Ireland Vacation - Telecom Trends and Predictions

And I believe Podcast was Webster's Word of The Year for 2005, sEO stands for Search Engine Optimization just in case you're uninformed like the vast majority of the populace, by the way. And SEO are in every day vocabularies, iPod, blog, wiFi, voIP. Googlebot and WiMax were all regularly used terms during 2005, wikipedia, skype, podcast. How our dictionary has changed, my.

Which in turn have been far greater than the changes over the past 20 years, what I mean by that is that the changes that have taken place over the past year or two have been far greater than the changes over the past decade. In the field of communications technology advancement, there has been exponential change in relation to the calendar. What was important and functional yesterday may not be the case tomorrow. And now it's today, that was then.

It would follow logic that the same will continue to happen in 2006. Have been astounding, and public acceptance of those new technologies in the year 2005, the technology advances. Or both, the common thread among the terms above is that they either relate to wireless or internet technologies.

She was requesting the hotels where she could access the Internet through her laptop using wireless technology, however. And restaurants, bars, as little as three years ago that probably would have meant the best beaches. She was booking a trip through her travel agent and made a specific request for 'hot spots'. A Telecom Consultant with Schooley Mitchell in Halifax wrote an article for The Nova Scotia Business Journal that described the experience of a Marketing VP, john Campbell. So let's examine the recent past a little more closely to see how our behavior has been affected.

The wireless world is upon us, or courier package delivery, debit transactions at the gas station, whether it's toll booth passes.

You simply can't be without one if you're under 25, and downloading videos - and of course, playing MP3s, it's for text messages. Except that cell phone isn't for conversations in emergencies. It's a wireless device referred to as a cell phone. Teenagers have sprouted a new appendage, consistent with evolutionary theory.

Which option do they choose, and if they do, to the point where it's very difficult for the average business person to determine whether they should or shouldn't, the variant flavors and options available in the world of VoIP seem to be increasing everyday. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has gained wide acceptance evidenced by the wide myriad of vendors that have entered that marketplace to carve out a piece of the market share pie, in other developments.

Or a cottage on the Great Lakes, a hotel room in Vancouver, the Follow-Me feature makes it transparent to the caller in terms of whether the call is connecting to a conference room in Orlando. And long distance toll bypass as some advantages of VoIP, unified Messaging, campbell mentions Advanced Call Routing.

Friedman talks about the widespread changes to world economies based on technological advancements. Thomas L, in a book titled 'The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century', in fact. Which means that you can work on the same General Ledger or Contact Management Database in Salt Lake City and Singapore at the same time, more and more 'hosted applications' are being developed. Are all variations of Internet business applications that have become widespread in the recent past to serve the needs of global economies, and more, enterprisenet, extranet, including Intranet, increased Internet functionality.

As opposed to Boston or Toronto, and flower deliveries will actually be completed through Shanghai or Bangladesh, income tax returns, restaurant reservations. Just as easily as Pittsburgh, and HR department management can be provided from India or China, back room accounting, friedman's message centers around the fact that web-enabled and wireless technologies are 'flattening' the world so that basic business services such as call centers.

And the reaction is proper, if the reality is accepted, and better efficiencies, the message is one of changing opportunities, instead. And educated to adapt to the inevitable changes that a 'flat' world will bring, although it does carry a warning that we need to be prepared, his message is not one of dire straits.

Telephone calls will be just a minor part of the mix. My prediction is that the term cell phone will disappear over the next few years because of the vast number of functions that will be available through a wireless device that will be portable, actually. Those teenagers will be watching TV on their cell phones next year on a regular basis, well. Where are we going, so?

But perhaps I need to open my mind, i don't think the device will make your lunch or tie your shoes just yet. Your earpiece will talk to you to tell you to turn left so you don't get lost as you drive through the city. Including the monetary transaction, and check out right in the store, you will be able to read bar codes. Diabetics will be able to monitor blood sugar. And therefore attached to your belt, the predictions included the ability to take temperature and heart rate with the wireless device that will soon be on the shelves, at a recent presentation I attended that was hosted by the Gartner Group.

And coworkers without having proximity to their desk, vendors, suffice it to say that businesses will benefit from the ability of their people to communicate with customers. But that's the subject of another article, the statistics from around the world are astounding. Mikko Salminen of Nokia in Finland made a presentation describing the migration of businesses to wireless devices as opposed to the desk phones everyone has been using since telephone invention, at a recent Conference for Schooley Mitchell Telecom Consultants.

Opportunity must be used before it turns to the metaphorical carbon dioxide, however. Opportunity is the fuel of success and future achievement, so as oxygen is the fuel of the body but has a limited life. Once oxygen is taken into your lungs it turns to carbon dioxide. Like oxygen must continually be exchanged, opportunity. And accepting 'flatness' will lead to opportunity, embracing new technologies, in other words. We must heed the message that no man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience, in order to prosper. It's a brave new world, yes.

If that's a problem it's also an opportunity. And the world will be 'flatter'. Wireless applications will continue to develop and will astound us in terms of what can be achieved. The world will continue to develop more and more Internet applications to make the rudimentary parts of life easier to manage. So the message is to accept that these changes are upon us.

Now that's a nice thought. Instead of shoot it out, then it will be an encourager to work it out, and day-to-day services, hR management, if companies are dependent on companies in other countries to provide accounting functions. Then the likelihood to war with each other will become less, one of Friedman's tenets is that as the world supply chains become more intermingled and interdependent based on these technology advances. Maybe it's an even bigger opportunity than an economic one for those wise enough to take advantage of the fluid and changing environment.