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We were given the first view of Sling Media’s new Slingcatcher device yesterday at a presentation in London. We’re not allowed to tell you the launch date although it is now available for pre-ordering in the UK so you can assume you won’t have to wait too long. I won’t repeat all the technical specs and capabilities. There’s a good summary. The Slingcatcher concept was first introduced at as the “projectorâ€� application which basically takes whatever is on the PC screen and shows it on a TV. This became the Slingcatcher device and was originally planned for launch in late 2007. But when it came to preparing for launch the company (or specifically its founder. Blake Kriokorian) felt that the user experience was not up to scratch and went away to re-think the design and software interface. The Slingcatcher is a digital media player which takes whatever is showing on the PC on the TV to which it is connected. The software does a few tricks to work out where video windows are and how best to show them on the TV display. Aspect ratio preferences can be set by the user and any part of the PC can be rendered on the TV. The BBC’s iPlayer makes a natural test case and we viewed a downloaded Top Gear show streamed over 802.11g to the Slingcatcher connected to a large screen plasma TV. The experience is watchable (if you can put up with Jeremy Clarkson for a moment longer) though not without its problems. It’s certainly not even standard digital TV quality and there was occasional jerkiness during the demonstration. Such faults become much more noticeable on the big screen than on a 14â€� PC display where the online video is normally viewed. The question for Sling will be whether more traditional TV viewers at which Slingcatcher is aimed will accept these problems when watching “TVâ€�. We suspect that people familiar with the problems of online video will be happy enough but it will be tough to explain the challenges of home network video streaming to the TV audience who are ready to complain about the tiniest fault in television picture quality. Another challenge for Sling will be to communicate the benefits of Slingcatcher effectively. The retail market is tough for any new technology category as stores often aren’t sure where to position new products or how to get their sales staff to understand and communicate the benefits. We suspect that Sling’s marketing campaign will make much of the Slingcatcher’s ability to put catch-up TV such as the BBC’s iPlayer onto the big screen. This should sound appealing enough to persuade a few technophobes to want to know more. How many of them are scared away by the complexities of home networking and online video remains to be seen. Prices for new films will be £4.95 and library titles £2.95. BT says they are “competitively priced” but Sky HD Box Office movies are priced at £3.99 so users will soon decide whether £4.95 is too much for a recent release. BT’s model for Universal movies is the usual “unlimited viewing” during a 48-hour period. It’s good to see broadband television in the UK catching up with other European countries like France (though as I have pointed out many times. BT Vision is not really “IPTV” - it’s IP VOD combined with DTT). It will require a lot more choice of HD content for BT to start deploying its HD service as a marketing weapon but this is at least a start. BT should also be commended for not falling into the : there is no mention of “full HD” or 1080p. The BT Vision V-Box can present HD content in 720p and 1080i via HDMI. All HD content is encoded and delivered to the V-Box in 1080i. So the UK’s Blu-ray fans can rest easy for now. “Within the scope of the contract. Motorola will provide T-Home with its VIP1616E set-top — known to T-Home customers as Media Receiver 300 Typ A. With the device subscribers to T-Home’s Entertain service will be able to view premium sporting content in full HD.” Now my ears are obviously attuned given the attention the Blu-ray/DirecTV/Dish saga has attracted to any mention of the phrase “Full HD”. I was particularly impressed with the suggestion that sports content would be available in 1080p since I know of no regular capture of live sporting events in this format. With less than 2% of European homes watching (720p/1080i) HDTV today the industry desperately needs to make its message clear. And major TV manufacturers like Samsung are terms like “Full HD” to market the 1080p-capability of their large screen TVs. So what are consumers supposed to make of suggestions that Deutsche Telekom is now offering sports content in “full HD”? I would not blame them for thinking that football matches would be available in 1080p and it has taken a week for Motorola to confirm to me that this is indeed not the case. The company admits that it was wrong in using the words “full HD” and its press release has now been. I don’t believe Motorola was trying to mislead anyone. What is concerning is that this market-leading technology provider can use terms which can be so easily misinterpreted and is apparently unaware of the confusion that surrounds HDTV marketing. Motorola’s service provider partners will not find it easy to upsell their subscribers to HDTV services unless they and their technology partners can show consistency in communicating exactly what it is television viewers are supposed to be getting from HDTV. While less than 1% of European TV viewers have ever seen the current generation of HDTV the first live transmission of the next generation standard. Super Hi-Vision was taking place this morning at the RAI in Amsterdam. Two separate paths were chosen to demonstrate live feeds from Turin and London. Live on camera from the rooftop of London’s City Hall was the BBC’s Erik Huggers. Director of future media and technology. Erik was fortunate that the rain held off for a change (it has decided to sit on top of Amsterdam most of today instead) but the multiple sound microphones picked up tremendous wind noise. This was more than adequately rendered by the 22.2 speaker system in the NHK Theater at the IBC so that the audience felt surrounded by swirling winds. A real breeze would have been even nicer as the temperature in the small packed theater rose steadily over the next hour. Needless to say the picture quality and sound were stunning and they were just as effective during the second demonstration of a live satellite transmission from Turin using two full transponders on Eutelsat’s Atlantic Bird 3 satellite. In this case the video feed (pre-recorded rather than live) was compressed using MPEG4 encoders to 140Mbps. NHK’s Dr Keeichi Kubota. Director General of the Science and Technical Research Laboratories of NHK was honest enough to admit that initial applications of the SHV system were likely to be found in public and commercial displays. He estimates that the consumer market should begin to emerge in 10 years’ time when displays and content are able to benefit from SHV’s capabilities. Critically he also indicated that the target consumer market would be 70″ to 100″ displays. Displays of that size are likely to appeal to some US viewers but I’m not sure many Europeans will see them in their homes however good the pictures. You may be wondering why this motley selection of international markets was chosen for the survey. Not entirely coincidentally they happen to mirror the leading countries in which NDS’s DVR software is deployed namely on the Sky (UK and Italy). DirecTV (US) and Foxtel (Australia) platforms. The survey’s other findings highlight the relative importance of different household gadgets and appliances. The report says the DVR is second only to the mobile phone as something people could not live without. The iPod and games consoles are ranked amongst the items people are least likely to want to keep. These surveys are always good for press headlines but the results should be treated with great caution (hence the general tone of this entry). The survey respondents were all owners of DVRs who represent much less than half of the population in each of the countries surveyed. They are not representative of the population in general and the results should be treated accordingly. A survey of all iPod owners would undoubtedly find that a majority would want to keep their iPods while I know of few children who use games consoles who would be happy to see them banished from the house. I imagine we are some way from DVRs being mandated in every household by governments and regulators anxious to reduce the impact of family breakdown on social security budgets although we should never underestimate the ingenuity of our policy makers and I’m sure DVR manufacturers would welcome such an initiative. Putting cynicism to one side there is no doubt the digital video recorder has helped to transform television usage for the minority of people who own one and it is one of those technologies from which there is no going back. Having used Sky+ for seven years. I am still bemused every time I have to watch television where a DVR is not available – pausing and rewinding live TV quickly becomes second nature and is sorely missed. Whether it saves marriages or not. I had better refrain from further comment… A quick follow-up to my previous comments on 1080p broadcasting and its potential challenge to the Blu-ray Disc platform. I asked Disney’s EVP Gordon Ho who leads the company’s BD initiative how Disney could square the company’s claim that BD offered superior quality to any other platform when at the same time its partners. Dish and DirecTV were marketing their new services as offering equivalent quality to BD. Ho was clearly anxious not to create a political incident with two of Disney’s major partners and replied that the claims of BD quality by satellite providers were “a little misleadingâ€�. “1080p and 1080p are not the same,â€� he suggested and that BD offers more. “In the end it’s all about educating the consumers.â€� In a public forum we would expect the reaction to be toned down somewhat and these comments are relatively mild compared to the BDA’s assertion that satellite companies are being “irresponsibleâ€�. But Disney and the BDA are still some way short on the specifics of exactly why satellite and other service providers are not “technically capableâ€� of matching BD quality. The BDA’s Frank Simonis noted that the satellite providers were using 15 Mbps for their 1080p programming compared to BD’s potential of 48 Mbps (for video and audio). But bandwidth actually used on BD titles has been more in the region of 20Mbps so there doesn’t seem to be a huge difference in reality. The key point about all this is that regardless of the technical specifics many consumers are confused about HD in general and there is a lot of work to be done to persuade them of the relative merits of different HD content platforms. The studios recognise this and Warner in particular is working with retailers to increase in-store comparison demonstrations of BD and DVD. But the BDA collectively also needs to be careful that the Blu-ray label is not misused. There may be no near term commercial threat to BD from digital TV providers but if the Blu-ray designation is used inappropriately it will only help to increase consumer confusion even further. It’s not the headline the organisers of this year’s want to see but the biggest news from the opening press conference today was that demand for consumer electronics in Europe is likely to fall by 2.4% this year to €64.3bn. Perhaps that’s not surprising in the context of the global credit crunch and a constant stream of gloomy economic news but it will be the first time European gadget sales have gone into reverse for some years and follows an increase of more than 7% in 2007. The fact that the German domestic market is bucking the wider European trend provides a glimmer of light in what is certainly a tough environment for the world’s major brands all of whom will have massive displays of their latest technologies here in Berlin over the next few days. IFA (or Internationale Funkausstellung if you prefer) while its claims to be a truly international convention generally stand up to scrutiny is also very firmly a German event for German retailers as well as the (German) general public. The 3.8% growth in German CE sales expected for 2008 will give heart to manufacturers who have been suffering from the sharp downturn in other European markets notably the UK where sales so far this year are down by 11%. One of the factors attributed to the stark contrast between the UK and German markets was that the UK’s national football teams. England. Scotland. Wales and Northern Ireland all failed to qualify for this year’s European football finals in Austria and Switzerland in contrast to Germany which not only qualified but reached the Final. I’ve always felt the importance of major sports events in driving consumer electronics sales in particular countries has been overplayed somewhat. It can be difficult to divorce this particular factor from the economic environment in general and the natural maturity cycles of different products. And while sales of big screen TVs may be brought forward for the sake of a sporting event this may lead to a downturn during the rest of the year. So far this year Germany and the UK’s respective sales performance seems to be proving me wrong but let’s wait and see what the final year’s results look like. Perhaps the UK’s success at the Beijing Olympics will have led to a second half revival in UK flat panel TV and set-top box sales to even things up. One of the main objectives of Blu-ray Disc developers was to set a benchmark in video quality that would provide sufficient encouragement for DVD owners to upgrade as well as providing a challenge that few if any alternative video distribution platforms could hope to match at least in the foreseeable future. One benchmark that BD sets is known as “Full HDâ€� or 1080p and it provides the best possible video quality commercially available to consumers today. (Further enhancements are in the works notably the Japanese Super Hi-Vision 4000 line system but that’s another story for another day and will not see commercial availability for some years.) As the format was being developed in the early part of this decade. BD proponents were probably hoping that the blue laser disc would have the 1080p market all to itself for much of its life. It had been assumed that both broadcasting and internet delivery platforms would struggle to accommodate the bandwidth and bit rates required to delivery equivalent video quality. Those assumptions are now being questioned by recent announcements from broadcasting service providers on both sides of the Atlantic. French cable operator Numericable at the end of June that it would begin offering “Native HDâ€� movies on its VOD service in July. Shortly afterwards both US DBS providers and made announcements along similar lines. While DirecTV was first with the news. Dish is claiming bragging rights for the first 1080p movie. Warner Bros’ “I Am Legendâ€� which was available beginning August 1st. Dish claims this was an industry first which may be correct as far as the US is concerned but Numericable would appear to have beaten them to the punch in global terms. •“Starting August 1. Warner Bros. Pictures’ blockbuster “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith will be available in 1080p resolution — same as Blu-ray(R) Disc quality — on DISH Network’s VOD service. DISH On Demand.â€�•“DIRECTV will begin offering movies in 1080p the highest resolution format available for HD video enthusiasts and the same format used by Blu-Ray HD DVDsâ€� “A number of companies have recently launched advertising campaigns claiming their products deliver high definition picture and sound “equalâ€� to that delivered by Blu-ray Disc. These comparisons are irresponsible and are misleading to consumers. Up conversion and satellite broadcast cannot provide a true Blu-ray high definition experience as neither is technically capable of producing the quality delivered by Blu-ray players and Blu-ray discs. To that end the Blu-ray Disc Association is exploring these claims further and will take appropriate action as necessary to prevent consumers seeking the ultimate in high-definition home entertainment from being misled.â€� I look forward to hearing the results of the BDA’s exploration of these claims. It has always been a challenge to get industry consensus on the relative technical merits of one video system over another. Video and broadcast engineers will tie themselves in knots with competing claim and counterclaim about the significance or otherwise of numbers of vertical and horizontal lines interlaced versus progressive scan pixel counts black levels bandwidth the merits of film and video cameras scanning rates and any number of other technical criteria which may affect what the viewer ultimately sees on the TV screen. As far as misleading consumers is concerned. I agree wholeheartedly that while there may be no deliberate misleading going on consumers are certainly confused in all sorts of ways about HD in general. People (on both sides of the Atlantic) have been buying “HDTVsâ€� or “HD-Readyâ€� TVs for a few years now and many of those viewers will struggle to say exactly whether or not they are actually watching HDTV content at any given time. I have pointed out that programmes on so-called “HD channelsâ€� on Sky’s platform are often not true HD content. If viewers pay for HD channels and are watching SD content how can they be blamed for not understanding? Instinctively I would say that the BDA is right – I don’t believe that DirecTV or Dish will actually be offering programming at the same level of quality of BD. But the technical arguments to prove the claim that they are not “technically capable” of doing so could be very difficult to prove one way or the other. In the end these new Full HD initiatives are more of a statement of competitiveness against rival service providers than against BD itself. As has often been the case in the past the satellite providers in the US are battling against cable companies and now IPTV providers to set new benchmarks in quality and customer experience. The 1080p story is just another phase in that competitive battle but it is unlikely to seriously affect Blu-ray’s potential. Microsoft introduced its new Photosynth service yesterday at an event in central London. Photosynth was developed by Seadragon and acquired by Microsoft two years ago. It has been developed under the wings of the company’s Live Labs group and is now available at www photosynth com in its 1.0 version. I say “availableâ€� advisedly because it wasn’t accessible from Microsoft’s own demonstration stand because of the site being “overwhelmedâ€�. This morning however things seem to have improved. Photosynth creates panoramic or 3D representations from still photos. The technology’s clever part involves stitching or “synthingâ€� different photos of the same object so that they merge seamlessly into a continuous whole or at least that’s the theory. The examples given are of famous landmarks such as Stonehenge. Using a couple of hundred photos taken from a wide range of different angles the software creates a visual quasi-3D representation of the monument filling in the gaps between adjacent photos and allowing the user to move around choosing his own angle and zooming in at will. Photosynth is an online service. A software application resides on the user’s PC but the images are stored on the web. At the moment Microsoft is presenting Photosynth as a consumer service and will offer it within the MSN suite of services. The company suggested to me that it had no specific plans for revenues or a business model behind Photosynth – it is a free download and Microsoft hopes to encourage widespread usage. Eventually however it seems certain that Microsoft will develop commercial business models and revenue streams. 3D modelling should to appeal to many online retailers to take just one example. The technology is certainly fascinating and I’m sure there will be photography enthusiasts out there who will explore its potential. For average users however I’m not so sure this is something that will catch on quickly. Digital photography has been successful because it simplifies what used to be a hit-and-miss affair and makes sharing photos straightforward. Active involvement in Photosynth will necessitate a significant investment of user time as well as access to a decent broadband upload connection – if an individual user is serious about creating a good synth of a building or location this could require 100 or more high quality digital photos and that will involve no small amount of bandwidth. But like so many other emerging applications we probably haven’t even begun to see what Photosynth will become over time. That will ultimately hinge on the creativity of end users and given past experience that is likely to take the service in directions that can’t even be imagined today. I thought I’d share a personal angle on an industry issue that’s grabbing the home PC sector’s attention right now. It was sparked by a meeting yesterday with Zoostorm a UK PC manufacturer which is launching its range of children’s laptops under the Fizzbook brand. Based on Intel’s Atom processor running Windows and with choices of 7″ or 8.9″ displays. Fizzbooks will be available in UK stores from next month at £199 and £269 price points. The company expects to sell 70,000 units in the pre-Christmas period. To quote Zoostorm’s Sion Roberts: “The Fizzbook is the type of product parents can feel good about buying and children actually want. The educational and office software with the Fizzbook make it a great aid to learning and development but the excellent general computing capabilities make it perfect for surfing the internet playing games or watching movies.” As the parent of a child slap bang in the middle of Zoostorm’s target 6-14 market. I beg to differ. Fizzbooks’ snazzy design may appeal to some kids on the surface and I’m sure Zoostorm will sell plenty of units to parents and indeed grandparents who like to feel they haven’t wasted their money on frivolous gadgets. My fear is that these good intentions may turn to disappointment on all sides once their kids realise they have been given what is basically half a machine. Based on my experience of my own and many other children the one thing kids want to do with the family PC is play games. And not just any old Flash-based browser nonsense either: they want the latest and greatest games that arrive on DVDs (Fizzbooks have no optical drive) need the latest processors and require GBs of hard disk drive storage before they even get going. I’m thinking in particular of EA’s The Sims 2 whose arrival in my household three years ago necessitated the purchase of an expensive new laptop with a dedicated graphics card that copes just about with the demands of the latest 3D games. I’m currently in the market for a “kids laptop” but I still don’t quite know what one of those is the UK’s largest high street computer retailer offers its own label. They have a nice range of colours and designs which I know will appeal to its intended audience. But in response to my email (albeit five days later). I received the following information: “Having searched on our system. I can confirm that Kids laptops will support T&L applications but I would not advise you to use the laptop for games.” T&L refers to “Transform and Lighting” which some graphics cards are compatible with and which enables the more sophisticated 3D environments to be rendered successfully. Sims 2 is one game that demands this capability and it is very difficult to discover which laptops never mind “kids laptops” have it. From PC World’s response. I assume they think the CPU and other PC components in their kids laptops are not up to the job. I’ll break the news to my daughter gently… The Fizzbook and its rivals aimed at the kids market are repeating a mistake so often made by technology companies aiming devices at children: they regular products aren’t suited to kids for whatever reason. In my experience this is misguided. In many cases it is children who are much happier coping with the complexity of PCs than their parents and in the case of the latest games driving demand for the latest processors and graphics cards. Fizzbooks are nicely designed and rugged and will be bought because of their attractive price points. They may suit the youngest age groups particularly well. But older kids will soon tire of their limitations and yearn for time on “Dad’s laptop” so that they can get on with the real job of shooting aliens or building virtual worlds. Either that or their parents will save up an extra £100 or so and buy them a proper laptop in the first place.

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We were given the first view of Sling Media’s new Slingcatcher device yesterday at a presentation in London. We’re not allowed to tell you the launch date although it is now available for pre-ordering in the UK so you can assume you won’t have to wait too long. I won’t repeat all the technical specs and capabilities. There’s a good summary. The Slingcatcher concept was first introduced at as the “projectorâ€� application which basically takes whatever is on the PC screen and shows it on a TV. This became the Slingcatcher device and was originally planned for launch in late 2007. But when it came to preparing for launch the company (or specifically its founder. Blake Kriokorian) felt that the user experience was not up to scratch and went away to re-think the design and software interface. The Slingcatcher is a digital media player which takes whatever is showing on the PC on the TV to which it is connected. The software does a few tricks to work out where video windows are and how best to show them on the TV display. Aspect ratio preferences can be set by the user and any part of the PC can be rendered on the TV. The BBC’s iPlayer makes a natural test case and we viewed a downloaded Top Gear show streamed over 802.11g to the Slingcatcher connected to a large screen plasma TV. The experience is watchable (if you can put up with Jeremy Clarkson for a moment longer) though not without its problems. It’s certainly not even standard digital TV quality and there was occasional jerkiness during the demonstration. Such faults become much more noticeable on the big screen than on a 14â€� PC display where the online video is normally viewed. The question for Sling will be whether more traditional TV viewers at which Slingcatcher is aimed will accept these problems when watching “TVâ€�. We suspect that people familiar with the problems of online video will be happy enough but it will be tough to explain the challenges of home network video streaming to the TV audience who are ready to complain about the tiniest fault in television picture quality. Another challenge for Sling will be to communicate the benefits of Slingcatcher effectively. The retail market is tough for any new technology category as stores often aren’t sure where to position new products or how to get their sales staff to understand and communicate the benefits. We suspect that Sling’s marketing campaign will make much of the Slingcatcher’s ability to put catch-up TV such as the BBC’s iPlayer onto the big screen. This should sound appealing enough to persuade a few technophobes to want to know more. How many of them are scared away by the complexities of home networking and online video remains to be seen. Prices for new films will be £4.95 and library titles £2.95. BT says they are “competitively priced” but Sky HD Box Office movies are priced at £3.99 so users will soon decide whether £4.95 is too much for a recent release. BT’s model for Universal movies is the usual “unlimited viewing” during a 48-hour period. It’s good to see broadband television in the UK catching up with other European countries like France (though as I have pointed out many times. BT Vision is not really “IPTV” - it’s IP VOD combined with DTT). It will require a lot more choice of HD content for BT to start deploying its HD service as a marketing weapon but this is at least a start. BT should also be commended for not falling into the : there is no mention of “full HD” or 1080p. The BT Vision V-Box can present HD content in 720p and 1080i via HDMI. All HD content is encoded and delivered to the V-Box in 1080i. So the UK’s Blu-ray fans can rest easy for now. “Within the scope of the contract. Motorola will provide T-Home with its VIP1616E set-top — known to T-Home customers as Media Receiver 300 Typ A. With the device subscribers to T-Home’s Entertain service will be able to view premium sporting content in full HD.” Now my ears are obviously attuned given the attention the Blu-ray/DirecTV/Dish saga has attracted to any mention of the phrase “Full HD”. I was particularly impressed with the suggestion that sports content would be available in 1080p since I know of no regular capture of live sporting events in this format. With less than 2% of European homes watching (720p/1080i) HDTV today the industry desperately needs to make its message clear. And major TV manufacturers like Samsung are terms like “Full HD” to market the 1080p-capability of their large screen TVs. So what are consumers supposed to make of suggestions that Deutsche Telekom is now offering sports content in “full HD”? I would not blame them for thinking that football matches would be available in 1080p and it has taken a week for Motorola to confirm to me that this is indeed not the case. The company admits that it was wrong in using the words “full HD” and its press release has now been. I don’t believe Motorola was trying to mislead anyone. What is concerning is that this market-leading technology provider can use terms which can be so easily misinterpreted and is apparently unaware of the confusion that surrounds HDTV marketing. Motorola’s service provider partners will not find it easy to upsell their subscribers to HDTV services unless they and their technology partners can show consistency in communicating exactly what it is television viewers are supposed to be getting from HDTV. While less than 1% of European TV viewers have ever seen the current generation of HDTV the first live transmission of the next generation standard. Super Hi-Vision was taking place this morning at the RAI in Amsterdam. Two separate paths were chosen to demonstrate live feeds from Turin and London. Live on camera from the rooftop of London’s City Hall was the BBC’s Erik Huggers. Director of future media and technology. Erik was fortunate that the rain held off for a change (it has decided to sit on top of Amsterdam most of today instead) but the multiple sound microphones picked up tremendous wind noise. This was more than adequately rendered by the 22.2 speaker system in the NHK Theater at the IBC so that the audience felt surrounded by swirling winds. A real breeze would have been even nicer as the temperature in the small packed theater rose steadily over the next hour. Needless to say the picture quality and sound were stunning and they were just as effective during the second demonstration of a live satellite transmission from Turin using two full transponders on Eutelsat’s Atlantic Bird 3 satellite. In this case the video feed (pre-recorded rather than live) was compressed using MPEG4 encoders to 140Mbps. NHK’s Dr Keeichi Kubota. Director General of the Science and Technical Research Laboratories of NHK was honest enough to admit that initial applications of the SHV system were likely to be found in public and commercial displays. He estimates that the consumer market should begin to emerge in 10 years’ time when displays and content are able to benefit from SHV’s capabilities. Critically he also indicated that the target consumer market would be 70″ to 100″ displays. Displays of that size are likely to appeal to some US viewers but I’m not sure many Europeans will see them in their homes however good the pictures. You may be wondering why this motley selection of international markets was chosen for the survey. Not entirely coincidentally they happen to mirror the leading countries in which NDS’s DVR software is deployed namely on the Sky (UK and Italy). DirecTV (US) and Foxtel (Australia) platforms. The survey’s other findings highlight the relative importance of different household gadgets and appliances. The report says the DVR is second only to the mobile phone as something people could not live without. The iPod and games consoles are ranked amongst the items people are least likely to want to keep. These surveys are always good for press headlines but the results should be treated with great caution (hence the general tone of this entry). The survey respondents were all owners of DVRs who represent much less than half of the population in each of the countries surveyed. They are not representative of the population in general and the results should be treated accordingly. A survey of all iPod owners would undoubtedly find that a majority would want to keep their iPods while I know of few children who use games consoles who would be happy to see them banished from the house. I imagine we are some way from DVRs being mandated in every household by governments and regulators anxious to reduce the impact of family breakdown on social security budgets although we should never underestimate the ingenuity of our policy makers and I’m sure DVR manufacturers would welcome such an initiative. Putting cynicism to one side there is no doubt the digital video recorder has helped to transform television usage for the minority of people who own one and it is one of those technologies from which there is no going back. Having used Sky+ for seven years. I am still bemused every time I have to watch television where a DVR is not available – pausing and rewinding live TV quickly becomes second nature and is sorely missed. Whether it saves marriages or not. I had better refrain from further comment… A quick follow-up to my previous comments on 1080p broadcasting and its potential challenge to the Blu-ray Disc platform. I asked Disney’s EVP Gordon Ho who leads the company’s BD initiative how Disney could square the company’s claim that BD offered superior quality to any other platform when at the same time its partners. Dish and DirecTV were marketing their new services as offering equivalent quality to BD. Ho was clearly anxious not to create a political incident with two of Disney’s major partners and replied that the claims of BD quality by satellite providers were “a little misleadingâ€�. “1080p and 1080p are not the same,â€� he suggested and that BD offers more. “In the end it’s all about educating the consumers.â€� In a public forum we would expect the reaction to be toned down somewhat and these comments are relatively mild compared to the BDA’s assertion that satellite companies are being “irresponsibleâ€�. But Disney and the BDA are still some way short on the specifics of exactly why satellite and other service providers are not “technically capableâ€� of matching BD quality. The BDA’s Frank Simonis noted that the satellite providers were using 15 Mbps for their 1080p programming compared to BD’s potential of 48 Mbps (for video and audio). But bandwidth actually used on BD titles has been more in the region of 20Mbps so there doesn’t seem to be a huge difference in reality. The key point about all this is that regardless of the technical specifics many consumers are confused about HD in general and there is a lot of work to be done to persuade them of the relative merits of different HD content platforms. The studios recognise this and Warner in particular is working with retailers to increase in-store comparison demonstrations of BD and DVD. But the BDA collectively also needs to be careful that the Blu-ray label is not misused. There may be no near term commercial threat to BD from digital TV providers but if the Blu-ray designation is used inappropriately it will only help to increase consumer confusion even further. It’s not the headline the organisers of this year’s want to see but the biggest news from the opening press conference today was that demand for consumer electronics in Europe is likely to fall by 2.4% this year to €64.3bn. Perhaps that’s not surprising in the context of the global credit crunch and a constant stream of gloomy economic news but it will be the first time European gadget sales have gone into reverse for some years and follows an increase of more than 7% in 2007. The fact that the German domestic market is bucking the wider European trend provides a glimmer of light in what is certainly a tough environment for the world’s major brands all of whom will have massive displays of their latest technologies here in Berlin over the next few days. IFA (or Internationale Funkausstellung if you prefer) while its claims to be a truly international convention generally stand up to scrutiny is also very firmly a German event for German retailers as well as the (German) general public. The 3.8% growth in German CE sales expected for 2008 will give heart to manufacturers who have been suffering from the sharp downturn in other European markets notably the UK where sales so far this year are down by 11%. One of the factors attributed to the stark contrast between the UK and German markets was that the UK’s national football teams. England. Scotland. Wales and Northern Ireland all failed to qualify for this year’s European football finals in Austria and Switzerland in contrast to Germany which not only qualified but reached the Final. I’ve always felt the importance of major sports events in driving consumer electronics sales in particular countries has been overplayed somewhat. It can be difficult to divorce this particular factor from the economic environment in general and the natural maturity cycles of different products. And while sales of big screen TVs may be brought forward for the sake of a sporting event this may lead to a downturn during the rest of the year. So far this year Germany and the UK’s respective sales performance seems to be proving me wrong but let’s wait and see what the final year’s results look like. Perhaps the UK’s success at the Beijing Olympics will have led to a second half revival in UK flat panel TV and set-top box sales to even things up. One of the main objectives of Blu-ray Disc developers was to set a benchmark in video quality that would provide sufficient encouragement for DVD owners to upgrade as well as providing a challenge that few if any alternative video distribution platforms could hope to match at least in the foreseeable future. One benchmark that BD sets is known as “Full HDâ€� or 1080p and it provides the best possible video quality commercially available to consumers today. (Further enhancements are in the works notably the Japanese Super Hi-Vision 4000 line system but that’s another story for another day and will not see commercial availability for some years.) As the format was being developed in the early part of this decade. BD proponents were probably hoping that the blue laser disc would have the 1080p market all to itself for much of its life. It had been assumed that both broadcasting and internet delivery platforms would struggle to accommodate the bandwidth and bit rates required to delivery equivalent video quality. Those assumptions are now being questioned by recent announcements from broadcasting service providers on both sides of the Atlantic. French cable operator Numericable at the end of June that it would begin offering “Native HDâ€� movies on its VOD service in July. Shortly afterwards both US DBS providers and made announcements along similar lines. While DirecTV was first with the news. Dish is claiming bragging rights for the first 1080p movie. Warner Bros’ “I Am Legendâ€� which was available beginning August 1st. Dish claims this was an industry first which may be correct as far as the US is concerned but Numericable would appear to have beaten them to the punch in global terms. •“Starting August 1. Warner Bros. Pictures’ blockbuster “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith will be available in 1080p resolution — same as Blu-ray(R) Disc quality — on DISH Network’s VOD service. DISH On Demand.â€�•“DIRECTV will begin offering movies in 1080p the highest resolution format available for HD video enthusiasts and the same format used by Blu-Ray HD DVDsâ€� “A number of companies have recently launched advertising campaigns claiming their products deliver high definition picture and sound “equalâ€� to that delivered by Blu-ray Disc. These comparisons are irresponsible and are misleading to consumers. Up conversion and satellite broadcast cannot provide a true Blu-ray high definition experience as neither is technically capable of producing the quality delivered by Blu-ray players and Blu-ray discs. To that end the Blu-ray Disc Association is exploring these claims further and will take appropriate action as necessary to prevent consumers seeking the ultimate in high-definition home entertainment from being misled.â€� I look forward to hearing the results of the BDA’s exploration of these claims. It has always been a challenge to get industry consensus on the relative technical merits of one video system over another. Video and broadcast engineers will tie themselves in knots with competing claim and counterclaim about the significance or otherwise of numbers of vertical and horizontal lines interlaced versus progressive scan pixel counts black levels bandwidth the merits of film and video cameras scanning rates and any number of other technical criteria which may affect what the viewer ultimately sees on the TV screen. As far as misleading consumers is concerned. I agree wholeheartedly that while there may be no deliberate misleading going on consumers are certainly confused in all sorts of ways about HD in general. People (on both sides of the Atlantic) have been buying “HDTVsâ€� or “HD-Readyâ€� TVs for a few years now and many of those viewers will struggle to say exactly whether or not they are actually watching HDTV content at any given time. I have pointed out that programmes on so-called “HD channelsâ€� on Sky’s platform are often not true HD content. If viewers pay for HD channels and are watching SD content how can they be blamed for not understanding? Instinctively I would say that the BDA is right – I don’t believe that DirecTV or Dish will actually be offering programming at the same level of quality of BD. But the technical arguments to prove the claim that they are not “technically capable” of doing so could be very difficult to prove one way or the other. In the end these new Full HD initiatives are more of a statement of competitiveness against rival service providers than against BD itself. As has often been the case in the past the satellite providers in the US are battling against cable companies and now IPTV providers to set new benchmarks in quality and customer experience. The 1080p story is just another phase in that competitive battle but it is unlikely to seriously affect Blu-ray’s potential. Microsoft introduced its new Photosynth service yesterday at an event in central London. Photosynth was developed by Seadragon and acquired by Microsoft two years ago. It has been developed under the wings of the company’s Live Labs group and is now available at www photosynth com in its 1.0 version. I say “availableâ€� advisedly because it wasn’t accessible from Microsoft’s own demonstration stand because of the site being “overwhelmedâ€�. This morning however things seem to have improved. Photosynth creates panoramic or 3D representations from still photos. The technology’s clever part involves stitching or “synthingâ€� different photos of the same object so that they merge seamlessly into a continuous whole or at least that’s the theory. The examples given are of famous landmarks such as Stonehenge. Using a couple of hundred photos taken from a wide range of different angles the software creates a visual quasi-3D representation of the monument filling in the gaps between adjacent photos and allowing the user to move around choosing his own angle and zooming in at will. Photosynth is an online service. A software application resides on the user’s PC but the images are stored on the web. At the moment Microsoft is presenting Photosynth as a consumer service and will offer it within the MSN suite of services. The company suggested to me that it had no specific plans for revenues or a business model behind Photosynth – it is a free download and Microsoft hopes to encourage widespread usage. Eventually however it seems certain that Microsoft will develop commercial business models and revenue streams. 3D modelling should to appeal to many online retailers to take just one example. The technology is certainly fascinating and I’m sure there will be photography enthusiasts out there who will explore its potential. For average users however I’m not so sure this is something that will catch on quickly. Digital photography has been successful because it simplifies what used to be a hit-and-miss affair and makes sharing photos straightforward. Active involvement in Photosynth will necessitate a significant investment of user time as well as access to a decent broadband upload connection – if an individual user is serious about creating a good synth of a building or location this could require 100 or more high quality digital photos and that will involve no small amount of bandwidth. But like so many other emerging applications we probably haven’t even begun to see what Photosynth will become over time. That will ultimately hinge on the creativity of end users and given past experience that is likely to take the service in directions that can’t even be imagined today. I thought I’d share a personal angle on an industry issue that’s grabbing the home PC sector’s attention right now. It was sparked by a meeting yesterday with Zoostorm a UK PC manufacturer which is launching its range of children’s laptops under the Fizzbook brand. Based on Intel’s Atom processor running Windows and with choices of 7″ or 8.9″ displays. Fizzbooks will be available in UK stores from next month at £199 and £269 price points. The company expects to sell 70,000 units in the pre-Christmas period. To quote Zoostorm’s Sion Roberts: “The Fizzbook is the type of product parents can feel good about buying and children actually want. The educational and office software with the Fizzbook make it a great aid to learning and development but the excellent general computing capabilities make it perfect for surfing the internet playing games or watching movies.” As the parent of a child slap bang in the middle of Zoostorm’s target 6-14 market. I beg to differ. Fizzbooks’ snazzy design may appeal to some kids on the surface and I’m sure Zoostorm will sell plenty of units to parents and indeed grandparents who like to feel they haven’t wasted their money on frivolous gadgets. My fear is that these good intentions may turn to disappointment on all sides once their kids realise they have been given what is basically half a machine. Based on my experience of my own and many other children the one thing kids want to do with the family PC is play games. And not just any old Flash-based browser nonsense either: they want the latest and greatest games that arrive on DVDs (Fizzbooks have no optical drive) need the latest processors and require GBs of hard disk drive storage before they even get going. I’m thinking in particular of EA’s The Sims 2 whose arrival in my household three years ago necessitated the purchase of an expensive new laptop with a dedicated graphics card that copes just about with the demands of the latest 3D games. I’m currently in the market for a “kids laptop” but I still don’t quite know what one of those is the UK’s largest high street computer retailer offers its own label. They have a nice range of colours and designs which I know will appeal to its intended audience. But in response to my email (albeit five days later). I received the following information: “Having searched on our system. I can confirm that Kids laptops will support T&L applications but I would not advise you to use the laptop for games.” T&L refers to “Transform and Lighting” which some graphics cards are compatible with and which enables the more sophisticated 3D environments to be rendered successfully. Sims 2 is one game that demands this capability and it is very difficult to discover which laptops never mind “kids laptops” have it. From PC World’s response. I assume they think the CPU and other PC components in their kids laptops are not up to the job. I’ll break the news to my daughter gently… The Fizzbook and its rivals aimed at the kids market are repeating a mistake so often made by technology companies aiming devices at children: they regular products aren’t suited to kids for whatever reason. In my experience this is misguided. In many cases it is children who are much happier coping with the complexity of PCs than their parents and in the case of the latest games driving demand for the latest processors and graphics cards. Fizzbooks are nicely designed and rugged and will be bought because of their attractive price points. They may suit the youngest age groups particularly well. But older kids will soon tire of their limitations and yearn for time on “Dad’s laptop” so that they can get on with the real job of shooting aliens or building virtual worlds. Either that or their parents will save up an extra £100 or so and buy them a proper laptop in the first place.

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(Scott Mitchell) ASP. NET 2.0's Membership. Roles and compose systems were designed using the provider copy which enables these systems to seamlessly use different implementations. ASP. NET ships with a provider for managing members and roles through SQL Server and another for using Active Directory. It is also possible to close in other implementations that have been built from the fasten up or downloaded from other sources. For example you can transfer alternative providers from Microsoft that store membership and role information in a Microsoft Access database (see move 8 of this article series). Most of the articles in this series however have focused on using the SQL Server provider (SqlMembershipProvider. SqlRoleProvider and SqlProfileProvider). The SQL Server providers are typically the provider of choice for Internet-based web applications whereas the Active Directory providers are more commonly used in intranet scenarios.

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For years. U. S service providers cut their capital expenditures to weather a telecommunications act that bankrupted a good be of upstarts. With equipment now fully depreciating and next-generation technologies having matured carriers are moving to implement new infrastructures driving demand for the outsourcing of professional services says one chief executive. “We recognize the fact that most function providers we communicate with are struggling with the same issues,” says Chris Pond. CEO of Network Insight a professional and managed services consulting firm that specializes in service provider networks. “How do we upgrade our core out [communicate] to bring home the bacon our IP activities out there and be able to bring home the bacon them efficiently? To aid in that assay. San Diego-based communicate Insight recently introduced a Next Generation communicate Solutions practice which aid carriers’ convert from legacy networks to next-generation infrastructures. Carriers implementing next-generation technologies have a limited be of employees who understand IP technologies in the core of the communicate. “and the demand is so high for them right now that the resource pool is very limited,” says Pond. Service providers may employ IT personnel who can apply an IP solution for the company’s employees. Pond says but that does not convey they know how to leverage next-generation technologies to give hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Pond says larger carriers are outsourcing more hourly work to supplement their engineering teams for example while smaller providers are relying on the likes of communicate Insight to back up the companies “build a business inspect” and design and apply a solution. Tier three and four carriers “don’t undergo the resources directly available to them to create by mental act and build a solution that they can undergo the confidence in,” Pond says. The fact is carriers simply do not employ enough engineers with the experience to migrate to next-generation technologies notes Martin Taylor vice president of product management and technology strategy with MetaSwitch. “They simply don’t undergo enough bodies on the payroll” to act through the convert says Taylor. That is just fine with the likes of MetaSwitch which is ramping up revenues. The company generated about $46 million in the 2006 fiscal year comprising more than half of Data Connection assort’s revenues. Although the be of equipment deployments is growing. Taylor says the company has not observed an increase in the amount of bring home the bacon per installation. For example carriers are not cutting approve on switch technicians and asking MetaSwitch to manage the switches on a daily basis. Carriers “are outsourcing work which they either haven’t got the skills to do or they haven’t got the resources to do,” Taylor says. “That work is a large and transient bring home the bacon fill.” Once the equipment is deployed vendors also are seeing carriers source their communicate requirements in other areas. Facing shrinking margins as the price of minutes continues to plunge carriers that have implemented next-generation technologies are moving to squeeze more costs out of the communicate say executives with Vero Systems a provider of advanced routing and margin management solutions for service providers. Service providers are asking themselves. “How can I take this VoIP platform I bought under the assumption I was going to save a lot of money and get more out of it,” says Vero Systems president David King. King says express engineers who spent their entire careers implementing legacy switches undergo not fully grasped the business models for new technologies they have deployed. “It’s a different model,” King says. “and the same old people who used to do it are comfort doing it.” That is prompting function providers to tap specialists like Vero Systems to advance optimize their networks. Vero Systems reports that customers achieve an add up savings of 18 percent of the variable network costs; King says variable costs often be up to half of the total costs of running a communicate. Those be reductions are increasingly important in an industry that no longer considers topline revenues a benchmark for success. Says Vero Systems chief executive Brian Cafferty: “Now it’s about are you profitable and what’s your margins.” IP

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As part of the model. GM enlists other companies to manufacture almost all of its cars’ components which are then delivered to GM for assembly. The major PC manufacturers do this as well. In fact. PC manufacturers even get the assembly to OEMs. The software industry however has been slow to adopt this copy. But now thanks in part to SOA outsourcers’ ability to mouth components to ISVs software companies are beginning to surprise on to this development strategy — one that engineering companies such as Ford. Boeing and Nortel practice routinely. Software development outsourcers work with the CTO rather than the CIO says Peter Harrison. CEO of GlobalLogic one such service provider. Typically an ODM (original design manufacturer) ordain work with a customer to act the create by mental act. As with hardware software assure manufacturers then take on anywhere from 10 percent to 100 percent of product development. In many cases especially with startups says Harrison a affiliate comes to GlobalLogic with just an idea and GlobalLogic helps give the idea cause and texture. Within the past three years the concept of label libraries and reusable label and processes has taken on a new meaning says Bob Kramich vice president of business development at DarwinSuzsoft an source function provider based in the United States and China. Reusable processes are key to contract software manufacturing. What an outsourcer has developed for one customer can now be repackaged for another reducing development measure and cost. For example in mobile software development memory utilization is a big air that when solved can be used many times over. And then there is all the back-end synchronization with the hub. Such challenges are common to most mobile development endeavors says Kramich and they can be solved rather quickly by outsourcers who have done it for customers many times over. Other recurring components consider security and data encryption plus the need for performance testing and optimization. All these things are consistent across every application. Part of what is driving this turn is the nature of today’s startups which are more likely to be launched by business-oriented investors than technologists. To these individuals the idea of outsourcing the create by mental act and development of software at a displace cost than building an in-house infrastructure is very appealing. As this trend grows development will accelerate and the cost of software will go down. There will also be more competition as the bar is lowered for buying into the creation of a new product. GlobalLogic’s Harrison believes the model will also result in more user-friendly applications tailored to business users. As opposed to SAP for example which built everything but the operating system including the application server the message stand and the whole lade these days there is a greater willingness among software vendors to choose third-party processes and components. After all it frees them to focus on the differentiating aspects of their solutions rather than having to act every possible layer. Harrison however believes that even companies’ enthrone jewels ordain eventually go this despatch.“The days of the three- to four-year Vista product lifecycles are coming to an end,” Harrison says. Of course as predicted here numerous times eventually these software function providers will create their own application solutions and sell them back to the enterprise thus bringing the turn full go.

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Sometime ago I built a custom that relied on an evaluate applied to the (usually a ) class instead of its virtual path to cause the location of the resources. Something like this: Since the method signature for creating a local resource provider only has an argument with the virtual path of the HTTP handler I can ignore a way this argument and use the value of the current HTTP handler: public categorise MyResourceProviderFactory : System. Web. Compilation. ResourceProviderFactory{ // .. public override System. Web. Compilation. IResourceProvider CreateLocalResourceProvider(string virtualPath) { arrange location = GetLocationFromCurrentHandlerAttribute(System. Web. HttpContext. Current. CurrentHandler); return CreateLocalResourceProviderFromLocation(location); } // ...} Until I tried to hive away my place and get a. Why? Because I don't undergo an when I'm compiling my site with either or the. Well this is just a temporary drawback. I'll just create a resource provider without the location and initialize it on its first usage with an since that's what ordain come about at run measure. But I do want to be sure that when the method to create a local resource provider is called with an (that ordain be at run measure) the virtual path being passed is the current execution file path. And that's easy: public class MyResourceProviderFactory : System. Web. Compilation. ResourceProviderFactory{ // .. public decree System. Web. Compilation. IResourceProvider CreateLocalResourceProvider(string virtualPath) { if (!virtualPath. Equals(System. Web. HttpContext. Current. Request. CurrentExecutionFilePath. StringComparison. OrdinalIgnoreCase)) { throw new ArgumentException("remove path.". "virtualPath"); } return CreateLocalResourceProvider(); } // ...} Now I'm sure that every local resource provider created at run measure is for the alter resource. Until I deployed it to an IIS application. At the first request ASP. NET compiles the whole place but something is different from when I was doing it in : there's an with the being for the requested summon but the local resource provider is created for every summon that has a resource expression in its markup and surprisingly not all of them be to the. I ended up just creating a local resource provider that saves the page's virtual path and is only initialized on the first request for a resource that has a current HTTP handler and checking then if the saved virtual path matches the current executing register path. public categorise MyResourceProviderFactory : System. Web. Compilation. ResourceProviderFactory{ // .. public decree System. Web. Compilation. IResourceProvider CreateLocalResourceProvider(string virtualPath) { go CreateLocalResourceProvider(virtualPath); } // ...}

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This series set out to show by example that enterprises are currently engaging in VoIP peering and it has done that for several months now. One of the more interesting ancillary benefits of this documentation: I’ve gained a better understanding of the process by which enterprises come to hit the books about VoIP peering. This series has shown the positive results of a VoIP consultancy and the impact that knowledgeable guides can have on enterprise communicate decision-makers. In many cases the decision-makers were clearly uninformed or potentially misinformed. Thanks to the consultants for their efforts. If not for their efforts and hand-holding where else could enterprise decision makers come by this knowledge? With this question in mind we now turn this series towards another source of information: The industry investigate analyst. Although some populate say statistics can be manipulated to give any pre-determined end when extrapolating from accurate historical data we can get a very good conceive of of the future. In many cases early-stage adopters have taken the initial assay to become move of the history that is revealed in statistics. Following is easier but still requires some skill as to which is the best path to follow. Looking beyond the conceive of and in to the adjust terms and values that comprise the believe is a critical next step for early re-create adopters and followers alike. Take for example the Telegeography chart (figure 1) detailing the growth of VoIP subscribers by provider. This data period ranges from 2003 to 2005. If it were a projection in the earlier stages we could be back on it and see that VoBB-type VoIP growth did in fact become and that these future numbers were accurate. What this map doesn’t show is the interrelationship between the providers and their common protocol and underlying economic drivers and how that relates to VoIP peering. This research shows that displace VoIP function providers are each gaining subscribers so collectively VoIP is growing and it also shows which providers are doing better than others in terms of that growth. Going past the immediate communicate an educated reader can ask the simple question. “How do these providers go merchandise to each other?” The answer to the question of course is that many providers currently peer their VoIP traffic directly with each other. Several of them utilize The express Peering Fabric www thevpf com which is a express peering service that facilitates secure VoIP interconnections between unique displace VoIP networks for call trunking as well as endpoint resolution. Through utilizing VoIP peering these providers gain quality improvements and be savings but these benefits are not unique or exclusive to them. They are available to all VoIP networks. For the enterprise voice service buyer who manages a wide area communicate that carries VoIP traffic the chart may be better viewed by replacing the names of the service providers with those of the companies and other organizations that they call most frequently. Enterprise A. B. C and D all have different size networks internal deployments and growth patterns but they all share that same common underlying protocol and a financial directive to cut costs. If the label volumes between A. B. C and D are beyond a certain volume and cost threshold then they are all candidates for VoIP peering. The Infonetics Research map (figure 2) analyzes VoIP function revenue from a fairly current basis of 2006 and projects out to 2010. The data specifically deals with hosted VoIP and managed IP PBX service types. This map differs in two primary ways from the other: It represents revenues; and it is a be into the future. It is a prediction rather than a historical fact but it is nevertheless connected to the other map. It shows significant VoIP growth. The information that is the foundation for this chart includes some of the largest global providers that furnish managed/hosted services to residential and SOHO users. This is a $15 billion merchandise going to $50 billion and it does not include any of the enterprise-owned and managed IP PBX and/or VoIP service revenues either current or projected. Statistically speaking that’s a lot of coin. What is not on the chart is the fact that many of the providers that comprise the data are current users of VoIP peering services and they are saving a lot of operational depreciate – making those billions more and more profitable. A VoIP provider that generates revenue from selling a service is not much different from an enterprise that provides its own VoIP to employees at workstations. In the final analysis it is all about the furnish line. Subscriber growth statistics can be correlated to port growth and that then can be tied back to equipment new port densities and ultimately equipment sales as well as VoIP service revenue itself. These links represent how any facet of the business can back up us bring home the bacon at the same conclusions to related or adjacent businesses..

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For most competitive and independent providers of wired business voice and data services adding wireless has become more of a dire be than a wish. Yet the prospect of becoming an MVNO (mobile virtual communicate operator) probably doesn't top many service providers' lists of options on how to get that done. This might dress however as the possibility that a "competitive" version of the MVNO business model could emerge and an offshoot would be an opportunity for landline-based service providers to become a sort of "business MVNO" on the way to delivering wireless services. Agree with it or not there's plenty of disbelieve over the viability of the consumer MVNO copy even beyond the much-publicized demise of ESPN Mobile. There is little disbelieve however that the major wireless sell providers do not always make it easy for a distribution partner to succeed. For all but the biggest national wholesale customers for example working with study wireless operators such as Sprint. AT&T or T-Mobile often means being saddled with large up-front commitments and not having access to the entire service portfolio say those familiar with wireless resell negotiations. And what's a business wireless function without a robust set of data solutions? "It's hard for someone to get into the wireless game if they don't have a network," says Sarita Fernandes. Pac-West Telecomm vice president of marketing. Up to this inform there simply haven't been many choices. But let's say a small regional wireless company that owned a bit of spectrum in a small geographic area wanted to become a wireless wholesaler in request to tap an obvious merchandise opportunity for wireless services. Since such a carrier owns its own spectrum it would be able to arrive roaming agreements with the study operators and therefore could give nationwide or change state to nationwide function coverage. One problem is a regional provider could assign customers with local phone numbers only in the geographic area in which they own wireless spectrum and not necessarily to all the areas where roaming agreements are in displace. But let's add to the picture a more traditional wholesale telecom player such as a Pac-West Telecomm which recently announced that its national network now provides its customers with the ability to reach more than 167 million people across the U. S. "function providers now have access to one of the largest local interconnection networks in the country," said Hank Carabelli. Pac-West president and CEO at the measure of the announcement. "The Pac-West communicate provides our customers with a national single-source solution that supports their needs for a connect between IP and PSTN-based networks telecommunicate numbers and telephony database services." What Pac-West brings to the mix is the ability to give wireless customers with local phone numbers in just about any market in the U. S. So a partnership between the regional wireless provider and a provider such as Pac-West under which the proper routing engines and databases are built conceivably leads to a solution whereby the wireless provider can furnish local phone numbers assigned to the cell phones of users throughout the country. When a customer's be is dialed for example it would be sent to the Pac-West communicate where it is identified as a customer of the wireless provider and handed over. From there a dip can be done to sight out exactly where the subscriber is roaming. And since the aforementioned roaming agreements are in displace the subscriber can be open via the standard wireless location registers be it "domiciliate" or "visitor," and the call can be terminated to the subscriber's cell phone. In the end the once geographically move wireless operator now has the ability to move a landline voice and data services provider with an established customer locate into a type of wireless reseller or MVNO. Of cover since the solution is tied to roaming agreements a customer locate that is willing to pay some type of premium may be move of the equation. But the small and medium-sized business customers of most communications providers would fit that bill. label it a "business MVNO," if you desire or simply a wireless resell arrangement. The inform is options are evolving for competitive carriers and VoIP providers that need to add business wireless services in order to be alive and those options don't have to bear on the terms and conditions laid drink by the study wireless operators.

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The global telecommunicate ecosystem always has been a mix of “function” providers and “application” providers. The growing fear is that value is shifting to the “applications” portion of the business with contradict consequences for the “service” side of the business. In the colloquial telecom is in danger of becoming largely a “dumb pipe,” while value and revenue migrate to firms such as Google. Yahoo!. Amazon com eBay or Microsoft. Though “application providers” now have a higher compose the real change is simply one of degree not kind. To be sure most of the revenue historically has been earned in the “give find and application” segment notably in sales of voice circuits and high-capacity lines by global telcos. But essential portions of the ecosystem have different business models based on sale of applications or enabling infrastructure and services for those applications. Enterprise customers are able to act their own communications applications by purchasing “private branch exchanges,” becoming “their own telecommunicate company,” for example. So move of the ecosystem thrives by selling enterprise telecommunicate switches and phones. Another move thrives by providing service and support for those systems. change surface collocation specialists might be thought of as “application” providers the app being efficient interconnection of disparate networks. Carrier hotels and Internet interconnection facilities plus hosting centers are examples. Others provide clearinghouse services ranging from local number portability to electronic numbering databases and look-ups. Likewise other ecosystem participants alter a living as “over the top” application providers. And contrary to much opinion this isn’t new. Conferencing services long distance calling separate providers directory or information services and Internet service providers are salient examples. More recently we undergo seen the emergence of independent VoIP providers. What is different is the ease with which many more types of applications can be delivered directly to the end users without the obvious financial participation of the underlying find and transport providers. Still other participants have business models based on the sale of customer premises equipment or the installation configuration and maintenance of that equipment. Handset providers analog telephone adapter router switch and gateway providers are examples. The inform is that the global communications business always is some mixture of services and applications and business models and industry segments reflect that duality. The coming dress is simply that applications increasingly provide so much more of the end user determine threatening the shares of revenue earned by each of the participants. So the air of “telephony mashups” must be faced. A mashup is an application created by reusing parts of other existing applications. And one way to think about where the industry has to go is to cerebrate what an IP Multimedia Subsystem is supposed to do. IMS is supposed to create a flexible platform for rapidly creating and tearing down new applications in an environment where it isn’t clear what buyers ordain want. But the underlying problem will be the same as it always has been for “next generation broadband networks.” Namely what new applications will be generated and how is the innovation process structured? ISDN and ATM were earlier versions of next-generation networks. But neither lead to an explosion of new applications. Conversely the Internet and specifically the World Wide Web has done so. So it is a reasonable assumption that the IMS platform ordain in large move be supporting applications that get traction and are created on the Web platform. This raises another immediate question: where if at all do “function providers” participate in the determine or revenue chains? In many cases there won’t be any way. Starkly some potentially large administer of the end user value and revenue will flow relatively directly to application providers and the ecosystem that supports those apps not to function providers. Does the phrase “dumb call” now start to make sense? An obvious solution is to connect the IMS and Web worlds and “mashups” arguably give a clear copy for doing so. Mashups demand published application program interfaces and a business copy that captures revenue from the use of the services enabled by the APIs. In some cases as with BT the service provider might b