 assumed substantial risk when they stretched telephone lines between cities with no guarantee that a person would pay a monthly fee for a telephone. Why should they? One could call from the post office, the corner store, or the local gasoline station any time he wanted and run across other people at the same time. Fortunately for the carriers, people increasingly became accustomed to the telephone's ease and convenience, which meant more people became interested in using telephones more often and were willing to pay for the convenience of doing SO in their own homes. Similarly, after significant resistance in the early stages, mobile phones have grown such that a home is likely to host at least two mobile phones for each wired phone. Email and chat have followed similar patterns. Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel, made several observations in 1965 that formed the basis of his now famous law. That law effectively states that, at the semiconductor industry's rate of technological development and advancement, the complexity of integrated circuits doubled every eighteen months. A decade later, Moore revised his estimate and proclaimed that it was slowing to about two years. Decades later, it would appear that, from a cutting-edge, high-tech perspective, Mr. Moore is on-target. Today's PCs, Tablet Computers, PDAs and newly introduced Smartphones are exponentially more powerful, and packed with more features than their antiquated predecessors of only two years. Computing platforms become smaller, faster, and less expensive with each passing year. It is insightful to consider how Moore's Law might apply to software and application development. Video Communications: The Whole Picture Software development tools and techniques yield vastly more powerful products with each passing year. As a result, videoconferencing codecs (e.g., H.264) have improved significantly, and network architectures (e.g., SIP) have matured and are being widely deployed to support a host of premium network applications such as IM, VoIP, Push-