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Digital broadcasting encodes data--in this case, the video and audio signal sent by a station--in binary form as ones and zeroes. Computers and compact discs are dependent on digital encoding instead of the older analog methods...
...with FCC deregulation bringing as many as six new players to each wireless market and the industry upgrading from analog to digital (and adding data capabilities to every phone), Rossmann's timing looks impeccable. Earlier this month, Unwired Planet closed a deal with Qualcomm, which should be rolling out digital cellular phones that can receive news, weather and stock info with UP's software by late this year. "We know we've won when this technology becomes an expected feature, not a curiosity," says UP vice president Ben Linder. At the rate UP is going, managing a portfolio and checking...
...known universe, as you might have heard, is going digital. LPs gave way to CDs. Direct satellite is eroding cable. But the TV you watch and the movies you rent are still grainy old analog formats crying out for replacement...
...that sequence data streaming in from the Internet, the other handling the hundreds of E-mail messages and memos that extend his mind into a network. He can be so rigorous as he processes data that one can imagine his mind may indeed be digital: no sloppy emotions or analog fuzziness, just trillions of binary impulses coolly converting input into correct answers...
...survival. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed media giants of all persuasions to compete in one another's markets. With everybody from the Baby Bells to Bill Gates breathing down their neck, cable operators have little choice but to lay fiber over their aging coax networks as the old analog media converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access, for the moment, is just an intriguing appetizer to a main course comprising telephones, wireless data services and even interactive television. "Eventually this architecture will let us do what we've done in Orlando," says Britt, referring to Time...