Cringely has an interesting piece on how the telcos plan to compete with the broadband parasites. The assertion is that they will not damage competing services packet flows deliberately (which has been the speculation), but rather that they will let the Internet’s existing "best efforts" regime do it for them. It’s a strategy that will fail in the long term. You can get excellent sound quality with intelligent end point software — Global IP Sound and Diamondware have both proven this.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
