Key word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.com/information.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.com/image.htm
The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
http://www.wiredbrain.com/NEXUM.htm a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
http://www.wiredbrain.com/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.com/symbian.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.com/broadband.htm
High Speed Internet by Soliton
The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales provide the profits.
They will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.com/disintermediation.htm
The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/ for current
updates Indeed, Yahoo
has just announced a strategy to capitalize on this move,
bringing "Yahoo Everywhere" to European mobile phones!
Steve Boom, Yahoo Europe's director of business development,
explains in the June 10 IDG News (http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=11320) that, "...of near-infinite dial tone; ...a claim
that only the wireline industry can make today."
We still need a name for the UCD: UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE
or "information - communications - appliance - utility-
network computer, cable or wireless black box modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), play station,
boom box, CD, DVD, VHS, camera, VCR, telephone, wireless, cordless, portable, TV,
radio, pager, laptop, notebook, library, GPS, map, yellow pages,
combat walk and talk and call in air strikes more". Technology is going to make the world around us smart
as we move away from proprietary architectures to a standards-based
ecology of information.
"We want to make sure the experience [Yahoo users] get from
the phone is a full Yahoo experience."
And Yahoo also has
designs on set top boxes and other new communicating, computing,
appliances...
Others are working on moving the Internet right to your pocket as
well - British Telecom, AT&T Wireless and other big players,
is now working towards implementing IP, the protocol that powers
the Internet, right over the airwaves to your pocket cell phone (http://www.totaltele.com/secure/view.asp?ArticleID=22675&Pub=tt&categoryid=0). And this, according to Ericsson's senior
manager of wireless strategy Filip Lindell, could mark,
"...the end of the circuit-switched telecommunications world."
Such activity is not just taking place in Europe. Motorola and
Sun have entered into an agreement http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=
mot&script=410&layout=7&item_id=35469) to implement a wireless IP infrastructure
beginning in 2001 that would provide the wireless equivalent,
The market for the bandwidth and the appliances is
global - with billions of clients world wide.
The money is in software now moving from "programs" to
content. The content will be interactive media that includes
program functions. ISP such as AOL, will provide multimedia E-mail
as a word processor that can handle graphics, photographs, soon
video and data files. The browser becomes a universal systems
package do all the most common functions as plug-ins. The USB
universal serial bus ties to printers, sound and video systems,
play stations, phones, keyboards and voice commands, other
appliances and services. Microsoft-NBC-General Electric, merge
into a convergence of media and communications services. Time-Warner,
the News Corp., Disney-ABC, are positioning themselves for the
transformation of many business into one. The current crop of
Internet stocks are unlikely to be very important.
Other business includes finance, matching buyers and sellers, and
a thousand other ideas and items. The ISP becomes a bank and
travel agent, department store, and service center. Wal-mart,
Sears and other may need their own ISP. Clients will pay the ISP
for telephone service, cable, lease of hardware, Internet, credit,
and may buy their insurance, tickets, or dishes from a company
they trust, so it all adds up.
A limited set of functions and libraries in or around a CPU, with
the capacities of a play station, will run a package of on demand
utilities called from the network. Once there is a break in the
bandwidth, your browser can quickly call down any packages it may
need - high speed smart updates means you don’t have to have
everything stored. Office systems can do this now but are afraid
to be pioneers with arrows in their backs. Once Sun, Oracle, IBM
or others really have high performance objective networks there
will be no need for the bloated windows operation systems.
The market often is as slow as the political process in facing
the inevitable forces of technology and social history. Cartels
and semi-monopolies are the natural outcome of free competition
because organizations can join together to control markets.
The robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century, such
as Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Stanford, Dupont
controlled steel and oil, railroads and chemicals. General Motors
president Alfred P. Sloan worked with the du Pont's to control
the auto market. A U.S. Court of Appeals finds that Aluminum Co.
of America (Alcoa) held a 90 percent monopoly in U.S. aluminum
ingot production before the war, a monopoly enjoyed by the
Mellons for more than half a century. See RCA (NBC - Victor )
below..
Sun's McNealy portrays perils of running the Wintel 'gauntlet' )
( Windows/intel )
http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnews2.inp
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., one could easily
draw the conclusion that most of the ills in the computer
industry stem from one company and one company only.
The charismatic McNealy used large portions of his keynote
address here Thursday at Sun's JavaOne developers conference, as
well as a subsequent press conference, to paint Microsoft Corp.
as a ruthless monopoly destroying companies and promoting a
flawed business model.
" The market economy works until somebody gets so much market
power that they are beyond market principles," he said.
McNealy said Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop through the
Windows operating system enables it to sell "bloat"
like Office 2000 that people have to buy.
" The other opportunity it has is to go out and buy little
companies that wouldn't normally be successful, bundle them into
their Windows or Office hairball and use their lock-in and
monopoly leverage to make them successful and drive everyone else
out of business," McNealy said. "That makes everybody
want to sell their company for a price lower than they want to
because if you're not the one bought, you're done."
One of the best examples of how new technologies can be dominated
by powerful forces that control standards was the companion
development of hardware ( Radios, phonographs, and then
television ) as well as soft ware, the programming, records and
content necessary to sell the product. People won’t buy
radios or TV if there are no stations, there can’t be
stations until people have radios or TVs. RCA supported the
networks in order to sell radios. Then they made more from the
broadcasting then they did from hardware.
Sarnoff, David, 1891–1971, American radio and television
pioneer; b. Russia. He worked for the Marconi Wireless Co.,
winning recognition as the narrator of the Titanic disaster (1912).
After the Radio Corp. of America absorbed (1921) Marconi, Sarnoff
became general manager. As president (after 1930) and chairman of
the board (from 1947) of RCA, he played a major role in the
development of television.
A superheterodyne circuit developed by U.S. Army Signal Corps
major Edwin Howard Armstrong, 26, became the basic design for all
amplitude modulation (AM) radios. It greatly increases the
selectivity and sensitivity of radio receivers over a wide band
of frequencies (see 1906; FM, 1933). Radio Corp. of America (RCA)
was founded by Owen D. Young (see 1919) who loans Ernst
Alexanderson to RCA which will employ him as chief engineer for 5
years (see 1906). RCA acquired the Victor Co. and become a radio-phonograph
colossus but anti-trust court actions will separate RCA from GE (see
VICTROLA, 1906; NBC, 1926). David Sarnoff urges marketing of a
simple "radio music box." The American Marconi Co. says
his plan will make the radio "a ‘household utility’
in the same sense as the piano or phonograph" (see 1912;
1920).
American radio and television pioneer who proposed the first
commercial radio receiver and in 1926 formed the National
Broadcasting Company. The first vinylite phonograph record
appears in October. RCA-Victor issues a new recording of the 1895
Richard Strauss work Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, but
vinylite will not displace shellac until the perfection of long-playing
records (see 1948).