OK - web cam up...check.

Now, 2 interesting items.

I made the finest phone call of my 41 year life yesterday...it was on a mobile phone. The phone was set up using a wider frequency range than a normal desk phone or cell phone. A typical home and cellular phone has a 3 KHz bandwidth. Those phones have double the input bandwidth (6 KHz rather than 3 KHz) and double the sampling rate...and it sounds like it! You have to do this mobile-mobile too since the PSTN (POTS landline) phone would remove the extra signal. It was Phenomenal!

Second, this MSFT/INTEL story on peer-to-peer-over-WiFi sounds interesting. Now I understand the avoidance of Bluetooth this year...if the PDA is the biggest connection that needs data, why not do that with 802.11 instead of bluetooth? The latter was tweaked for power consumption but is 1/10th as fast..the former is more of a power hog...but...better speed.

Advice: forget about telecom stock prices they are as whacky now as where they were 18 months ago..but..a good buying opportunity