Video That Impresses

Simply put, when I speak of the technology of the internet, I'm primarily speaking about 2 or 3 things that we are familiar with, but perhaps never had as much personal control over as now exists. We author, I'm speaking about being able to put down our own thoughts and observations on this internet, we deliver our own streams or files of video and audio and put up our favorite photos. Those tools, the video and audio are able to be delivered with an increasing degree of ease and with an ever growing quality. Yesterday, I added a new link that pertains to video. It highlights the latest capability for delivering or storing video in smaller, more flexible files and seemingly without degradation of the picture quality. In fact the picture quality tends to impress people and satisfy their requirements for a great viewing experience.
Here's that link...
www.3ivx.com/download/index.html

Is Wi-Fi's future up in the air?

The future for quicker and more rapid deployment of Wi-Fi could get a sky-high boost and if that were so, could make the coverage of the network one of totality. To that end, these links furnish you with the story and information from one of the companies working on the solution.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56961,00.html
http://www.sanswire.com/

A very interesting product incorporating Skype phone capability has been introduced by Sony. It's called Mylo.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1209

In the area of phone technology and network technology, there happens to exist one of the most extensive list of acronyms ever compiled. One of the acronyms that symbolizes a particular vendors strength of marketing involves CPE or customer premise equipment. If a vendor has lots of their branded name in your house, that's the mark of great success.

Based on the reality of our fast changing world and where more and more equipment is likely to end up, I propose CBE (Customer Body Equipment). There may be an acronym that takes this into account already, but if not I think CBE sounds entirely appropriate. There is every reason to believe you will soon have every communication tool or toy you want, either on you or near you and available wherever you go.

My imagination never seems to stray away from the idea that getting away from the telcos or getting our services from an entity other than the telcos is a productive, cost savings pursuit.

I still entertain the idea of a Wi-Max end to end network, but expect a combination Wi-Max/Wi-Fi network, preferably with typical phone providers completely out of the picture. If you will note, it usually gets quite expensive to get on an IP network, when you do so through the cellular guys. They give you a limited number of messages or a limited amount of data exchange and if you exceed that, charges can go up quite quickly. The typical fee you are charged isn't exactly all that impressive.

You are going to see the telcos using Wi-Max in the future. That's probably going to be a likely scenario, but don't expect them to offer the Wi-Max the way we should be receiving it. It should be CHEAP. They will need it to complete many of their networks, but don't expect them to pass on their savings. Again, I think you must get away from telcos for cost savings or cheaper offerings.

If you get under some of these new city wide Wi-Fi umbrellas, in some cases you're going to be able to get the Wi-Fi service FREE. Google has enabled one of those free Wi-Fi networks I'm dreaming of, with more to come. Their revenue model will be built on their advertising strength. They'll get dollars from you if they motivate or generate sales from you in their area of expertise, but you will not be paying for Wi-Fi directly. Quite interesting, don't you think? Some of the pay for Wi-Fi city wide systems, like the kind Earthlink has provided, seem to be offered at a very reasonable starting price.

So, you're only one real ingredient away from taking advantage of these wireless IP systems and Wi-Fi. You're about to get salvation from the phone companies and be able to make your calls for next to nothing, if you focus on Wi-Fi and then begin to look in the direction of Skype. Skype may not be the only option, but they are interesting to say the least and have inspired many business partners to use their service to make some independent and unique service offerings.

What keeps you connected now and provides an uninterrupted phone call, deals with multi-band, multi-mode chips in your phone and roaming agreements between phone companies.

Coverage developments which will make this dream a reality aren't fully inplemented just yet, but changes come quickly for Wi-Max and Wi-Fi. One possibility has developed that could represent a quantum leap towards full coverage. This one form of nationwide blanket coverage may be able to be employed more rapidly than any one might have imagined. You'll find information about that technology at the globetel link at the bottom of this article.

Here's my links to some articles that may better echo my ideas or express a similar idea with a bit more clarity. :-)

http://news.com.com/Service+lets+Skype+users+chat+on+cell+phones/2100-7352_3-6036663.html?tag=news

http://www.globetel.net/index.html

http://gigaom.com/2006/07/20/voice-now-nearly-free