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Christelle Radomsky
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Voice 2.0 – Emergance
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I found an interesting link from an article in Business 2.0 pointing to a company in Canada, Iotum. Food for thought, enough so that I’ll spend a few days worth of comment time on the article. It surrounds what author Alex Saunders calls Voice 2.0, which he defines as the collison of the internet and telecom industry and evolution of voice into a full fledged application. What we are seeing today – Vonage and Packet8 harvesting a year or two of public confusion by offering all you can eat pricing of basic phone service- is being rapidly supplanted by Skype. He mentioned two others I had not heard of – Peerio and Phone Gnome - but two facts jumped out: During the first quarter of 2006, North American landline attrition doubled. He claims 10,000 cancellations on landlines per day.
And not only will the migration accelerate, the meter will be off. Right now, the only meter running in the VoIP world is a charge for access to the PSTN. What happens when the crossover point occurs and instead of you paying Skype to Skype out, you will pay a premium on your landline and cellular bill to connect to the network where the bulk of the people live, work, and communicate.
Where are the opportunities ? He predicts only three billable services: Connectivity, directory and applications. Two out of those three will be commodities, but there is one set of opportunities that you’ll want to hear about – in the second section of the whitepaper. in comments tomorrow.
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A Monthly Newsletter called ‘The Filter” : The public-interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Here is the newsletter signup link for the Filter
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The audio and recorded versions of the TechPodcast Roundtable from March 11. The video of the event contains both the U3 and Podtrac presentations.
CES CD Now Available
The official package of the entire SDR coverage for the CES Convention available in data CD form at the SDR CD Store page.
The book that I spoke about on 3/2 is called “Amusing Ourselves to Death” .
The preface to the book gives a good idea of the basic premise, and specific comments on television. (Remember, this was in the early 1980′s .. the hundred channel universe was not yet revealed )
A more lengthy summary is found at WikiPedia.
Interactive Touchscreen Demo: a video of a really cool touchscreen interface – about ten times better than the Bill Gates demo at CES. Hard to describe, about three minutes long.
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Now a really useful guide to Fixing Windows with Knoppix has appeared online, a reprint of a chapter in the book Hacking Knoppix from Scott Granneman . You might want to plan ahead, print out the chapter and put it alongside a fresh burn of Knoppix STD when you get the call.
I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.
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