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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sword who wrote (20954)	3/16/1999 2:32:00 AM
From: ACS_101	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

EFAX -- Sword, I can't tell if your last post is tongue-in-cheek or not, but I think you've way overstated EFAX's technology in your last two posts. EFAX converts a received fax transmission to a file, compresses it, and sends it like any file attached to an email via internet. However, it has to RECEIVE the fax first via a standard fax-to-fax phone call, like any other fax machine. To identify who the fax is intended for, they have a unique phone number for each subscriber; they seem to be giving out phone numbers in underutilized geographies like midwest and southwest for this purpose. This is not rocket science, folks. The part about Windows CE running on appliances is true enough (competitor to embedded Java), but EFAX's faxing service does not add any particular value to this. This is a market that MS, Cisco, Sun, cell phone companies, and other very big $ are after. Software copyrights protect source code (expression of ideas) not the ideas themselves. You have to have a patentable innovation to protect the implementation of a functionality. Alan