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To: Amy J who wrote (181287)	5/20/2005 8:49:15 AM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy J, re "You are assuming cellular companies need to provide VoIP services, in order for cellular standards to superscede Cisco's VoIP standards. " I'll just assume you originally meant ... Cisco's VoIP products aren't very competitive with cellphones in providing voice services to mobile users. Supersede? I think analog, TDMA, and CDMA preceded VoIP using Wi-Fi. Standards? To me, standards means specs like IS-56 (CDMA), IS-2000 (CDMA2000), and 802.11g (Wi-Fi). Ron

To: Amy J who wrote (181287)	5/20/2005 1:09:38 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Information Technology's 'Steadily Improving' Outlook 05.20.05, 12:12 PM ET Banc of America Securities said that based on several analyst days and user conference events there is a "steadily improving IT outlook." Banc of America said that consistent with its "overweight" rating for the sector, a discussion panel of Internet Security Systems (nasdaq: ISSX - news - people ) distributors and value-added resellers "confirmed the particular strength in the incrementally improving IT outlook for 2005." The research firm noted that SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) announced partnerships with other tech firms, such as Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) "in an effort to provide a more customer-centric development environment, based on enterprise services architecture." Microsoft's Xbox 360 will deliver multimedia and online features similar to the Media PC in a move clearly aimed at a broader audience outside of the core 18- to 34-year-old demographic of gamers, Banc of America said.