We are getting there

I've seen the Nike bluetooth enabled MP3 player and the personal media devices. Now we need the functionality inside a cell phone.

My vision: Walk up to PC, look at My Computer, Click on your folder (its there because your Bluetooth phone is in your pocket or you have connected your phone via USB), enter your username/password and the desktop, My Documents, Favorites, Address Book... is all available. VPN onto the office network, no problem....

The problem is that you likely will have no way to install an application, so the application would have to operate as a Java program executing in a browser. Interestingly, it wgould also intelligently store selected browsed content.... spend more than a few seconds on MapQuest and the image gets stored on the phone storage, look up a phone number on Google and a vcf is added.

Security? By combining a key in the phone with the phone esn, your username, and your password strong security would be enabled. The system would allow you to log into your environment even though your home computer is off, and your work computer is in your briefcase by syncing selected, and recently accessed files on a routine basis. This would work then only if it is offered by a service provider with storage.. and with Google, Hotmail, and Yahoo all giving 2G in storage. And storage costing less than a $1 per G, this seems doable. I have big drives, but I am certain I would have a problem selecting 10G of content I would look at if I excluded all video, all music I have not listed to for 1 year.

What I really want is stuff I regularly access. Stuff I have recently been working on. And much of this type stuff could fit on the Flash in the phone anyway.

 

I was at my 6th grader son's school's open house last night and marvelled at the fact that every class room at an digital projector. No more TV's on a cart. No more teacher walking in front of the Overhead projector. School announcements were being broadcast from some office... I was impressed. It was more advanced than the office.....

But then I looked in the back of the science classroom and lined up very neatly (is was open house) were 6 pc's on individual tables each with a 15 or 17" monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and a CPU unit. None of these were bolted down... The problem I had with this was simply the space, the exposed cabling, and the potential for something to drop on the floor or walk out the door.

It seems like you could take half a notebook, screw it to the bottom of a table, drill a hole in the table for cables, and put a CD/DVD R/W in the base of a monitor and have a cleaner appearing solution, with more work space, eliminate damage and theft, and increase reliability. ...... Dell meet SteelCase..

How about a way to put a limit order into ebay?... ie, instead of searching for a Sony Vio PCG-R505TSK and searching the list entries... assume there is one description and multiple sellers... and then build an exchange where you match buyers and sellers... like a stock exchange. Like everything else there is probably 1000 items that make up half of ebays volume, why not make a std description of those items and match buyers and sellers
Kjotis@Swbell. Net: do you blog?

not sure if that is poss - seems like someone will always have something a bit different - different color, size, age etc need to account for condition of the item unlike a stock which are all the same.

Net: ... but lots of ebay is new... what i find is everyonce and a while there is a deal ... like something closes in the middle of the night... so this 'service' could arbitrage that anomily
Good points!

... and with the SIP server and media server.. I could have residential email !

And what about using one of the telemetry radios that run over the WANs for home security, and for a On-Star like feature. .. and combined with Digital AM radio and GPS... there could be a very cool offer.

If someone had a SIP server at home, what would have to be offered by a service provider other than gateway services?

Will personal servers become DVRs?
Or will DVRs become personal servers?
Will servers become reliable enough to never require a manual reboot. Will the become smart enough to reboot themselves?
Can and should the server reside inside a desktop machine, perhaps on a PCI SBC?
Will we have servers in the car?
Will we run VoIP/SIP servers on the personal server? All the features of a PBX, no bill... All you have to do is purchase gateway access?
Search indexing on the server.

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