• jyden on A thin thought: Smart Edges

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  Definition (This post): Device; the last hardware in the chain of
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  Definition (This post): Device; the last hardware in the chain of device’s/hardware/apparatus between Skypers. The thing you wear, hold in your hand and speak at, listen to, look at.
  ”Is the device itself the best place to put the Skype-specific application logic? Or is a device with a few soft keys, and a stripped-down web browser or Flash-type interface a better bet, interfacing to a server of some kind out there in the cloud?”
  
  Now most of us are using a very or thin client, having some smartness in the PC and the rest delivered by the user ;) interacting with the PC.
  The smartness is on the move, it is moving to HW housing embedded Skype and some form of remote configuration interfaces and the Device connected to that.
  The USB Cordless DUALphone is a first step in this direction, making basic Skype options available from a DECT handset, but keeping Skype and the internet connection work in the PC.
  The next step available might be like the LAN Cordless DUALphone with embedded Skype, more than basic Skype options from the HS and web configuration accessible from the internet or the LAN. Further I could see the base moving into the HS, but wouldn’t this also be an option when choose your next mobil-phone/PDA?
  I expect the network will remain stupid, add-on services will be at the edge(s) and/or server centric as fits best like now with ex. VM and CF.
  About HW will it continue the trend developing into multipurpose devices or singular ones or both?
  Skype Journal USB Dualphone blog:http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/08/i_like_going_co.php
  http://lan_cordless_dualphone.rtx.dk/

  
  

• MuppetMaster on A thin thought: Smart Edges

  Have a look here, there are folks out there developing some apps along these lines:

  http://www.litescape.com/

  At least beginning to push more intelligence to the endpoint.

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