don't forget, Comcast already owns NBC, MSNBC, Universal Studios and tons of cable channels. That means that for most of America, Comcast could control even more of what you see and how you see it."
It said, "Putting this much power in the hands of one company is dangerous. This deal would lead to less consumer choice, less diversity and much higher cable bills."
But with scale comes volume discounts, right? Well not necessarily—from Comcast's point of view, the benefits of getting large seem to end at the consumer pricing mark. Comcast is "not promising that customer bills will go down or will increase less rapidly," Cohen said. "Most of the factors that go into customer bills are factors out of our control." But, it's unlikely that pricing would go up.
Cable companies are fascinating because they are government sanctioned monopolies in their own areas so a merger of two companies doesn't change much since they don't really compete with each other. In other words there should be less concern than if two large oil companies like Exxon and Mobil wanted to merge as their gas stations compete on price on many street corners.
From a competitive standpoint both of these cable companies are seeing an onslaught from the phone and wireless competitors – in many cases from both at once. In fact, a wireless broadband router can easily replace a cable connection and with bonded LTE-A around the corner, the speeds of wireless will actually be faster than wired for many households.
If that wasn't a big enough of a threat, Google Fiber is a solid alternative that will potentially put even more pressure on cable companies. Which would you want, broadband from your phone company or Google broadband with a Chromebook, Chromecast, enhanced Google cloud storage and an Android device thrown in?
Speaking of Chromecast, YouTube, Xbox, Netflix and Hulu are just some of the serious competitors to cable companies at the moment. I wager we all know people who have cut the TV cord at home and are getting all their video from OTT providers.
The reality is this merger gives these companies economies of scale to compete effectively and lower prices if needed.
The flipside to this argument comes from Doug Mohney who writes for TMCnet sister site TechZone360 that Verizon's lowering of prices yesterday is a direct result of competition from T-Mobile. Moreover, this competition comes because AT&T was not allowed to acquire the company. Meaning, the more competition you have in the market, the lower the prices.
A few years back I argued against the T-Mobile acquisition on the basis that small telecom equipment and software companies would be shut out of working with smaller carriers would in-turn negatively impact choice in the market. I am still a believer in this idea and it holds true as a reason to block this merger.
So in the end I am neutral on the acquisition – I think it will be bad for equipment and software companies but it will allow the combined company to compete more effectively with satellite, phone and Google who I expect to become a major force in the market over the rest of the decade.
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IBM CEO-to-be speaks out on the business of being IBM.Samuel Palmisano, president and chief operating officer of IBM, was named the eighth CEO of the Armonk, N.Y., company Jan. 29 and assumes those duties this week. During his 29 years at IBM, Palmisano has headed the PC, server and services businesses at the company. Following a speech to IBMs business partners at PartnerWorld in San Francisco last week, he discussed IBMs strategy with eWEEK Executive Editor Stan Gibson in an exclusive interview. eWEEK: When you retire from IBM, will it still be an integrated company, selling hardware, software and services? Palmisano: Weve debated and discussed this strategically over the last decade and even before that. If you go back to the IBM principles we established in the last decade, it will give you insight into the answer: We are a customer-driven, core technology company. In our e-business model, theres clearly a need to provide world-class technologies in the basic component business as well as in servers and software. Its a fundamental requirement to provide an integrated solution. I dont see that changing. Now if our customers changeif customers are saying, "We want piece parts, we want pure-play fragmentation"that would drive us. I just got back from our CEO conference in Europe. They are right where we are: Its about productivity; its about competitive advantage and cost structures. To do that requires integration. Fundamentally, we do not see that changing.
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Marina Duquesa – Home 121296 Apartment
- 2 bedrooms
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Marina Duquesa – Home 121296
- Apartment
- 2 bedrooms
- 6 sleeps
- min stay varies
Apartment / 2 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms / sleeps 6
Key Info
- Beach / lakeside relaxation
- Child friendly
- Car not necessary
- Air conditioning
- No pets allowed
Description from owner
Marina Duquesa, is the perfect home from home holiday destination overlooking the beach and within easy walking distance of Duquesa Marina's many shops, restaurants, bars and local golf course.
There are four swimming pools, sauna, gymnasium and paddle tennis all within a secure gated community. Centrally located between Puerto Duquesa Marina and the Spanish fishing town of Sabinillas, Marina Duquesa is a modern beachfront apartment complex with underground parking, lifts, marble floor communal areas, sun loungers set in lush tropical landscaped gardens.
Our large 2 bedroom apartment sleeps 6, 3 single beds in one bedroom, and 3 people in the master bedroom which has a double and separate single bed.
Further details
Reservation Deposit and Payment of Balance.
A reservation deposit of £100 is payable with the completed booking form. The full balance is payable no later than 8 weeks prior to the date of departure. If the booking takes place
Marina Duquesa, is the perfect home from home holiday destination overlooking the beach and within easy walking distance of Duquesa Marina's many shops, restaurants, bars and local golf course.
There are four swimming pools, sauna, gymnasium and paddle tennis all within a secure gated community. Centrally located between Puerto Duquesa Marina and the Spanish fishing town of Sabinillas, Marina Duquesa is a modern beachfront apartment complex with underground parking, lifts, marble floor communal areas, sun loungers set in lush tropical landscaped gardens.
Our large 2 bedroom apartment sleeps 6, 3 single beds in one bedroom, and 3 people in the master bedroom which has a double and separate single bed.
Further details
Reservation Deposit and Payment of Balance.
A reservation deposit of £100 is payable with the completed booking form. The full balance is payable no later than 8 weeks prior to the date of departure. If the booking takes place less than 8 weeks before departure then the balance is due immediately. Bank transfer , cheque payment accepted.
Further details indoors
Living room
Leading into the apartment through the patio doors, there is a very spacious living room with two leather sofas, coffee table, TV, DVD player and Sky TV with English Channels.
Kitchen Dinner
In the fully fitted kitchen there is a dining table and chairs, dishwasher, built in cooker, plenty of crockery, cooking utensils, microwave, toaster and coffee maker.
Utility Room
Washing Machine, storage cupboards and hot water tank.
Master Bedroom
One large double bed with wardrobes, TV, DVD player, bedside cabinets, cupboards and en suite bathroom with bath and shower. Plus Single Bed if required.
2nd Bedroom
Three single beds with bedside cabinets, wardrobe in the corridor.
Family Bathroom
The family bathroom has a built in shower..
NB: Cot and Highchair can be arranged for a minimal hire fee.
Further details outdoors
On the sun terrace there is table and 6 chairs ideal for Alfresco dining. The apartment has marble floors throughout and can comfortably sleep 5 adults.
Location description from owner
The Costa del Sol region
The Costa del Sol offers the perfect holiday destination for every type of resort from the lively 24/7 Benalmadena, the swish and stylish Puerto Banus to the more relaxed family orientated resorts such as Duquesa.
Along the Costa del Sol there are many places of interest and things to do.
Granada and the Alhambra Palace
Visit this most elegant of Andalucian cities Granada and Alhambra Palace the most visited Arab monument in Spain, situated inland towards the Sierra Nevada mountains. (Spanish Lakes & Orchards)
This elegant, wealthy city is one of the most beautiful in Andalucia and is home to the Mesquita, the only Mosque-Cathedral in the world, with its beautiful fountains, Alcazar gardens, Roman Baths and the famous Jewish Quarter.
The capital of Andalucia. Visit the majestic Plaza de Espana, La Giralda, the symbol of Seville and the Cathedral, which is the largest in the world .
In Ronda you can explore the old Moorish town, including the 18th century bridge over the famous El Tajo Gorge.
From Tarifa, the fast ferry gets to North Africa in approximately 35/40 minutes. Visit the Caves of Hercules, Medina (old part of town), Souk (shops and market) and Kasbah (fortress), with time for shopping.
Must do Rock tour, shopping, visit Europes only Ape colony and take a Dolphin boat trip.
Including Water Parks, Theme Parks, Dolphin Trips, Watersports, Selwo Park, Aquariums, horseriding and much much more, the Costa Del Sol offers a wide diversity of things to do.
Puerto de la Duquesa is the Costa del Sol's best-kept secret.
Conveniently served by two airports, Malaga (40 - 50 minutes) and Gibraltar (25 – 35 minutes) La Duquesa enjoys an advantageous location west of Marbella. To the East of Puerto De La Duquesa lies Estepona with its traditional town and fishing port, to the west lays Sotogrande which is an exclusive gated resort development in Spain and to the north, Casares with its Moorish cliff-hugging town and spectacular scenery. The whole area is dominated by the Sierra Bermeja Mountains
Among the many attractions are miles of beautiful uncrowded beaches, promenades with bars, restaurants, cafes and services such as supermarkets and an internet / business cafe nestled around the Marina. The choice of eating and drinking options include French, Italian, Chinese, Indian, Thai and, of course, Spanish with its fresh, local fish.
The area retains a vast amount of unspoiled natural scenery and authentic local character, while sharing the fantastic climate and all the excellent services and infrastructure of the rest of the Costa del Sol. The promenade stretches across from Puerto Duquesa to San Luis De Sabinillas, a traditional Spanish fishing town, and a flat walk for a distance of 3 - 4 kilometres end to end. Most commonly known as "Sabinillas" the town has several bars, restaurants and cafes that encourage you to watch the world go by. The local fishermen launch small boats from the beach, returning at night, or day, with their catch. You will often see restaurateurs waiting for their return to select the day's menu. The café and restaurants that face the beach are varied and plentiful, offering a range of cuisine that should meet the needs of all. There is a wonderful market every Sunday behind the promenade towards the inland, selling a variety of crafts, local home grown / made foods and clothing.
Puerto De La Duquesa itself is home to an 18 hole, 70 par golf course. This typical Trent Jones layout demands concentration and straight driving. As one of the most attractive and complete courses in the area it offers numerous facilities and is nestled in the vineyard regions of Manilva and enjoys views of Gibraltar and North Africa. With the last nine holes being played on an incline, this is a scenic and challenging golf course.
Playas Duquesa and Castillo stretch to around 1150 metres across both sides of the blue flag marina. It has a range of rocky outcrops and wide sandy beaches stretching either sides of the Marina. The port and it supporting beaches are popular with families and couples. The Chirunguitos (beach restaurant / Café) provide inexpensive refreshments and the gorgeous outlook is free!
The "blue flag" Sabinillas beach stretches to around 1650 metres between the Puerto de la Duquesa and Manilva, and includes the entire frontage of the town of Sabinillas. Sabinillas beach is also a working fisherman's beach as local fishermen still launch their boats here.The beaches are cleaned daily throughout the summer and several lifeguards and first aiders are available to offer help where and when required. A full range of water sports and beach activities are available on the Sabinillas side of the marina. Both beaches provide plenty of space even during peak season.
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- Great for children of all ages
- No pets allowed
Bed & bathroom
- 1 Double Bed, 4 Single Beds
- 1 Family bathroom, 1 En suite
- Air conditioning
- Shared garden
- Balcony or terrace
- Sea view
- Central heating
- Staffed property
- Sauna
- Table tennis
- Cooker
- Fridge
- Freezer
- Microwave
- Toaster
- Kettle
- Dishwasher
- Washing machine
- Iron
- Satellite TV
- DVD player
- Linen provided
- Towels provided
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- Parking
- Secure parking
- Not suitable for wheelchair users
- Payment
- This owner does not use online booking. Please contact them and they will be able to offer you a secure way to pay for your stay. Never pay for your holiday rental by wire transfer (such as Western Union or Moneygram) as this type of payment is untraceable.
- Smoking
- No smoking at this property
- Cancellation policy
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About the owner
Julie O
- Response rate:
- 60%
- Calendar updated::
- 30 Jan 2017
- Years listed:
- 4
- Based in:
- United Kingdom
- Overall rating:
Languages spoken: English
This Apartment has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and sleeps 6. It's been listed on Holiday Lettings since 12 Mar 2010. Located in Duquesa, it has 8 reviews with an overall rating of 4.5. The average weekly rate varies from £250 to £650.
The Owner has a response rate of 60% and the property's calendar was last updated on 30 Jan 2017.
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Guest reviews
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"Fantastic Holiday"
We have just returned from a 12 night stay in this apartment. We had a wonderful time. Our apartment was spotlessly clean when we arrived. It is the best layout of apartment we have stayed in. We chose the apartment for its location in the complex due to our youngest childs special needs and it did not disappoint at all, We were on holidays with another family and our apartment became the base for its location. The complex is a great location to the beach and the port is only minutes away. We will return to this apartment again hopefully. Also for an extra bit of info is transfer from Malaga, the best way we found was Malaga Cabbie for 86 euro using non toll roads. They were there waiting at the airport and collected on time for us and the other family we were with. Thanks again Mark your apartment and Duquesa have been a great little find for our family.
Bernadette, thank you very much for the 5 star rating and positive review. Our cleaner does work extremely hard to ensure a spotless apartment for all guests and will continue to ensure a very high standard. Pleased you enjoyed your stay and do think of us again. Very Kind regards Mark
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|Amrita Sher-Gil
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|Lahore, Pakistan
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Amrita Sher-Gil (अमृता शेरगिल) (January 30, 1913 – December 5, 1941), was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important women painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of en:Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India. Today, she is amongst Nine Masters, whose work was declared as art treasures by The Archaeological Survey of India, in 1976 and 1979, and over 100 of her paintings are now displayed at National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
Note: All her works are in Public domain in India, hence you may use the tag - {{PD-India}} They are also in the Public Domain in the European Union and all other countries where the copyright expires 70 years after the death of an author, hence {{PD-old-70}} also applies.
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- Amrita Shergill exhibition - well worth visiting
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Hi Victor..
You don't say when you are coming.. There is only one "surfing" beach, and you can only really surf during the winter months, it is quite calm at the moment.
WIll you be renting a car? Where you stay may depend on this.
Also your budget will determine where you stay..
If the sky is the limit then I would say Peter Island or Biras Creek (about700 a night) but if not you may like to stay in Cane Garden Bay or Long Bay. Did you want to rent a villa or stay in a hotel?
If you give me some more info I can give better suggestions..
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Sale of Sahara assets 'herculean task': Arvind Datar
To raise the bail money amount for the release of Subrata Roy, SC has asked Sebi to initiate the process of selling 87 "unencumbered" properties of Sahara group.
Made no 'misleading statement' on Sahara case: Arvind Datar, Sebi lawyer
During the lecture on Friday, Datar had said the Supreme Court had asked Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy not to leave the country when the issue related to a Mumbai property came up.
US Senators honour Mali terror victim Anita Ashok Datar
Datar, 41, died in a Mali hotel siege in November last. She was the only American citizen killed in the deadly attack.
Flipkart hires Google executive Mayur Datar as data scientist
Flipkart has hired senior Google executive Mayur Datar as principal data scientist in a bid to strengthen its core leadership team.
NIA finds a 2008 'Secret Letter' by Lt Colonel Srikant Purohit warning of right-wing terror
The NIA said the matter is still under probe but senior officials of the agency believe that the 'input' may have been generated as an "afterthought".
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Bihar polls: Rebels like Dawood Ali and Srikant Yadav add to suspense in four Buxar seats
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function eval() { eval( ) ; }
function DoWhile_3()
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DoWhile_3( ) ;
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==7571== Invalid read of size 8
==7571== at 0x5781C1: void js::gc::MarkInternal<JSString>(JSTracer*, JSString**) (Heap.h:969)
==7571== by 0x5799BD: js::gc::MarkValueInternal(JSTracer*, JS::Value*) (Marking.cpp:329)
==7571== by 0x579BBE: js::gc::MarkValueRootRange(JSTracer*, unsigned long, JS::Value*, char const*) (Marking.cpp:369)
==7571== by 0x5384B1: js::StackSpace::mark(JSTracer*) (Stack.cpp:527)
==7571== by 0x4567DD: _ZN2jsL11MarkRuntimeEP8JSTracerb.clone.246 (jsgc.cpp:2325)
==7571== by 0x456D37: BeginMarkPhase(JSRuntime*) (jsgc.cpp:2975)
==7571== by 0x45A210: GCCycle(JSRuntime*, bool, long, js::JSGCInvocationKind) (jsgc.cpp:3271)
==7571== by 0x45B38F: Collect(JSRuntime*, bool, long, js::JSGCInvocationKind, js::gcreason::Reason) (jsgc.cpp:3719)
==7571== by 0x56C80C: GC(JSContext*, unsigned int, JS::Value*) (TestingFunctions.cpp:52)
==7571== by 0x47E337: js::InvokeKernel(JSContext*, js::CallArgs, js::MaybeConstruct) (jscntxtinlines.h:426)
==7571== by 0x47A234: js::Interpret(JSContext*, js::StackFrame*, js::InterpMode) (jsinterp.cpp:2744)
==7571== by 0x5F9DDD: UncachedInlineCall(js::VMFrame&, js::InitialFrameFlags, void**, bool*, unsigned int) (InvokeHelpers.cpp:376)
==7571== Address 0xe3000 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
Assuming s-s and sec-critical due to GC related crash. Furthermore, this crash affects mozilla-aurora and mozilla-beta as well.
Just testing some new JSBugMon functionality here.
Should probably learn my own syntax...
JSBugMon: This bug has been automatically confirmed to be still valid on branch mozilla-aurora (reproduced on revision 56d137349efc).
JSBugMon: This bug has been automatically confirmed to be still valid on branch mozilla-beta (reproduced on revision 0540130b5f2f).
JSBugMon: The testcase found in this bug does not reproduce on branch mozilla-release (tried revision 5bcfa0da3be9).
Moving this back a cycle--IGC takes priority.
Created attachment 632965 [details] [diff] [review]
In this test, we have a dead value on the VM stack. It contains garbage--in this case, the tag makes it look like a NullValue, but the low bits are nonzero so that isNull() is false. We do one GC and avoid marking the value because it's dead. However, we don't overwrite it with anything because it's not an object or a string. Later, we do a second GC and try to mark it. isGCThing() returns true because something with a NULL tag counts as a GC thing. But then when we convert it to a Cell and try to mark it, we crash.
The fix is to normalize the low bits of the value while still leaving the tag unaffected.
Am I interpreting comment 3 correctly that this is a regression in Firefox 13, and therefore doesn't affect the ESR branch? Although if we don't know the cause of the regression we might still need it if it was due to a security fix taken on that branch.
qawanted: please find when this bug crept in.
Comment on attachment 632965 [details] [diff] [review]
[Approval Request Comment]
Bug caused by (feature/regressing bug #): Bug 723313
User impact if declined: Low likelihood of GC crashes, exploits.
Testing completed (on m-c, etc.): On m-c.
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): Low. Semantics should be unchanged except when the bug happens.
String or UUID changes made by this patch: None
Regarding ESR, there's no need to take this. It regressed in FF13.
(removing keywords because bug 723313 has been identified as the regressor)
Comment on attachment 632965 [details] [diff] [review]
low risk, sec critical - approving.
JSBugMon: This bug has been automatically verified fixed.
Test is too slow to be added and I did not succeed in rewriting, marking in-testsuite-.


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Business Research Methods
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Human Resource Strategies for the International Manager
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Information Management
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International Business Strategy
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International Economics
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We provide our students with work placements and international opportunities to support them in becoming highly employable, globally engaged graduates, and with one million businesses operating within 20 miles of the University of Westminster, over 84% of our students are in work or further study six months after graduation. Our graduates work in a variety of sectors and organisations, from small/medium-sized companies and start-ups to large not-for-profit organisations and corporates.
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Our central London campuses are ideally located for the city's fantastic learning institutions including libraries, archives and museums, as well as opportunities for shopping, eating out, enjoying London's nightlife or just simply relaxing.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Keelung City Council Speaker Huang Ching-tai (黃景泰), who is also the Kuomintang's (KMT) nominated candidate for the Keelung mayoral election, yesterday was released on a bail of NT$1.2 million by a district court.
The Keelung District Prosecutors' Office on Wednesday requested that Keelung District Court detain and hold Huang incommunicado over allegations of taking bribes and improper lobbying.
After an hours-long detention hearing, the court released Huang on bail around 6 a.m. yesterday. The court explained its ruling, saying that as there is insufficient evidence and motive to prove that Huang may flee the country over an allegation of corruption, the court dismissed the prosecutors' request. The court, however, ruled that Huang must not leave the country.
A judicial panel of the court further noted that as prosecutors have questioned all persons of interest, witnesses and suspects in the case, prosecutors should not worry about Huang colluding with others.
Keelung prosecutors immediately appealed the ruling. The district later transferred the relevant documents to the Taiwan High Court for deliberation.
Stressing that Huang is the city council's speaker, prosecutors argued that he has all the connections and funds h needs to escape Taiwan. Prosecutors added they still need to clarify Huang's statements and they are worried Huang may collude with other suspects or witnesses.
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After stepping out from the district court yesterday morning, Huang told a member of the press that he is innocent, noting that, however, he will respect the prosecutors' jurisdiction.
Huang said that the cash that prosecutors found in his office in the city council building is political donations, adding that he explained the source and the intended use of the money to prosecutors.
Huang went on to say that he has known Jaysanlyn Group (JSL) — a domestic construction consortium — for a long time, stressing that all cooperation with JSL was carried out in accordance with the laws.
Huang added that as the investigation is still ongoing, he could not explain too many details regarding his relationship with JSL to the public at the moment.
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Keelung prosecutors said that during their search on Tuesday, they discovered cash and Chinese yuan worth NT$5 million in a bedroom of Huang's office in the city council building. Prosecutors claimed that Huang could not clearly explain the source of the money.
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Brilliant Uses for Baby Powder
Give sand the brush-off
How many times have you had a family member return from a day at the beach only to discover that a good portion of the beach has been brought back into your living room? Minimize the mess by sprinkling some baby powder over sweaty, sand-covered kids (and adults) before they enter the house. In addition to soaking up excess moisture, the powder makes sand incredibly easy to brush off.
Cool sheets in summer
Are those sticky, hot bed sheets giving you the summertime blues when you should be deep in dreamland? Cool things down by sprinkling a bit of baby powder between your sheets before hopping into the sack on warm summer nights.
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Is the pooch's coat in need of a pick-me-up? Vigorously rub a handful or two of baby powder into your pet's fur. Let it settle in for a couple of minutes, and follow up with a thorough brushing. Your dog will both look and smell great! You can even occasionally "dry shampoo" your own, or someone else's, hair by following the same technique.
Absorb grease stains on clothing
Frying foods can be dangerous business — especially for your clothes. If you get a grease splatter on your clothing, try dabbing the stain with some baby powder on a powder puff. Make sure you rub it in well, and then brush off any excess powder. Repeat until the mark is gone.
Clean your playing cards
Here's a simple way to keep your playing cards from sticking together and getting grimy: Loosely place the cards in a plastic bag along with a bit of baby powder. Seal the bag and give it a few good shakes. When you remove your cards, they should feel fresh and smooth to the touch.
Slip on your rubber gloves
Don't try jamming and squeezing your fingers into your rubber gloves when the powder layer inside the gloves wears out. Instead, give your fingers a light dusting with baby powder. Your rubber gloves should slide on good as new.
Remove mold from books
If some of your books have been stored in a less than ideal environment and have gotten a bit moldy or mildewed, try this: First, let them thoroughly air-dry. Then, sprinkle some baby powder between the pages and stand the books upright for several hours. Afterward, gently brush out the remaining powder from each book. They may not be as good as new, but they should be in a lot better shape than they were.
Dust off your flower bulbs
Many savvy gardeners use medicated baby powder to dust flower bulbs before planting them. Simply place 5-6 bulbs and about 3 tablespoons baby powder in a sealed plastic bag and give it a few gentle shakes. The medicated-powder coating helps both reduce the chance of rot and keep away moles, voles, grubs, and other bulb-munching pests.
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