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To: Sea Otter who wrote (5040)	2/9/1999 12:11:00 AM
From: stephen wall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

Otter, OK, let me get this straight. MagicTalk, in itself, is scalable, right? The gist of what I get from today's announcement is that MagicTalk will be an add-on premium offering from WirelessKnowledge, which, in turn, will use Eudora as it's aggregated e-mail, news, stock quote, fax offering. Plus the addition of VR announced today. If a customer so chooses to add MagiTalk that service will be ported through GMGC's NOC in a tiered fashion similar to the Intuit offering but without the aggregated Portico features? Then this makes the VUI, scalable? Also, doesnt this cannabalize Portico, not that it matters much if damn nearly the entire US mobile market will now have a highly visible access route to MagicTalk. stephen

To: Sea Otter who wrote (5040)	2/9/1999 12:56:00 AM
From: ynot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

UP profit based on the eyeballs and getting enough developers to build on their platform and delivering to end users. GM scale--do you know how much bandwidth voice uses? A mixed mode is better and UP has some amazing hidden technology between the microbrowser and the database that will allow them between 3,000 and 10,000 simultaneous users on ONE UNIX server and ONE version of ORACLE. NT, how many servers? NT voice, please. Remember UP is a PHONE with a browser--both. They also have quite a list of developers and are definately looking over their shoulders for SYMBIAN. GM better start motoring.

To: Sea Otter who wrote (5040)	2/9/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Roger Bass	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

Does anyone know about the standards that underlie this kind of voice+(HTML)data response to a query? Has anyone proposed an internet standard for such applications? It doesn't seem like this would go too far (ie building services that are accessible to millions of devices, from multiple vendors) until and unless such standards exist. Clearly the mobile phone vendors would be important in driving this, since they have the biggest installed base of phones with screens. Or maybe GMGC could propose something, since they have the service and (though I know little about it) Magic Phone prototypes and the AutoPC service. It seems to me that there are at least a couple of approaches to this problem. If the connection including voice is over IP, then it clearly is in the internet standards domain. If, on the other hand, there's a voice connection that somehow allows data too, then it seems like more of a modem/mobile telephony standards issue. - Roger.