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Web Based Services and
Content.
Providing new conveniences and functionalities too vast to
fathom or appraise.
 Abundance
• Information
• Entertainment
• Content
• Solutions
Accessibilitly
• Two-way,
interactive
• Ease
of use twenty-four hours every day
Universality
• Digital
in one place, digital virtually everywhere
• Party-to-party,
party-to-many and many-to-party
Voice
Driven
• Electronic
devices of all sorts will be increasingly voice responsive
Voice
must be the actuating medium if the world is ever to bridge
the digital divide between
the relatively few so-called digirati and the many who are
not
computer literate. A good number
of companies around the world are working to make machine recognition
of voice more complete. Only a mere handful is independent
of very large telephone companies or infrastructureproviders,
thus giving investors an undiluted way of participating.
In only a few years, the world has
developed in the Internet its grandest and most useful communication
medium, making quickly accessible ever more accumulated information
and messaging. The facility of the Internet is changing
societies throughout the world as
no other. It is too vast to fathom or describe.
Its great virtue, and, for investors,
its great hazard, resides in its open availability to all. Openness
is fundamental. All governments in major nations are insisting
upon openness (and interoperability) as cornerstones to national
policies. In one respect, open frightens us
as a “four-letter” word for competition. New
enterprises that are derived through the use of
the Internet without having thought through the means of protecting
themselves from later entry of more
privileged entities are likely to experience only short periods
of prosperity. A savage winnowing
process is already underway for such companies. This
has lead us to select only those companies who are bringing together
parties that have reasons other
than the Internet to trade with one another or system service
providers. For such enterprises,
the Internet is a wonderfully efficient facility that ensures
enduring profitability.
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