Archives for the "Telephony" tag
Future Tense – IPzation
Google returns 0 results for this at the time I’m writing this entry. The concept of IPzation, in my view, is that everything electronic interaction is moving to a level where the communication will happen over an Internet Protocol layer. We are already starting to see the beginning of that phenomenon with Voice Over IP, [...]
Tags: Advertising, Google, Telephony, VOIP, Video
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Future Tense – Always On
Readers of this site know that I’m a proponent of living an always connected lifestyle. My previous views on the subjects looked to applications that lived partly on the edge of the network and partly off it, a class of applications I called Hybrid Computing. As broadband access to the net becomes more prevalent, those [...]
Tags: Broadband, Electricity, Google, Telephony, United States
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2005 Predictions: Keeping the Score
So it’s that time of the year. As is the case every year, I’m reviewing the predictions I made last year and looking at the score. Voice Over IP The big surprise here was the acquisition game. When I made the predictions last year, i thought that the acquirers would be larger telcos. However, companies like Ebay [...]
Tags: MP3, Motorola, Telephony, United States, VOIP, Yahoo, content management, eBay
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Modular by Design – Telephony
Another area where the modular approach is starting to have an impact is in the telephone service arena. Traditionally, telephone service was offered on a land line and was divided into local service, long distance, and extra features like caller ID, call forwarding, etc… The model was predicated on the concept of one device (the phone) [...]
Tags: AT&T, China, Europe, France, PDA, Telephony, United States, VOIP
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Modular by Design – Cable TV
Having looked at how the modular by design approach impacted broadcast television, let’s now look at its impact on cable TV. The FCC and the cable TV industry recently came head to head when it comes to a la carte pricing . The concept of a la carte pricing is that consumers would be able to [...]
Tags: Broadband, Cable TV, Telephony
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Modular by Design – Introduction
I’ve been looking at the different trends in digital media and have started developing a common theory in terms of the issues relating to music, TV, phone service, weblogs, and software and the impact the Internet has on all those business models. From there, I came to a conclusion that what the Internet does well [...]
Tags: Cable TV, Telephony, digital media
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