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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (897)	1/8/2000 10:39:00 AM
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Wherever you go, *there* you are... This long awaited trait of ipdom is upon us. It's beginning to happen. Enjoy, Frank ====================== zdnet.com 3Com CEO touts Palm, phone ties By John Spooner, ZDNN January 6, 2000 LAS VEGAS -- As if you weren't tethered enough -- what with computers, pagers and cell phones -- 3Com Corp., maker of the popular PalmPilot, has developed a way for personal communications to follow you as you travel about. The company is in the process of testing something called Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, which will allow users of Palm organizers to register their identity with devices, such as an Internet phone, allowing communications -- such as phone calls -- to follow them. The announcement underscored a recurring theme here at the Consumer Electronics Show, as several companies talked up their plans for networking the array of electronic gadgets that increasingly crowd daily life. Here's how Having your phone calls forwarded to wherever you are is part of what's being billed as a "more connected life," 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS) CEO and President Eric Benhamou said during his keynote speech at the giant exhibition Thursday. "It's a fact that we're living in a more connected life," he said. Benhamou demonstrated by using a Palm to register his identity on an Internet telephone -- simply by beaming. Palm users can use an infrared port on the device to transfer data to other Palm devices. Benhamou essentially took the phone over as his own. After doing so, he received an "important" phone call. He then used it just as he would use his phone at home or at work, he said, by using the Palm to beam the phone numbers of the people he needed to contact. 'Pervasive networking' "Our vision is called pervasive networking," Benhamou said, citing the networking of billions of computers, the explosion of cellular phone use to over 1 billion users over the next three years and the growing use of home networks. 3Com's goal is to deliver the "glue," in this case the technologies ranging from SIP to wireless networking hardware for the home, that makes the more connected life possible. SIP is being tested now in labs and should go into field trials later in the year.