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The U.S. Appeals Court struck down the 2011 FCC rules that all Internet traffic must be treated equally by Internet service providers. Verizon challenged the regulations based on the FCC not having a congressional mandate to regulate the Internet. The impact of the court's ruling may be significant, leading to tiered pricing models, and the virtual blocking of content and services that are not favored by the ISP. While there is not yet direct evidence to support that this will change things, it may have a dramatic impact on certain services in the future.
As a child, musical lessons were about the schlep. Either the instructor or the student had to go to one another, and sometimes the lesson was based on where the instrument was located. In today's world of watching videos on the Web, it's not surprising that The ZOEN, a provider of live online music lessons, is using Google Helpouts to make The ZOEN instructors available to teach users across the Internet musical instruments.
In my holiday greeting this year, I said Let 2014 be the WebRTC Year, the year WebRTC turns the corner, bringing new applications, enterprise adoption, and significant growth across markets. I'd like to thank ABI Research for confirming that WebRTC is indeed a major trend, perhaps indicating that this is the year.
The entire WebRTC Eco-system needs to begin to think about communications events as integrated to the process or function, and not a stand-alone cookie cutter implementation. As this becomes clear, the capability to optimize different user experiences within a single event will become a major differentiator of the next generation of communications solutions. Over the next few years, expect to be surprised as the innovation of the web changes the user experience, and expect your users to ask you why your experience is so outdated.
Finally, in the other gadgets category, Google Chromecast is identified as the winner. Congratulations to Google, however, it seems unfortunate that the fact that Chromecast uses WebRTC is not well publicized. I fully understand that Google is focused on the value delivered on their website, but it would be nice to help drive awareness.
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