IPTV

The economist has an article on IPTV - a direction in which most traditional telecom players seem to be moving in.

With major cable firms enticing customers with a "Triple-play bundle" of TV, Broadband and telephony services, Mobile operators and thirdly VOIP providers.

IPTV is the last ditch effort from Telecom providers to stay in the race. There seem to be lots of legal and technical hurdles for now between them and IPTV.

But assuming they do provide users with the required bandwidth, will they be able to ensure that the user is not putting the available bandwidth to buy third party services from other providers.

"If you cant beat them, join them.", thats the strategy some others like the indian Telecom giant VSNL are adopting. VSNL plans to buy Teleglobe, the worlds largest VOIP Provider.

"Every big telecoms firm is investing to migrate from old, circuit-switched networks to new internet-based ones, with Britain's BT probably moving fastest."

With BT, Verizon, SBC all taking their first steps towards IPTV. We should hope to hear and see more of it very soon.

Terms to look out for: NGN, IMS ...

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Had a long lazy weekend. But things continue to move at a hectic pace all around. Its another Manic Monday!!!

Windows : A Long Journey

An awesome site that traces the history of Windows all the way from QDos to Windows Vista.

http://www.levenez.com/windows/history.html#04

And a sneak preview of the Windows Vista..

http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category1012.aspx

Google Homepage : A Class Act

Check the new google homepage out : http://www.google.com/ig/

And click on personalize your homepage.

A panel slides out from the left and Google has it all here. It acts as an RSS Reader. You can add your own RSS Feeds. Just drag and drop feeds anywhere you want on the screen. You dont need to download an Aggregator anymore.

You have your mail, news, weather any other feeds that you want - all in one page.
And they've done it in style.

Cost of Microsoft Monopoly : $10 Billion

A recent whitepaper calculates the cost of Microsofts Monopoly to the industry as $10 Billion.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1434243&from=rss/

Microsofts Response to Google Earth

Checkout http://virtualearth.msn.com/ ..

This is to go live on the 25th of July...