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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (62403)	4/21/2005 3:42:06 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Iraq cost the US taxpayer $ 300 Billion ... And all I got was this lousy T-shirt ! beta.news.yahoo.com

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (62403)	4/21/2005 5:32:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Dear me Ray, you really aren't a tech geek are you? <CDMA? It's so yesterday. Here's the hottie today: skype.com > CDMA is the technology which enables Skype to be used on the move. People need both. You are a little late with the news. I've been an enthusiastic user of Skype for over a year now. Tarken-san [our oldest offspring] was instrumental in getting it into Livedoor Japan as the Japanese sole agent. You can even see him here promoting it [the male, not the female] skype.livedoor.com Horie, the boss and major shareholder in Livedoor, is the bloke in the green shirt below and to the left of Tarken - you can skype him and leave a message [or maybe even have a chat, though his Engrish isn't much good]. Skype can't work on the move without a device to run the software and pass the bits through the aether to the base station. CDMA is one of the few technologies which are available to do that. Flarion has OFDM which they are trying to get going. GPRS can't do it. GSM is useless. TDMA no good either. cdmaOne isn't good enough either, but 1xRTT will do it, barely. But 1xEV-DO, W-CDMA are needed to really make it hum. Skype is just software which sits in your device and runs through cyberspace to other users. The other users don't even need to have an internet device themselves. They can receive calls on their normal phones. So now you know, the more that Skype is used, the more that CDMA will be used and the greater the royalties received and the more ASIC sales and BREW sales and gpsOne sales and Eudora2Go sales that QCOM will make. Skype will run on WiFi too and I am hoping that my investment in WiFi provider RoamAD will be made profitable by Skype. People need applications and voice over WiFi is an excellent tool when on the move, or at home, or work. RoamAD WiFi is now up and running in Perth Australia roamad.com People can download Skype to their WiFi gadget and talk for no charge to other Skype users around the world, with better quality than on normal PSTN calls. The bad experiences of internet voice calls are over. I've been keeping a graph of Skype's development and started a stream specially for Skype: Message 21237185 In Auckland, one can buy a Harrier cyberphone, which has Microsoft's Pocket PC, download Skype and start using Skype, paying data charges [which are extortionate as Telecom NZ and most service providers are not much interested in maximizing usage and profits - they prefer to rip off a few customers than get a reasonable fee from millions]. As competition gets going, prices will come down and people will use Skype on the hoof. CDMA is so today! It's the highway to the future. It will carry all the cyberspace traffic directly to you, where you choose to be, not at the end of a cable. Skype calls will be included in that traffic. No CDMA = No Skype on the hoof. Mqurice