More than 500,000 people have already made telephone calls on the Internet, using microphones and loudspeakers installed as part of multimedia. Sound quality is variable and set-up can be hard. It is best for use on a pre-arranged basis.

Archive for historical interest Nov 1997

Telecoms: It is all accelerating - making the doubling of computer power every 18 months look like solid lumps of unchanging rock. Take a mobile phone working in 2000 at 9.6k per sec. In less than two years they will be offering up to 2,000k per sec. That's a mega-jump!

Archive from Nov 1997 - for historic interest.

Future of Banking: After the Great Party - A Great Hangover

Every aspect of corporate finance and wholesale banking will be transformed by the digital economy, despite the collapse of new technology share prices at the beginning of the third millennium. If the year 2000 was the great Party, then 2001 was the great Hangover.

Text below was written in 2001/2.  As you can see over 20 years on - really accurate forecasts on the future of banking and related issues.

Nokia 9000 Series and Speech Recognition.

ARCHIVE PAGE 1997 FOR INTEREST