That book documents how market-leading companies have missed game-changing transformations in industry after industry computers (mainframes to PCs), telephony (landline to mobile), photography (film to digital), stock markets (floor to online)—not because of "bad" management, but because they followed the dictates of "good" management.
As the convergence between the PC, telephone and television speeds up, broadband will enable IP (Internet Protocol) telephony, video conferencing and home networking.
But get ready to consider this in new installations, or anywhere people want to completely interconnect phones, computers and the Internet, because a couple of companies have started to sell PC-based telephony equipment that completely changes the relationship between a business and its telephony gear [see Sidelines PC as PBX. ].
Traditionally, the medical telemonitoring systems have consisted of home telecare units that send biosignals or medical alarms to the medical premises from a PC connected to the fixed telephony network [7].
In 2007, Gartner[1] estimated that the global impact of the ICT sector (considering PCs, servers, cooling, fixed and mobile telephony, local area network, office telecommunications and printers) is 2% of the global CO2 emissions, which is approximately the same as fuel consumption from the airline industry.
This reflects the subsuming of currently separate hardware telephony functions into the base functionality of each PC, and the explosion of software it will unleash.
The reason: The growth of PC-based systems and the demise of dedicated voice processing systems will put downward pressure on prices, and computer telephony integration will become a standard item on most PCs by 1998.
In the technology industry, consumers have enjoyed free PCs, free e-mail, free Internet service, free storage, free telephony.
Several companies are offering PC microphones that allow users to use voice-recognition programs, even Internet telephony, without the bother of being wired to the computer.
Since speech, which will increasingly drive these devices, uses up a lot of power and memory, that is a crucial advantage.But what motivates Symbian's parents more than anything is that, as computing and wireless telephony converge, they do not wish to end up like PC makers low-margin assemakers low-marginittle more thassemblersibuthat chareelittlemoreosofthanintellectual property.
