Part of Bluetooth's slow uptake is due, in part, to the fact that implementations from different vendors are often not interoperable. This is a symptom of vendors working from a SIG specification. Expect this to change when the IEEE finalizes BT in its 802.15 standard.
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The reason for the original ban was that AOLTM could use its marketshare and its regional cable monopoly. It was conceivable that AOLTM might find ways to throttle competing AV chat clients, forcing users onto AIM's AV chat.
Does anyone see this becoming the justification for war on a world scale?
What happens when enough people are unemployed, when every news station has adopted FoxNews jingoism, when US pride rests solely on its military might?
Is it reasonable to expect that our standard of living will remain constant as India and China raise theirs by taking "our" jobs? Where and when does everything break?
Products like this already exist. The ones I'm aware of pair a GPRS card with an 802.11 access point. Good for use with workgroups at remote sites, since sysadmins are notoriously unwilling to allow visitors onto the local networks.
You've missed the distinction between producing and developing technology. Qualcomm has done an enormous amount of research, without their work CDMA would not have developed to the point where it is now. This is in no way similar to people (like that Fernandez jackass) who just patent ideas.
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Part of Bluetooth's slow uptake is due, in part, to the fact that implementations from different vendors are often not interoperable. This is a symptom of vendors working from a SIG specification. Expect this to change when the IEEE finalizes BT in its 802.15 standard.
The reason for the original ban was that AOLTM could use its marketshare and its regional cable monopoly. It was conceivable that AOLTM might find ways to throttle competing AV chat clients, forcing users onto AIM's AV chat.
Your Patent/Copyright theory is way off base. It doesn't matter if the IP is stolen overseas: it still can't be sold in the US.
IP law is all about protecting access to markets. The incentive to innovate is essentially the promise of exclusive access to consumers.
Does anyone see this becoming the justification for war on a world scale?
What happens when enough people are unemployed, when every news station has adopted FoxNews jingoism, when US pride rests solely on its military might?
Is it reasonable to expect that our standard of living will remain constant as India and China raise theirs by taking "our" jobs? Where and when does everything break?
Products like this already exist. The ones I'm aware of pair a GPRS card with an 802.11 access point. Good for use with workgroups at remote sites, since sysadmins are notoriously unwilling to allow visitors onto the local networks.
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