Re: UKNM: Internet appliances in the home (was Ranty philosophy)

[Laurence Grayson]

The trouble is (as with most things), too many companies have different

ideas about where the driving technology is coming from and want the biggest

piece for themselves.


The Cisco box could just as easily have a Sony, Panasonic or Philips logo,

with an I-Link (IEEE-1394 or FireWire) network router inside. Heck - I

wouldn't be surprised if Micro$oft wasn't planning to get in on the action

(perhaps with an Intel-based USB2 solution?)


The reason that the revolution has barely begun is because everyone's waving

different banners around in different parts of the city.


Er. That was supposed to be witty - but just came out as rather strange.


Cheers!

Laurence

----- Original Message -----

From: Martin Lloyd <

martindomino [dot] com

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To: <

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 6:02 PM

Subject: RE: UKNM: Internet appliances in the home (was Ranty philosophy)



> One box, sits under the stairs like a gas meter, probably says Cisco on

the

> side. (Co-branded with your telco) Handles all your home connections, next

> to your power points are ethernet points, or if you bought in the second

> phase of these boxes there's a 'powered by bluetooth' logo on it and

another

> slave box upstairs, cutting down on the need for wires. It also features

its

> own firewall and maybe has a bolt on net nanny feature.


[Sam says: msg chopped, see:

http://www.chinwag.com/uk-netmarketing/archive/archive-dec-2000/msg00216.sht

ml



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