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August 31, 2004
Voicemail over IP is the New Postcard
Posted by Ernest Miller
Denise Howell relates an anecdote in which the wonders of VoIP demonstrate one of the myriad changes in our near future (PSA Re Law Firm Voicemail):
Note to anyone who might be contemplating calling a law firm and leaving a voice message that might be even remotely considered, shall we say a novelty:
More and more firms are using voicemail integration systems like Cisco's Unity Messaging. The upshot of this is voicemail becomes automatically and immediately freed of the phone, showing up as a .wav attached to the recipient's email. (I'm now so used to receiving voicemail this way I've all but forgotten how to get it off the phone itself.) From there, the message becomes trivially easy to forward or upload, whereupon the analog circle is closed as audio bits become widely circulated paper. [links in original]
Of course, you don't need fancy voicemail integration systems; this capability will be default for VoIP systems very soon, if it isn't already.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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