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Technology Stocks : FunPhone.com planning to go public? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (346)	4/2/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: scouser	Respond to of 647

IP telephony ( and everything else ) will eventually reign, however the largest threat to VOIP is a )the lousy quality, derived from the conectionless best effort delivery ( the funphone sysytem), b) the cost of terminal equipment and c) the telco's lowering the $/min LD charges. One other problem with the funphone ( that's why it is called FUN ) is the posiblity of crossed lines, I would never use it to call my broker. Imagine calling in a buy AOL and it gets mixed up with anothe r broker's line and you shorted AOL , you would then be SOLAOL. Has anyone tried to to FAX , I setup my video port as 2 way and tried it , the resolution is lousy though, just as expected.

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (346)	4/2/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 647

Zev- re:"contains a microphone..." Hi Zev, Thank you for the information "It turns out that virtually every computer system purchased after March 1996 contains a microphone,..." Just to be clear, that information you included is not your opinion, but from the article. Also, it was within the context of the company, so I think it refers to the systems the company purchased and not the systems everyone purchases. I am going to download the freeware and check to see if there is a microphone activated in my PC. I don't think that is the case though. The article describes a corporate situation, and if I am not mistaken, once you are on their premises, they can record and monitor as much as they want. It is their property. Pretty typical corporate stuff. However, an ISP or any other entity that downloads a audio montioring program to my PC without my consent would be a massive invasion of my privacy, and they would be liable. Just my opinion. Thanx again. Jon :)