Cisco Patents the Triple Play

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 13, 2006 @02:46PM from the there-goes-the-old-ball-game dept.

Aditi.Tuteja writes, "Cisco was recently granted a patent on a 'system and method for providing integrated voice, video and data to customer premises over a single network.' Sound a lot like 'triple play?' Yes it is. The patent, which was filed back in 2000, describes a system that would allow consumers to receive all of their home services through one service provider instead of two or three. The patent's wording seems broad enough to cover nearly all existing implementations of triple play, and some are worried that Cisco will try to wield the newly granted patent against such providers as AT&T and Comcast. If such a thing were to happen, progress on AT&T's Project Lightspeed could slow even more."

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All your cash are belong to us by davidwr · 2006-10-13 14:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And tonight, on NBC:
All your cash are belong to us

RING RING
"Hello"
Voice: "All your cash are belong to us"

File->open url: www.p0rn.com
<title>All your cash are belong to us</title>

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Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Re:From a non-American by Skippy_kangaroo · 2006-10-13 15:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Don't you cricket folks have something like that?

Nope.

For a start, there are only two batters on the field at any one time, so a double play is the most you could ever get.

And second, once you get one person out the ball is dead and you can't go for a second out.